Events 2016
"Arrested circulation. Catholic missionaries, anthropological knowledge and the politics of cultural difference in Germany and East Africa, 1880-1914"
Lecture by Richard Hölzl (University of Göttingen)
Jan 11, 2016 04:30 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen, Room: Conference Room
"Selling Out the Political?: Perspectives from Law, Political Economy & Critical Theory"
Conference
Jan 15, 2016
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen, Room: Library Hall
"The mechanical missionary: infrastructures of conversion and the Far East broadcasting company"
Lecture by Anderson Blanton (MPI-MMG)
Jan 19, 2016 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen, Room: Conference Room
"Between the Kingdom and the Desert Sun: Human Rights, Immigration, and Border Walls"
Lecture by Moria Paz (Stanford)
Jan 20, 2016 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen, Room: Library Hall
"Seeking the uncertain: Possible futures and everyday hedging in Juba, South Sudan"
Lecture by Léonie Newhouse (MPI-MMG)
Jan 25, 2016 04:30 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen, Room: Conference Room
"The walking undead: spirit victims and heroes in Post-Pinochet Chile"
Lecture by Ana Mariella Bacigalupo (SUNY Buffalo)
Jan 26, 2016 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen, Room: Conference Room
"Documentary projection: One day in my shoes"
Lecture by Peter Kankonde Bukasa (MPI-MMG)
Feb 8, 2016 04:30 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen, Room: Conference Room
"Comparative Approaches to Inter-Asian Religious and Trade Networks"
Conference
Mar 3, 2016 09:30 AM (Local Time Germany) - Mar 4, 2016 06:00 PM
Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
"Transnationalism, Gender, Evangelism and Power in African Initiated Churches in Nigeria and its Diaspora"
Lecture by Mojúbàolú Olufúnké Okome (City University of New York)
Mar 3, 2016 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen, Room: Library Hall
"Workshop on Super-Diversity: A Transatlantic Conversation"
Conference
Apr 4, 2016 08:45 AM (Local Time Germany) - Apr 5, 2016 01:00 PM
365 Fifth Avenue, Room: CUNY Graduate Center
"The Value of Comparison"
Conference
Apr 8, 2016 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany) - Apr 9, 2016 03:00 PM
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen, Room: Library Hall
"Unravelling urban rhythms in the migrant experience: Polish migrants in Munich and Berlin"
Lecture by Magda Nowicka / Agata Lisiak (HU Berlin)
Apr 14, 2016 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen, Room: Library Hall
"Seeking the uncertain--possible futures and everyday hedging in Juba, South Sudan"
Lecture by Léonie Newhouse (MPI-MMG)
Apr 18, 2016 04:30 PM - 06:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen, Room: Conference Room
"Justifying the Secular State: Trans-Atlantic Lessons on the Weakness of Rights as a Basis for Secularism"
Lecture by Ronan McCrea (University College London)
Apr 22, 2016 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Lichtenberg-Kolleg Historic Observatory, Geismar Landstraße 11, 37083 Göttingen, Room: Roter Saal
"The Moral Background"
Lecture by Gabriel Abend (New York University/Lichtenberg-Kolleg)
Apr 26, 2016 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen, Room: Library Hall
"Turning Points and Action Strategies of Young Adults with Migration Backgrounds in Germany and France"
Lecture by Carsten Keller (Universität Kassel)
Apr 28, 2016 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen, Room: Library Hall
"Gesture- and sign language-based language strategies and ideologies in Adamorobe, Ghana and Mumbai, India"
Lecture by Annelies Kusters (MPI-MMG)
May 2, 2016 04:30 PM - 06:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen, Room: Conference Room
"Religious Accommodations in a Diverse Society"
Lecture by Alan Patten (Princeton)
May 11, 2016 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen, Room: Library Hall
"Embracing the World in Isolation--the Rise of Protestant Christianity in Southeast China during the Cultural Revolution"
Lecture by Xiaoxuan Wang (MPI-MMG)
May 17, 2016 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen, Room: Conference Room
"Conflict, social fragmentation, and the pursuit of unity in diversity in Johannesburg’s local churches: the case of the Catholic Festival of all nations"
Lecture by Peter Kankonde (MPI-MMG)
May 17, 2016 04:30 PM - 06:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen, Room: Conference Room
“Turkish Islamic Practice, Memory and Elision”
Kimberly Hart (Buffalo State University)
May 18, 2016 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen, Room: Conference Room
"Economies of Sao Paolo: Image, Space, Circulation"
Lecture by Maria José de Abreu (Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Berlin)
May 24, 2016 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen, Room: Conference Room
"New Information and Communication Technologies and ‘New’ Stratifications of Society: Evidence from Chad, Mali and Cameroon"
Lecture by Mirjam de Bruijn (University of Leiden)
May 26, 2016 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen, Room: Library Hall
" ‘If there’s no mobile, you’re not mobile’: unpacking livelihoods, infrastructures and urban ecologies in Lagos, Nigeria"
Lecture by Naluwembe Binaisa (MPI-MMG)
