Events

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"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

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

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

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

Religious Diversity Colloquium Winter 2013/14

"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 Göttingen Research Campus Anthropology Colloquium is jointly organized by: Institute of Cultural and Social Anthropology (University of Göttingen) • Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (Göttingen) • Centre for Modern Indian Studies (University of Göttingen). Responsible for the program: Prof. Dr. Elfriede Hermann, Prof. Dr. Steven Vertovec, Prof. Dr. Patrick Eisenlohr [more]

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

Religious Diversity Colloquium Winter 2013/14

"RECONSIDERING AFRICAN INTEGRATION IN A FRAGMENTED AGE"

Workshops, conferences 2013
Workshop organized by the International Migration Institute (IMI-Oxford University), the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS-Wits University, Johannesburg), and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (MPI-MMG, Göttingen). [more]

"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

"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
Panel on the 2013 American Anthropological Associoation Annual Meeting. [more]

"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

"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
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