Veranstaltungen der Abteilung für soziokulturelle Vielfalt (in absteigender Reihenfolge)

Workshop organised by Silke Schicktanz (University of Göttingen) & Tulsi Patel (Delhi University) in co-operation with the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (Göttingen). [mehr]

"Conceiving and researching multi-ethnic urban spaces"

Workshops, conferences 2010
Workshop with Ash Amin (Durham) and Talja Blokland (Humboldt University, Berlin). [mehr]

"Cities and the Ethic of Care Among Strangers"

Institute Colloquium Winter 2010/11

"(Mis)managing and (mis)understanding diversity in Macedonia"

Workshops, conferences 2010
Workshop with Emilija Simoska (Sts Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje), Makedonka Mitrova (Sts Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje) and Goran Janev (MPI for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity). [mehr]

"No Longer at Ease: East German Home Comings in Urban Context"

Institute Colloquium Winter 2010/11

"Ethnography, language & communication: a workshop"

Workshops, conferences 2010
Workshop with Jan Blommaert (University of Tilburg) & Ben Rampton (King’s College London). [mehr]

"Global Migration, Diversification and Cities"

Institute Colloquium Winter 2010/11
  • Datum: 03.11.2010
  • Uhrzeit: 14:00 - 16:00
  • Vortragender: Steven Vertovec (MPI-MMG)
  • Steven Vertovec is Director of the Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diver­sity, Göttingen and Honorary Joint Professor of Sociology and Ethnology, University of Göttingen. Previously he was Professor of Transnational Anthropology at the University of Oxford and Director of the British Economic and Social Research Council’s Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS).
  • Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Raum: Library Hall

"Sacred Frontiers: The Reinvention of Everyday Life in Jerusalem’s Old City"

Institute Colloquium Winter 2010/11
  • Datum: 27.10.2010
  • Uhrzeit: 14:00 - 16:00
  • Vortragende: Wendy Pullan (University of Cambridge)
  • Wendy Pullan teaches architecture and urbanism at the University of Cambridge. She is Principal Investigator for ‚Conflict in Cities and the Contested State, an international and multidisciplinary research project funded by the ESRC‘s Large Grants Programme. In 2006, she received the Royal Institute of British Architects‘ inaugural President‘s Award for University Led Research for work on Conflict in Cities. Dr Pullan has published widely on Mediterranean and Middle Eastern architecture and cities, especially Jerusalem, and has advised on issues to do with urban uncertainty, change and security. She is a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge.
  • Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Raum: Library Hall

"Catholic Charismatic Communities: A Global Geography of the Spirit"

Institute Colloquium Winter 2010/11
  • Datum: 25.10.2010
  • Uhrzeit: 15:00 - 17:00
  • Vortragender: Thomas J. Csordas (University of California, San Diego)
  • Dr. Thomas Csordas is an anthropologist whose principal interests are in medical and psychological anthropology, comparative religion, anthropological theory, cultural phenomenology and embodiment, globalization and social change, language and culture. He has conducted ethnographic research with Charismatic Catholics, Navajo Indians, and adolescents in the American Southwest on topics including therapeutic process in religious healing, ritual language and creativity, sensory imagery, self transformation, techniques of the body, causal reasoning about illness, and the experience of psychiatric inpatients.
  • Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
  • Raum: Conference Room

"The (Un)Making of Policy in the Shadow of the World Bank: Mumbai Urban Transport Project, Infrastructure Development and Urban Resettlement"

Institute Colloquium Winter 2010/11

"Public Affect Effects: Enacting in/Civilities in Public Space"

Institute Colloquium Winter 2010/11
Workshop with Gerhard Boomgaarden (Routledge, London). [mehr]

"Neoliberal Urban Forms and Comparisons: Chicago, Budapest and Planned Housing Developments"

Institute Colloquium Winter 2010/11

"Researching Markets and Diversity"

Workshops, conferences 2010
Workshop organized by the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES, University of Amsterdam), Metropolis British Columbia (University of British Columbia) and the MPI-MMG (Göttingen). [mehr]

"The City as Stage: Speculative Violence and the Violence of Speculation"

Institute Colloquium Winter 2010/11
  • Datum: 29.09.2010
  • Uhrzeit: 14:00 - 16:00
  • Vortragende: Vyjayanthi Rao (The New School for Social Research, New York)
  • Vyjayanthi Rao is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the New School for social Research, New York. She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Chicago and was a Post-Doctoral Associate at Yale University prior to joining The New School. Her Research Interests include: Anthropology and Ethnography of South Asia; Urban Culture, Architecture and Infrastructure; Monuments and Material Culture; Displacement, Memory and Citizenship; Ethics, Aesthetics and Globalization.
  • Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Raum: Library Hall
Round table organized by the MMG DivCon team (Sören Petermann, Thomas Schmitt, Karen Schönwälder, Steven Vertovec). [mehr]