May 30, 2016 04:30 PM - 06:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen, Room: Conference Room
"Sacred Geography and Alchemical Ideology: A Sectarian Standpoint"
Lecture by Arpita Roy (MPI-MMG)
May 31, 2016 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen, Room: Conference Room
"The Oxford Handbook of Citizenship Authors’ Conference"
Conference
Jun 2, 2016 - Jun 4, 2016
EUI, Florence, Badia Fiesolana
"Yearning, Modern Destinies and Christian Morality at the Margins of the Chinese State"
Lecture by Mireille Mazard (MPI-MMG)
Jun 2, 2016 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen, Room: Conference Room
"Theorizing Cultural Religion"
Lecture by Avi Astor (Autonomous University of Barcelona)
Jun 8, 2016 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen, Room: Conference Room
"Segregation and Diversity as Multiscalar Phenomena. Why we need multiscale measures to understand neighborhoods and neighborhood effects"
Lecture by Christopher S. Fowler (Penn State University)
Jun 9, 2016 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen, Room: Library Hall
"The orphans of the plains: negotiating livelihood in the changing ethnic relations in the Singida-Mbulu Border, 1984-2012"
Lecture by Samwel S. Mhajida (University of Göttingen)
Jun 13, 2016 04:30 PM - 06:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen, Room: Conference Room
"Death and the Afterlife"
Workshop
Jun 17, 2016
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen, Room: Conference Room
"Translanguaging and repertoires across signed and spoken languages: Insights from linguistic ethnographies in (super)diverse contexts"
Symposium
Jun 20, 2016 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany) - Jun 21, 2016 05:45 PM
MPI-MMG, Goettingen, Room: Library Hall
"The Politics of the Human"
Lecture by Anne Phillips (London School of Economics)
Jun 22, 2016 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Lichtenberg-Kolleg Historic Observatory, Geismar Landstraße 11, 37083 Göttingen
"Communal work, authority and crisis: the role and impact of women in postcolonial self reliance and Ujamaa in Southern Highlands of Tanzania, 1966-1980"
Lecture by Nives Kinunda Ngullu (University of Göttingen)
Jun 27, 2016 04:30 PM - 06:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen, Room: Conference Room
" ‘Spiritual Warfare’ on Multi-religious Terrain: Political Cosmologies in Postwar Sri Lanka"
Lecture by Neena Mahadev (MPI-MMG)
Jun 28, 2016 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen, Room: Conference Room
"After Critique: Recent Trends and Future Perspectives in Human Rights Scholarship"
Mini-workshop
Jun 30, 2016
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen, Room: Library Hall
"Re-ordering Diversity: Humanitarian Assistance in the Context of Forced Migration and Displacement"
Summer School
Jul 4, 2016 01:30 PM (Local Time Germany) - Jul 8, 2016 05:00 PM
University of Tübingen (Germany)
"Imagining and regulating ethnic and religious diversity in Turkey. Macro-configurations and micro-dynamics"
Workshop
Jul 8, 2016 - Jul 9, 2016
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen, Room: Library Hall
"Class-based chronicities of suffering and seeking help--comparing addiction treatment programs in Uganda"
Lecture by Julia Vorhölter (University of Göttingen)
Jul 11, 2016 04:30 PM - 06:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen, Room: Conference Room
"After the urban is over or before it has really begun? Urban theory today"
Workshop
Jul 12, 2016 02:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI-MMG, Goettingen, Room: Library Hall
"Frontiers of Social Change: Migration, Mobility and World-Making"
Workshop
Jul 26, 2016 - Jul 27, 2016
Brigham Young University
"Public institutions as the venue for negotiating religious diversity and secularism in Europe"
International Workshop
Aug 31, 2016 02:15 PM (Local Time Germany) - Sep 1, 2016 05:30 PM
MPI-MMG, Goettingen, Room: Library Hall
"Beyond Dichotomous Understandings of Host State Migration Policy: Examining ‘Ambivalence’ in Egypt, Morocco & Turkey"
Lecture by Kelsey Norman (University of California, Irvine)
Sep 20, 2016 11:30 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen, Room: Library Hall
"Cold War Buddhism: politicizing the religious and re-negotiating the secular in Lao Buddhism during the 2nd Indochina War (1950-1975)"
Lecture by Patrice Ladwig (MPI-MMG)
Sep 20, 2016 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen, Room: Conference Room
"From excarnation to ashes: changes in Zoroastrian ritual infrastructure in Mumbai"
Lecture by Leilah Vevaina (MPI-MMG)
Sep 27, 2016 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen, Room: Conference Room
"Rifah-e-Aam Club, Lucknow: politics and poetics in India’s changing public sphere"
Lecture by Raphael Susewind (MPI-MMG)
Oct 4, 2016 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen, Room: Conference Room
"Ethnographic enquiry in Colonial India: Herbert Risley, William Crooke and the study of tribes and castes"
Lecture by Chris Fuller (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Oct 11, 2016 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen, Room: Conference Room
"Engaging tolerance: privacy and publicity in the inter-religious engagement of Mumbai’s Ismaili Muslims"
Lecture by David Strohl (MPI-MMG)
