Events Archive

"Transcending Religious and Ethnic Differences: Practical Rationalities of Healing in Western India"

Institute Colloquium Series "Intersections of Religion and Ethnicity" Winter 2011/12

"Urban Aspirations in Seoul (The Seoul Lab)"

Workshops, conferences 2012
The 1st Lab Meeting Program. [more]

"Beyond the Domestication of Islam in Europe"

Institute Colloquium Series "Intersections of Religion and Ethnicity" Winter 2011/12

"Chinese Buddhism as Social Force: Thirty Years of Revival"

Institute Colloquium Series "Intersections of Religion and Ethnicity" Winter 2011/12
  • Date: Jan 26, 2012
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Ji Zhe (CNRS, Paris)
  • Dr. Ji Zhe is a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités (GSRL) at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Paris. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris) in 2007.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Religion and Culture: the Growing Gap"

Institute Colloquium Series "Intersections of Religion and Ethnicity" Winter 2011/12

"Post-socialist bazaars: Markets and diversities in ex-COMECON countries"

Workshops, conferences 2012
Prior to the collapse of Communism, hundreds of thousands of migrants arrived in various localities throughout COMECON countries by way of programmes of mutual cooperation and ‘socialist solidarity’. Since then, many have not returned to their countries of origin, but have become entrepreneurs mostly engaged in wholesaling and retailing. Women and men from various, previously Communist countries now commonly work as street vendors and sellers in open air markets and bazaars across other former Communist territories. Further, after the fall of the Berlin Wall a new wave of people with various ethnic, linguistic, religious and class backgrounds have engaged in petty trading, suitcase and market trading within ex-COMECON countries. Local markets, increasingly comprised of diverse peoples, play key roles in post-socialist economic development while they transnationally link a variety of geographical and socio-cultural spaces around the world. [more]

"When 'old' diversity meets 'new' - GlobalDivercities Singapore Workshop"

Workshops, conferences 2012
Jointly organised by Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. [more]

"Religious Diversity and Ecological Sustainability in China"

Workshops, conferences 2012
  • Start: Mar 6, 2012
  • End: Mar 9, 2012
  • Location: Beijing
Workshop and Book Project sponsored by Minzu University of China, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity & Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology. [more]

"Multiculturalism in South Korea"

Workshops, conferences 2012
Two Korean scholars will visit our institute and present their papers on Korean multiculturalism. Taking on one hand a developmental perspective and on the other an exploration into civilizational ethics, these papers open a dialogue into the state project of multiculturalism. Please join us for what promises to be invigorating discussion!! [more]

"Differential Protection of the Right to Equal Treatment for Religious and Ethnic Minorities: International Legal Perspectives"

Institute Colloquium Series "Regulations of Cultural Diversity" Spring/Summer 2012
  • Date: Apr 26, 2012
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 03:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Kristin Henrard (Erasmus University of Rotterdam)
  • Professor Kristin Henrard is professor minority protection at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam (EUR) as well as associate professor constitutional law. Kristin Henrard teaches human rights, comparative human rights, mino­rity protection, constitutional law, introduction to public law and law pertaining to immigration (including refugee law). Her main publications pertain to the areas of human rights and minority protection. She is the founder of the Minority Research Network, which she also coordinates. The Minority Research Network encompasses currently more than 115 academics working on minority protection themes from different regions of the world as well as from a broad variety of disciplines.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Multiple Secularities: A Cultural Sociological Approach"

Institute Colloquium Series "Regulations of Cultural Diversity" Spring/Summer 2012
  • Date: May 3, 2012
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 03:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Monika Wohlrab-Sahr (University of Leipzig)
  • Monika WOHLRAB-SAHR is Professor of Cultural Socio­logy at the University of Leipzig (since 2006). From 1999 to 2006 she was Professor of Sociology of Religion at the same university. She did her habilitation on “Conversion to Islam in Germany and the United States” at the Free University of Berlin in 1998, where she worked as an assistant professor from 1992 to 1999. In 1996 she was a visiting scholar at the University of Berkeley, California. In 2007/8 she was Fernand Braudel Fellow at the European University Insti­tute in Florence, Italy.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Sacred missions and national identities: Modernist teleology in Siberian religious revivalism "

Tuesday Seminar Spring/Summer 2012

"The Secularist Appeal of Constitutional Law and Courts: A Comparative Account"

