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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...

The essay collection accompanying the 2024 conference “All Rational? The Human Factor in Media Organizations” of DGPuK‘s Media Economics Section has been published open access. Our PI Svenja Hagenhoff’s article examines the inconsistencies and challenges of regulating the media system in Germany...

On May 26, the film “Roter Himmel” by Christian Petzold will be shown as part of the third 'Energiewende Festival' at the Filmhaus Nürnberg at 6 p.m. A panel discussion presented by Dr. Antonia Villinger (FAU) on the topics of society, climate and the future with Alina Boy (Cologne), Prof. Dr. Antj...

The lecture series "Freedom of Expression. Culture Wars about a Human Right” by the Center for Human Rights Erlangen-Nuremberg (CHREN) at FAU with contributions from our PIs Christian Schicha, Aida Bosch and Antje Kley starts on May 14. The lecture will take place every Wednesday at 6.15 pm in the ...