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In May, FAU’s Eric Voegelin Library acquired valuable new research material collected over decades by Prof Dr Jürgen Gebhardt and Prof Dr Klaus Vondung. The Library is located at FAU’s Institute of Political Science, at the Chair of Political Philosophy, Theory and History of Ideas, in Erlangen and ...

The article "Military dictatorship as the ‘reign of the mightier’" by Dr Alexander Kruska was published by Routledge

On August 24th, 2021, from 3 to 5pm Prof. Dr. Stefan Fröhlich can be seen on PHOENIX commenting on the G7 meeting on Afghanistan.

Prof. Dr. Stefan Fröhlich on the press conference with Angela Merkel on the current situation in Afghanistan   On August 18, 202  Prof. Dr. Stefan Fröhlich comments from 1pm to 2.15 pm the press conference with Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) and Kaja Kallas (minister-president of Estonia) l...

Dr. Samuel Zeitlin (University of Cambridge) will conduct a joint research project at the Chair of Political Philosophy, Theory and History of Ideas in the framework of the Visiting Professorship Program at the invitation of and together with Univ.-Prof. Dr. Eva Odzuck. In addition, Dr. Zeitlin will...

In seiner Sitzung am 14.07.2021 nahm der Fakultätsrat der Philosophischen Fakultät und Fachbereich Theologie der FAU die Habilitationsschrift von Dr. Eva Odzuck, die als Universitätsprofessorin gegenwärtig den Lehrstuhl für Politische Philosophie, Theorie und Ideengeschichte vertritt, an. Die Habilitationsschrift mit dem Titel „Keimbahneingriffe im Namen der Freiheit?

The monograph "Free and fair elections?" (2021) by Prof. Dr. Michael Krennerich has now also been published in English: "Free and fair elections? Standards, Curiosities, Manipulations“. At the same time, the study "Wahlrecht von wohnlosen Menschen" ("Voting Rights of Homeless People", available in G...

The Centre for Human Rights Erlangen-Nuremberg (CHREN) of the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg is seeking to hire a research fellow “Equal Partnerships – African Intermediary Cities as Actors and Partners in Urban Migration Governance”  More information can be found here.

The International Political Science Association’s digitalized World Congress takes place from July 10 to 15. Five political scientists from the research sections of Middle East Politics and Comparative Politics will represent FAU’s Political Science Department. Miriam Bohn, Thomas Demmelhuber, Katha...

Campus has published the monograph “The Logic of the Political. Kojève’s Political Philosophy between Phenomenology and Propaganda” by Dr. phil. David Schkade. Alexandre Kojève has become known for his rediscovery of Hegel and as a bureaucrat of European integration. This first German-language Kojèv...