Institute Colloquium Series "Regulations of Cultural Diversity" Spring/Summer 2012
  • Date: May 10, 2012
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 03:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Ran Hirschl (University of Toronto)
  • Ran Hirschl is Professor of Political Science and Law, and holds a senior Canada Research Chair in Constitutionalism, Democracy & Development. He completed his B.A., LL.B., and M.A. at Tel-Aviv University, and received his M.Phil and Ph.D. from Yale University. His primary areas of interest are comparative constitutional law, constitutional and judicial politics, and comparative legal traditions and institutions more generally.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Chinese Religiosities"

Workshops, conferences 2012
20 minutes for each presentation; 60 minutes for each group discussion [more]

"Ethnographic Film Screening: So Heddan So Hoddan"

Ethnographic Film Screening 2012
Directors Anjali Monteiro and K.P. Jayasankar are Professors at the Centre for Media and Cultural Stu­dies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Both of them are involved in media production, teaching and research. A presiding thematic of much of their work has been a problematising of notions of self and the other, of normality and deviance, of the local and the global, through the exploration of diverse narratives and rituals. These range from the stories and paintings of indigenous peoples to the poetry of prison inmates. Jointly they have won twenty-eight national and international awards for their films. [more]

"Indian Religiosities"

Workshops, conferences 2012
20 minutes for each presentation [more]

"Public Space & Diversity - Inaugural Steering Group Meeting"

Workshops, conferences 2012
  • Start: May 22, 2012 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: May 23, 2012 04:30 PM
  • Location: Berlin

"Framing Immigration. Varieties of Arguments, Actors and Opportunity Structures"

Institute Colloquium Series "Regulations of Cultural Diversity" Spring/Summer 2012
  • Date: May 24, 2012
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 03:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Marc Helbling (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin)
  • Marc Helbling is head of the Emmy-Noether research group ‘Immigration Policies in Comparison’ (IMPIC) at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB). From 2009 to 2011 he was a senior researcher in the research unit ‘Migration, Integration, Transnationalization’ at the same institution. He holds a PhD in political science from the University of Zurich (2007).
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Actants Amassing: What’s Wrong with Durkheim and Mauss?"

Tuesday Seminar Spring/Summer 2012
  • Date: May 25, 2012
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Adam Chau (University of Cambridge)
  • Adam Chau was born in Beijing and grew up in Beijing and Hong Kong (hence the Anglicised Cantonese romanisation of my Chinese name). His undergraduate and graduate training in sociocultural anthropology was done in the US. His doctoral fieldwork was conducted in Shaanbei (northern Shaanxi Province) in the Yulin and Yan’an prefectures, on the cultural, social and political aspects of the revival of popular religion in rural China during the reform period. The results of that research have been published in a monograph (Miraculous Response: Doing Popular Religion in Contemporary China; 2006, Stanford University Press) and a series of journal articles. After having lived in the US for more than a dozen years, Adam chau came to the UK in 2005, and has taught at Oxford and SOAS respectively before coming to Cambridge.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
  • Room: Conference Room

"Ethnic Diversity, Social Polarization, and Political Representation in Multicultural Taiwan"

Tuesday Seminar Spring/Summer 2012

"Religion, space and diversity - negotiating the religious in the public sphere"

Workshops, conferences 2012
7th International Colloquium on the Changing Religious Landscape in Europe [more]

"Doing Asian Cities: A Workshop on Urban Aspirations"

Workshops, conferences 2012
Jointly organised by Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. [more]

"Language, Religion, and the Political Accommodation of Cultural Heterogeneity"

Institute Colloquium Series "Regulations of Cultural Diversity" Spring/Summer 2012
  • Date: Jun 7, 2012
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 03:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Rogers Brubaker (University of California, Los Angeles)
  • Rogers Brubaker is Professor of Sociology and UCLA Foundation Chair at the University of California, Los Angeles. Brubaker has written widely on social theory, immigration, citizenship, nationalism, and ethnicity. His first book explored the idea of rationality in the work of Max Weber, while his essays on Pierre Bourdieu helped introduce Bourdieu to an English-speaking audience. His next two books analyzed European nationalism in historical and comparative perspective. Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany (1992) sought to explain the sharply differing ways in which citizenship has been defined vis-à-vis immigrants in France and Germany and helped establish what has since become a flourishing field of citizenship studies; Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe (1996) compared contemporary East European nationalisms with those of the interwar period, both emerging after the breakup of multi­national states into would-be nation-states. Subsequently, in a series of analytical essays, many of them collected in Ethnicity without Groups (2004), Brubaker has critically engaged prevailing analytical stances in the study of ethnicity, race, and nationalism and sought to develop alternative analytical resources. These informed his collaborative book Natio­na­list Politics and Everyday Ethnicity in a Transylvanian Town (2006), which examined the everyday workings of ethnicity in a setting of highly charged ethnonational conflict.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Rights Make Might: Global Human Rights and Minority Social Movements in Japan"

