"The Cordial State (Samimi Devlet), Religion, and Diversity: the Case of Turkey’s ‘Alevi Workshops’ "

Religious Diversity Colloquium Spring/Summer 2013

"The Afterlife of Images"

Religious Diversity Colloquium Spring/Summer 2013

"Gender and Sect in Bibi Pak Daman’s Lahore"

Religious Diversity Colloquium Spring/Summer 2013

"Bones of Contention: Violence, Memory, and Reconciliations in Post-Revolutionary Vietnam"

Religious Diversity Colloquium Spring/Summer 2013

"Life in Death: Relics and the Church Body Politic in Egypt"

Religious Diversity Colloquium Spring/Summer 2013

"Medical Migration Symposium"

Workshops, conferences 2013
The migration of trained medical staff has been a key issue for global health governance during the first decade of the 21st century. Attempts to regulate the migration of skilled medical personnel as part of the training needs of rich and poor countries have proceeded in parallel with more critical approaches to the problem. The migration of technologies, ideas and values in specific historical contexts and critical approaches to the discourse of development have interrogated a ‘skilled personnel supply’ approach. This symposium addresses analysis of global medical migration from different regions and disciplinary standpoints with a view to formulating future research questions. It will be of interest to researchers with an interest in empirical and theoretically informed questions around the politics of global health public health and migration. [more]

"Where is Europe? Space, Power and Ethnicization among overseas Chinese Protestant Christians"

Religious Diversity Colloquium Spring/Summer 2013

"Politics, family feuds, and everyday life in Mount Lebanon under Syrian occupation: 1976-2005"

Religious Diversity Colloquium Spring/Summer 2013

"The political economy of Shi’ite religiosity in Mumbai"

Religious Diversity Colloquium Spring/Summer 2013

"Public Space & Diversity"

Workshops, conferences 2013
  • Start: Apr 9, 2013 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Apr 13, 2013 04:30 PM
  • Location: Los Angeles
Conference Panel at the Association of American Geographers 2013 Annual Meeting [more]

"Rising Nativism and Changing Racism: A New Form of American Exclusion"

Public Lectures Spring/Summer 2013

"Making Tibetan Buddhism Modern in China"

"Frauds & Charlatans: Sincerity’s Elusiveness in Delhi"

Religious Diversity Colloquium Spring/Summer 2013

"An Ethnography of Conversion in the National Frame: Introduction"

Religious Diversity Colloquium Spring/Summer 2013

"Namingand Omission in Three Episodes"

Religious Diversity Colloquium Spring/Summer 2013

"Politics of Historical Fiction and Sectarian Conflict in Egypt: Debates around Azazeel"

Public Lectures Spring/Summer 2013
  • Date: Apr 25, 2013
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Saba Mahmood (University of California, Berkeley / presently American Academy in Berlin)
  • Saba Mahmood is an associate professor of social cultural anthro­pology at the University of California Berkeley. She was awarded the 2013 Axel Springer Berlin Prize Fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin. Saba Mahmood’s research interests lie in exploring historically specific articulations of secular modernity in postcolonial societies, with particular attention to issues of subject formation, religio­sity, embodiment, and gender. Currently she is examining secular-liberal interpretations of Islam in the context of the Middle East and South Asia.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"From the Lord’s Prayer to Invoking Slavery through Prayers: Religious Practices and Dalits in Kerala, India"

Religious Diversity Colloquium Spring/Summer 2013

"In Spite of Christianity: Humanism and its others in Britain"

Religious Diversity Colloquium Spring/Summer 2013

"Parallel Universe: Chinese religion in Singapore"

Religious Diversity Colloquium Spring/Summer 2013
  • Date: May 6, 2013
  • Time: 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Kenneth Dean (McGill University)
  • Professor Kenneth Dean is James McGill Professor and Drs. Richard Charles and Esther Yewpick Lee Chair of Chinese Cultural Studies in the Department of East Asian Studies of McGill University. His main research fields are Chinese Taoism, Popular Culture and Chinese Litterature.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
  • Room: Conference Room

"Witchcraft in Africa and Elsewhere"

Religious Diversity Colloquium Spring/Summer 2013

"Aspirations for Religion? Caste, Secularization and the Cacophony of Religious Performance in Mumbai"

Religious Diversity Colloquium Spring/Summer 2013

"The Communist Party and Religionsa"

  • Date: May 15, 2013
  • Time: 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: André Laliberté (School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa)
  • André Laliberté has received his doctoral degree from the University of British Columbia in 1999 and is full professor at the School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, where he teaches on the politics of China and comparative politics. He is co-director of the Chair on Taiwan Studies in the Faculty of Science at the University of Ottawa. He has done research in Taiwan, the People’s Republic of China, and Hong Kong on the intersection of religion and democratic transitions, issues of identity, and social policies.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
  • Room: Conference Room

"Ways of Belonging and Expressing Critique in the European Immigration Society"

Public Lectures Spring/Summer 2013

"Language and Super-diversity: Explorations and interrogations"

Workshops, conferences 2013
Conference on Language and Super-diversity, Finland, 2013 [more]

"Contested Citizenships: The racialization of belongings in France"

Public Lectures Spring/Summer 2013

"Spirits of the Citadel: Voice and Power in a Bangkok Community"

Religious Diversity Colloquium Spring/Summer 2013
  • Date: Jun 10, 2013
  • Time: 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Michael Herzfeld (Harvard University)
  • Michael Herzfeld is the Ernest E. Monrad Professor of the Social Sciences in the Depart­ment of Anthropology at Harvard University. Author of ten books, including most recently Evicted from Eternity: The Restructuring of Modern Rome (2009), and producer of two ethnographic films, he has conducted extensive research in Greece, Italy, and Thailand. His current research focuses on the impact of historic conservation on present-day communities, and especially the politics of eviction, and on the local impact of cryptocolonial and neoliberal dynamics. Recipient of numerous awards, including the J.I. Staley Prize (School of American Research) and the Rivers Memorial Medal (Royal Anthropological Institute, Lon­don), he has received honorary doctorates from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, the University of Macedonia (Thessaloniki), and the University of Crete, and is an Honorary Professor of Shandong University, Jinan, China. He has served (1995-98) as editor of American Ethnologist.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
  • Room: Conference Room

"The Comparative Advantage of Anthropology"

Chair/Respondent: Prof. Steven Vertovec [more]
Jointly organized by the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religion and Ethnic Diversity and the Institute of Globalization and Multicultural Studies, Hanyang University, South Korea. [more]

"India Workshop"

Workshops, conferences 2013
This workshop presents recent research on India and has two components. Each presenter introduces a pre-circulated paper or shows a film (15 minutes introduction + 30 minutes discussion). Interspersed with this, there are three discussion sessions (30 minutes) structured around larger research questions. [more]

"FRIENDSHIP AND THE CONVIVIAL CITY"

Workshops, conferences 2013
Workshop organised by the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany, and FASS Cities, Research Cluster at the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences and the Asia Research Institute of the National University of Singapore. [more]

"Collection and speculation of banknotes: Grey market and invisible traders"

Religious Diversity Colloquium Winter 2013/14

" ‘Internet Hindus’: Social media and the politics of religious difference in Mumbai"

Religious Diversity Colloquium Winter 2013/14

"Chinese Education and Processes of Individualization"

Religious Diversity Colloquium Winter 2013/14
  • Date: Oct 15, 2013
  • Time: 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Mette Halskov Hansen (University of Oslo)
  • Mette Halsko Hansen is Professor at the University of Oslo, Department of East European and Oriental Studies. She is responsible for the master programme in Chinese society and politics, and a newly started joint master in China studies with the University of Zhejiang, in cooperation with University of Copenhagen and Aarhus University. Her research is in the field of modern Chinese society and politics, more specifically: education and youth, processes of individualization, ethnic minorities, Chinese migrations to minority areas, and most recently discourses on the environment and public participation in environmental debates. The research is based on fieldwork mainly in the provinces of Yunnan, Gansu, Zhejiang, and Fujian.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
  • Room: Conference Room

"How to study diffusion - Theories, methods, and research designs"

Workshops, conferences 2013
Workshop co-organized by Anja Jetschke (University of Göttingen) & Matthias Koenig (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity). [more]

