Podiumsdiskussion des Centre for Global Migration Studies (CeMig) an der Universität Göttingen in Kooperation mit dem Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung multireligiöser und multiethnischer Gesellschaften (MPI-MMG). [more]

"Open Lectures Winter 2020"

"Interconnected Mobilities: Social Mobility, Pentecostalism and Marriage in Africa"

Open Lectures Winter 2020
  • Date: Jan 14, 2020
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Rijk van Dijk (Leiden University)
  • RIJK VAN DIJK is a Professor in the study of religion in contemporary Africa and its Diaspora at the African Studies Centre, Leiden University. He is the former Editor-in-chief of the Brill-published journal ‘African Diaspora’. He coedited The Quest for Fruition through Ngoma (2000), with R. Reis and M. Spierenburg; The Social Life of Connectivity in Africa (2012), with M. de Bruijn; and Religion and aids Treatment in Africa (2014), with H. Dilger, M. Burchardt, and Th. Rasing. His current research is on Pentecostalism, consumerism, and marriage in Botswana, on which he recently published; “The Tent versus Lobola : Marriage, Monetary Intimacies and the New Face of Responsibility in Botswana”, Anthropology Southern Africa 2017, 40 (1): 29-41.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"The Current State of Immigration Law and Policy in the United States"

Open Lectures Winter 2020
  • Date: Jan 22, 2020
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Hiroshi Motomura (UCLA, Los Angeles)
  • HIROSHI MOTOMURA is the Susan Westerberg Prager Distinguished Professor of Law at the School of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). A leading scholar and teacher of immigration and citizenship, he is the author of many influential articles and two award-winning books: Americans in Waiting (Oxford 2006) and Immigration Outside the Law (Oxford 2014), and a co-author of two casebooks widely used in U.S. law school courses: Immigration and Citizenship: Process and Policy (8th ed. West 2016), and Forced Migration: Law and Policy (2d ed. West 2013). He is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Immigration Law Center, founding director of the Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network (RMIAN), and a former member of the American Bar Association Commission on Immigration. He is now at work on a new book, The New Migration Law, with the support of a 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Material Temporalities"

Workshops, conferences 2020
A workshop organized by Jeremy F. Walton (MPI-MMG), Patrick Eisenlohr (CeMIS, University of Göttingen) and Sasha Newell (Université Libre de Bruxelles) [more]

"Eritreans and Ethiopians in Sudan: Feminist Perspectives on Migration, Gender and Transitions to Adulthood"

Open Lectures Winter 2020
  • Date: Jan 30, 2020
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Katarzyna Elzbieta Grabska (Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University in the Hague)
  • KATARZYNA (Kasia) GRABSKA – is a social anthropologist and a senior lecturer at the Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University in the Hague, the Netherlands. Her research focuses on gender, generation, youth, displacement, refuges, return, and identities, access to rights for refugees in urban settings. She has researched on displacement and forced migration issues in Egypt, Kenya, Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kyrgyzstan, and Vietnam. Kasia works with visual media, art-based research, feminist methodologies, and participatory methodologies. Since 2002, she has been carrying out a longitudinal study of gender relation transformations among Nuer from South Sudan in Egypt, Kenya, South Sudan and in Sudan, Khartoum. Her most recent research focuses on adolescent refugee girls’ experiences in Sudan, and on refugees’ involvement in civic change and hosting refugees in Sudan and in Switzerland. She collaborates often with artists in her research, and engages with art-based research to understand issues of belonging, displacement, mobilities and identities. She also is a film-maker. In 2016, in collaboration with a team of researchers and filmmakers, she produced a film based on her collaborative research project Time to look at girls: migrants in Ethiopia and Bangladesh. The long version of the film, 2 Girls, has been shown at over 30 film festivals and awarded 10 first prizes. She is also the writer, producer and co-director of the film Barbara Harrell-Bond: a life not ordinary (2018). She has published extensively on issues of gender relations and displacement. Kasia is the author of Gender, Identity and Home: Nuer repatriation to South Sudan (2014) which received the Armory Talbot Prize in 2015, co-editor of Forced Migration: Why Rights Matter? (2008), and a co-writer of Adolescent Girls’ Migration in the Global South: Transitions into Adulthood (2019).
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Religious Diversity Colloquium Spring/Summer 2020"

