Year: 2019

Prof. Dr. Heike Paul, chair of American Studies, has been selected by the Thomas Mann House Advisory Board as one of the twelve fellows for 2020.

The international conference "The Constructionist Challenge" will take place 17-19 October 2019 to mark the opening of the FAU Linguistics Lab. Speakers from Germany, The Netherlands, Switzerland, the UK and the US will discuss the state of the art in construction grammar after thirty years of resea...

On 4 and 5 October 2019 the Department of English and American Studies will host the conference “Locating Intersections of Medicine and Mobility in 19th-Century Britain” with many renowned speakers from Austria, Finland, Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. At the centre of discussion will be the literary, cultural and historical processes through which medicine and mobility were intertwined and reconfigured in Great Britain in the 19thcentury.

The International Nuremberg Principles Academy is seeking individuals for 3-month internships on an ongoing basis. Interns will work to support the academy's activities, particularly in the individual areas of event organization, press, and research.

Prof. Dr. Heike Paul, chair of American Studies, has been initiated as a full member into the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften).