Year: 2023

Being a speaker of NAGS, PD Dr. Viola Thimm co-convenes the upcoming international workshop "Decolonize the Anthropology of Gender & Sexuality" at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Spain, held from 23rd to 24th of November 2023. This workshop aims to discuss current debates and questions...

We are delighted to announce that our colleague PD Dr. Viola Thimm published her latest book Shopping with Allah: Muslim pilgrimage, gender and consumption in a globalized world with UCL Press. It is now available to download from the UCL Press website. The printed book can be ordered via the UCL we...

Are you wanting to know more about our teaching staff at SDAC? Well, look no further: PD Dr. Viola Thimm was kind enough to share with us her experiences teaching at SDAC, research interests and more. Read all about one of our incredible lecturers at SDAC, and what she has to say!   E.S: ...

Our next guest lecture with Prof. Dr. Xiang Gao from Zhejiang University, China, which will take place on Monday 03.07 at 16:15 CET in room PSG II R 2.058 at Kochstr. 4, Erlangen. The topic of Prof. Dr. Gao's lecture is "The Rise of China's Digital Administrative State". For more information, please...

Our next guest lecturer is Dr. Tijo Salverda, who is affiliated with the University of Vienna, Austria, where he has recently completed a three-year professorship in social and cultural anthropology. His research focuses on elites, inequality, moral economy, and corporate actors, including how they ...

Our next guest lecturer is Prof. Dr. Matthias Gross, who is the Head of the Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig and, by joint appointment, Full Professor at the Institute of Sociology at Friedrich Schiller Univ...

Our next guest lecturer is Prof. Dr. Annah Lake Zhu, an Assistant Professor of environmental globalization at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Her lecture will discuss considering what environmentalism and biodiversity protection might look like in a world no longer dominated by the West. ...

Our next guest lecturer is Dr. Anni Kajanus, an assistant professor of social and cultural anthropology at the University of Helsinki. She will talk about how morals and moral systems impact decision-making processes across cultural and historical landscapes. Due to the Deutsche Bahn strike the lect...

Our next guest lecturer is Dr. Alex J. Nelson, an assistant professor in the departement of Anthropology & Archeology at the University of Indianapolis. He will talk about the declining fertility rates in South Korea and how it´s influnced by the shifting cultural expectations of the relationshi...