Institute Colloquium Series "Regulations of Cultural Diversity" Spring/Summer 2012
  • Date: Jun 21, 2012
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 03:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Kiyoteru Tsutsui (University of Michigan)
  • Kiyoteru Tsutsui is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan. He holds an MA degree from Kyoto University and a PhD from Stanford University. His research interests lie in political/comparative sociology, social movements, globalization, human rights, and Japanese society.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"New Perspectives on Public Space: Emotion, Infrastructure and Mobility"

Workshops, conferences 2012
Jointly organised by the ERC GlobalDivercities Project (MPI-MMG) and CUNY Graduate Center. [more]

"Secularism and Religion-Making: The Case of Turkey"

Institute Colloquium Series "Regulations of Cultural Diversity" Spring/Summer 2012
  • Date: Jun 28, 2012
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 03:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Markus Dressler (Istanbul Technical University)
  • Markus Dressler is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Department for Social Sciences and Humanities, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Istanbul Technical University. Dressler holds a PhD in Religious Studies from the University of Erfurt and has received numerous fellowships and research grants, including at Columbia University, the American Research Institute in Turkey, and the Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Secularism and Religious Pluralism in Europe: Current Legal Challenges"

Institute Colloquium Series "Regulations of Cultural Diversity" Spring/Summer 2012
  • Date: Jul 5, 2012
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 03:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Marie-Claire Foblets (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Halle/Saale)
  • Marie-Claire Foblets is Director of the Department “Law & Anthropology” at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle a/d Saale. She was trained in law at the universities of Antwerp (1977-1979) and Leuven (1979-1982) in Belgium, while at the same time receiving an education in Thomist philosophy. Thanks to a study fellowship (1982-1983), she was given the opportunity to pursue further study in philosophy at the Wilhelms-Universität of Münster, in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, and to complete her studies in social and cultural anthro­pology (1985). For more than twenty years Marie-Claire Foblets taught social and cultural anthropology in the universities of Antwerp and Brussels. Before becoming a member of the Max Planck Society in March 2012, she was ordinary professor at the Catholic University of Leuven, where she headed the Institute for Migration Law and Legal Anthropology. Among her manifold publications is the edited volume with A.D. Renteln and J.-F. Gaudreault-DesBiens, Cultural Diversity and the Law. State Responses from Around the World, Brussels/Montréal, Bruylant/Blois (2010).
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"How Empires Handle Ethnic Diversity"

Institute Colloquium Series "Regulations of Cultural Diversity" Spring/Summer 2012
  • Date: Jul 12, 2012
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 03:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Günther Schlee (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Halle/Saale)
  • Günther Schlee was until 1999 Professor of Social Anthro­pology at the University of Bielefeld, having studied anthropology, romance languages and general linguistics in Hamburg. He received his doctorate for research on the belief and social systems of the Rendille, an ethnic group in northern Kenya. Alongside widespread fieldwork trips in Kenya, Ethiopia and Sudan, he was also guest lecturer in Padang (Sumatra) and at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales in Paris. Typical of the research of Günther Schlee is the “inter-ethnic” procedure and the combining of historical, sociological and philological methods. One of his manifold publications is Changing identifications and alliances in North Eastern Africa (co-editor: Elizabeth E. Watson.), Volume I: Ethiopia and Kenya, Volume II: Sudan, Uganda, and the Ethiopia-Sudan Borderlands. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2009.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"A Two Nation Theory with a Difference: India after the Reforms"

Tuesday Seminar Winter 2012/2013

"Golden Rule Catholicism: Lived Religion and Young People in the Philippines"

