WriteLab

Workshops, conferences 2021
  • Date: Jan 12, 2021
  • Time: 05:30 PM - 06:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: Video Conference
WriteLab is a space in which to workshop your writing. [more]

Book and article presentation: “Sultanic Saviors and Tolerant Turks: Writing Ottoman Jewish History, Denying the Armenian Genocide”

"Southern Re-Configurations of the Ageing-Migration Nexus"

Workshops, conferences 2021
  • Start: Jan 21, 2021
  • End: Jan 22, 2021
  • Location: Zoom Meeting
A Special Issue project with the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (JEMS) (Eds. Dora Sampaio and Megha Amrith) [more]

"Ta'al Bachir (Come Tomorrow): The Politics of Waiting for Citizenship"

Harney Lecture Series - Winter 2021
Lecture Series hosted by the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto and co-sponsored with the Department of Ethics, Law and Politics [more]

"Organisationaler Wandel durch Migration? Beispiele aus der Zivilgesellschaft"

Workshops, conferences 2021
Auf dieser Abschlusskonferenz des vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) geförderten Verbundprojekts mit dem Titel „Zivilgesellschaftliche Organisationen und die Herausforderung von Migration und Diversität – Agents of change“ (ZOMiDi) werden ausgewählte Forschungsergebnisse vorgestellt und mit Akteur*innen aus der Zivilgesellschaft diskutiert. [more]

"Recognizing Hindu Orientalism"

  • Date: Jan 26, 2021
  • Time: 05:00 PM - 07:00 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
Guest lecture hosted by the Dept. of Indology at Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen [more]

“Plagued Legacies: Rethinking Black Death Narratives”

Telling Times: Memories of Culture, Cultures of Memory

Virtual Book Launch by Arndt Emmerich (MPI-MMG) on "Islamic Movements in India"

Workshops, conferences 2021
  • Date: Jan 29, 2021
  • Time: 06:30 PM - 08:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: Zoom Meeting
Hosted by the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. [more]

"Religion, Care and Reconciliation"

Religious Diversity Colloquium 2021

"Shaheen Bagh Is Not An Event of the Past, It Is An Interrupted Future"

  • Date: Feb 3, 2021
  • Time: 03:00 PM - 04:00 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
Virtual public lecture hosted by the Hyderabad Central University [more]

"Racial Borders"

Harney Lecture Series - Winter 2021
Lecture Series hosted by the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto and co-sponsored with the Department of Ethics, Law and Politics [more]

WriteLab

Workshops, conferences 2021
  • Date: Feb 9, 2021
  • Time: 05:00 PM - 07:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: Video Conference
WriteLab is a space in which to workshop your writing. [more]

"Corona Conversations: Mobility in a (Post) COVID Future"

A virtual public talk on the rise of nationalism and its effects on the diasporic communities in a post-Covid world. Hosted by the University of Cologne [more]

"Automation and Immigration"

Harney Lecture Series - Winter 2021
Lecture Series hosted by the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto and co-sponsored with the Department of Ethics, Law and Politics [more]

Anthropology of Science, Technology and Death Seminar

  • Date: Mar 1, 2021
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Tam Ngo (MPI-MMG/NIOD)
  • TAM NGO works half-time at the MPI and half-time at the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation (NIOD) in Amsterdam.
  • Location: Video Conference

"Ending the “Double Death”: Objective Science, The Moral Claims to Rebury the Disappeared, and Rewriting Spain’s Violent Past"

Religious Diversity Colloquium 2021
  • Date: Mar 4, 2021
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Nicole Iturriaga (MPI-MMG)
  • NICOLE ITURRIAGA is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Religious and Ethnic diversity.
  • Location: Video Conference

"Citizenship and Human Rights"

Max Planck Law Lecture

"The Rise of Authoritarianism and Populism"

