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"The religious lives of migrant minorities: creating local spaces for global faiths"

Workshops, conferences 2009

Date: Mar 11, 2009
Time: 05:00 PM - 08:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
Room: Library Hall

Workshop organized by the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (MMG) and American Social Science Research Council (SSRC). [more]

" Little India – Secularism, Transnationalism and Religious Pluralism in Mauritius"

Joint Seminar Series 2009 "Dimensions of Diversity"

Date: Apr 29, 2009
Time: 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Patrick Eisenlohr (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
Room: Conference Room

Co-organized by: Peter van der Veer & Steve Vertovec (Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Ethnic and Religious Diversity) ▪ Matthias Koenig & Andrea Lauser (Göttingen University) [more]

"From medical pluralism to medical diversity?"

Workshops, conferences 2009

Date: Jun 22, 2009
Time: 10:00 AM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
Room: Library Hall

The goal of the workshop was to critically discuss the extent to which the concepts of diversity can enhance dicussions related to medical pluralism. [more]

"Can Multi-National Federations Work? The Case of Iraq"

Date: Aug 6, 2009
Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Brendan O’Leary (University of Pennsylvania)
Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
Room: Library Hall

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"Global Cities Conference"

Workshops, conferences 2009

Start: Aug 9, 2009 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
End: Aug 12, 2009 12:30 PM
Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
Room: Library Hall

Conference organized by Arjun Appadurai and Peter van der Veer. [more]

"Memories of Justice: Redistribution and the Reconfiguration of Economic"

Date: Aug 19, 2009
Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Steven Heydemann (United States Institute of Peace, Washington D.C.)
Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
Room: Library Hall

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"Researching ‘super-diversity’ in European cities: conceptual and methodological challenges"

Workshops, conferences 2009

Date: Sep 11, 2009
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Location: Stockholm University, Sweden
Room: Hörsalen, Aula magna

Workshop on the International IMISCOE/SUS.DIV Conference 2009 "Sustainable diversity, migration and social cohesion" from 9 until 11 september 2009 at Stockholm University, Sweden. The workshop was organized by Susanne Wessendorf (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity). [more]

"Understanding diversity: theoretical and methodological challenges"

Workshops, conferences 2009

Start: Oct 1, 2009 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
End: Oct 2, 2009 04:00 PM
Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
Room: Library Hall

IMISCOE B6 Workshop. [more]

"Integration and its Impacts on Diasporas-Homelands Relations"

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

Date: Oct 21, 2009
Time: 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Gabriel Sheffer (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
Room: Library Hall

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"Structuring Diversity: A Fitting Theoretical Framework with Empirical Illustrations"

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

Date: Nov 4, 2009
Time: 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Ewa Morawska (University of Essex)
Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
Room: Library Hall

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"Integration Research in Europe: Old Questions and a New Project"

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

Date: Nov 18, 2009
Time: 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speakers: Claudia Diehl und Matthias König (University of Göttingen)
Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
Room: Library Hall

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"The next generation? „Jüngere“ Ethnologie der Migration im deutschsprachigen Raum"

Workshops, conferences 2009

Start: Nov 30, 2009 02:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
End: Dec 2, 2009 12:30 PM
Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
Room: Library Hall

Workshop organized by Heike Drotbohm (Universität Freiburg) und Boris Nieswand (MPI-MMG). [more]

"Homogenizing diverse collective and familial histories. Strategies of ethnic Germans from and in the (former) Soviet Union"

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

Date: Dec 2, 2009
Time: 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Gabriele Rosenthal (University of Göttingen)
Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
Room: Library Hall

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"Martyrdom and Nationalism in Kurdish Poetry"

Date: Dec 3, 2009
Time: 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Mariwan Kanie (Amsterdam)
Mariwan Kanie comes originally from Iraqi Kurdistan. Since 1993 he lives and works in Holland. Recently he is writing a Doctoral thesis on martyrdom at the University of Amsterdam and teaches the intellectual history of Arab and Islamic world at the same university.
Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
Room: Conference Room

In co-operation with the Iranian Studies Seminar, Göttingen University. [more]

"Buddhist Revival in Post-Mao China: An Analysis of External Dynamics"

Date: Dec 8, 2009
Time: 09:30 AM - 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Ji Zhe (Nantes Institute for Advanced Studies, France)
JI Zhe is a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités, and Resident Research Fellow in the Nantes Institute for Advanced Studies (2009-2010) in France. He received his PhD in sociology from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris) in 2007. He has published articles on Chinese Buddhism, Confucianism, youth religiosity and sociological theory of religion in various journals including Perspectives Chinoises, Social Compass, Cahiers internationaux de sociologie and Nova Religio. Based on his doctoral thesis, his book on modern changes in Chan Buddhism will be published by the Editions de l’EHESS (in the “En temps & lieux” series, 2010, Paris). He guest-edits a special issue of the French academic annual Extrême-Orient Extrême-Occident, which focuses on religion as educative space in modern and contemporary China (forthcoming in 2011). His current research is on Buddhism and Confucianism in the post-Mao era, and Chinese secularism.
Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
Room: Conference Room

In co-operation with the Iranian Studies Seminar, Göttingen University. [more]

"Cosmopolitanism: challenges and promises of the idea"

Workshops, conferences 2009

Date: Dec 11, 2009
Time: 09:30 AM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
Room: Library Hall

Workshop organized by Ewa Morawska (University of Essex) and Magdalena Nowicka (LMU München). [more]

"Religion, Culture and the Politicization of Honor Killing: A Critical Analysis of Media and Policy Debates in Germany, the UK, and Canada"

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

Date: Dec 16, 2009
Time: 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Gokce Yurdakul (Humboldt Universität Berlin)
Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
Room: Library Hall

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"Negotiating diversity in the Balkans: past, present and future perspectives"

Workshops, conferences 2009

Date: Dec 18, 2009
Time: 09:00 AM - 05:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
Room: Library Hall

Workshop organized by Monika Palmberger (MPI-MMG) and Goran Janev (MPI-MMG). [more]