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The authoritative essay collection “Medienregulierung” (Media Regulation) (edited by Hardy Gundlach, formerly together with Wolfgang Seufert) has been published in its third edition by Nomos. It includes an article by our PI Svenja Hagenhoff on the protection and utilization of intellectual prop...

Our post-doctoral fellow Antonia Villinger and our PI Dirk Niefanger participate in the Research Day of the FAU Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology on July 31, 2025 with a panel discussion on science and the climate crisis and a contribution on state poetry in West Germany from 194...

The second volume of the RTG 2806 series »Literatur und Öffentlichkeit / Literature and the Public Sphere« has been published: Friedrich, Sabine (2025): Semifiktionen. Hybrides Erzählen im digitalen Zeitalter. Stuttgart. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-71111-8 For some time now, there has b...

In the recently published essay collection “Schwarze deutsche Literatur” (edited by Jeannette Oholi), our fellow Laura Sturtz and Selma Rezgui have contributed an interview with two central representatives of the black German movement: "Aktivistisch Lesen und Schreiben. Ein Gespräch über Literatur,...

Antonia Villinger has co-edited the special issue “Pregnant Bodies - Embodied Pregnancy” with Dr. Sinah Theres Kloß (Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, University of Bonn), published in the cultural studies journal Body & Society. The journal examines the public reception and staging of...

A cooperation between the FAU German Studies Master and the WomenEdit group of the Erlangen City Library. The workshop is supported by our PI Annette Gilbert. “There's so much information, but what I'm looking for is missing!” Have you ever searched for something on Wikipedia and been disappoint...

An essay collection on ‘the posthuman condition’ in contemporary literature and culture has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan with a contribution by our fellow Ruxandra Teodorescu. Her article examines posthuman cognitive ecologies and AI moral agency in Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice (2013...

Written by our PI Christian Schicha. This volume first oultines communication models and ethical requirements for communication processes such as public sphere, democracy, freedom. In a following part it considers norm violations in the form of propaganda, populism, disinformation and anti-Semit...

As part of the Poetik-Kolleg Erlangen, Daniela Dröscher will read from her latest autofictional novel "Lügen über meine Mutter" (Lies About My Mother). Here she tells the story of a family in Hunsrück in the 1980s from the dual perspective of the little girl and the adult woman, of her father w...