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"Encounters with Diversity: How the Local Matters"

Events 2023

Date: Nov 3, 2023
Time: 09:00 AM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
Room: Library Hall

This symposium brings together scholars from sociology, anthropology, geography, and critical migration studies around the theme of the “local” as a vantage point to research and theorize issues of migration-related diversity and social interaction. [more]

Encounters Project International Meeting

Workshops, conferences 2023

Date: Oct 12, 2023
Time: 06:00 PM - 08:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Location: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10117 Berlin
Room: Hauptgebäude Erdgeschoss, Hörsaal 1070

Encounters’ final event in Berlin brings to a close a 3-year ORA Joint Research Project on intercultural, interethnic and interreligious encounters of Muslims and Jews in urban Europe. Researchers from Germany, France and UK, will share the results of their analysis and fieldwork on the specificities of and commonalities between Muslim-Jewish encounters in Berlin and Frankfurt, Paris and Strasbourg, London and Manchester, shaped by different national histories of integration including the place of religion in social and political life. [more]

MPI-MMG in Dialogue "Aspiring in Later Life: Reframing Ageing in Diversity Research"

Events 2023

Date: Oct 11, 2023
Time: 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Location: MPI-MMG, Goettingen
Room: Hybrid event: Livestream/ Live, Hermann Föge Weg 11

Invited scholars discuss cutting-edge research and new ideas with the institute’s scientists [more]

MPI-MMG in Dialogue "Understanding support for diversity"

Events 2023

Date: Jun 28, 2023
Time: 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Location: MPI-MMG, Goettingen
Room: Hybrid event: Livestream/ Live, Hermann Föge Weg 11

Invited scholars discuss cutting-edge research and new ideas with the institute’s scientists [more]

Encounters Project International Meeting

Workshops, conferences 2023

Start: Jun 5, 2023
End: Jun 7, 2023
Location: Strasbourg

The Encounters Project meeting in Strasbourg is taking place between 5-7^th of June 2023. The Encounters project studies everyday interactions between Jews and Muslims in different urban contexts; aiming to restore these relations in their complexity and promoting dialogues with different actors of civil society. Strasbourg, one of the six cities in the scope of this project, will host international research team, bringing together multiple disciplines: sociology, anthropology, urban planning, and migration studies. [more]

Writing Workshop for invited authors of Ethnic and Racial Studies Special Issue "Contested Categories in the Context of Migration"

Workshops, conferences 2023

Start: May 31, 2023
End: Jun 2, 2023
Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
Room: Library Hall

Workshop participants (from left to right, bottom to top): Mira Burmeister-Rudolph (bottom left), Ángel A. Escamilla Garcia, Heike Drotbohm, Steven Vertovec, Adrian Favell (middle left), Amanda Cheong, Johanna M Lukate, Ulrike Bialas, Kiya Gezahegne (top left), Carolyn Choi, Gabriela Mezzanotti, Cecilia Menjívar [more]

Indigenous Peoples and Religious Modes of Othering: A Comparative History of Religions Perspective

Workshops, conferences 2023

Date: May 24, 2023
Time: 09:00 AM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
Room: Library Hall

A joint initiative by: Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen · Diversity Studies Centre Oslo (DISCO), Oslo Metropolitan University · Indigenous Values Initiative, Syracuse University Henry Luce Project, American Indian Law Alliance [more]

"Scholarship and Activism: Convergences and Contradictions"

Workshops, conferences 2023

Date: May 4, 2023
Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
Room: Library Hall

Workshop organized by Katharyne Mitchell and Noor Amr [more]

Pushing back & nudging forward. Migration governance in Greece, Malta, and Cyprus in the context of the Common European Asylum System

Start: Apr 28, 2023 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
End: Apr 29, 2023 12:30 PM
Location: Leibniz-Gemeinschaft, Chausseestraße 111, 10115 Berlin
Host: The New Guards (Michalis Moutselos, University of Cyprus; Project Leader), Tihomir Sabchev (MPI-MMG) Steven Vertovec (Director, MPI-MMG)

First Expert Workshop in the framework of the project “The New Guards: Re-bordering the Southeast Mediterranean in an age of migration” [more]

MPI-MMG in Dialogue "Superdiversity and the dynamics of diversification"

Events 2023

Date: Apr 19, 2023
Time: 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Location: MPI-MMG, Goettingen
Room: Hybrid event: Livestream/ Live, Hermann Föge Weg 11

An event marking the launch of Steven Vertovec’s new book. [more]

"Visualizing Migration and Diversity: What can we see?"

Workshops, conferences 2023

Date: Mar 31, 2023
Location: Harnack House Berlin

At this workshop, a small group of invited participants will present recently created data visualizations surrounding migration and diversity. We will learn of their reasons for, and processes of, creating such tools and will discuss a variety of matters concerning the potential impacts (and drawbacks?) of such modalities for understanding dynamics of international migration and the diversification of societies. [more]