Workshops & Conferences

The Media Ethics Network, represented by our PI Christian Schicha, among others, hosts the conference “Digitale Teilhabe: Medien als Bedingung von Partizipation und Freiheit?” on February 5 and 6, 2026, in collaboration with the DGPuK specialist groups for Communication and Media Ethics and Media E...

On November 27 and 28, 2025, the conference “Schwarzer Markt für rote Bücher. Zur Raubdruckbewegung der 1960er bis 1980er Jahre in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland”, organized by our PI Annette Gilbert, will take place at the German National Library in Leipzig. For more information please visit the ...

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...

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 fellow Lisa Seuberth has been selected to take part in this year's Columbia Publishing Course at Oxford University. The workshop, which lasts several weeks, is organized by the Columbia Journalism School at Columbia University New York. 

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...

The second workshop organized as part of the DFG-funded research network “Energy and Literature: Texts, Theories and Methods from a Comparative and Cultural Studies Perspective” will examine the connections between gender issues and social inequalities in literary representations of energy product...

International Conference “Digitality and the Public Sphere: Literature, Mediality, Practice” FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 30.09. - 02.10.2024 Extended deadline: February 18, 2024 About the Conference At this moment of our present time, processes of digitalization are leading to a profound transformat...