Year: 2025

In recent years, there has been a major increase in hunting safaris in South Africa. Though some hunters state that “hunting and conservation go hand in hand,” especially big game hunting remains a controversial practice, one that David Chancellor seeks to explore in his photo book “Hunters.” Throu...

Alina Aulbur will give a guest lecture in Dr. Dennis Henneböhl’s seminar “The Sentimental Mode in the 18th Century”. The topic will be "Frances Burney’s Evelina: Sentimental Subversion", discussing Burney’s engagement with the eighteenth-century literary tradition of sentimentalism in her first nov...

Date: 22. July 2025 Time: 16:00 – 18:00 Location: Bismarckstr. 1, Room C601 As part of this semester’s class on the transformations of the sonnet from the Shakespearean Renaissance to transcultural and queer appropriations the form, Roland Weidle from Ruhr-Universität Bochum is going to join us ...

Datum: Dienstag, 8. Juli 2025 Zeit: 16.00 Uhr c.t. Ort: KH 1.019 Alle interessierten Studierenden der Anglistik und Amerikanistik sind herzlich eingeladen.  Mit Informationen unter anderem zu den folgenden Programmen:  ERASMUS  PAD  DAAD  USA – Fulbright  Sie können Ihre Fragen stellen!...

Date: June 25, 2025, 18:15-19:45 Location: Bismarckstr. 1, C 301 The former World War II Allied Supreme Commander and first NATO Commander, Dwight Eisenhower (Ike) brought extensive military and decision-making experience to the Oval Office in 1953. Ike sought to reduce U.S. defense spending and...

Date: July 3, 2025, 18:00 Location: KH 1.011 (Senatssaal Kollegienhaus), Universitätsstraße 15, 91054 Erlangen Reproductive Dystopia is drawn from a book project of the same name that treats a bestselling genre of Anglophone literary fiction – the dystopian novel – and considers its cultural and...

The Chair for English Cultural and Literary Studies is pleased to announce Jack Halberstam as this semester's Researcher in Residence. The Researcher in Residence is a format designed as an opportunity for students and staff alike to form connections with internationall...

Datum: Donnerstag, 5. Juni, 18 Uhr (s.t.), Raum: Kaminzimmer (St Paul V, 00.003, Dutzendteichstraße 24, Nürnberg) Der Lehrstuhl für Anglistische Kultur- und Literaturwissenschaft lädt gemeinsam mit dem Queer Staff Network zu einer Lesung mit anschließender Diskussion ein.  "Shalom zusam...

Date: June 20-21, 2025 Location: Erlangen (Wassersaal, Orangerie and Kochstr. 6a, Room 00.15) An international workshop on "The Question of Literary Value", organized by Alexander Dunst (FAU) and Pieter Vermeulen (Leuven), is held in Erlangen this June. The workshop opens on June 20, 2025, at 6 ...