"Multiculturalism: a Problem Now, or Still a Solution?"

Institute Colloquium Winter 2012/13

• Date: Jan 17, 2013
• Time: 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Michel Wieviorka (Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme / L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris)
• Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
• Room: Library Hall

"De-Naturalizing Transit Migration - Theory and Methods of an Ethnographic Regime Analysis"

Institute Colloquium Winter 2012/13

• Date: Jan 31, 2013
• Time: 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Sabine Hess (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
• Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
• Room: Library Hall

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

Religious Diversity Colloquium Spring/Summer 2013

• Date: Feb 19, 2013
• Time: 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Murat Akan (Bosphorous University)
• Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Room: Conference Room

"The Afterlife of Images"

Religious Diversity Colloquium Spring/Summer 2013

• Date: Feb 26, 2013
• Time: 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Peter van der Veer (MPI-MMG)
• Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Room: Conference Room

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

Religious Diversity Colloquium Spring/Summer 2013

• Date: Mar 5, 2013
• Time: 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Virinder Kalra (University of Manchester)
• Virinder Kalra is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester.
• Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Room: Conference Room

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

Religious Diversity Colloquium Spring/Summer 2013

• Date: Mar 7, 2013
• Time: 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Tam Ngo (MPI-MMG)
• Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Room: Conference Room

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

Religious Diversity Colloquium Spring/Summer 2013

• Date: Mar 12, 2013
• Time: 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Angie Heo (MPI-MMG)
• Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Room: Conference Room

"Medical Migration Symposium"

Workshops, conferences 2013

• Date: Mar 19, 2013
• Time: 10:30 AM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Location: University of Warwick
• Room: MS.05, Mathematics and Statistics Building

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

Religious Diversity Colloquium Spring/Summer 2013

• Date: Mar 19, 2013
• Time: 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Yuqin Huang (MPI-MMG)
• Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Room: Conference Room

"Why India Votes: The results of a comparative ethnographic studyWhy India Votes: The results of a comparative ethnographic study"

Religious Diversity Colloquium Spring/Summer 2013

• Date: Mar 21, 2013
• Time: 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Mukulika Banerjee (LSE Anthropology)
• Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Room: Conference Room

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

Religious Diversity Colloquium Spring/Summer 2013

• Date: Mar 26, 2013
• Time: 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Roschanack Shaery (MPI-MMG)
• Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Room: Conference Room

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

Religious Diversity Colloquium Spring/Summer 2013

• Date: Apr 2, 2013
• Time: 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Radhika Gupta (MPI-MMG)
• Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Room: Conference Room

"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

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

Public Lectures Spring/Summer 2013

• Date: Apr 9, 2013
• Time: 05:00 PM - 06:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Mary C. Waters (M.E. Zukerman Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard University)
• Mary C. Waters is the M.E. Zukerman Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. Her work has focused on the integration of immigrants and their children, the transition to adulthood for the children of immigrants, intergroup relations, and the measurement and meaning of racial and ethnic identity.
• Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
• Room: Library Hall

"Making Tibetan Buddhism Modern in China"

• Date: Apr 11, 2013
• Time: 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Khenpo Sodargye
• Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Room: Conference Room

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

Religious Diversity Colloquium Spring/Summer 2013

• Date: Apr 16, 2013
• Time: 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Ajay Gandhi (MPI-MMG)
• Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Room: Conference Room

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

Religious Diversity Colloquium Spring/Summer 2013

• Date: Apr 18, 2013
• Time: 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Nate Roberts (MPI-MMG)
• Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Room: Conference Room

"Namingand Omission in Three Episodes"

Religious Diversity Colloquium Spring/Summer 2013

• Date: Apr 23, 2013
• Time: 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi (The State University of New Jersey)
• Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi is Assistant Professor at the Department of Anthropology at the State University of New Jersey. Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi’s current research interests are in violence, media, religion and ritual, symbolic anthropology, psychoanalysis, identification, nationalism, social theory.
• Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Room: Conference Room

"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

• Date: Apr 29, 2013
• Time: 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Sanal Mohan Padikaparampil (Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, India)
• Dr. Sanal Mohan Padikaparampil is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences of Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, India. He was a Visiting Faculty Associate at the Centre for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania, USA in 2011.
• Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Room: Conference Room

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

Religious Diversity Colloquium Spring/Summer 2013

• Date: Apr 30, 2013
• Time: 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Matthew Engelke (London School of Economics)
• Matthew Engelke is a Reader in the Department of Anthropology. He also co-ordinates the School’s Programme for the Study of Religion and Non-Religion. Dr Engelke was educated at the universities of Chicago and Virginia. He joined LSE in 2002.
• Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Room: Conference Room