"Lamenting with Words the Loss of the Black Tent. Tibetan Nomads’ Settlement through the Eyes of Tibetan Writers in Tibet"

Religious Diversity Colloquium Winter 2013/14
  • Date: Oct 29, 2013
  • Time: 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Françoise Robin (INALCO, Paris)
  • Françoise Robin is a maître de conférence at l’INALCO and is a specialist of Tibet. She received a DEA at INALCO in 1999. In 2003, she submitted a doctoral thesis on TIbetan literature also at l’INALCO, under the supervision of Heather Stoddard, titled « La littérature de fiction d’expression tibétaine au Tibet (RPC) depuis 1950 : sources textuelles anciennes, courants principaux et fonctions dans la société contemporaine tibétaine ». She has had many trips to China specifically to Tibet University as part of her research. Françoise Robin is a member of UMR 8155 « Centre de recherche sur les civilisations chinoise, japonaise et tibétaine » and is responsible for the programme « Dictionnaire thématique français-tibétain » au sein de l’UMR 8155.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Empire and Secularization: Church, State and Nation in Colony and Metropole"

MPI Fellow Group "Governance of Cultural Diversity" Seminar Series 2013/14

"Difference rules. Governing ethnically diverse populations in the British and the Habsburg empires"

Open Lectures Winter 2013/14

"Competition, Entrepreneurship, and Network Formation among Taiwanese Spirit-Writing Cults"

Religious Diversity Colloquium Winter 2013/14
  • Date: Nov 5, 2013
  • Time: 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Philip Clart (Leipzig)
  • Philip Clart is Professor of Chinese Culture and History at the University of Leipzig, Germany. His main research areas are popular religion and new religious movements in Taiwan, religious change in Taiwan and China, as well as literature and religions of the late imperial period (10th-19th c.). His monographs include Han Xiangzi: The Alchemical Adventures of a Daoist Immortal (University of Washington Press, 2007) and Die Religionen Chinas (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2009). He has edited or co-edited Religion in Modern Taiwan: Tradition and Innovation in a Changing Society (University of Hawai‘i Press 2003), The People and the Dao: New Studies of Chinese Religions in Honour of Daniel L. Overmyer (Institute Monumenta Serica, 2009), and Chinese and European Perspectives on the Study of Chinese Popular Religions (Boyang Publishing, 2012).
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
  • Room: Conference Room

"Ancestral Chronotopes in Ritual and Media Practices"

Göttingen Research Campus Anthropology Colloquium (GRCAC) Winter 2013/14
The Göttingen Research Campus Anthropology Colloquium is jointly organized by: Institute of Cultural and Social Anthropology (University of Göttingen) • Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (Göttingen) • Centre for Modern Indian Studies (University of Göttingen). Responsible for the program: Prof. Dr. Elfriede Hermann, Prof. Dr. Steven Vertovec, Prof. Dr. Patrick Eisenlohr [more]

"Territorial cults and the urbanization of the Chinese world: A case study of Suzhou"

Religious Diversity Colloquium Winter 2013/14
  • Date: Nov 12, 2013
  • Time: 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Vincent Goossaert (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris)
  • Vincent Goossaert obtained his PhD at EPHE, Paris (1997), was a research fellow at CNRS from 1998 to 2012 and is now Professor of Daoism and Chinese religions at EPHE. He has served as the Deputy Director of the Societies-Religions-Secularisms Institute (GSRL, Paris) since 2004. In 2007, he was ICS Visiting Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research deals with the social history of premodern and modern Chinese religion. He has published books on Chinese temples, Anticlericalism in China, Chinese dietary taboos, the production of moral norms, and most recently, with David Palmer, The Religious Question in Modern China (University of Chicago Press, 2011) which won the Levenson Prize for Books in Chinese Studies in 2013.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
  • Room: Conference Room

"Religious Freedom, State Neutrality, and the European Court of Human Rights: Insights from Orthodox Europe"

MPI Fellow Group "Governance of Cultural Diversity" Seminar Series 2013/14

"Immigrant religious communities in Switzerland – Bridges or Impediment for Social Incorporation?"

