Events

"Disentangling the Multiplicity of Crises: Im/mobilities and Uncertainties beyond Perceptions of Emergency "

Events 2023

Start: Nov 9, 2023 05:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
End: Nov 11, 2023 12:00 PM
Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
Room: Library Hall

DFG-funded network: Migration and im/mobilities in the Global South in Pandemic Times · 3rd network meeting (MPI-MMG Göttingen) · Organizer: Heike Drotbohm, Mainz University [more]

Searching for the Wings of the Wind: Comfort and Care Among West African Immigrants in New York City

Date: Nov 2, 2023
Time: 05:00 PM - 07:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Paul Stoller (West Chester University and the Center for Advanced Study, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg)
Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
Room: Conference Room Villa

Paul Stoller is Professor of Anthropology at West Chester University and Permanent Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Friedrich Alexander University, Erlangen-Nuremberg. [more]

"Home-coming and Home-making: Conversations between Architecture and Anthropology"

Events 2023

Start: Sep 20, 2023 09:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
End: Sep 21, 2023 04:15 PM
Location: MPI-MMG, Goettingen, Room: Hybrid event: Livestream/ Live, Hermann Föge Weg 11

This workshop is part of a seed funding project awarded equally to Co-PIs Dr Xiang Ren and Dr Victoria Sakti by the British Academy and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for a UK-Germany cooperation project on ‘Home-coming and Home-making: Linking Spatio-temporal Heritages and Experiences of South-East Asian Diasporas in Europe’. The School of Architecture, Faculty of Social Sciences of The University of Sheffield and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity are the cooperating institutes, and the Max Planck Research Group ‘Ageing in a Time of Mobility’ is co-hosting the workshop. [more]

"Migration, Diversity and Inequality in Later Life: Ageing at a Crossroads"

Events 2023

Date: Apr 26, 2023
Location: MPI-MMG, Goettingen, Room: Hybrid event: Livestream/ Live, Hermann Föge Weg 11

14:30-16:00 (CEST) ▪ Dora Sampaio is Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Utrecht University, Netherlands. She is an affiliated researcher with the Max Planck Research Group ‘Ageing in a Time of Mobility’. Her research interests focus on migration, transnational families, care, intergenerational inequalities, and the life course. She is the author of Migration, Diversity and Inequality in Later Life: Ageing at a Crossroads and co-editor of two recent journal special issues on ageing and migration. [more]

"Multimodal Ethnography and Digital Curating in the Research on Ageing"

Events 2023

Date: Apr 24, 2023
Time: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Location: Online Event

On 24th April 2023, Megha Amrith, Victoria Kumala Sakti and Nele Wolter participated at a virtual roundtable discussion on ‘Multimodal Ethnography and Digital Curating in the Research on Ageing’ organized by the Age and Generations Network (AGENET), a registered network of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA). [more]

Megha Amrith, Victoria Kumala Sakti and Dora Sampaio at the second workshop of the DFG Network on ‘Migration and im/mobilities in the Global South in Pandemic Times’

Start: Jan 19, 2023
End: Jan 20, 2023
Speaker: Megha Amrith, Victoria Kumala Sakti and Dora Sampaio
Location: University of Bielefeld

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