2018 | Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity

"Using Critical, Qualitative Tools to Study Youth Development in Sociocultural Context"

Events 2024

Date: Mar 12, 2024
Time: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Ursula Moffitt (Wheaton College, MA)
Location: Zoom Event

Racism and intersecting systems of inequity shape daily life in the United States and around the globe. The form such inequity takes, as well as how young people navigate this context as they form identity related beliefs and behaviors, has implications for their own development and for the society around them. [more]

AGENET 2024 conference "Kinning, Moving, and Growing in Later Life"

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Start: Mar 14, 2024 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
End: Mar 15, 2024 05:30 PM
Location: Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

jointly organized by AGENET and Piera Rossetto from the Uni’s Department of Asian and North African Studies, in collaboration with Swetlana Torno (MPI-MMG), Francesco Diodati (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) and Simone Anna Fielding (German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases - DZNE) [more]

Linguistic analysis of interview data

Date: Apr 9, 2024
Time: 02:30 PM - 04:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Raymund Vitorio (De La Salle University in Manila, Philippines)
Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
Room: Modular building | Large conference room

Raymund Vitorio is an Associate Professor at De La Salle University in Manila, Philippines. [more]

"Migration, Ageing and Translocal Social Protection"

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Start: Apr 24, 2024 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
End: Apr 25, 2024 07:00 PM
Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
Room: Library Hall
Host: Max Planck Research Group "Ageing in a Time of Mobility"

In a global context of population ageing, migration and forced displacement, questions of transnational and translocal social protection remain paramount. Migrants and refugees at different stages of the life course seek social protection through a variety of channels: from formal state-based pension and social security schemes; cash transfers and humanitarian initiatives; to informal forms of social protection through kinship, religious networks, neighbourhood support groups, co-operatives and civil society organizations. Cutting across these different spaces are financial institutions and markets in promoting ideas and products around individualized future security. Piecing together these different forms of social protection is far from seamless and there are numerous inequalities that migrants and refugees confront in securing social protection and wellbeing, where some are eligible for formal support and others are excluded. [more]

Writing Workshop for invited authors of Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies Special Issue "Beyond Classification: Un/Making Categories in the Context of Migration"

Workshops, conferences 2024

Start: May 15, 2024
End: May 16, 2024
Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
Room: Library Hall

The workshop is organised by Ulrike Bialas and Johanna M. Lukate, who are guest editing two special issues on the contestation of legal and social categories in the context of migration. [more]

Workshop on Disability and Migration

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Start: May 23, 2024
End: May 24, 2024
Location: Oeconomicum, Platz der Göttinger Sieben, Göttingen, Germany
Room: 0.211

The workshop explores the intersection of disability and migration and seeks to get a deeper understanding of the neglect of this intersection, the different or similar logics of both categories of differences, the social and political and historical effects this intersection evokes, and the insights about societal inequality it offers. [more]

ALUMNI HOUR | Dana Schmalz (MPI for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg): “Writing about migration in troubled times: academic projects and public interventions"

Date: May 29, 2024
Time: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Dana Schmalz (MPI for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg)
Location: Zoom Meeting

Dana Schmalz is a senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. Her work sits at the intersection of international law and legal theory, with a focus on refugee law and human rights. Dana holds a Ph.D. in law from the University of Frankfurt and an LL.M. in Comparative Legal Thought from Cardozo Law School, New York. Her book “Refugees, Democracy and the Law. Political Rights at the Margins of the State” was published in 2020. Her book “Das Bevölkerungsargument” (the population argument) is forthcoming with Suhrkamp in 2024. [more]

6th International ART and the CITY Conference

Workshops, conferences 2024

Start: Jun 3, 2024
End: Jun 4, 2024
Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
Room: Library Hall

The International Art and the City Conference was initiated in 2019 and has been hosted in different cities around the world every year. The 6th Conference sponsor is the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (MPI-MMG) Göttingen and it will take place at the Institute’s facilities 03-05 June 2024. [more]

“Researching Gender & Race”

Workshops, conferences 2024

Start: Jun 5, 2024 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
End: Jun 6, 2024 04:00 PM
Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
Room: Conference Room Villa

This workshop aims to facilitate the exchange of recent results as well as to encourage future collaborations between the “Gender, Migration, and Social Mobility among West African Women in Europe” Research Group situated at the MPI for Social Anthropology (Halle) and the “Migration, Identity and Blackness in Europe” Research Group based at the MPI for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (Göttingen). The workshop is jointly organized by both groups. [more]

Roundtable "Asylum in Europe: Implications of the New Pact on Migration and Asylum and the European Parliament elections"

Workshops, conferences 2024

Date: Jun 18, 2024
Time: 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Location: MPI-MMG, Goettingen, Room: Hybrid event: Livestream/ Live, Hermann Föge Weg 11
Room: Library Hall

The European Union’s New Pact on Migration and Asylum is a long-awaited answer to the refugee problem to some – and a disastrous demolition of refugee rights to others. Its supporters presented the Pact as a historical agreement that comes to address long-standing shortcomings and imbalances in terms of solidarity and responsibility sharing. [more]

