"Local Parliaments & Immigrant Representation: NRW 2009"

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

"Diversity and Group Focused Enmity"

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

"The Question of Culture in Multicultural Discourse"

"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. [more]

"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. [more]

"Gesellschaftliche Vielfalt und jugendamtliche Praxis"

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

"Cosmopolitanization"

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

"The Revival of Nalanda University: The Re-establishment of the Ancient Buddhist Networks"

  • Date: Apr 27, 2010
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Tansen Sen (Baruch College, City University of New York)
  • Tansen Sen is Associate Professor of Asian history and religons at Baruch College, The City University of New York. Currently he is visiting senior research fellow at the Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore. He received his MA from Peking University and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He has special scholarly interests in Buddhism, Sino-Indian relations, Indian Ocean trade, and Silk Road archeology. He has done extensive research in India, China, and Japan with grants from the American Institute of Indian Studies, the Japan Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"The Culture of Work and the Work of Culture in India"

Workshops, conferences 2010
Workshop with Chris Fuller (London School of Economics), Carol Upadhya (School of Social Sciences in Bangalore, Indien) and Nicole Mayer-Ahuja (Soziologisches Forschungsinstitut Göttingen - SOFI) [more]

"Religion and globalization"

"Yellow Shirts and Red Shirts: Political Protest in Thailand Today"

Workshops, conferences 2010
This workshop intends to further an anthropological understanding of the current political crisis in Thailand and the use of a symbolic repertoire by the different groups that are engaged in political struggle. [more]

"Mapping Chinese Temple Networks in Southeast Asia"

"Immigrant Political Incorporation in Europe"

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

"Building Theravada Buddhist networks in Nepal and Beyond"

  • Date: Jun 16, 2010
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: David Gellner (University of Oxford)
  • David Gellner is Professor of Social Anthropology, a Fellow of All Souls, and Head of the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnogra­phy. His doctoral research (1982-4) was on the traditional, Vaj­ra­yana Buddhism of the Newars and on Newar social organization, in the Kath­mandu Valley, Nepal. He has carried out fieldwork in the Kathmandu Valley on many subsequent occasions, broadening his interests to include politics and ethnicity, healers, mediums, and popular approaches to misfortune, religious change, activism, and democratization. His current research is on reli­gion in the Nepali diaspora in the UK.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"State-Sangha relation in East Asia: is symbiosis possible in a transnationalised world?"

Workshops, conferences 2010

"Varieties of Second Modernity: Extra-European and European Experiences and Perspectives"

Workshops, conferences 2010
Workshop with Prof. Ulrich Beck (Ludwig Maximilian University Munich). [more]

"Why there is no ‘European Islam’: Contrasting contours of Islam in England and France"

"Civility and Intercultural Relations in Goa (India) and Malaysia"

"Theorising the State and Mobility in Africa"

Workshops, conferences 2010
  • Start: Jul 31, 2010 10:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Aug 4, 2010 04:00 PM
  • Location: Maputo, Mozambique
Writer's Research Workshop, organized by Darshan Vigneswaran (MPI-MMG) and Joel Quirk (University of the Witwatersrand). [more]

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

Workshops, conferences 2010
  • Date: Aug 26, 2010
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: Maynooth, Ireland
Workshop at the 11th EASA Biennial Conference "Crisis and imagination", held from 24-27th August 2010 in Maynooth, Ireland. [more]

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

Institute Colloquium Winter 2010/11
  • Date: Sep 1, 2010
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: 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.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Visual Anthropology"

Workshops, conferences 2010

"Does Secularization Lead to Moral Decline?"

Institute Colloquium Winter 2010/11
  • Date: Sep 8, 2010
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: 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.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Place as a focus for belonging: a preliminary report from an interdisciplinary research project"

Workshops, conferences 2010
Workshop with Thomas Hylland Eriksen (University of Oslo), Elisabeth Eide (Oslo University College) and Sharam Alghasi [more]

"Intersections between Indian and Chinese Vernacular Urbanisms"

Institute Colloquium Winter 2010/11
  • Date: Sep 22, 2010
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: 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.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall
Round table organized by the MMG DivCon team (Sören Petermann, Thomas Schmitt, Karen Schönwälder, Steven Vertovec). [more]

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

Institute Colloquium Winter 2010/11
  • Date: Sep 29, 2010
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: 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.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"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). [more]

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

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

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

Institute Colloquium Winter 2010/11

"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

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

Institute Colloquium Winter 2010/11
  • Date: Oct 25, 2010
  • Time: 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: 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.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
  • Room: Conference Room

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

Institute Colloquium Winter 2010/11
  • Date: Oct 27, 2010
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: 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.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Global Migration, Diversification and Cities"

Institute Colloquium Winter 2010/11
  • Date: Nov 3, 2010
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: 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).
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Urban Aspirations"

Workshops, conferences 2010
Organized by Shanghai University in collaboration with MPI-MMG. [more]

"Ethnography, language & communication: a workshop"

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

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

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). [more]

"Cities and the Ethic of Care Among Strangers"

Institute Colloquium Winter 2010/11

"Conceiving and researching multi-ethnic urban spaces"

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

" 'Moving bodies – transforming values' – Socio-cultural and ethical issues of transnational biomedicine"

Workshops, conferences 2010
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). [more]

"Stop or go: the social dynamics of urban movement"

Workshops, conferences 2010
Winter workshop co-organised by Tata Institute of Social Sciences (Mumbai), the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (Germany) & PUKAR (Mumbai). [more]
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