Year: 2021

For this week’s SDAC Guest Lecture Series, Prof. Dr. Alexander Horstmann (Tallinn University/FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) will give a lecture on “Evangelical Activism in the Karen Hills of Myanmar: The Free Burma Rangers and Mobilization of the Karen in the War against Evil.” For more details, see the ...

For this week’s Guest Lecture Series, we’re glad to welcome Prof. Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (University of Oslo), and her topic is “Law and Technology in the Everyday: Technocolonialism and Refugee Lawyering Revisited.” For more information, see the poster below, and please contact Prof. Müller fo...

In this week's SDAC Guest Lecture Series, Dr. Zhiyu Li (Assistant Professor in Chinese Law, Durham University) has a session prepared in which she asks the question: "How Will Technology Change the Face of Chinese Justice?" For more information, see poster below and contact Prof. Müller for acces...

In the first SDAC Guest Lecture Series of the summer semester 2021, Dr. Clemens Richter (Vice Director CDIR Sino-German Institute of Law, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing) will talk to the SDAC students about "China: The Rule of Law as a Pillar of Reform and Opening-up". For...

Our Guest Lecture Series program for the summer semester 2021 is out! Academics from around the world representing various disciplines will discuss cutting-edge research with our SDAC students. Download the Lecture Series program here.

Prof. Dr. Stéphanie Homola recently published a chapter, "The Encounter of the "Symbolic Chinese Science of the Yijing" with Western Modern Science in Interwar France," in the book, The Making of the Global Yijing in the Modern World.  This chapter examines the circulation and reception of the Yi...

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! &nbs...

This week, for our last SDAC Guest Lecture Series this semester, Dr. Jan Beek will talk to SDAC students and interested guests about "Doing 'Cultural Difference' in Police Work in Germany''. For more information, see poster below and contact Prof. Müller for access to the online lecture (dominik....

This week, Prof. William Matthews (London School Economics), will speak to our students about "Cohorence, Cognition, and Causation: Understanding 'Cultural' Differences through Chinese and Roman Divination" in our SDAC Guest Lecture Series. To register, contact Prof. Müller (dominik.m.muellerfa...

For this week's SDAC Guest Lecture, we're looking forward to hearing from Tomáš Petrů, Ph.D. (Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences). His topic: "Still 'Cautiously Friendly Ties'? China-Malaysia Relations Before, During and After Second Mahatir's Rule (2018 - February 2020)." Please regis...