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The global regression of democracy is often accompanied by shrinking spaces for civil society actors. These shrinking spaces can also be observed in Southeast Asia and jeopardize the democratic progress of the last three decades. The special issue of the Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, e...

On November 4, 2023, FAU celebrated a major anniversary. On this occasion, Prof. Dr. Katrin Kinzelbach from the Institute of Political Science, together with the university archivist Dr. Clemens Wachter, took a look at the founding statutes of FAU. They discovered restrictions on academic freedom th...

Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) is looking for up to three postdoctoral researchers who will further strengthen human rights related research and teaching at FAU's Center for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU CHREN)  The expected starting date is March 1, 2024 or later. Succ...

The Middle East Politics and Society Lecture Series (MELS) starts into a new round: We cordially invite you to a lecture by former German ambassador (Niamey, Niger) Hermann Nicolai. Nicolai served as German ambassador in Niger until 2023 and is an outstanding expert on the conflict region Sahel with...

On October 11, 2023, Prof. Dr. Katrin Kinzelbach gave the inaugural talk in a new seminar series on Global Challenges to Democracy, organized by the Ash Center at Harvard Kennedy School in cooperation with the Carr Center for Human Rights. Her talk was entitled “Academic Freedom: Empirical Data on a...

At the beginning of the lecture period of the winter semester 2023/24, there will be some introductory and welcome events. Please note that these events are all in German. Thursday, 12.10.2023 12:30-14:00 Introductory event BA Public Law (Schillerstraße 1, Juridicum, room 2.282): Prof. Dr. Mar...

Prof. Dr. Margaret Lewis (Professor of Law, Seton Hall University School of Law) will give a lecture on October 24, 2023 at 6:15 p.m. as part of the lecture series "Freedom - Claim, Design, Empiricism" in the Senate Hall in the Kollegienhaus (KH 1.011), Universitätsstraße 15. You are cordially invit...

In March 2023 the hybrid conference „Systemrelevant und systemisch benachteiligt? (Flucht-)Migration und Gesundheit: Zugang, Teilhabe und Beschäftigung“ on migration and health care took place at FAU Kollegienhaus. Purpose of this scientific and practice-oriented event was to address the multifacete...

In the context of current debates on migration and asylum, Prof. Dr. Petra Bendel has been approached by numerous media outlets on her expertise. We have compiled a selection of articles (German/English/French) here: „Migrationsforscherin: Menschenwürde zurück auf die Agenda setzen“ (tagesschau...

The datafication of the world and the increasing availability of (geo)data opens up new opportunities for monitoring and documenting human rights violations, particularly in locations that are difficult to access due to security concerns. These advances raise technical and methodological challenges ...