Events

Im Gespräch mit dem Journalisten Georg Dietz spricht Steven Vertovec, Direktor des Göttinger Max-Planck-Instituts zur Erforschung multiethnischer und multireligiöser Gesellschaften, über sein Buch „Superdiversität“ (Suhrkamp Verlag 2024). Der Begriff, den der Göttinger Forscher geprägt hat, hilft zu verstehen, wie es zu den zunehmenden Diversifizierungsprozessen in modernen Gesellschaften kommt. Migration spielt dabei eine zentrale Rolle. Das Gespräch wird in englischer Sprache geführt. more

Steven Vertovec’s talk “Superdiversity and social complexity” was held at the “Living with diversities. Cultures and new complexities” conference by the Fondazione Intercultura in Florence, April 4-6 2024. This is an excerpt from the original video by the Fondazione Intercultura, which can be found here: https://youtu.be/x94zu7Zvi20 more

Wir leben zunehmend in sozialen Blasen und errichten Mauern, um uns mit Gleichgesinnten zu umgeben. So aber entgeht uns die Chance auf eine bessere, solidarischere Welt, findet der Sozialanthropologe Farhan Samanani. more

Globalisierung bedeutet Mobilität und Freizügigkeit, weltweit. Ein Irrtum, sagt der Soziologe Steffen Mau. In seinem Buch „Sortiermaschinen“ (C.H. Beck 2022, nominiert für den Deutschen Sachbuchpreis) legt er offen, dass Grenzen im Zeitalter der Globalisierung zu machtvollen Sortiermaschinen umgebaut wurden. more

Presented by editors Shahd Seethaler-Wari, Somayeh Chitchian and Maja Momić. more

Naika Foroutan zeigt: Der Umgang mit Migration hat viel mit unserem Verhältnis zu Differenz, Hybridität und Ambiguität zu tun. more

Public Keynote Lecture by Peter Nyers (McMaster University) more

Public Keynote Lecture by Marco Giugni (University of Geneva) more

Public Lecture by Nasar Meer (University of Edinburgh) more

In ihrem Buch „The Shifting Border: Legal Cartographies of Migration and Mobility“ (Manchester University Press 2020) analysiert Ayelet Shachar die Rückkehr der Grenzen und ihre radikale Transformation. more

Public Keynote Lecture by Ilana Feldman (George Washington University, Washington, USA) more

Steven Vertovec (MPI-MMG): “Urban Diversity, Diversification and Complexity"
Keynote Lecture at the Twentieth International Conference on "Diversity in Organizations, Communities & Nations", University of Milan, Italy, 10-12 June 2020 more

DWnews TV Interview with Steven Vertovec, conducted by Anchor Brent Goff more

Irfan Ahmad: "Critique & Islam"
Keynote Lecture by Irfan Ahmad at the 2019 Postcolonial Studies Association of the Global South (PSAGS) Annual Conference and Meeting on “Postcolonial Unreason: Nation, Calibanization and Silences”
Date: Saturday, December 21, 2019
Location: Netaji Subhas Open University, Salt Lake, Kolkata Campus more

conducted by the Max Planck Research Group "Ageing in a Time of Mobility"
Professor Loretta Baldassar is a migration scholar and researcher with interests in transnational families, the social uses of new technologies, ageing, youth and caring across distance. She is the Deputy Head of School (Community Engagement) for the School of Social Sciences. more

Steven Vertovec (MPI-MMG):
“Dynamics in the Public Understanding of Diversity” more

Steven Vertovec (MPI-MMG), Dan Hiebert (University of British Columbia), Alan Gamlen (Monash University) and Paul Spoonley (Massey University):
“Visualizing Urban Superdiversity” more

Public Keynote Lecture by Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh (University College London) at the Conference “Welcoming Refugees: The Role of Religion”, organized by the Department of Ethics, Law and Politics at the MPI-MMG
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Conducted by Hans Leaman on the occasion of the Conference “Welcoming Refugees: The Role of Religion” more

Conducted by Benjamin Boudou on the occasion of the Conference “Welcoming Refugees: The Role of Religion” more

Hiroshi Motomura (UCLA, Los Angeles):
“The Current State of Immigration Law and Policy in the United States" more

Jaclyn L. Neo (National University of Singapore):
“Managing Religious Diversity: The Law of ‘Religious Harmony’ " more

Franck Düvell (German Institute for Integration and Migration Research, Berlin):
"Quo vadis, migration studies? Towards a migratory epistemology. A critical reflection of the conventional concepts used in migration studies. A critical reflection of the conventional concepts" more

Tamar de Waal (University of Amsterdam):
"Conditional Belonging" more

Philip Gorski (Yale University · Lichtenberg Kolleg:
"Goodbye Tocqueville? Christianity and Democracy in Trump’s America" more

Phillippe Van Parijs (University of Louvain):
“Is it really solidarity that we Europeans need?”
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Deborah Cowen (University of Toronto):
“Imprints of Empire: Border Infrastructures and the Landscape of Jurisdiction”
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Andreas Reckwitz (Europa Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder):
"Hyperculture and cultural essentialism: Two modes of culturalization in late modernity" more

Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi (Barnard College Columbia University):
"Decoloniality in the Camp & the University"
Romola Sanyal (LSE, London):
“Unsettling Architectural Narratives of Refuge: From Camps to Cities" more

Hiroshi Motomura (UCLA, Los Angeles):
“The New Migration Law: A Roadmap for an Uncertain Future” more

Sarah Lamb (Brandeis University):
"Ageing and Mobility: Care, Generations, and Citizenship beyond the Views of the West" more

Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh (UCL):
"From the Local to the Global: The Roles of Local Faith Communities in Refugee Situations in the Global South” more

Kenneth Dean (Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore): "The transmission of Chinese civilizational techniques to Southeast Asia ... more

Christine Langenfeld (Göttingen) and Holger Kolb (Berlin): "Legal Limits: On the Shrinking Relevance ... more

Andrew Selee (Migration Policy Institute): “Vanishing frontiers: the blurring of the US-Mexico border" more

Pamela E. Klassen (University of Toronto): “Telepathy, empire, and public memory" more

Ben Kaplan (University College London): "The Legal Rights of Religious Refugees in the ... more

Sara Wallace Goodman (University of California, Irvine): “Tolerance at what Cost? ... more

Christian Joppke (University of Bern): “Legal Multiculturalism: Comparing Gays and Muslims” more

Anne Phillips (London School of Economics): “The Politics of the Human” more