ENCOUNTERS RESEARCH MEETING

Workshops, conferences 2024

Start: Jun 24, 2024
End: Jun 25, 2024
Location: Harnack Haus, Berlin

Research meeting of the ORA joint research project "Muslim-Jewish encounter, diversity & distance in urban Europe: Religion, culture and social model" [more]

Book Discussion with Steven Vertovec

Date: Sep 19, 2024
Time: 06:30 PM - 08:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Steven Vertovec (MPI-MMG)
Location: DeZIM, Mauerstr. 76, 10117 Berlin
Room: Saal 3 OG

Prof. Dr. Steven Vertovec has been working with his "Superdiversity" concept for 20 years. The book "Superdiversity. Migration and Social Complexity", published in 2023, was translated into German for the first time this year under the title "Superdiversität. Migration and Social Complexity" was translated into German for the first time this year. It analyzes the new levels of migration in the 21st century.This is an opportunity for the National Discrimination and Racism Monitorto take a look at his theory together with the author. [more]

Talking about migration – words, data, images

Workshops, conferences 2024

Date: Oct 1, 2024
Time: 09:30 AM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Location: Hybrid (In person at CERC Migration office / online via Zoom)

Co-convened by CERC Scholar of Excellence Daniel Hiebert, Professor Emeritus University of British Columbia, Steven Vertovec, Director, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, and Anna Triandafyllidou, Chair, CERC Migration, Toronto Metropolitan University [more]

"TouchBase - Workshop on Ageing & Temporality"

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Date: Oct 2, 2024
Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
Room: Conference Room & Winter Garden
Host: Max Planck Research Group "Ageing in a Time of Mobility"

This workshop will be led by Dr. Christina Gabbert [more]

Epistemic Trust and Migration Studies

Workshops, conferences 2024

Start: Oct 16, 2024
End: Oct 18, 2024
Location: Berlin

The way scholars produce their facts: a closer look at methods (and methodologies) of engagements in migration research. [more]

Ageing in a Time of Mobility: Reflections on the Field from Past to Future

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Start: Oct 16, 2024
End: Oct 18, 2024
Location: Harnack Haus, Berlin

Organized by the Max Planck Research Group ‘Ageing in a Time of Mobility’ [more]

ALUMNI HOUR | Magdalena Suerbaum (Universität Bielefeld, Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies): "The in-between: navigating academic (non-)belonging"

Date: Oct 30, 2024
Time: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Magdalena Suerbaum (Universität Bielefeld, Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies)
Location: Zoom Meeting

Magdalena Suerbaum is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies at Bielefeld University, Germany. Her research interests are on forced displacement, gender, legal precarity, and belonging, with a current focus on parenting practices and intergenerational transmission of knowledge among Syrians living in Turkey and Germany. Previously, she was a post-doctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen. She has co-edited three Special Issues (Ethnic and Racial Studies 2023; Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 2022; Citizenship Studies 2022) and is the author of “Masculinities and Displacement in the Middle East: Syrian refugees in Egypt” (I.B. Tauris, 2020). [more]

Jewish–Muslim Encounters in Urban Europe: Under Pressure

Workshops, conferences 2024

Date: Nov 4, 2024
Location: Berlin

Final meeting of the ORA joint research project "Muslim-Jewish encounter, diversity & distance in urban Europe: Religion, culture and social model" [more]

“Black multiplicities, African multiplicities? Theorising Migration, Identity, and Blackness from a European standpoint”

Workshops, conferences 2024

Start: Nov 18, 2024
End: Nov 21, 2024
Location: MPI-MMG, Goettingen

Organized by the Minerva Fast Track Research Group Migration, Identity and Blackness in Europe (Johanna Lukate & Madeline Bass) [more]

“Black Visuality in Europe”- Public Event

Workshops, conferences 2024

Date: Nov 19, 2024
Time: 05:30 PM - 07:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
Room: Library Hall

The roundtable discussion will link the academy to creative explorations of Blackness, with input from guests Dr. Melody Howse (MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle), Yero Adugna (Black in Berlin), and Solomon Mekonen (University of Oslo, Norway). [more]

Keynote Lecture “African Diaspora Studies on Europe: Some Concluding Reflections on Conceptual Frameworks”

Workshops, conferences 2024

Date: Nov 20, 2024
Time: 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Location: MPI-MMG, Goettingen
Room: Modular building

Given by Dr. Michael McEachrane during the workshop "Black multiplicities, African multiplicities? Theorising Migration, Identity, and Blackness from a European standpoint". [more]

QuaMaFa Closing Workshop

Workshops, conferences 2024

Start: Dec 18, 2024 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
End: Dec 19, 2024 03:00 PM
Location: MPI-MMG, Goettingen

Final event of collaborative project “Qualification and Skill in the Migration Process of Foreign Workers in Asia” (QuaMaFa) [more]

MPI-MMG in Dialogue "Migration, Retention & Incorporation of the Highly Skilled"

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Date: Dec 18, 2024
Time: 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Location: MPI-MMG, Goettingen
Room: Hybrid event: Livestream/ Live, Hermann Föge Weg 11

This event will bring together experts on highly skilled migration in major migrant receiving countries in (South) East Asia as well as Germany to explore and compare the challenges of retaining, rather than simply recruiting, highly skilled migrants in ageing societies. [more]