News & Updates 2023

December 2023
Appeal by Patrick Cramer, President of the Max Planck Society, in which he refers to the research results of the MPI-MMG DivA project. According to this study, more than two thirds of people in German cities see social diversity as a benefit. more

December 2023
Congratulations to Akif Tahiiev on being awarded a Philipp Schwartz Fellowship! The Philipp Schwartz Initiative was launched by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation together with the Federal Foreign Office and enables research stays in Germany for threatened researchers. more

November 2023
On November 10, Mina Hristova was awarded the Karl Kaser Prize for historical-anthropological Southeast European research by the University of Graz. more

November 2023
We increasingly live in social bubbles and build walls to surround ourselves with like-minded people. In this way, however, we are missing out on the opportunity for a better, more solidary world, finds social anthropologist Farhan Samanani in his talk at Göttinger Literaturherbst. more

November 2023
Congratulations to Megha Amrith on her receipt of a prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant 2023! Her new project, entitled “The Pursuit of Wellness in Southeast Asia: New Encounters and Inequalities in an Emerging Industry” will commence at the end of 2024. more

October 2023
October 12-13, the concluding conference of the three years project "Muslim-Jewish Encounters" took place in Berlin with researchers from France, Great Britain and Germany. The project was funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche, the Economic and Social Research Council and the German Research Foundation. more

October 2023
Swetlana Torno represented the Max Planck Society during the two-days event to foster scientific exchange and cooperation. more

October 2023
Congratulations to former MMG researcher Annelies Kusters, who has become the first deaf scholar to be made a full professor in the field of deaf studies and sign language studies in the UK. more

September 2023
The Max Planck Society will be taking part in the Fast Forward Science competition, hosted by wissenschaft im dialog, with a podcast featuring Ulrike “Über oder unter 18?”. In this "Ach, Mensch" podcast, she talks about how the controversial issue of age influences the lives of young asylum seekers in Germany. more

August 2023
Hania Sobhy‘s latest book “Schooling the Nation: Education and everyday politics in Egypt” referenced in a piece in the New York Times on public education in Egypt. more

PODCAST • June 2023
The second series of the CityShow podcast is now online covering Medellin in Columbia, Joburg in South Africa and Riyadh in Saudi Arabia. The CityShow is a podcast about complexity and how people live and adapt to life in fast-changing cities across Africa, Latin America and Asia. more

May 2023
Hard copies of the Handbook of Superdiversity are finally out. Edited by Fran Meissner, Nando Sigona and Steven Vertovec it offers unique insights into the ongoing debates about diversity and how to make sense of it considering complex social transformations. more

January 2023
This new book Superdiversity by Steven Vertovec presents a convincing case for recognizing new social formations created by changing migration patterns and calls for a re-thinking of public policy and social scientific approaches to social difference.
The Open Access version is now available at www.taylorfrancis.com. more

January 2023
Once a year, Max Planck goes to school in Göttingen: on January 26, Seda Kara spoke with students of the Georg-Christoph-Lichtenberg-Gesamtschule about the topic "Turkish Migrant Experiences in Germany". more

January 2023
Congratulations to Elisa Lanari for being awarded the Martin Bulmer Prize for her article "Latina M(other)work against racism: living with legal precarity in suburban Atlanta“ in Ethnic and Racial Studies. more