Harney Lecture Series - Winter 2021
  • Date: Mar 11, 2021
  • Time: 04:10 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: ROUNDTABLE
  • Co-sponsor: Faculty of Law
  • Location: Toronto
Lecture Series hosted by the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto and co-sponsored with the Department of Ethics, Law and Politics [more]

"How Embedded Interventions Controlled Contagion: Ideas, Institutions and the First Vaccine in China and India"

Harney Lecture Series - Winter 2021
Lecture Series hosted by the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto and co-sponsored with the Department of Ethics, Law and Politics [more]

Book talk for The National Frame

"Unravelling the Nationalist Myth of Gandhian Non-Violence: How Did Gandhi Invent His “Hindu” Notion of Ahiṃsā?"

  • Date: Mar 30, 2021
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Eijiro Hazama (University of Shiga Prefecture/University of Tokyo, Japan)
  • EIJIRO HAZAMA (Ph.D.) has been a JSPS Post-doctoral Fellow at MPI-MMG from April 2020. He specializes in South Asian intellectual history and cultural anthropology, particularly contemporary ‘post-enlightenment’ issues revolving around nationalism, secularism, and epistemological modernization in India.
  • Location: Video Conference

"Ritual Polyphony"

  • Date: Apr 8, 2021
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Kenneth Dean (NUS)
  • KENNETH DEAN is the Raffles Professor in the Humanities at the National University of Singapore.
  • Location: Video Conference

"Between Spiritual Care and Forensic Care: Situating the Remains of War Dead in Contemporary Vietnam"

  • Date: Apr 13, 2021
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Tam Ngo (MPI-MMG/NIOD)
  • TAM NGO works half-time at the MPI and half-time at the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation (NIOD) in Amsterdam.
  • Location: Zoom Event
A lecture as part of the colloquium series "Understanding Asia: Bridging Margins" at Bielefeld University. [more]

"Toxic and explosive legacies: Anthropology of War Pollution"

  • Date: Apr 19, 2021
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Tam Ngo (MPI-MMG/NIOD)
  • TAM NGO works half-time at the MPI and half-time at the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation (NIOD) in Amsterdam.
  • Location: Video Conference

"Under the Banner of Islam (Oxford University Press)"

Workshops, conferences 2021
Gülay Türkmen is a sociologist and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Graz. Her work examines how macro-scale historical and political developments inform questions of belonging and identity-formation in multi-cultural societies. [more]

"Opioid addiction as a Problem of Ritual and Anti-Ritual"

"Religious ethics and plural sites of entanglement"

Workshops, conferences 2021
Engaging with the “ethical turn” in the anthropology of religion, this workshop panel examines multiple sites of entanglements between politics and religious ethics. [more]

"Diverse transnational care practices: a view from the South"

  • Date: Apr 27, 2021
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Tanja Bastia (University of Manchester)
  • Tanja Bastia teaches international development at the University of Manchester, where she is a Reader/ Associate Professor at the Global Development Institute. Her research interests revolve around social re-lations, inequality, mobility and space, with a partic-ular interest in labour migration.
  • Location: Video Conference

"Between a Rock and a Hard Place Sinophobia and Spiritual Warfare in Contemporary Vietnam"

  • Date: May 12, 2021
  • Time: 05:00 PM - 06:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Tam Ngo (MPI-MMG/NIOD)
  • Tam NGO is a senior, permanent fellow of the Max Planck Society (Germany) and the NIOD (Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences).
  • Location: Video Conference
EXTERNAL EVENT - China Research Seminar Series (Easter Term 2021) | FAMES, University of Cambridge [more]

"Heritage out of Control: Inheriting Waste, Spirits and Energies"

Workshops, conferences 2021
  • Start: May 17, 2021 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: May 19, 2021 05:00 PM
  • Location: Zoom Event
This Online Book Talk is hosted by the Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (NIOD), the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity and other. [more]

Without technology we’d be very stuck”: Ageing migrants’ comobility capital in pandemic times

