Events

Die Arbeitsgruppe „Semantiken des Verzichts: Perspektiven auf die Wohlstandsgesellschaft und ihre Kosten“ hat unter der Leitung von Prof. Dr. Heike Paul ihre Arbeit an der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (BAdW) aufgenommen. Ziel ist es, den Verzichtsbegriff interdisziplinär zu erschließen und mit der Öffentlichkeit darüber in Dialog zu treten.

Sechs Jahre nach dem Oscar-Erfolg von Moonlight – und dem Start der Filmreihe „Black Lives in America“ im Casablanca Filmkunsttheater in Nürnberg – scheint Black Cinema im Mainstream etabliert. Dabei übernehmen vermehrt Frauen die Hauptrollen, sowohl vor als auch hinter der Kamera. Die ausgewählten ...

Dr. Katharina Gerund is one of five laureates to receive this year's FAU teaching award...

"Global Melodrama – Das Melodram im Weltkino" is a film series organized in cooperation with the Filmhaus Nürnberg. Starting May 20, the series features 10 films from classical Hollywood to contemporary melodrama. Introduced by renowned experts, the films will be shown in the original language versi...

Taking an examination of US-American reeducation policies in Germany and Japan after World War II from a comparative and transnational perspective as its point of departure the conference broadens the focus beyond this specific geographical constellation and beyond the period of the immediate postwar to problematize and discuss the concept of “reeducation” in a broader sense.

The Department of English and American Studies congratulates Prof. Dr. Heike Paul on receiving the Bayerischer Maximiliansorden für Wissenschaft und Kunst, the state of Bavaria's highest award. The laudation honors her as one of the most important Americanists in Germany...

Explorations in Construction Grammar

From November 5 to November 20, 2021 Erlangen's Black History Weeks will take place as a series of individual events. This year's events place their focus on racism in art and culture...

Over the course of this summer term, graduate seminars at Passau University, LMU Munich, and FAU Erlangen-Nuernberg have explored questions of structural racism in the context of the welfare state, higher education, and popular culture. The conference that will take place virtually on July 23/24, 20...