News and Events

Our next guest lecture with Prof. Dr. Xiang Gao from Zhejiang University, China, which will take place on Monday 03.07 at 16:15 CET in room PSG II R 2.058 at Kochstr. 4, Erlangen. The topic of Prof. Dr. Gao's lecture is "The Rise of China's Digital Administrative State". For more information, please...

Our next guest lecturer is Dr. Tijo Salverda, who is affiliated with the University of Vienna, Austria, where he has recently completed a three-year professorship in social and cultural anthropology. His research focuses on elites, inequality, moral economy, and corporate actors, including how they ...

Our next guest lecturer is Prof. Dr. Matthias Gross, who is the Head of the Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig and, by joint appointment, Full Professor at the Institute of Sociology at Friedrich Schiller Univ...

Our next guest lecturer is Prof. Dr. Annah Lake Zhu, an Assistant Professor of environmental globalization at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Her lecture will discuss considering what environmentalism and biodiversity protection might look like in a world no longer dominated by the West. ...

Our next guest lecturer is Dr. Anni Kajanus, an assistant professor of social and cultural anthropology at the University of Helsinki. She will talk about how morals and moral systems impact decision-making processes across cultural and historical landscapes. Due to the Deutsche Bahn strike the lect...

Our next guest lecturer is Dr. Alex J. Nelson, an assistant professor in the departement of Anthropology & Archeology at the University of Indianapolis. He will talk about the declining fertility rates in South Korea and how it´s influnced by the shifting cultural expectations of the relationshi...

SDAC would like to extend a warm and hearty welcome to our new director, Prof. Dr. Jean-Baptiste Pettier. He was kind enough to answer some of our questions for him about his research interests, pre-SDAC life, and where he will take the program in the future. See his full profile here. Thank you, Pr...

Our next guest lecturer is Dr. Vilashini Somiah, a senior lecturer at the Gender Studies Programme at Universiti Malaya. She will talk about Bornean women, migrants, indigenous, and other sexual and gender minorities, which are often underrepresented. The lecture will be held in the SDAC Seminar Roo...

Each semester, we invite scholars and researchers from various disciplines to present their research and discuss cutting-edge issues with our students. This semester we are pleased to announce that these lectures will once again take place in person, in the SDAC seminar room. Our Guest Lecture Serie...