theory

On February 23, 2025, the Fachschaftsinitiative (FSI) cordially invites you to the election evening for the Bundestag elections at Kochstraße 4a (PSG III, blue building) starting from 4 pm! Together we want to follow the election results live, discuss them and spend the evening in a convivial atmosp...

At the end of February 2024, the Bavaria Model United Nations Conference will once again take place at Nuremberg Castle - organized by FAU students for students worldwide. This year, over 100 delegates from Germany, the USA and Cameroon are expected to attend. The event will kick off with a exper...

Research colloquium on political theory and the history of ideas – PD Dr. Ariane Leendertz (Bayrische Akademie der Wissenschaften) – Governing in the Interdependence Zone: The Conference of Minister Presidents in the History of the Federal Republic of Germany – Monday, January 27, 18:15-19:45, Kochstr. 4, Room 00.012

From September 30 - October 2, 2025, the second part of the double conference of the DVPW Section for Political Theory and History of Ideas will take place in Erlangen. It is dedicated to the basic concept of the public sphere in political theory. The conference in Erfurt in March 2025, which will f...

Professor Dr. Michael Krennerich passed away on December 28, 2024 after a long and serious illness surrounded by his family. A detailed obituary is published in German.

In collaboration with federal states, municipalities, and representatives of refugees, a team from FAU and the University of Hildesheim, together with four federal states, has developed a mechanism to distribute asylum seekers from federal states to municipalities. Using an algorithm, the individual...

What does it mean if French president Macron refuses to rule out sending Western troops to Ukraine? On "Deutschlandfunk Kultur", Prof. Dr. Eva Marlene Hausteiner comments on the announcement - and on the turmoil it has caused among friends and allies.

On January 11, the DFG Research Unit "Aitiologien. Figuren und Funktionen begründenden Erzählens in Wissenschaft und Literatur", in which Prof. Dr. Eva Marlene Hausteiner and Marina Solntseva from the Erlangen Chair of Political Theory and History of Ideas are involved with the sub-project "Imperial...

As part of the DFG research group "Aitiologies", Prof. Eva Hausteiner's chair will be researching a narrative pattern of current Russian imperialism that is central to the war in Ukraine: so-called "neo-Eurasianism". Neo-Eurasianists claim an everlasting conflict between "Eurasia" and "the West", my...

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 ...