"The Anthropology of Nationalism", October 24 at the Central Nationalities University (Minzu) in Beijing · "Nation and Civilization", October 25 at Tsinghua University, Beijing.
The Augsburg Science Prize for Intercultural Studies 2019 goes to Christine Lang, who receives an award for her dissertation on diversity in municipal administrations.
May 2019 Alexander Hudson received the first prize in the PDD Section's Best Paper for his work "Potemkin Village Meetings: Public Participation in Constitution Making" at the PSA conference in Nottingham in 2019.
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May 2019 Peter van der Veer has held the Annual Vivekananda Visiting Professor Lecture on 7 May 2019 at the University of Chicago. The title is "The Modern Spirit of Asia: Comparing Indian and Chinese Spiritual Nationalism".
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March 2019 Peter van der Veer has accepted an invitation from the Provost of the University of Chicago to come as a Distinguished Visitor in the Spring of 2019 and the Spring of 2020.
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March 2019 MPI-MMG Director Ayelet Shachar has been awarded the 2019 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize! The ceremony took place on March 13, 2019 in Berlin.
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February 2019 Christine Lang has been awarded the PhD dissertation prize from the German Sociological Association’s ‘Section Migration and Ethnic Minorities’. more
February 2019 The MPI-MMG has released a unique set of interactive data visualization tools that allow viewers to explore the interrelations between migration flows, traits, and outcomes.
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January 2019 On 7 February 2019, Steve Vertovec has given a lecture about migration and diversity research at the European Parliament as part of the EU’s 'Science meets Parliaments' Week.
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