Religious Diversity Colloquium Winter 2013/14
  • Date: Nov 19, 2013
  • Time: 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Martin Baumann (University of Lucerne, Switzerland)
  • Martin Baumann is Professor of the Study of Religions at the Faculty for Humanities and Social Sciences and current vice-chancellor for the advancement of research at the University of Lucerne in Switzerland. He obtained his Ph.D. with a thesis on Buddhists and Buddhist communities in Germany in 1993 at the University of Hannover (Germany) and received his habilitation graduation with a post-doctoral thesis on Hindu tradition in diasporic contexts in 1999 at the University of Leipzig (Germany). Since 2001, he is professor for the Study of Religions at the University of Lucerne (Switzerland). His teaching and research interests focus on immigration and religion, diaspora communities and religious pluralism, new religions, and Hindu and Buddhist traditions in the West.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
  • Room: Conference Room

"Diverse engagements: migration led diversification and transformations of urban society and space"

Workshops, conferences 2013
  • Start: Nov 20, 2013 10:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Nov 24, 2013 12:00 PM
  • Location: Chicago
Panel on the 2013 American Anthropological Associoation Annual Meeting. [more]

"Migration and the city commons"

Open Lectures Winter 2013/14
  • Date: Nov 28, 2013
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Michael Keith (COMPAS, University of Oxford)
  • Michael Keith is Director of the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), Co-Director of the Oxford Programme for the Future of Cities http://www.futureofcities.ox.ac.uk/ and holds a personal chair in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Oxford. He is the author of ten books on issues of urban change, race, ethnicity and migration including – most recently – ’China Constructing Capitalism: Economic Life and Urban Change’.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"RECONSIDERING AFRICAN INTEGRATION IN A FRAGMENTED AGE"

Workshops, conferences 2013
Workshop organized by the International Migration Institute (IMI-Oxford University), the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS-Wits University, Johannesburg), and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (MPI-MMG, Göttingen). [more]

"Is there a Sectarian Habitus in Lebanon? On Secularism and Aspirations"

Religious Diversity Colloquium Winter 2013/14

"British ‘Soft Power’ in Perspective: Culture and Diplomacy"

Göttingen Research Campus Anthropology Colloquium (GRCAC) Winter 2013/14
  • Date: Dec 5, 2013
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Marie Gillespie (The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom)
  • Marie Gillespie is Co-Director of the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change. She researches diaspora and national media cultures comparatively, historically and ethnographically. Her interests cluster around South Asian and Middle Eastern diasporas, cultural transnationalism, and changing configurations of audiences and publics in relation to question of citizenship. Marie was awarded an AHRC Public Policy Fellowship in 2011 to develop research on the interface between international broadcasting and social media, specifically in relation to the BBC Arabic Services.
  • Location: Universität Göttingen, Theaterplatz 15
  • Room: Hörsaal Ethnologie
The Göttingen Research Campus Anthropology Colloquium is jointly organized by: Institute of Cultural and Social Anthropology (University of Göttingen) • Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (Göttingen) • Centre for Modern Indian Studies (University of Göttingen). Responsible for the program: Prof. Dr. Elfriede Hermann, Prof. Dr. Steven Vertovec, Prof. Dr. Patrick Eisenlohr [more]

"The capacity to be content: Aspirations and young adult Catholics in Singapore"

Religious Diversity Colloquium Winter 2013/14

"Governing Religious Diversity in Spain - A Case Study of Prisons' Secularisation and Demonopolisation"

MPI Fellow Group "Governance of Cultural Diversity" Seminar Series 2013/14

"Television bigots and transitional audiences in the sixties cultural revolution"

Open Lectures Winter 2013/14
  • Date: Dec 19, 2013
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Christina von Hodenberg (Queen Mary University of London)
  • Christina von Hodenberg is Professor of History at Queen Mary University of London. She has written widely on the social and cultural history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Germany. She has taught at the universities of Berkeley and Freiburg and held fellowships at Harvard, Université de Montréal and the Zentrum für Zeitgeschichtliche Forschung in Potsdam. Her PhD is from Bielefeld and her MA from Munich.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall
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