In October 2025, PD Dr Viola Thimm, senior lecturer at SDAC and Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology (Privatdozentin) at Heidelberg University, was awarded admission to the most prestigious and highly competitive DFG-Heisenberg-Program. This will enable her to fully concencrate on...
A new article by SDAC Senior Lecturer Dr. Maria Bondes explores how citizens in authoritarian regimes engage with new digital opportunities. Drawing on an online survey conducted in China in 2021, the study reveals that a surprisingly large share of Chinese citizens participates in ICT-based partici...
PD Dr. Viola Thimm organizes the FAU-lecture series "Queer Research Worlds" in winter semester 2025/2026 for the IZGDD (Interdisziplinäres Zentrum Gender-Diversität-Differenz). The public lecture series explores current discussions and debates in Queer Studies from an interdisciplinary perspective. ...
The volume co-edited by SDAC's senior lecturers: Viola Thimm and Ferdiansyah Thajib, investigates the intersection of gender, sexuality, and religion from an anthropological lens. Taking women’s, non-binary, and queer religious life-worlds in Muslim and Christian contexts as a cross-cutting research...
Guest Talk at SDAC: "For an Anthropology of Love: Passion, Gender and Arabic Poetry in Mauritania"
On Thursday, June 26th, 2025, from 4:15 to 5:45 pm, we are pleased to welcome a guest lecture in the SDAC Seminar Room titled:
"For an Anthropology of Love: Passion, Gender and Arabic Poetry in Mauri...
Ferdiansyah Thajib, together with 19 co-authors from interdisciplinary backgrounds, has just published a paper in Ethos titled: "Combining remote and collaborative research: A critical reflection on large-scale, comparative, and interdisciplinary research in times of a global crisis."
The paper e...
On Wednesday, May 14th 2025, from 08:15 to 09:45 CET, Dr. Ferdiansyah Thajib’s course on Introduction to Psychological Anthropology hosts a guest lecture by Florin Cristea.
Florin Cristea is a PhD candidate in psychological and medical anthropology at Freie Universität Berlin. His research explor...
We’re excited to share that Prof. Dr. Jean-Baptiste Pettier will be giving a guest lecture at the University of Lyon (France) on his current research project Affective Trades, which explores the commerce, use, and protection of seahorses in contemporary China.
The talk, titled "De la valeur des hip...
On Monday, May 5th, from 16:15 to 17:45 pm, Dr. Agnes Khoo is giving a guest lecture in PD Dr. Viola Thimm’s courses "The Anthropology of Gender" and "Southeast Asia from below".
Dr. Agnes KHOO hails from Singapore, Dutch citizen and a global nomad who teaches
International Relations/Inter-Cultura...
