Year: 2022

Our next guest lecturer is Paul Jobin, Associate Research Professor at the Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. He will talk about “Taiwan as a Hot Spot in the Geopolitics of the Anthropocene.” The lecture will be held online via zoom on Friday 8th, 10-12 am (c.t.). For more detail...

Unfortunately, the lecture on the 27th is canceled. The next Guest Lecture Series will be Friday, July 8th. The detail will be provided as soon as possible.   Our next Guest Lecture, again in person, features Waseem Naser for his talk, “Emotions as ‘Technique': Personhood and Decision-...

Our next Guest Lecture will be an in-person session! For this lecture, we welcome Terje Toomistu, a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Tartu's Department of Ethnology. She will talk about “Indigeneity, Nation, and the Strategic Enactments of Belonging: Becoming Waria in West Papua...

For our next SDAC Guest Lecture Series, we welcome Eugénie Mérieau, an associate professor of public law at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and a member of the Sorbonne Institute of Philosophical and Legal Research. Her lecture topic is "The Constitutional Culture of Bricolage in Thailan...

As part of the module of the master's thesis, the methodology colloquium was held from May 25th to June 3rd. In this intensive academic writing seminar, Prof. Dr. Robert La Fleur, an associated researcher as well as a former guest professor of SDAC, provided a variety of inputs, from practical ad...

In the framework of the SDAC workshop series, Franka Elsbett-Klumpers, owner EK Training - Etikette & Kommunikation, offered a workshop for business etiquette on May 27th, 2022. Through active discussions and group work, students dealt with interesting and important questions such as, "Who sh...

We are excited to announce that the next Guest Lecture Series will be jointly hosted with the Institute of Political Science. We welcome Claudia Derichs, Ph. D., who is a professor of Transregional Southeast Asian Studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin. She will talk about "Connecting Relig...

Our next guest lecturer is Mirjam Lücking, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She will talk about "Good Gifts from the Middle East in Indonesia – Expressing Religious Identities, Class Affiliation and Gender Ideals through Consumption and Charity" The lecture will be hel...

Next Monday, we welcome Tom Boellstorff, Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. Their topic is "Four Questions of the Metaverse" The lecture will be held online via zoom on Monday 16th, 6-8 pm (c.t.). For more details, see the poster below. Please contact Prof. Dr. ...