  • Date: May 27, 2021
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Earvin Cabalquinto (Deakin University)
  • Earvin Charles Cabalquinto is a Lecturer in Communication at Deakin University. He is also a member of the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation.
  • Location: Video Conference

“Mirrors of Habsburg Memory”

  • Date: Jun 8, 2021
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Pamela Ballinger (University of Michigan)
  • Pamela Ballinger is Professor of History and the Fred Cuny Chair in the History of Human Rights in the Department of History at the University of Michigan.
  • Location: Zoom Meeting

“The Memory-Activism Nexus”

  • Date: Jun 15, 2021
  • Time: 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Ann Rigney (Utrecht University)
  • Ann Rigney is Professor of Comparative Literature at Utrecht University, and founder of the Utrecht Forum for Memory Studies.
  • Location: Zoom Meeting

Vulnerability and Care: an anthropology of the good, the bad, and the ugly?

MPI-MMG @ IMISCOE conference 2021

Keynote Lecture [more]
Conceiving mobile corporate professionals as part of the growing transnational migrant population is a rather novel turn in migration research. Likewise, research on their families – including their trailing spouses and third culture kids – is an emerging field. Based on interviews with 43 male transnational corporate professionals in Tokyo, this lecture paper presents their take on the effects that their marrying and starting a family had on their socio-spatial patterns within the urban space. [more]

"Lived Citizenship, Uprising and Migration: Everyday Politics, Imaginaries and Contestation"

Workshops, conferences 2021
  • Start: Sep 30, 2021
  • End: Oct 1, 2021
  • Location: Zoom Meeting
Virtual workshop organized by HANIA SOBHY (MPI-MMG), SALWA ISMAIL (SOAS) and NADINE ABDALLA (AUC). Supported by the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (MPI-MMG). [more]
The Tokyo 2020 Olympics has taken “Unity and Diversity” as one of its main mottos - this, in times of global migration-led diversification of societies, also called superdiversity by Vertovec. Recent migration policy changes and rising social movements in diversity issues seem to showcase Japan as an open and cosmopolitan country for diversity. Indeed, while the intentions for hosting such mega-events have often given priority to the economic effects, expectations have recently risen to also leave social and cultural legacies behind. However, besides the motto of “Unity in Diversity” as a rather ubiquitous feature of the Olympics, not much appears to have changed - at least politically - beyond marketing and urban re-development. Based on recent developments of policy and public debates regarding diversity issues in Japan, this paper examines the measures (not) taken by governmental actors, but also explores how the LGBT* community and activists seized the opportunity provided by the Olympics and the global media attention to initiate a momentum for a social change in the local society. Reflecting on the different dimensions of diversity from a transnationalism and superdiversity perspective, I argue how the Olympics might have contributed sustainably to the new awareness for the factual societal diversification in Japan. [more]
The interactions between religion and globalization have taken many forms over the past 20 years. The future of these interactions will be shaped by new forces, such as the rise of religious nationalism, the ongoing project of seculariszation, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on religious life across the region and the challenges to religious and cultural heritage preservation. This roundtable discusses these themes and introduces new approaches to the study of these issues that have been developed in the Religion and Globalisation Research Cluster in collaboration with international research centres in Europe, the US, and Japan. [more]

ALUMNI HOUR | Angie Heo (University of Chicago’s Divinity School): “The Christian Right and Refugee Rights in South Korea”

