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We are delighted to announce that our colleague PD Dr. Viola Thimm published her latest book Shopping with Allah: Muslim pilgrimage, gender and consumption in a globalized world with UCL Press. It is now available to download from the UCL Press website. The printed book can be ordered via the UCL we...

This Autumn School explores the intersection of gender, sexuality and religion from an anthropological lens. In many contemporary societies across the globe these intersections have been both enacted as sites of volatile contestation and creative transformation. Gender, sexuality and religion are ab...

Our last guest lecture, for this semester, with Dr. James Wachira will take place Monday 10.07.23 at 16:15 CET in room PSG II R 2.058 at Kochstr. 4, Erlangen. Dr. Wachira will talk about sacredness of fig trees in Kenya and the existing changes over their sustainability, in the wake of Kenya´s conte...

Are you wanting to know more about our teaching staff at SDAC? Well, look no further: PD Dr. Viola Thimm was kind enough to share with us her experiences teaching at SDAC, research interests and more. Read all about one of our incredible lecturers at SDAC, and what she has to say!   E.S: ...

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...