News and Events

Our next Guest Lecture features Dr. Annemarie Samuels as the speaker. She is an Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University, the Netherlands. Her topic is “HIV and Care in Aceh, Indonesia: Navigating (In)visibility and Gendered Inequality.” The lect...

Our next guest lecturer is Dr. Zhengli Huang, a Post-doctoral Researcher for Urban and Rural Planning at the University of Tongji, Shanghai. She will talk about "Chinese State Capital in Africa and its Bounded Improvisation." The lecture will be held online via zoom on Monday 5th, 6-8 pm (c.t.). ...

Next Monday, we welcome Prof. Dr. André J. Krischer, Professor of Early Modern History at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. His topic is “Decisions as Social Artefacts.” The lecture will be held online via zoom on Monday 28th, 6-8 pm (c.t.). For more details, see the poster below. Pleas...

In the framework of the SDAC Guest Lecture series, we will hold our first Career-/Practitioner Talk next Monday. We invite Dr. Anna Maria Gajda who is Vice President People & Enablement at LeanIX. She will talk about “Working in a Hyper Scaling Tech ScaleUp – What ‘Metaverse' and ‘Working from A...

There will be a lecture given by Henriette Hearn, an associated researcher of SDAC, on Tuesday, November 15th at 4:15 pm at the Institute of Sociology. She will talk about "From the U. S. Criminal Justice System to German Strafrecht: the Impact of Digitalization on Defense Attorneys and their Cli...

Next Monday, we welcome Dr. Phil. Liza Franke, an assistant professor in the field "Anthropology of Islam" at the University of Göttingen, as the speaker of our Guest Lecture Series. Her topic is “Fashioning the Muslim Self: Beauty, Identity and Religiosity in Globalised Contexts.” The lecture wi...

We are excited to announce that our first SDAC Guest Lecture for the winter semester 2022/2023 will take place next Monday. In this lecture, Waseem Naser, a doctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, will talk about “Emotions as ‘Technique’: Personhood and Deci...

Each semester, we invite scholars and researchers from various disciplines to present their research and discuss cutting-edge issues with our students. Our Guest Lecture Series for the Winter Semester 2022/2023 is out! Download the Guest Lecture Series Schedule here.

During the second week of October, we held orientation week and welcomed our new SDAC students. Tuesday: Treasure Hunt 5th cohort students gathered together for the first time and went treasure hunting around Erlangen. Some missions included taking funny and/or creative photos.   ...