2010 - MPI-MMG

Seminare, Vorträge 2010

Karen Schönwälder and Christiane Kofri (MPI MMG,
Göttingen): Local Parliaments & Immigrant
Representation: NRW 2009
13 January 2010

Andreas Zick and Wilhelm Heitmeyer (IKG,
Bielefeld): Diversity and Group Focused Enmity
27 January 2010

Peter Kivisto (Augustana College, Illinois, USA): The
Question of Culture in Multicultural Discourse
23 February 2010

Tansen Sen (Baruch College, City University of New York):
The Revival of Nalanda University: The Re-establishment
of the Ancient Buddhist Networks
27 April 2010

Joel Robbins (University of California, San Diego):
Anthropology, Pentecostalism and the New Paul:
Conversion, Event, and Social Transformation
28 April 2010

José Casanova (Georgetown University, Washington):
Religion and Globalization
5 May 2010

Birgit Meyer (Free University Amsterdam): Aesthetics of
Persuasion. Global Christianity and Pentecostalism’s
Sensational Forms
19 May 2010

Stephan Feuchtwang (London School of Economics):
Hospitality to Ghosts, in China and Elsewhere; the problem
of being human
26 May 2010

Kenneth Dean (McGill University): Mapping Chinese
Temple Networks in Southeast Asia
2 June 2010

Oscar Salemink (VU University Amsterdam):
The Politicization of Religion and the Sanctity
of Human Rights in Contemporary Vietnam
9 June 2010

David Gellner (University of Oxford): Building Theravada
Buddhist networks in Nepal and Beyond
16 June 2010

John R. Bowen (Washington University, St. Louis):
Why there is no `European Islam’: Contrasting contours
of Islam in England and France
24 June 2010

Alberto Gomes (La Trobe University, Melbourne): “Civility
and Intercultural Relations in Goa (India) and Malaysia”
1 July 2010

Da Wu (Shanghai University): Ethno-cultural
Capital and Re-migration in Shanghai
Institute Colloquium, 1 September 2010

Hans Joas (Max Weber Center, Erfurt):
Does Secularization Lead to Moral Decline?
Institute Colloquium, 8 September 2010

Solomon Benjamin (National Institute for
Advanced Study, Bangalore): Intersections
between Indian and Chinese Vernacular Urbanisms
Institute Colloquium, 22 September 2010

Vyjayanthi Rao (The New School for social Research,
New York): The City as Stage: Speculative Violence
and the Violence of Speculation
Institute Colloquium, 29 September 2010

Judit Bodnar (Central European University, Budapest)
Institute Colloquium, 6 October 2010

Sophie Watson (Open University, UK)
Institute Colloquium, 13 October 2010

Shalini Randeria (University of Zurich)
Institute Colloquium, 20 October 2010

Thomas J. Csordas (University of California, San Diego)
Lecture, 25 October 2010

Wendy Pullan (University of Cambridge)
Institute Colloquium, 27 October 2010

Work in progress Seminar

Steven Vertovec (MPI MMG)
Institute Colloquium, 3 November 2010

Jörg Dürrschmidt (University of Kassel)
Institute Colloquium, 17 November 2010

Ash Amin (Durham University)
Institute Colloquium, 24 November 2010