Oct 18, 2016 01:30 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen, Room: Conference Room
"Legal Multiculturalism: Comparing Gays and Muslims"
Lecture by Christian Joppke (University of Bern)
Oct 18, 2016 03:00 PM - 04:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen, Room: Library Hall
“Disciplining the Past? Sites of Memory and Forgetting in Former Ottoman Lands”
Jeremy F. Walton (MPI-MMG)
Oct 26, 2016 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen, Room: Conference Room
"Inhabiting the corridor: surging resource economies and urban life in East Africa"
Workshop
Oct 27, 2016 02:30 PM (Local Time Germany) - Oct 29, 2016 01:00 PM
MPI-MMG, Goettingen, Room: Library Hall
"Are you afraid of cockroaches?’: Compassion and the horrors of abjection in Taiwanese Buddhism"
Lecture by Mireille Mazard (MPI-MMG)
Nov 1, 2016 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen, Room: Conference Room
"Ethnography as history: marriage and moral horizons in Mayotte"
Lecture by Michael Lambek (University of Toronto)
Nov 1, 2016 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen, Room: Library Hall
"Volunteering for refugees in Germany. Between social movement and charity"
Lecture by Serhat Karakayali (Humboldt University, Berlin)
Nov 1, 2016 02:15 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen, Room: Library Hall
"The Politics of Secularism and Religion in France and Turkey"
Lecture by Murat Akan (Bosphorous University)
Nov 3, 2016 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen, Room: Library Hall
"Crude politics: making the oil refinery political in Niger"
Lecture by Jannik Schritt (University of Göttingen)
Nov 7, 2016 04:30 PM - 06:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen, Room: Conference Room
"Tribe, caste and class in contemporary India"
Lecture by Alpa Shah (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Nov 8, 2016 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen, Room: Conference Room
"Deserving or Undeserving Migrants? The Significance of the Concept of the Refugee"
Symposium
Nov 9, 2016
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen, Room: Library Hall
"The spatial genealogy of Muharram rituals"
Lecture by Reza Masoudi (MPI-MMG)
Nov 15, 2016 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen, Room: Conference Room
"Church networks, sanctuary, and migrant activism in Europe: preliminary ideas and findings"
Lecture by Katharyne Mitchell (University of Washington, Seattle)
Nov 17, 2016 02:15 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen, Room: Library Hall
"Women farmers’ strategies and engagements in Colonial Southern Highlands of Tanzania, 1900-1960"
Lecture by Nives Kinunda (University of Göttingen)
Nov 21, 2016 04:30 PM - 06:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen, Room: Conference Room
"An inescapable comparison: casteism and racism in the diaspora"
Lecture by Meena Dhanda (University of Wolverhampton)
Nov 22, 2016 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen, Room: Conference Room
"What Gura Killed: Wildmen, White Men, and the Beastly Excess to Differences That Matter"
Lecture by Nils Bubandt (Aarhus University)
Nov 23, 2016 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen, Room: Library Hall
"WeberWorldCafé “Diversity – Limits and Opportunities"
Workshop
Nov 24, 2016 03:00 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
"Alte Mensa", Wilhelmsplatz 3, Göttingen
“(Dis)placing Memories in the Context of War and Migration”
Monika Palmberger (Visiting Professor, University of Leuven and Hertha Firnberg Research Fellow, University of Vienna)
Nov 30, 2016 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen, Room: Conference Room
MPI PhD Workshop – “Creative Value” with Samuel Lengen, Xiao He, and Shaheed Tayob
MPI PhD Workshop
Nov 30, 2016 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen, Room: Conference Room
"Diversity of asylum seekers' needs and aspirations"
Workshop
Nov 30, 2016 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen, Room: Library Hall
"Transactional Sociality: Market Moralities and Embedded Capital in Modern South Asia"
Workshop
Dec 1, 2016 09:30 AM (Local Time Germany) - Dec 2, 2016 06:00 PM
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen, Room: Conference Room
"The contemporaneity of Bena Orature"
Lecture by Angelus Mnenuka (University of Leipzig)
Dec 5, 2016 04:30 PM - 06:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen, Room: Conference Room
"Songs to the Jinas and of the Gurus: historical comparisons between Jain and Sikh devotional music"
Lecture by Bob van der Linden (MPI-MMG)
Dec 6, 2016 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen, Room: Conference Room
"Bremainers versus Brexiters: is it all about Immigration? Where did the New Political Cleavage in the UK come from and what does it mean for the Future of Party Politics in the UK"
Lecture by Maria Sobolewska (University of Manchester)
Dec 8, 2016 02:15 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen, Room: Library Hall
"The Law and Politics of Diversity"
Workshop
Dec 16, 2016
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen, Room: Library Hall
"New biosocial horizons: political subjectivity and Albinism in glocal Tanzania"
Lecture by Giorgio Brocco (Freie Universität Berlin)
Dec 19, 2016 04:30 PM - 06:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen, Room: Conference Room