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The Long Night of Sciences is one of the largest scientific communication events in the Nuremberg metropolitan region and the largest Long Night of its kind in Germany. More than 20,000 people will visit the various scientific institutions in the region, starting with the children’s programme in the afternoon and continuing with the programme aimed at adults from 6pm, with tours through the laboratories and institutes giving the general public the opportunity to discover what researchers at FAU, Max Planck & co are currently working on.

Bundesforschungsministerin Bettina Stark-Watzinger und der Präsident der Humboldt-Stiftung Hans-Christian Pape verleihen am 12. Mai 2022 Deutschlands höchstdotierten Forschungspreis, die Alexander von Humboldt-Professuren. 21 Spitzenforschende werden in Berlin mit Deutschlands höchstdotiertem intern...

Dr. Liu Ziang has published a new Op-Ed in the South China Morning Post entitled China’s plan to unify its domestic market will create cohesion, but at the expense of local needs. It is in reaction to the Chinese government’s “Opinions on Accelerating the Establishment of a Unified Domestic Marke...

Histoire & Mesure : Enjeux épistémologiques et perspectives analytiques dans une perspective transpériode Mercredi 23 février 2022 de 9h30 à 17h30   Cette journée d’études, organisée par Alessandro Stanziani (ESOPP-GRHEN), est consacrée aux relations entre la mesure et l’histoire. L’hi...

During the Republican era, personal hygiene and public sanitation became indicators for civilization and a healthy and strong population. Influenced by similar notions in Europe, the United States, Japan and other countries that aspired to be modern, Chinese politicians, intellectuals, and educators...

Am Lehrstuhl für Sinologie mit dem Schwerpunkt Geistes- und Kulturgeschichte Chinas (Alexander von Humboldt-Professur) — Institut für Sprachen und Kulturen des Nahen Ostens und Ostasiens — der FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg ist zum 1. Oktober 2022 eine Stelle für eine*n Doktorand*In/wissenschaftliche Mitarbe...

The Chair for Sinology with a focus on the Intellectual and Cultural History of China — Institute for Near Eastern and East Asian Languages and Civilizations — at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg invites applications for the position of a PhD student (f/m/d) related to mathematics or statistics in China (19th...

We invite proposals for a conference which will explore the life of numerically framed knowledge from a global historical perspective on quantification. It is based on the assumption that numbers have their own biographies and are not simply the objective reflection of reality but socially, politica...

Absolute poverty is a global problem and its alleviation is set on the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development by the UN. China is said to have reached this goal as early as the end of 2020. President Xi Jinping officially declared in February 2021 that China achieved the eradication of absolute pov...

Nearly twenty years ago, one vehicle license number fetched close to 25,000 Euros in the first public auction of license plates in Guangzhou. Auctions continue to be held bimonthly in Chinese cities, but chances to obtain a plate with the desired number combination have become close to zero. The gov...