"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

• Date: May 7, 2013
• Time: 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Peter Geschiere (University of Amsterdam)
• Peter Geschiere is Professor of African Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam (earlier at Leiden University). He was visiting professor at several universities in Africa, North America and Europe.
• Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Room: Conference Room

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

Religious Diversity Colloquium Spring/Summer 2013

• Date: May 14, 2013
• Time: 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: D. Parthasarathy (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay)
• D. Parthasarathy is Professor at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. From 2008 until 2009 he was a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.
• Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Room: Conference Room

"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

• Date: May 23, 2013
• Time: 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Nikola Tietze (Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung)
• Nikola Tietze is a sociologist at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research.
• Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
• Room: Library Hall

"Language and Super-diversity: Explorations and interrogations"

Workshops, conferences 2013

• Start: Jun 5, 2013 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
• End: Jun 7, 2013 04:30 PM
• Location: University of Jyväskylä, Finland

"Contested Citizenships: The racialization of belongings in France"

Public Lectures Spring/Summer 2013

• Date: Jun 6, 2013
• Time: 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Patrick Simon (Centre d’études européennes (Sciences Po) / Institut national d’études démographiques)
• Patrick Simon is Director of research at INED (Institut National d’Etudes Demographiques – National demographic institute) (F) and research fellow at the Center of European Studies (CEE) at Sciences Po. Trained as socio-demographer at EHESS, he has studied social and ethnic segregation in French cities, ethnic and racial categorizations in an international perspective, antidiscrimination policies and the integration of ethnic minorities in European countries.
• Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
• Room: Library Hall

"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"

• Date: Jun 20, 2013
• Time: 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Peter van der Veer (MPI-MMG)
• Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Room: Conference Room

"Urban Aspirations of Seoul: Religion and Megacities in Comparative Studies"

Workshops, conferences 2013

• Start: Jun 26, 2013
• End: Jun 27, 2013
• Location: Seoul, South Korea
• Room: The Seoul Institute 391 Seocho-dong, Seocho-gu

"India Workshop"

Workshops, conferences 2013

• Date: Jul 2, 2013
• Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Room: Conference Room

"FRIENDSHIP AND THE CONVIVIAL CITY"

Workshops, conferences 2013

• Start: Sep 5, 2013 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
• End: Sep 6, 2013 05:30 PM
• Location: National University of Singapore
• Room: Research Division Seminar Room - Block AS7, Shaw Foundation Building, #06-42, 5 Arts Link

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

Religious Diversity Colloquium Winter 2013/14

• Date: Oct 1, 2013
• Time: 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Rumin Luo (MPI-MMG)
• Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Room: Conference Room

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

Religious Diversity Colloquium Winter 2013/14

• Date: Oct 8, 2013
• Time: 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Sahana Udupa (MPI-MMG)
• Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Room: Conference Room

"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

• Start: Oct 25, 2013
• End: Oct 26, 2013
• Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
• Room: Library Hall

"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

• Date: Oct 30, 2013
• Time: 10:15 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Samuel Nelson (MPI-MMG)
• Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Room: Conference Room

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

Open Lectures Winter 2013/14

• Date: Oct 31, 2013
• Time: 02:15 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Benno Gammerl (Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung, Berlin)
• Benno Gammerl works at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Center for the History of Emotions, in Berlin, where he focuses on homosexuality and emotional life in rural West Germany between 1960 and 1990. His first book scrutinized British and Austro-Hungarian policies of citizenship and nationality.
• Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
• Room: Library Hall

"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

• Date: Nov 7, 2013
• Time: 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Patrick Eisenlohr (University of Göttingen)
• Location: Universität Göttingen, Theaterplatz 15
• Room: Hörsaal Ethnologie

"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

• Date: Nov 13, 2013
• Time: 10:15 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Effie Fokas (ELIAMEP, Athens & London School of Economics)
• Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Room: Conference Room

"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

"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

• Start: Dec 2, 2013 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
• End: Dec 6, 2013 05:00 PM
• Location: Johannesburg, South Africa

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

Religious Diversity Colloquium Winter 2013/14

• Date: Dec 3, 2013
• Time: 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Roschanack Shaery (MPI-MMG)
• Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Room: Conference Room

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

Religious Diversity Colloquium Winter 2013/14

• Date: Dec 10, 2013
• Time: 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Jayeel Serrano Cornelio (MPI-MMG)
• Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Room: Conference Room

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

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

• Date: Dec 11, 2013
• Time: 10:15 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
• Speaker: Julia Martínez-Arino (MPI-MMG)
• Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Room: Conference Room

"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