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Bavarian American Academy Student Conference: Structural Racism in the U.S.

Category: American Studies, Conferences, News 8. July 2021

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...

Live Poetry! Translation, Transmission, Transgression

Category: Department, English Studies, Events, News 22. April 2021

We are delighted to announce that the award-winning poets Hollie McNish and Hanan Issa will come to FAU for a poetry reading. The readings will take place at 5.30 pm on May 19 and June 23, respectively.

Online Workshop “Restoration Epistolarity”

Category: Department, English Studies, Events, News, Research, Workshops 13. March 2021

The changing media environment of the English Restoration brought forth a sizeable increase in various forms of literary culture, including the birth of large-scale periodical publishing and the ready availability of the letter. Contrary to the widely held consensus that the letter promoted reliability, recent scholarship has stressed the form’s deconstructive potential, allowing both readers and writers to reflect on the mediated nature of writing and the tenuous relationship between sign and reality.

Online Conference “Intra-Writer Variation in Historical Sociolinguistics”

Category: Conferences, Department, Events, Linguistics, News, Research 3. February 2021

FAU is hosting the Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HiSoN) conference “Intra-Writer Variation in Historical Sociolinguistics” on 17-19 March 2021, organised by Prof. Dr. Judith Huber and the junior research group “Flexible Writers in Language History”.

U.S. TV-Series Talks

Category: American Studies, Department, Events, News 29. September 2020

Everyone is welcome to join us for a screening and discussion of these popular and critically acclaimed TV shows! The selected shows engage with the topic “law and order” in a broad sense:

Conference: “Restoration Epistolarity”

Category: Conferences, Department, English Studies, Events 17. February 2020

The changing media environment of the English Restoration brought forth a sizeable increase in various forms of literary culture, including the birth of large-scale periodical publishing and the ready availability of the letter. Contrary to the widely held consensus that the letter promoted reliability, recent scholarship has stressed the form’s deconstructive potential, allowing both readers and writers to reflect on the mediated nature of writing and the tenuous relationship between sign and reality.

Two Accolades at Awards Ceremony

Category: American Studies, Awards, English Studies, Research 3. February 2020

At this year's dissertation awards ceremony of the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology, two English and American Studies alumni were honored for their excellent theses.

Conference: Paragesellschaften. Imaginationen – Inszenierungen – Interaktionen

Category: American Studies, Conferences, English Studies, Research 30. January 2020

Die Abschlusstagung des DFG-Netzwerks „Paragesellschaften“ soll aufzeigen, wie das Konzept der ‚Paragesellschaften‘ die Perspektive auf Fragen gesellschaftlicher Homogenität, Heterogenität und Diversität weitet und eine differenzierte Annährung an Phänomene ermöglicht, die in politisch-medialen Kont...

The Constructionist Challenge – empirical and theoretical aspects. Lectures presented at opening of the FAU Linguistics Lab

Category: Conferences, Department, Events, Linguistics, News, Research 26. September 2019

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 resea...

International Conference: Locating Intersections of Medicine and Mobility in 19th-Century Britain

Category: Conferences, Department, English Studies, Events, News, Research 3. July 2019

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 through which medicine and mobility were intertwined and reconfigured in Great Britain in the 19thcentury.