Home
M.A. Standards of Decision-Making Across Cultures (SDAC)
SDAC is a full time, four semester M.A. program supported by the Elite Network of Bavaria. This non-consecutive Master’s program draws from the fields of social and cultural anthropologies, political science, history, gender studies, economics, sociology, philosophy, and area studies. In SDAC, anthropology is the guiding discipline with ethnography and qualitative research as the main methods, however, all courses are taught in a spirit of multi perspectivity. This way, SDAC familiarizes students with a multiplicity of ways of thinking and developing contextual understandings about decisions, choices, and agency – especially in a (cross-)culturally oriented manner.
More information…
Ferdiansyah Thajib, together with Benjamin Hegarty, Amalia P. Handayani, Rully Mallay, and Arum Marischa, has recently published a paper in Medical Anthropology titled "Research, HIV/AIDS, and Turning Waria into a Key Population in Indonesia: An Ethnographic Oral History."The study challenges the do...
On Wednesday, December 11th of 2024, from 12:15 to 13:40 Ct, Dr. Ferdiansyah Thajib’s course on What is Southeast Asia hosts Dr. Victoria K. Sakti’s guest lecture.
Dr. Victoria K. Sakti is a social anthropologist and postdoctoral fellow with the Max Planck Research Group “Ageing in a Time of Mobi...
A new paper co-authored by Maria Bondes with Danqi Guo, Genia Kostka, and Wiebke Rabe in the Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning explores citizen action in Chinese environmental governance between institutional and extrainstitutional channels of participation. Based on an original online ...
On Monday, November 18th 2024, from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m., Dr. Maria Bondes' "Contentious Politics" seminar will host Fengshi Wu, who is an Associate Professor in Political Science and International Relations at the School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia. Based on her influential 2015 paper "In the Name of the Public: Environmental Protest and the Changing Landscape of Popular Contention in China," co-authored with Christoph Steinhardt from the University of Vienna, she will discuss the main features of environmental activism in today's China and reflect what has changed in recent years under the Xi Jinping administration.
Ferdiansyah Thajib, together with Benjamin Hegarty, Amalia P. Handayani, Rully Mallay, and Arum Marischa, has recently published a paper in Medical Anthropology titled "Research, HIV/AIDS, and Turning Waria into a Key Population in Indonesia: An Ethnographic Oral History."The study challenges the do...
On Wednesday, December 11th of 2024, from 12:15 to 13:40 Ct, Dr. Ferdiansyah Thajib’s course on What is Southeast Asia hosts Dr. Victoria K. Sakti’s guest lecture.
Dr. Victoria K. Sakti is a social anthropologist and postdoctoral fellow with the Max Planck Research Group “Ageing in a Time of Mobi...
A new paper co-authored by Maria Bondes with Danqi Guo, Genia Kostka, and Wiebke Rabe in the Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning explores citizen action in Chinese environmental governance between institutional and extrainstitutional channels of participation. Based on an original online ...
On Monday, November 18th 2024, from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m., Dr. Maria Bondes' "Contentious Politics" seminar will host Fengshi Wu, who is an Associate Professor in Political Science and International Relations at the School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia. Based on her influential 2015 paper "In the Name of the Public: Environmental Protest and the Changing Landscape of Popular Contention in China," co-authored with Christoph Steinhardt from the University of Vienna, she will discuss the main features of environmental activism in today's China and reflect what has changed in recent years under the Xi Jinping administration.
PD Dr. Viola Thimm is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Heidelberg University and Senior Lecturer at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. She has held leadership roles in cultural anthropology and has authored several books on Islam, gender, and mobility. Her current research examines queer ...