  • Date: Oct 26, 2021
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Angie Heo (University of Chicago’s Divinity School)
  • Angie Heo is Assistant Professor of the Anthropology and Sociology of Religion at the University of Chicago’s Divinity School. Her first book is The Political Lives of Saints: Christian-Muslim Mediation in Egypt (University of California Press, 2018).
  • Location: Zoom Meeting
This talk concerns living experiences of ageing, transnational family care, and border regimes in the context of displacement. Drawing from multi-sited ethnographic research among the East Timorese, I discuss how older adults cope with family separation and life in exile, their aspirations, when and how transnational care becomes ‘on hold’, and how they deal with the impossibility of meeting intergenerational and cultural obligations. The talk examines care through the lens of ‘circulation’ and attends to the asymmetries entailed in intergenerational relationships and border regimes in the waysthey shape (and are shaped by) transnational care exchanges. In the context of ‘ageing in exile’, it is essential to understand older people’s narratives as they are linked with the ambivalences of other family members across generations. Forms of immobility withholding or limiting care can transcend physical borders, including the social and emotional boundaries conflict-divided communities build against one another over time. These imaginary borders require us to think about how precarious familial relations affect understandings of transnational care amid enduring legacies of violence. [more]

“In the Ruins of Futures Past: Potentiality, Planning, and the Contested Revival of Cyprus’s Ghost City”

  • Date: Oct 28, 2021
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Rebecca Bryant (Utrecht University)
  • Rebecca Bryant holds the Chair in Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University and is a Visiting Professor in the European Institute at the London School of Economics.
  • Location: Zoom Meeting

Naika Foroutan: "Die postmigrantische Gesellschaft"

Über "Die postmigrantische Gesellschaft: Ein Versprechen der pluralen Demokratie" (Transcript 2019) spricht die Professorin für Integrationsforschung und Gesellschaftspolitik an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin nach ihrem Vortrag mit Karen Schönwälder (MPI zur Erforschung multireligiöser und multiethnischer Gesellschaften). [more]

"Schwarze deutsche Geschichte und Literatur"

  • Date: Nov 22, 2021
  • Time: 06:30 PM - 08:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: Online Event
Am 22.11. sprechen die Expertinnen Marion Kraft und Katharina Oguntoye über Schwarze deutsche Geschichte und Literatur. Johanna Lukate übernimmt die Moderation des Gesprächs. [more]

Peter van der Veer: "Rituals and Revolutions"

Disputes over rituals have given rise to major revolutionary movements in human history. This is true for the Protestant Revolution of 16th century Europe, perhaps the most important revolution in the making of the modern world, but also for the failed Mutiny and Taiping risings of 19th century in India and China, as well as for the various atheistic Communist revolutions in Asia. These disputes over rituals are often interpreted as “sideshows” of the real political struggles or as “the hidden registers of resistance”, but in fact, they are really about the efficacy, rationality, or “sincerity” of certain rituals. Such controversies have immense impact on the values and political orientations of people, as is shown by the rise of vegetarianism and non-violent politics in India. In China and Vietnam, the anti-superstition and anti-cult aspects of repressive authoritarianism have had huge consequences. The repression of certain rituals does not result in the abolition of all ritual. In fact, Protestantism and Communism have come up with their own rituals. This talk will discuss the dynamic of ritual and anti-ritual from an anthropological viewpoint in general, theoretical terms, but will take its examples from India, China, and Vietnam. [more]

MPI-MMG in Dialogue "Migration Studies without the Nation State?"

Events 2021
The on-going corona pandemic appears to have ultimately ushered in a caesura in the understanding of governance and politics, fundamentally questioning free movement. In the same line of thought, Adrian Favell, one of the leading social and political theorists on migration, integration and citizenship at University of Leeds and fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, critically reviews what he calls “optimistic post-national forms of governance”. In this panel discussion, Steven Vertovec, Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, and Christine Lang, former MPI MMG researcher and currently at the Institute of Geography and the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at Osnabrück University, discuss the past and presence of nation states and their migration/integration policies, and whether migration research should indeed be reoriented by detaching itself from the nation-state. The discussion is moderated by Karen Schönwälder, research group leader at MPI-MMG. [more]
AVA Award – Awarding the Prizes and Presentations [Facilitator: Barbara Pieta] - This event will celebrate the launching of the inaugural AVA Award for Best Visual Ethnographic Material. Selected works will be showcased (in accordance with copyrights) on the AGENET website, and the authors invited to present and discuss their work. [more]
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