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The Center for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU CHREN) at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg is seeking a student assistant (m/f/d) to support the research project “Forced Migration and Refugee Research: Networking and Knowledge Transfer (FFVT)”. The project, funded by the Federal...

On November 4th, 2025, the FAU project “Gesundheit! Inclusion in the Care and Nursing Sector” will present its findings at the Mercator Foundation’s ProjektZentrum Berlin. The practice-oriented research project, funded by the Mercator Foundation at the FAU Center for Human Rights (FAU CHREN) under t...

On Wednesday, November 5, 2025, at 6:00 p.m., an information session will be held about the Erasmus+ exchange programs of the Institute of Political Science and the Middle Eastern Studies program. Partner countries:Egypt, Belgium, Bosnia, France, Israel, Italy, New Zealand, Palestine, Poland, Swede...

The introductory events for the master's and bachelor's degree programs in the 2025/26 winter semester will take place on October 13 and 14 – Welcome!

On July 1, 2025, Prof. Dr. Thomas Demmelhuber was invited to give a guest lecture in the series "The Middle East in Transition: Contemporary Historical Perspectives” at the Institute for the Studies of the Culture and Religion of Islam at Goethe University Frankfurt. He spoke about the interaction b...

In early September, Prof. Dr. Eva Marlene Hausteiner, head of the Chair of Political Theory and History of Political Thought, was on the philosophy magazine Sein und Streit (Deutschlandfunk). The central thread of her audio essay is the tension between outrage and outrage fatigue. It is about whe...

The annual meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA) took place in Vancouver, Canada this year. The conference's theme was 'Reimagining Politics, Power, and Peoplehood in Crisis Times'. FAU Professor Katrin Kinzelbach presented a paper on 'The Republic of China’s Role in Shaping U...

The “long summer of migration” is marking its tenth anniversary. Angela Merkel's widely quoted statement “We can do it,” which she made (for the first time) at the Federal Press Conference on August 31, 2015, became a leitmotif of integration policy and the associated social debate on the reception ...

In their essay on the Eric Voegelin Library, Dr. Eno Trimçev, the library’s director, and Dr. Łukasz Święcicki (University of Siedlce) introduce this lesser-known resource of European Voegelin research. The core of the Eric Voegelin Library – which in total houses five separate collections – consis...

On July 9, 2025, the Institute of Political Science held a graduation ceremony for its Bachelor’s and Master’s graduates. The event was opened by the head of the institute, Prof. Dr. Eva Hausteiner. In her welcome speech, she praised the graduates for their achievements and emphasized the importanc...