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03JUL 2019
Conferences
International Conference: Locating Intersections of Medicine and Mobility in 19th-Century Britain
On 4 and 5 October 2019 the Department of English and American Studies will host the conference “Locating Intersections of Medicine and Mobility in 19th-Century Britain” with many renowned speakers from Austria, Finland, Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. At the centre of discussion will be the literary, cultural and historical processes […]
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29MAY 2019
American Studies
Heike Paul Joins Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
, chair of American Studies, has been initiated as a full member into the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften). Founded in 1759, the academy aims at establishing interdisciplinary networks and furthering the dialog between the academia and the general public. New members are chosen on the basis of merit: To […]
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15NOV 2018
Department
EMLex Receives Additional Funding
Owing mostly to Prof. Dr. Stefan Schierholz’s (German Linguistics) commitment, the European Union has approved additional funding of three million euros from Erasmus Mundus for a further phase of the international degree program European Master in Lexicography (EMLex). The application submitted by FAU’s lexicography experts received the best assessment of the 112 submitted applications. The […]Owing mostly to Prof. Dr. Stefan Schierholz’s (German Linguistics) commitment, the European Union has approved additional funding of three million euros from Erasmus Mundus for a further phase of the international degree program European Master in Lexicography (EMLex). The application submitted by FAU’s lexicography experts received the best assessment of the 112 submitted applications. The […]
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07NOV 2018
American Studies
DFG Grant for “Reeducation Revisited”—2 PhD Positions
The interdisciplinary research project “Reeducation Revisited: Transnational and Comparative Perspectives on the Post-World War II Period in the US, Japan, and Germany” has received funding from the DFG. Headed by (American Studies), (American Studies), and Prof. Dr. Fabian Schäfer (Japanese Studies), the project examines post-World War II US-American reeducation politics in Germany and Japan in a transnational and […]The interdisciplinary research project “Reeducation Revisited: Transnational and Comparative Perspectives on the Post-World War II Period in the US, Japan, and Germany” has received funding from the DFG. Headed by (American Studies), (American Studies), and Prof. Dr. Fabian Schäfer (Japanese Studies), the project examines post-World War II US-American reeducation politics in Germany and Japan in a transnational and […]
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27FEB 2018
American Studies
Heike Paul Receives Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) honors , chair of American Studies, with the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2018. The Leibniz Prize is the most significant research prize in Germany. More…
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27OCT 2017
Funding
Ewa Dąbrowska Awarded Alexander von Humboldt Professorship
has been awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship. With an endowment of 3.5 million EUR, Dąbrowska can now continue her scientific work in the field of Cognitive Linguistics at FAU. More…
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