Research

At the congress of the German Society for Sociology (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie, DGS), Prof. Dr. Silke Steets received the René König Textbook Prize 2020 of the DGS for the volume "Theoretische Positionen der Stadtsoziologie” (Theoretical Positions in Urban Sociology), which she co-authored with Lars Meier and Lars Frers. The prize honours the best textbook and consists of 500 Euros. Congratulations!

The Global Sentimentality Project examines how the sentimental unfolds its power as an aesthetic narrative strategy, as a practice of crisis management, and as a technology of political mobilization. Our understanding of the sentimental revises the stigmatization of the term in popular parlance and extends its meaning beyond a set of literary texts. This virtual lecture series brings together scholars from around the globe in a series of talks accessible via Zoom.

A new project collects ideas of a utopian world and you can participate

In autumn 2019, Prof. Dr. Heike Paul was appointed a fellow for the Thomas Mann Fellowship 2020 and thus had the opportunity to participate in the series "55 Voices for Democracy". The series ties in with the BBC radio speeches in which Thomas Mann addressed people in Germany and its neighbouring co...

Prof. Dr. Magdalena Michalak has published a new series of publications on "German as a Second Language – Positions, Perspectives, Potentials". The new series aims to highlight the challenges and potential of German as a second language and to present the current discourse in the field from several perspectives.

Due to the corona pandemic all cultural events come off badly. So what do you do, if music is your profession and passion, but you are not allowed to sing together? The FAU Academic Chamber Choir came up with an idea! Academic Director Dr. Julian Tölle took the initiative and organised a digital con...

Professor Helmut Neuhaus, former holder of the Chair of Modern History (Lehrstuhl für Neuere Geschichte I), now Chair of Early Modern History (Lehrstuhl für Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit), has been awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz (Federal Cross of Merit) of the Federal Republic of Germany. With thi...

50 essays on fundamental concepts of "futurology”

Demonstrations, public debates and the headlines in the media show that in many countries the corona pandemic is not only a medical but also a social challenge. Prof. Dr. Roland Sturm from the Institute of Political Science was interviewed in the program "Die Landespolitik" of the Bavarian radio sta...

The DFG (German Research Foundation) will fund Dr. Peter Maurits' position and his research for three years. Maurits is a research associate at the ‘Chair of American Studies: Culture and Literature', his project is titled “A Typology of African Science Fiction (2006-2018).”