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17JAN 2020
American Studies
Out Now: Critical Terms in Futures Studies (ed. by Heike Paul)
This volume provides the essential vocabulary currently employed in discourses on the future in 50 contributions by renowned scholars in their respective fields, which examine future imaginaries across cultures and time. The contributors have their disciplinary homes in a wide range of subjects – history, cultural studies, literary studies, sociology, media studies, American studies, Japanese […]This volume provides the essential vocabulary currently employed in discourses on the future in 50 contributions by renowned scholars in their respective fields, which examine future imaginaries across cultures and time. The contributors have their disciplinary homes in a wide range of subjects – history, cultural studies, literary studies, sociology, media studies, American studies, Japanese […]
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30SEP 2019
American Studies
Heike Paul Is 2020 Thomas Mann Fellow
, chair of American Studies, has been selected by the Thomas Mann House Advisory Board as one of the twelve fellows for 2020. During her six-month stay at Thomas Mann’s former Los Angeles residence, she will investigate which narratives, practices, and iconographies in European-American cultural and political imaginaries give rise to what she calls “civic […]
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26SEP 2019
Conferences
The Constructionist Challenge – empirical and theoretical aspects. Lectures presented at opening of the FAU Linguistics Lab
The international conference “The Constructionist Challenge” will take place 17-19 October 2019 to mark the opening of the FAU Linguistics Lab. Speakers from Germany, The Netherlands, Switzerland, the UK and the US will discuss the state of the art in construction grammar after thirty years of reseach. Click here for the conference programme.
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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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