"Religion and the Nation-Form"

CANCELLED - "The unbearable lightness of trust: trade, masculinity and the life-world of Indian export agents in Yiwu, China"

Religious Diversity Colloquium Spring/Summer 2020
  • Date: Mar 30, 2020
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Filippo Osella (University of Sussex)
  • FILIPPO OSELLA is Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies at the University of Sussex (UK). Since3 1989 he has conducted research in Kerala (India), Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and in a number countries in the Gulf. His recent books include Islam, Politics and Anthropology (with B. Soares, 2010), Islamic Reforms in South Asia (with C. Osella, 2012), Religion and the Morality of the Market (with D. Rudnyckyj, 2017). Last year he has co-edited (with S. Ramaswamy) a special issue of Modern Asian Studies on “Charity and Philanthropy in South Asia” (2018). His current research focuses on trading networks between China, India and West Asia, and he has recently begun research on a two years, ESRC-funded project on artisanal fishers’ attitudes towards risk in Kerala (India).
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
  • Room: Conference Room

CANCELLED - "Islamic Movements in India: Moderation and its Discontents"

Workshops, conferences 2020
We welcome you to the Symposium on Arndt Emmerich’s book"Islamic Movements in India: Moderation and its Discontents" (Routledge, London 2020) [more]

"The appearance of history: approaching lottery divination in Chinese Buddhist temples in China today"

Religious Diversity Colloquium Spring/Summer 2020
  • Date: Apr 20, 2020
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Shen Yang (MPI-MMG)
  • YANG SHEN is a cultural anthropologist focusing on religion and secularism. Her work examines how humans become the ways they are at the intersection of political history, religious institutions, and cultural traditions.
  • Location: Video Conference

"Setting up a Muslim-Christian kindergarten – Interfaith dialogue at the local level in Germany""

Religious Diversity Colloquium Spring/Summer 2020
  • Date: May 11, 2020
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Arndt Emmerich (MPI-MMG)
  • ARNDT EMMERICH is a Research Fellow in the Department of Religious Diversity. As part of his new project, he will analyse the role of local mosque activism during the German refugee crisis through a comparative neighbourhood perspective.
  • Location: Video Conference

Discussion on theoretical writings on death and mourning, and on personhood, individualism, and the porosity of the self

Religious Diversity Colloquium Spring/Summer 2020
  • Date: May 25, 2020
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Peter van der Veer (MPI-MMG)
  • PETER VAN DER VEER is Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity at Göttingen.
  • Location: Video Conference

"Sacred matters"

"Terrorism in question: toward a new public anthropology"

Religious Diversity Colloquium Spring/Summer 2020
  • Date: Jun 15, 2020
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Irfan Ahmad (MPI-MMG)
  • IRFAN AHMAD is a Senior Research Fellow working on a book manuscript provisionally titled "Terrorism in Question: Toward An Anthropological Approach".
  • Location: Video Conference

WriteLab

Workshops, conferences 2020
  • Date: Jun 16, 2020
  • Time: 06:00 PM - 07:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: Video Conference
WriteLab is a space in which to workshop your writing. [more]

"Rethinking Gandhi’s secularism: how did Gandhi’s brahmacarya relate to his last political vision?"

Religious Diversity Colloquium Spring/Summer 2020
  • Date: Jun 22, 2020
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Eijiro Hazama (University of Tokyo)
  • EIJIRO HAZAMA specializes in South Asian intellectual history and historical anthropology, particularly the contemporary “post-enlightenment” issues revolving around nationalism, secularism, and the epistemological modernization in India.
  • Location: Video Conference

"Climate Change and Migration” and “Pathways to Sustainability"

Inhouse Discussion 2020
  • Date: Jun 25, 2020
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: Video Conference
Organized by the Ethics, Law and Politics Department [more]

WriteLab

Workshops, conferences 2020
  • Date: Jun 30, 2020
  • Time: 06:00 PM - 07:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: Video Conference
WriteLab is a space in which to workshop your writing. [more]
Lecture as part of the Institute Colloquium Sociology at the University of Goettingen [more]

