Event

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Our fellow Noran Omran organized together with Erika Thomalla of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich a workshop entitled “German-language Fanzines” in Berlin. In material-related analyses of the holdings of the Archive for Alternative Culture and the Archive of Youth Cultures, the workshop soug...

The DFG-funded research network “Energy and Literature” discusses connections between literature and discourses on environmental ethics and climate justice at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg from March 25 to 27, 2025, revealing important intersections between literary work and activism. A public evening even...