My name is Stephanie Omola. I'm a professor of ethnology at the elite master program standards

of decision making across cultures and this belongs to the chair of Chinese studies at

FAO. I am an anthropologist and sinologist and I'm interested in local practices of

decision making in China and Taiwan. This is where I do my fieldwork and divination

there is a highly technical knowledge but also an everyday practice. For instance, people

consult diviners to choose the name of a newborn baby or if they want to invest in on the stock

market and I try in my work to understand the rationale of these techniques, why practitioners

spend so many years learning this very complex knowledge and what people gain from it. Students

should come to FAO to attend this special master program standards of decision making

across cultures that is sponsored by the elite network of Bavaria. It is an interdisciplinary

program that focuses on the cultural foundations of decision making in different cultures and

we have a special focus on East Asia and China and one of the highlights of the program is

a six month stay at Beijing University which is one of the most prestigious universities

in China and students can have the opportunity to apply their theoretical knowledge in academic

and everyday situations in China.