Events

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"New biosocial horizons: political subjectivity and Albinism in glocal Tanzania"

African Diversities Colloquium Winter 2016/17

"The Law and Politics of Diversity"

Workshops, conferences 2016
Workshop organized by Ayelet Shachar, Director at the Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity In cooperation with- University of California, Berkeley- Göttingen Campus [more]

"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"

Open Lectures Winter 2016/17
  • Date: Dec 8, 2016
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Maria Sobolewska (University of Manchester)
  • Maria Sobolewska is a Senior Lecturer in Politics (Quantitative Methods) at the University of Manchester and a member of CoDE www.ethnicity.ac.uk. She completed her doctorate on the political attitudes and voting of ethnic minorities in Britain at the University of Oxford. She works on the political integration and representation of ethnic minorities in Britain, public perceptions of integration, and the production and framing of public opinion of British Muslims. She has been part of the team conducting the Ethnic Minority British Election Survey in 2010 and is currently part of the PATHWAYS project: a seven country study of the descriptive and substantive representation of immigrant-origin minorities headed by Prof Thomas Saalfeld, University of Bamberg.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Songs to the Jinas and of the Gurus: historical comparisons between Jain and Sikh devotional music"

Religious Diversity Colloquium Winter 2016/17

"The contemporaneity of Bena Orature"

African Diversities Colloquium Winter 2016/17

"Transactional Sociality: Market Moralities and Embedded Capital in Modern South Asia"

Workshops, conferences 2016
Funded by MPI-MMG and the Centre for Modern Indian Studies, Göttingen University. Conveners: Ajay Gandhi, Sebastian Schwecke [more]

"Diversity of asylum seekers' needs and aspirations"

Workshops, conferences 2016
Abschlussveranstaltung zum Projekt "Die Vielfalt der Bedürfnisse und Zukunftsvisionen von Geflüchteten" [more]

MPI PhD Workshop – “Creative Value” with Samuel Lengen, Xiao He, and Shaheed Tayob

Religious Diversity Colloquium Winter 2016/17

“(Dis)placing Memories in the Context of War and Migration”

Telling Times: Memories of Culture, Cultures of Memory - Lecture Series 2016
  • Date: Nov 30, 2016
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Monika Palmberger (Visiting Professor, University of Leuven and Hertha Firnberg Research Fellow, University of Vienna)
  • Monika Palmberger is Visiting Professor at the Interculturalism, Migration and Minorities Research Centre at the University of Leuven and Hertha Firnberg Research Fellow at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna. She earned her PhD at the University of Oxford in 2011 and thereafter has pursued postdoctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen and at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna. Her central research interests are memory, generation and the life course in contexts of war/migration. She is author/editor of three books: How Generations Remember: Conflicting Histories and Shared Memories in Post-War Bosnia and Herzegovina (Palgrave 2016), Memories on the Move: Experiencing Mobility, Rethinking the Past (with Jelena Tosic, Palgrave 2016), Caring on the Move: Ethnographic Explorations of Aging and Migration Across Societies (with Azra Hromadzic, Berghahn, forthcoming 2017).
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
  • Room: Conference Room

"WeberWorldCafé “Diversity – Limits and Opportunities"

Workshops, conferences 2016
Hosted by the Max Weber Stiftung and the Forum Transregionale Studien in cooperation with the German Institute for Japanese Studies Tokyo (DIJ), the Diversity Research Institute of the Georg-August-University Göttingen and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. “Diversity – Limits and Opportunities” is curated and organized by Phoebe Holdgrün (DIJ Tokyo) and Gesche Schifferdecker (Max Weber Stiftung). [more]
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