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On Friday the 12th of July, 2019, students of the Master´s program “Standards of Decision-Making Across Cultures” participated in a workshop on Futures Studies held by Stefanie Ollenburg, a Research Fellow from Free University of Berlin. The workshop was provided for the students within the framework of the SDAC Lecture and Workshop Series. Continue

“Establishing the Anthropology of China in German-speaking Academic Institutions” The third meeting of the “Anthropology of China” working group of the German Anthropological Association (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie) July 4th-5th, 2019   Convenors: Prof. Step... Continue

Joint-Workshop IKGF and SDAC June 3-4,2019   The academic study of decision-making provides a highly interdisciplinary field that incorporates research from a variety of disciplines, including, but not limited to, branches of behavioral economics, political science, economic anthropology,... Continue

Berlin, the front city in the cold war, has turned into a vibrant cosmopolitan metropole after the wall fell. Rich in history, the architecture reflects the city’s ambiguous past. Bombing and street-to-street fighting in World War 2, as well as the consequent division of the city into a Western and an Eastern zone, have left scars still visible today. In 1999 Berlin became the capital of the reunited Federal Republic of Germany. Continue

In 2018, the SDAC director , JProf.Stéphanie Homola, has published her article "La fabrique des restes.Réflexions sur les procédures aléatoires produisant des restes dans les arts divinatoires chinois". For more Information, please click here   Continue

On Friday 30th of November students of the Master´s program “Standards of Decision-Making Across Cultures” participated in a workshop on Design Thinking held by Professor Oliver Szasz from Macromedia University of Applied Sciences in Munich. At the beginning of the workshop, Professor Szasz introduc... Continue

The lecture on “Intercultural Information Ethics and the Digitalization of Africa”, brought by both the SDAC program and the FAU Gender and Diversity Office, took place on November 14th, 2018 at the International Consortium for Research in the Humanities (IKGF). The lecture was given by Ms. Laura Sc... Continue

The SDAC Students have attended the IKGF Lecture Series titled " Caught in Destiny: The Propagation of the Notion of Fate in Contemporary Taiwan", conducted by the SDAC program director, JProf. Stéphanie Homola which took place on Tuesday 30.10.2018. The group photo features Prof. Dr. Michael Lack... Continue

The Elite Master's program commenced its first academic activity during the orientation week by inviting the SDAC students, members of staff, and research fellows to attend the lecture series hosted by the International Consortium for Research in the Humanities, where scholars discuss the academic f... Continue

Standards of Decision-Making Across Cultures heißt ein neuer Masterstudiengang, den es seit Herbst 2017 an der FAU gibt. Dabei handelt es sich um einen internationalen und interdisziplinären Elitestudiengang, in dem Studierende lernen, in ihren späteren Tätigkeiten je nach Situation die beste Entsch... Continue