SDAC Lectures on June 4th
The SDAC is excited to welcome two guest lecturers this week.
Dr. Gunnar Stange (University of Vienna) will speak on "Internal Displacement and Livelihood Recovery: Three Case Studies from Southeast Asia" and
Prof. Andrew Harding (University of Singapure) will hold a tal...
As required by the program, SDAC students of the second cohort spent the winter semester 19/20 at the European Centre for Chinese Studies (ECCS) at Peking University.
While they are back from China and busy with their Master Theses, we asked them to write recaps on their experiences in Beijing.
We...
SDAC Lecture Series Summer 2020
Our Guest Lecture Series program for summer 2020 is out!
Academics from across the world representing various disciplines will discuss cutting-edge research related to the socio-culturally oriented study of decision-making with our SDAC students.
SDAC Lecture progr...
Call for student applications for fall 2020/21
We receive applications for the start of the SDAC class 2020/21 until July 15th. We recommend that especially non-EU-citizens apply until 31 March 2020. Teaching starts in mid-October. Early applications are encouraged, especially for international stu...
The survival and well-being of modern societies depends on whether they succeed in developing strategies to cope with wicked problems such as the overexploitation of natural resources, the destruction of the biosphere, mass migration, and expulsion. In an analysis on politics and ethics, Grundmann d...
As part of the SDAC Lecture-Series Dr. Linda Huber, who is a scholar at Stefan Zweig University for Education in Salzburg (Austria), delivered a presentation on intercultural communicative competence on January 24, 2020. The concept of intercultural communication relates to the effectiveness of cogn...
In the framework of the SDAC lecture series Dr. Taylan Yildiz, who is an expert on narrative research at the NRW School of Governance (University of Duisburg-Essen), shared some insights from his latest research on January 17, 2020. In the last ten years, the interest in the role of narratives in po...
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...
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 ...
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...
