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What do everyday images tell us about future energies? What subtle messages do photographs of wind turbines, solar panels, or dark cities imply? What creative ideas can be found in literature for dealing with the climate and energy crisis? These and other questions will be explored artistically in ...

On November 11, 2025, RTG 2806 and RTG 2726 (The Sentimental in Literature, Culture, and Politics) hold their ceremonial semester opening in the Orangerie Erlangen (Wassersaal). Guest of honor is the American poet, essayist, and playwright Claudia Rankine, who will join us by Zoom.

From November 6 to 8, 2025, the conference “(Un)Angemessenheit" on literary standards of evaluation and assessment between pre-modernity and modernity will take place at KREUZ+QUER in Erlangen. The conference is organized by our associate professor Franziska Bergmann and her colleague Christiane Wi...

RTG 2806 and the degree program Ethik der Textkulturen co-organize the lecture series „Die Zukunft der Demokratie“ (“The Future of Democracy”) .The lectures take place every Tuesday at 6:15 p.m. in the Senate Hall of the Kollegienhaus (Universitätsstraße 15). The series begins on October 14, 2025. ...

On October 23 and 24, 2025, the conference “Literatur in polarisierten Öffentlichkeiten” (Literature in Polarized Public Spheres) organized by GRK 2806, will take place at ‘Villa an der Schwabach’ in Erlangen. More information in the conference program.

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...