Year: 2021

Hooray! On Friday, SDAC held this year's online Christmas party. Many students and staff members showed up, and we had a cozy and lovely Christmas celebration. Merry Christmas from all of us! May your holidays sparkle with moments of love, laughter, and goodwill, and may the year ahead be full of...

'Tis the season for a holly jolly Christmas party! This year has been quite challenging, but SDACers, we made it! Let's have a break from the busy days and celebrate the upcoming Christmas together! Representatives of the 3rd, 4th, and 5th cohort would like to invite all of you to an online Christm...

Congratulations to Alexandra Ens and Ellen Wagner, our SDAC students from the 4th cohort, on winning the Germany Scholarship! The Germany Scholarship is given out by the FAU to its top students to support them financially. It is sponsored by the federal government and by private donors such as comp...

This week's SDAC guest lecturer is Isabel Heinemann, Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Münster, Germany, and her topic is "From Birth Control to Human Rights? Reproductive Decision-Making in Historical Perspective." The lecture will be held online via zoom on Wednesday, Decem...

The SDAC Workshop Series schedule for winter semester 2021/2022 is out!    

The elite study program "Standards of Decision-Making Across Cultures" (SDAC) will be funded for another five years beginning from October 2022. This extension is the result of a successful expert review by the Elitenetzwerk Bayern (ENB) of the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts. "SD...

Congratulations to Kseniia Ogorodnikova, our SDAC student from the 3rd cohort, on winning the Schüßler Prize Award 2021. Hans-Wilhelm and Helga Schüßler Prize is awarded to those international students who distinguished themselves during their studies in Germany through outstanding academic achieve...

This Wednesday, we welcome Dominik Müller as our SDAC guest lecturer. His topic is "Becoming and Being an Islamic Authority Figure: Reflections on Everyday Navigation in a Transnational Bureaucratic Field." The lecture will be held online via zoom on Wednesday, November 17th, 6-8 pm (c.t.). Fo...

This week, we are looking forward to hearing the lecture given by Rama Srinivasan. Her topic is “Validating Marriages Across Cultures: Negotiating Multiple Normative Orders in Decision-Making Processes." The lecture will be held in person on Wednesday, November 10th, 6-8 pm (c.t.). For more de...