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You have a business idea but do not have the funds and/or are scared to take the first step? Or you are currently working on your business idea but need some more support? Then FAU Sandbox might be just the thing for you.

In her new German-language podcast "Corona in den USA: Eine Betrachtung der Krise aus transatlantischer Perspektive" for the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Heike Paul talks about the corona crisis in the U.S., the roles of state governors and the president, as well as societal and political fault lines made visible by the crisis.

In March 2020, Heike Paul has contributed to the Thomas Mann House series “55 Voices for Democracy.” The video is available on YouTube; more information on the series can be found here.

In the last couple of days, several measures have been adopted at FAU in response to the coronavirus threat. This post consolidates the most important aspects and specifies them further for the English and American Studies Department:

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.

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...

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.

Prof. Dr. Heike Paul, chair of American Studies, has been selected by the Thomas Mann House Advisory Board as one of the twelve fellows for 2020.

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...

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.