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Lecture: Ethnography and Political Science On Friday, December 6, 2019, Professor Dr. Lisa Herzog, University of Groningen, gave a guest lecture about the conduct of interdisciplinary research and the application of ethnographic methods in Political Science. In the framework of the SDAC lecture ser... Continue

Design Thinking Workshop How to provide a smooth start for expatriate employees in Germany? On Friday, November 15, 2019, students in the Master´s program “Standards of Decision-Making Across Cultures” participated in a workshop on “Design Thinking.” The workshop was facilitated by Dr. Christian ... Continue

Museum Artifacts in Everyday Life On Friday, November 8, SDAC students met to explore the relationship between artifacts from the past and everyday life. Further, they were asked how those fragments of the past might relate to decision-making on multiple levels. The day’s seminar consisted of three... Continue

Rethinking Interdisciplinary Approaches to Decision-Making: Choice, Culture, and Context A highlight in the summer semester 2019 was the joint workshop of the Elite Graduate Program “Standards of Decision-Making across Cultures“ with IKGF. The aim of the workshop was to focus on the complexity of t... Continue

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