Year: 2022

We are excited to announce that our first SDAC Guest Lecture for the winter semester 2022/2023 will take place next Monday. In this lecture, Waseem Naser, a doctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, will talk about “Emotions as ‘Technique’: Personhood and Deci...

Each semester, we invite scholars and researchers from various disciplines to present their research and discuss cutting-edge issues with our students. Our Guest Lecture Series for the Winter Semester 2022/2023 is out! Download the Guest Lecture Series Schedule here.

During the second week of October, we held orientation week and welcomed our new SDAC students. Tuesday: Treasure Hunt 5th cohort students gathered together for the first time and went treasure hunting around Erlangen. Some missions included taking funny and/or creative photos.   ...

The winter semester of 2022/2023 is about to start. To welcome new SDAC students, the program organizes the orientation week the week before the lecture period. The schedule is updated on this page. We are looking forward to meeting new SDAC members!  

From August 1st to 4th, 2022, SDAC students had an excursion to Vienna. For more detail, please visit Vienna Excursion 2022

In the framework of the SDAC workshop series, Klaus Schneider, Dipl.-Pol. and Andreas Beneking, M. A. (Planpolitik Berlin), offered a workshop on negotiation techniques on July 22nd and 23rd, 2022. Students participated in the educational simulation game “Conflict over water in South Calipso”, wh...

The film club's last session took place on July 21st. We are thankful to Dr. Alexander Horstmann, our Guest Professor for this school year, for designing and organizing this wonderful academic activity for the Winter Semester 2021/2022 and the Summer Semester 2022 at SDAC. We had a wonderful tim...

Our next Guest Lecture will be in person! It features Tanja Pritzlaff-Scheele, Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Bremen, as the lecturer. She will talk about "'I think we can all agree on that'. Informal Decision Procedures in Committee Meetings." The lecture will be held in person on...

Next Monday, we welcome Claudia Liebelt, Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Free University of Berlin. Her topic is “Gender Politics and the Role of Beauty in the “New Turkey”: An Ethnographic Approach” The lecture will be held online via zoom on Monday 11th, 6-8 pm (c.t.). F...