"Ritual and Anti-Ritual"

IMISCOE Standing Committee Migration, Citizenship and Political Participation (MIGCITPOL) Inaugural Workshop [more]

Stones May Break: On the Politics of Monumentalization in Times of Toppling Statues

Webinar 2020
  • Date: Oct 5, 2020
  • Time: 01:30 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: Zoom Meeting
A Zoom-based webinar hosted by the Max Planck Research Group “Empires of Memory: The Cultural Politics of Historicity in Former Habsburg and Ottoman Lands” [more]

"The Here and Now in Forced Migration: Everyday Intimacies, Imaginaries and Bureaucracies" "

Workshops, conferences 2020
  • Start: Oct 21, 2020
  • End: Oct 23, 2020
  • Location: Zoom Meeting
An international workshop organised by the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity [more]

"Germans without Footnotes: Islam, Belonging and Poetry Slam in Berlin"

  • Date: Oct 28, 2020
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Katarzyna Puzon (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
  • Katarzyna Puzon is an anthropologist and Research Fellow at the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMAH), Institute of European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
  • Location: Zoom Meeting

DNA Forensics and the Aftermath of Wars: Anthropological Feedback from Vietnam, the U.S, and the Middle East

Workshops, conferences 2020
  • Date: Nov 6, 2020
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: Zoom Meeting
Previous participation notice to q.nguyen@niod.knaw.nl is requested for sending the zoom link. [more]

Hagia Sophia’s Conversions: Reflections on the Political, Temporal, and Aesthetic Dimensions of Heritage

Workshops, conferences 2020
  • Date: Nov 10, 2020
  • Time: 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: Zoom Meeting
A Zoom-based webinar hosted by the Max Planck Research Group, “Empires of Memory: The Cultural Politics of Historicity in Former Habsburg and Ottoman Cities” [more]

"Missing in Action: DNA forensics and Vietnamese spirituality"

"Aspiring in Later Life: Making Selves, Places, Relations Across Locales"

Workshops, conferences 2020
  • Start: Nov 18, 2020
  • End: Nov 19, 2020
  • Location: Zoom Meeting
A workshop organized by the Max Planck Research Group “Ageing in a Time of Mobility” [more]

"Mothering Practices in Times of Legal Precarity"

Workshops, conferences 2020
A webinar organised by the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. [more]

"COVID-19 and Phyto-Religious Assemblages: An African Response to a Neo-Imperial Pandemic"

Religious Diversity Colloquium 2020

"Ethics of Abstraction: Death, Data, and Anonymity in the Philippines"

"Intersections of Religion and Race: Law, Politics, and everyday Life"

Workshops, conferences 2020
  • Start: Dec 9, 2020
  • End: Dec 10, 2020
  • Location: Zoom Meeting
Online Workshop at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity Organized by the Ethics, Law and Politics Department [more]

"The Social Production of our Moral Indifference: Muslims, Whiteness and the Wreckage of Racialization"

  • Date: Dec 9, 2020
  • Time: 04:15 PM - 05:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Nasar Meer (University of Edinburgh)
  • NASAR MEER is Professor of Race, Identity and Citizenship at the University of Edinburgh, and is the Principle Investigator of the JPI ERA Net / Horizon 2020 GLIMER project, examining the governance and local integration of migrants and Europe’s refugees.
  • Location: Zoom Meeting
Public Lecture at the Online Workshop “Intersections of Religion and Race: Law, Politics, and Everyday Life”, organized by the Department of Ethics, Law and Politics [more]

"Furnishing a foreign home: Habsburg Sarajevo’s Ottoman heritage coped with, appropriated, and displayed"

  • Date: Dec 10, 2020
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Maximilian Hartmuth (Universität Wien)
  • Maximilian Hartmuth is principal investigator in the ERC project “Islamic Architecture and Orientalizing Style in Habsburg Bosnia, 1878-1918” (ERC#758099, 2018-2023).
  • Location: Zoom Meeting
Go to Editor View