Year: 2021

This coming Friday, we will have our final session of the SDAC Guest Lecture Series SoSe 2021. Our speaker, Christoph Bieber will talk about “AI Governance: How Can Politics Shape Artificial Intelligence?" The lecture will take place on Friday, July 9, 10am-12pm (c.t.). For more details, see t...

For next week’s SDAC Guest Lecture Series, we welcome our speaker, Alfonso Palacio-Vera. His lecture is about “Popper's 'Situational Analysis': A Reconsideration." The lecture will take place on Wednesday, July 7, 6-8 pm (c.t.). For more details, see the poster below. Please contact Prof. Dr. ...

For this week’s SDAC Guest Lecture Series, we are looking forward to hearing from Rosa Cordillera A. Castillo, and her topic is “A Politics and Ethics of Viewing Photographs of Duterte's 'Drug War': Towards Reconceptualizing the Political Community." The lecture will take place on Wednesday, June...

For this week’s SDAC Guest Lecture Series, we welcome Kankan Xie, and his topic is "Various Forms of Chineseness in the Origins of Southeast Asian Communism." The lecture will take place on Wednesday, June 23rd, 6-8 pm (c.t.). For more details, see the poster below. Please contact Prof. Dr. Mü...

How is esoteric knowledge transmitted in contemporary societies where communication technologies allow all kinds of information to circulate and be disclosed to an ever-wider audience? For instance, the young generations in Taiwan can learn about the complex and obscure Chinese tradition of divinati...

The application period for the SDAC Elite Master's Program is well underway. Find out everything about our program in the SDAC Call for Applications 2021. Apply now to join the SDAC community, benefit from a low student-teacher ratio and acquire knowledge in a truly international setting!

For this week’s SDAC Guest Lecture Series, we are looking forward to hearing from Catherine Herfeld, and her topic is “The Diversity of Rational Choice Theory." The lecture will take place on Wednesday, June 16th, 6-8 pm (CET). For more details, see the poster below. Please contact Prof. Dr. M...

In the framework of the SDAC workshop series Eric Molin, owner of Impact Presenting, offered a virtual workshop on public speaking on May 28, 2021. The workshop was offered with the support of the Bavarian Elite Network (ENB). Based on a 4-steps-model the students learned techniques on how to man...

For this week’s SDAC Guest Lecture Series, we welcome Li Zhang, and she will talk about her newly published book Anxious China: Inner Revolution and Politics of Psychotherapy. The lecture will take place on Wednesday, June 9th, 6-8 pm (CET). For more details, see the poster below, and please c...

For this week’s SDAC Guest Lecture Series, we are looking forward to hearing from Professor Lyle Fearnley (Singapore University of Technology and Design), and his topic is “Fake Eggs and Wet Markets: Qualification Devices and Counter-Qualification in China's Food Safety Crisis.” The lecture will ...