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08MAY 2026
News
Auslandsinfoveranstaltung Anglistik/Amerikanistik (15.06.26)
Am Montag, 15.06.26, von 18:15 – 19:45, findet in Raum KH 0.011, Kollegienhaus, eine Auslandsinfoveranstaltung für Studierende des Instituts für Anglistik und Amerikanistik statt. Eine Anmeldung hierzu ist nicht erforderlich. Bei Rückfragen, wenden Sie sich an apl. Prof. Dr. Gerd Bayer oder Dr. Isabel Kalous.
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07APR 2026
American Studies
Heike Paul Elected Member of Austrian Academy of Sciences
The Institute of English and American Studies congratulates Prof. Dr. Heike Paul, chair of American Studies, on her admission to the Austrian Academy of Sciences as a new Corresponding Member Abroad in the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences! For more information, see the academy’s press relase (in German).
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07APR 2026
Linguistics
The first HPC Cafe for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Your R code is taking too long? Your Python code runs out of memory? You have thousands of questions for a large language model (LLM)? If you answered ‘yes’ to at least one of these questions, welcome to High-Performance Computing (HPC). HPC is about the use of powerful computational systems to do computation and data […]
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17JAN 2026
Conferences
Historical Fictions Research Conference 2026: “Feelings and Emotions” (19.-20.02.2026, 9-18 Uhr)
The 10th annual conference of the Historical Fictions Research Network will take place at the Kollegienhaus in Erlangen (Universitätsstraße 15) from 19 to 20 February 2026. It is organised by Dr. Dennis Henneböhl, Dr. Isabel Kalous (both FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg), and Alina Aulbur (University of Siegen). The Historical Fictions Research Network aims to create a place […]
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16JAN 2026
Department
Guest Seminar and Guest Lecture Leighton Williams (University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand): “Introducing Maori Studies” (26.01.2026, 14-16 Uhr and 18-20 Uhr)
The Chair of English Cultural and Literary Studies is delighted to welcome Leighton Williams from the University of Otago as a guest researcher and lecturer, who is coming all the way from Dunedin, New Zealand. He will be with us on Monday, 26.01.2026, to teach several classes and meet staff and students from FAU. Williams […]
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13JAN 2026
Conferences
Student Conference “Iconic Animals” (16.-17.01.2026, 9-18 Uhr)
Animals are central to our lives. They are domesticated and used for clothing and food; incorporated into families as pets; hunted for subsistence and sport; deified in religions; and put on display in zoos and museums. This student conference focuses on iconic animals, i.e., animals with strong symbolic significance that embody particular ideas or concepts. […]
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