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The FAU’s Emerging Talent Initiative (ETI) will support Dr Johannes Jüde during the period July 2022 – June 2023. The program assists excellent young researchers in applying for external funding for their research project. Dr Jüde will employ the ETI-grant to develop a research proposal to apply for...

As part of an ongoing research project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Science, we invite scholars specialized in modern China studies to apply for a four-week fellowship at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg. We are looking for a researcher who is interested ...

On 9 July 2022, Dr. Alexander Kruska gave a lecture on the conservative interpretation of the American Revolution at the annual conference of the Bavarian American Academy (BAA) in Munich.

FAUMUN gives you the answer to all these questions. Take on the role of a diplomat and represent a Member State of the UN at the worldwide biggest simulation of the United Nations (National Model United Nations – NMUN) in New York. Acquire extensive knowledge about international relations, improv...

We are soliciting applications for a vacant three-year PhD position (TVL 13, 75% subject to final approval) at FAU’s Institute of Political Science in Erlangen. In parallel, FAU’s Institute of Geography is looking for a second PhD student who will work in the same project. Application deadline for b...

Prof. Dr. Katrin Kinzelbach was one of four German scholars invited to take part in this year's G7 Summit of Science Ministers in Frankfurt. She gave a keynote on academic freedom, covering individual freedom to research and teach, universities’ institutional autonomy, as well as academic integrity ...

We cordially invite you to a lecture by Prof. Dr. Hualing Fu (Dean of the Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong) entitled "The Hong Kong National Security Law: Restoration and Transformation" on June 1 at 6 p.m. in the Dekanatssaal, Schillerstraße 1, 91054 Erlangen.

Academic freedom is a universal human right. Yet, the 2022-release of the Academic Freedom Index (AFI) reveals that almost two out of five people worldwide live in countries where academic freedom has declined substantially over the past ten years. Countries with such declines in academic freedom in...

Interested in studying human rights? Look no further! We run an international, interdisciplinary MA programme covering human rights in their legal, political and philosophical dimensions. See our call for applications and visit our website to find out more about the programme, and meet our teachers ...

One year after the military coup in Myanmar the Institute of Political Science is organizing together with the Standards of Decision-Making Across Cultures (SDAC) the Symposium „Hard Choices for the Democracy Movement in Myanmar and for the Myanmar Diaspora“. More information about participation ...