Year: 2020

For this week's Guest Lecture Series and the last lecture this year, we're happy to welcome Kikue Hamayotsu, Ph.D. (Norther Illinois University). Her topic: "Comparative Religious Regimes Formation in Southeast Asia" Registration as usual is required. Please contact dominik.m.muellerfau.de &nb...

This week, Prof. Dr. Baudouin Dupret will join us for the Guest Lecture Series on Thursday, December 11th 2020, 6-8pm Topic: Characterizing the World: Decision-Making and the Passage of Law To register, contact dominik.m.muellerfau.de

We have Dr. David Bromell talk in our Guest Lecture Series this week. His topic: Censored! Developing a Framework for Making Sound Decisions Fast This event will be held in person on Thursday, December 3rd, 6-8pm. Seating is limited.To register, contact dominik.m.muellerfau.de  

This week's Guest Lecture Series features Afsaneh Rigot with a talk on Tech, Human Rights, and Advocacy Decisions: LGBTQ Rights in the MENA Region and the Queer Dating Apps Case Study. Catch her talk on Thursday, November 19th from 6-8pm. To register, contact dominik.m.muellerfau.de

The SDAC Guest Lecture Series continues this Thursday, Nov. 12th from 6-8pm with Dr. Tomas Larsson from the University of Cambridge's Department of Politics and International Studies. He will talk about Thailand: Superstition and Politics

We are looking for a Guest Professor for the academic year 2021/2022! For further information, requirements and application deadline: / PDF

The SDAC is excited to welcome the first speaker in this semester's Guest Lecture Series. Prof. Dr. Minh Nguyen from Universität Bielefeld will speak on "Peasants, Migrant Workers, and Supermarkets": An Ethnographic Account of Chinese Development from the Margin

Our Guest Lecture Series program for winter 2020/2021 is out! Academics from around the world representing various disciplines will discuss cutting-edge research related to the socio-culturally oriented study of decision-making with our SDAC students. Download the Lecture Series program here.

Dr. Alexander Smith, who used to worked at SDAC as Deputy Professor, has recently published his book on the interdisciplinary approaches to ritual prognostication in the Tibetan Bon tradition. In Divination in Exile, Alexander K. Smith offers the first comprehensive scholarly introduction to the ...

Student Reports: One Year at the SDAC Time is flying by! Already, we are coming close to the end of the summer semester 2020 and with it, the third year since students started their studies at the SDAC. We are celebrating three wonderful generations of students from various disciplinary and interna...