The Institute of Geography at the FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg is one of the strongest research centres in German-speaking geography. In rankings of the publication performance or the acquisition of research funds, the researchers at Erlangen geography regularly reach top positions (eg. CHE-/Zeit-Ranking 2018, DFG-Förderatlas 2018).
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Matter shapes our existence, although we tend to forget about its activity in everyday life. The __matter Festival 2025 shines a new light on material agencies. From April 10, 2025, it presents exhibitions, workshops and debates at twelve venues across Berlin, radically changing our understanding o...
US President Donald Trump has issued a decree instructing US authorities to use the term ‘Gulf of America’ in future instead of ‘Gulf of Mexico’, which has been used since the 16th century. Google Maps, the market leader for commercial geodata and navigation services, has followed this renaming...
From March 11 to 14, 2025, the STS-Hub 2025 took place in Berlin under the theme »Diffracting the Critical«. More than 600 scholars from diverse disciplines gathered to explore contemporary forms of critique in Science and Technology Studies (STS).
Our Society-Environment Research Group chaired ...
