Julia Martínez-Ariño is Assistant Professor of Sociology of Religion at the University of Groningen (the Netherlands) and Director of the Centre for Religion, Conflict and Globalization. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the MPI in 2013 and in 2014-2017. Her research focuses on public policies on religious diversity, secularism, Jewish heritage practices and religious disaffiliation and nonreligion. [more]

Organized by Goran Janev, Monika Palmberger, Steven Vertovec, and Jeremy F. Walton. [more]

Sakura Yamamura is currently professor in human geography at RWTH Aachen University. With her expertise in migration and urban studies, she brings new perspectives into the social and economic geography of migration and mobility. She was a postdoctoral fellow in the SCD from September 2018 till February 2022. She studied geography, sociology, and social & cultural anthropology at the University of Hamburg, Université de Paris 1 - Sorbonne and the University of California at Berkeley. She previously worked for the Migration Research Group at the Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWI), in the International Migration Division of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and at the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF). She was Junior Visiting Fellow at the Maastricht Centre for Citizenship, Migration, and Development (MACIMIDE) at Maastricht University, and was a lecturer at the Departments of Geography at the University of Hamburg and Kiel University. [more]