Tuesday Seminar Winter 2012/2013
  • Date: Sep 25, 2012
  • Time: 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Jayeel Serrano Cornelio (MPI-MMG)
  • Jayeel Serrano Cornelio received his MSocSci (2007) and PhD (2011) degrees in sociology from the National University of Singa­pore. He was a recipient of the Asia Research Institute PhD grant, the Graduate Scholarship for ASEAN Nationals, and the Lee Foundation Prize for academic excellence. He was visi­ting research student at the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University and visiting research associate at the Institute of Philippine Culture. In the Philippines, he has also been research fellow at the East Asian Pastoral Institute and instructor in sociology and development studies at the Ateneo de Manila University.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
  • Room: Conference Room

"Super-Diversity: Comparative Questions"

Workshops, conferences 2012
The notion of super-diversity underlines a call to re-evaluate concepts and policies surrounding diversity by way of moving beyond an ethno-focal understanding of diversity and adopting a multi-dimensional approach. In this two day workshop, participants will explore how this notion has been operationalised in empirical research on urban areas around the world. [more]

"Language Practices, Migration and Labour: Ethnographing Economies in Urban Diversities"

Workshops, conferences 2012
Funded by The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (Göttingen), Flemish Interuniversity Council (VLIR), Mellon Foundation, UWC and UCT. [more]

"Negotiating, Transgressing or (Re)Asserting Boundaries of Difference"

Workshops, conferences 2012
  • Start: Oct 11, 2012 08:45 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Oct 12, 2012 02:00 PM
  • Location: Wits University
Funded by the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (Göttingen) and the African Centre for Migration & Society, University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg) . [more]

"Refashioning the Self through New Therapeutics in Urban China"

Institute Colloquium Winter 2012/13
  • Date: Oct 11, 2012
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Li Zhang (University of California, Davis)
  • Prof. Dr. Li Zhang received her doctoral degree in anthropology from Cornell University in 1998 and a M.A. degree in social relations from UC Irvine in 1993. Before coming to the U.S., she studied Chinese literature and literary theory at Peking University and received her B.A. and first M.A. there. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University (1998-1999).
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Mapping Tibetan Landscape with Buddhism: Pema Tseden’s Transnational Cinema in China"

Tuesday Seminar Winter 2012/2013

"Transnational Daoist Dis-Orientations and the Predicament of Modern Spirituality"

Institute Colloquium Winter 2012/13
  • Date: Nov 1, 2012
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: David A. Palmer (University of Hong Kong)
  • Dr. David A. Palmer is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Hong Kong University. Before joining the HKU in 2008, he held appointments as the Eileen Barker Fellow in Religion and Contemporary Society at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and as a research fellow at the Ecole Française d‘Extrême-Orient (French School of Asian Studies), where he was the director of its Hong Kong centre, located at the Institute of Chinese Studies of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, from 2004 to 2008.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Religion in Contemporary China Workshop"

Workshops, conferences 2012
Visiting institution: Institute of World Religions, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). [more]

"Migrant Encounters"

A Photography Exhibition
A joint project by Helthservice and MPI-MMG, convened by Junhjia Ye (MPI-MMG), Shuxia Tai and Jessie Koh. [more]

"Social life of Banknotes"

Tuesday Seminar Winter 2012/2013

"Urbanization in Between: Theorizing Urbanization in Rapidly Industrializing China"

Tuesday Seminar Winter 2012/2013

"ILLNESS NARRATIVE REVISITED. From the Semiotics of Language to the Materiality of Speech"

Workshops, conferences 2012
A conference of Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, and the Working Group Medical Diversity at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen. Organised by the Medical Anthropology at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (David Parkin and Elisabeth Hsu), the Health Experience Group in the Primary Care Department (Louise Locock), and the Literature and Medicine academic initiative, Green Templeton College (Laurie Maguire), University of Oxford, together with the Working Group Medical Diversity at the Max Planck Institute, Göttingen (Gabi Alex and Kristine Krause). [more]

"From Urban Marginality to Marginal Urbanity"

Institute Colloquium Winter 2012/13

"Urban Aspirations in Seoul (The Seoul Lab)"

Workshops, conferences 2012
The 2nd Lab Meeting Program. The Seoul Lab workshop aims to share preliminary findings and future plans among the researchers, and further to make important decisions relating to the forthcoming international conference (June 26-7, 2013, Seoul). [more]
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