"Intersections between Indian and Chinese Vernacular Urbanisms"

Institute Colloquium Winter 2010/11
  • Datum: 22.09.2010
  • Uhrzeit: 14:00 - 16:00
  • Vortragender: Solomon Benjamin (National Institute for Advanced Study, Bangalore)
  • Solomon Benjamin is an Associate Professor at the Bangalore based, National Institute of Advanced Studies and co-anchor of a newly established Urban Research and Policy Program (URPP). Benjamin’s doctoral work at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning (1996) looked at the politics of land and small firms in East Delhi. His present research looks at globalization as it shaped city politics, economy and land.
  • Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Raum: Library Hall
Workshop with Thomas Hylland Eriksen (University of Oslo), Elisabeth Eide (Oslo University College) and Sharam Alghasi [mehr]

"Does Secularization Lead to Moral Decline?"

Institute Colloquium Winter 2010/11
  • Datum: 08.09.2010
  • Uhrzeit: 14:00 - 16:00
  • Vortragender: Hans Joas (Max Weber Center, Erfurt)
  • Hans Joas is Max Weber Professor and Director of the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt. He is also Professor of Sociology and a member of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. In 1979, he obtained his Ph.D. from the Free University in Berlin and worked, from 1984 to 1987, as a Heisenberg fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. From 1990 until 2002, he held a chair at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies and the Insti­tute for Sociology at FU Berlin. Hans Joas has taught at many institutions in Europe and the US as visiting professor. He is a regular member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
  • Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Raum: Library Hall

"Visual Anthropology"

Workshops, conferences 2010

"Ethno-cultural Capital and Re-migration in Shanghai"

Institute Colloquium Winter 2010/11
  • Datum: 01.09.2010
  • Uhrzeit: 14:00 - 16:00
  • Vortragender: Da Wu (Shanghai University)
  • Professor Wu received his MPhil and Ph.D. degrees in Cultural Anthropology from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He was an Assistant Researcher Fellow in the Chinese Academic of Social Sciences from 1989 to 1998. He has been with Shanghai University since 2008.
  • Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Raum: Library Hall

"Medical knowledge, health, crises and processes of diversification"

Workshops, conferences 2010
Workshop at the 11th EASA Biennial Conference "Crisis and imagination", held from 24-27th August 2010 in Maynooth, Ireland. [mehr]

"Theorising the State and Mobility in Africa"

Workshops, conferences 2010
Writer's Research Workshop, organized by Darshan Vigneswaran (MPI-MMG) and Joel Quirk (University of the Witwatersrand). [mehr]
Workshop with Prof. Ulrich Beck (Ludwig Maximilian University Munich). [mehr]

"Immigrant Political Incorporation in Europe"

Workshops, conferences 2010
Conference organizers: Karen Schönwälder & Irene Bloemraad. [mehr]

"Cosmopolitanization"

Workshops, conferences 2010
Workshop with Ulrich Beck, Professor for Sociology at the University of Munich Centennial Professor in the Department of Sociology. [mehr]

"Gesellschaftliche Vielfalt und jugendamtliche Praxis"

Workshops, conferences 2010
Organized by Boris Nieswand, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. [mehr]

"Social Milieus and Diversity"

Workshops, conferences 2010
The goal of the workshop is to introduce theoretical concepts and operationalizations of social milieus and to discuss what the term “milieus” has to offer the concept of diversity. The workshop will include lectures by Prof. Em. Dr. Michael Vester (Universität Hannover) about concepts of social milieus and Dr. Darius Zifonun (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen) about the usefulness of this concept in migration research. [mehr]

"Key Concepts and Methods in Ethnography, Language & Communication"

Workshops, conferences 2010
Organized by the King’s College London, the Tilburg University and the Institute of Education, University of London. [mehr]

"The Question of Culture in Multicultural Discourse"

"Diversity and Group Focused Enmity"

Seminar Series “Studying Diversity – Theoretical and Methodological Issues” Winter 2009/10

"Local Parliaments & Immigrant Representation: NRW 2009"

Seminar Series “Studying Diversity – Theoretical and Methodological Issues” Winter 2009/10
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