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 News and Updates
Interviews
Blogs
Working Paper Series
New job offers
New Publications
The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity was established in November 2007.
Its Managing Director and Director of the Department of Socio-Cultural Diversity is
Professor Dr. Steven Vertovec.
Professor Dr. Peter van der Veer is Director of the Department of Religious Diversity.
The Institute is dedicated to the multi-disciplinary study of diversity in historical and contemporary societies, particularly concerning ethnic and religious forms and dynamics. Such work entails basic empirical research aimed at theoretical development. Projects will investigate multiple forms of diversity, how these have been shaped and defined, how they have been or could be governed, how different processes of inter-ethnic or inter-religious encounter unfold, how patterns and images of diversity change, and how relations between concepts of ethnicity and religion develop. As the new Institute grows, studies will not solely address migration-related contexts (in so-called migrant-sending, -transit and -receiving societies) but also contexts long characterized by different kinds of diversity, such as in South Africa, the Balkans, India and Brazil.
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News and Updates
Lecture on 23 February 2010
Peter Kivisto (University of Turku, Finland):
"The Question of Culture in Multicultural Discourse"
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On January 1st Ayse Caglar joined the Social and Cultural Diversity section
as a Research Group Leader. She has a BA
in
Sociology (Bosphorus University, Istanbul), MA and PhD in
Anthropology (McGill University, Canada) and Habilitation
both
in Sociology and Anthropology (Freie Universitaet, Berlin). In
June 2009, she was appointed as a university professor at the
Central European University, Budapest, and as ‘egyetemi tanar’ in
Hungary. Before joining MPI Göttingen, she worked at the Institute of
Ethnology, Freie Universität Berlin (1995-2003), the Department of
Sociology and Social Anthropology at the Central European University in
Budapest (2003-2009), and served as the head of the department in the
latter (2003-2007). She will be leading projects on ‘Migration, Urban
dynamics and Citizenship’.
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David Parkin is a guest at the institute from February to
October. He is Professor Emeritus of social anthropology at
the University of Oxford. Prior to this, he spent many years
working at the School of Oriental and African Studies in
London, where he is now an honorary professor. He is working
on medical anthropology, intercultural semantics, and socio-cultural
evolution. His field work concentrates on East Africa and the coast of the
Indian Ocean. He is now a member of a research group at the MPI MMG
that focuses on medical diversity.
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Interviews
Under Interviews the Institute offers interviews with distinguished scientists, led by staff members of the Institute.
Karen Schönwälder interviewed Ulrich Beck (Munich). Ulrich Beck is Professor for Sociology at the University of Munich.
At MPI-MMG Prof. Beck will be working closely with the Department of Socio-Cultural Diversity on several projects.
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Blogs
Under Blogs the researchers from the institute describe the development of their projects and the challenges, delights and frustrations of conducting social scientific research.
In December Alexander Horstmann comments on his fieldwork in Northwestern Thailand.
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Working Paper Series
Grillo, Ralph: Cultural Diversity and the Law: Challenge & Accommodation
Cheesman, Tom: Diversity in Cultural Representations: Comedy and Othello
Hewstone, Miles: Living apart, living together? The role of intergroup contact in social integration
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New job offers
The Department of Socio-Cultural Diversity is offering a two-year research position for a qualified
Social Scientist. For more information click
here.
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New Publications
Vertovec, Steven (ed) [2010]: Migration. Vol. I: Theories - Vol. II: Types - Vol. III: Trends - Vol. IV: Policies - Vol. V: Processes. London: Routledge Major Works series Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences.
 further information
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Schönwälder, Karen [2009]: Einwanderer als Wähler, Gewählte und transnationale Akteure, in: Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 50. Jg., Heft 4, S. 832-849.
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Vertovec, Steven / Wessendorf, Susanne (eds) [2010]:
The Multiculturalism Backlash European Discourses, Policies and Practices.
Für weitere Informationen klicken Sie hier (Flyer).
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Alex, Gabriele [2009]: Genderequality in Indien - Erfolge und Probleme, in Der Bürger im Staat, 3/4-2009, Landeszentrale für politische Bildung Baden-Württemberg, S. 215-220.
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Schönwälder, Karen [2009]: Ethnic Monitoring: Welche Daten braucht die Forschung? DOSSIER Ethnic Monitoring - Datenerhebung über oder mit Minderheiten? Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung.
http://www.migration-boell.de/web/diversity/48_2298.asp
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Schönwälder, Karen [2009]: Einwanderer in politischen Ämtern: in Deutschland noch eine Seltenheit, in: Jahrbuch der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft.
www.mpg.de
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Horstmann, Alexander / Reuter, Thomas (eds) [2009]: Revitalization of Local Tradition and New Forms of Religiosity: Perspectives from Southeast Asia. (Special Issue), Asian Journal of Social Science 37.
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Horstmann, Alexander / Reuter, Thomas (eds) [2009]: "The Post-Modern Shift. Introduction". In: Asian Journal of Social Science 37, pp. 853-856.
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Horstmann, Alexander [2009] "The Revitalization and Reflexive Transformation of the Manoora Rongkruu Performance and Ritual in Southern Thailand: Articulations with Modernity". In: Asian Journal of Social Science 37, pp. 918-934.
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Ngo, Tam [2009]: The short-waved Faith: Christian Broadcastings and the Transformation of the Spiritual Landscape of the Hmong in Northern Vietnam. In Lim, K.G Francis (ed). Mediated Piety: Technology and Religion in Contemporary Asia. Leiden: Brills.
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Alex, Gabriele [2009]: "Learning and Embodying Caste, Class and Gender. Patterns of Childhood in Rural Tamil Nadu". Chennai: National Folklore Support Centre (with financial assistance from Tata Education Trust).
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