Panelists:Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez (Goethe University Frankfurt)Anja Weiss (University of Duisburg-Essen)Sanja Bökle (MPI-MMG)Vanessa Rau (MPI-MMG)Moderator:Farhan Samanani (MPI-MMG) The panel discussed the results of the ZOMiDi research project, which investigated how and why civil society organizations change in response to migration and…
Shahd Seethaler-Wari, Somayeh Chitchian and Maja Momić (eds.) Co-Sponsored by the Frances Loeb Library, Harvard Graduate School of Design and Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
Institute Director Steven Vertovec gave a live television interview on Deutsche Welle and PBS America to comment on the coronavirus pandemic, xenophobia and group stigmas.
DWnews TV Interview Thursday, 7th May 2020 with Steven Vertovec, conducted by Anchor Brent Goff
conducted by the Max Planck Research Group "Ageing in a Time of Mobility"
Professor Loretta Baldassar is a migration scholar and researcher with interests in transnational families, the social uses of new technologies, ageing, youth and caring across distance. She is the Deputy Head of School (Community Engagement) for the School of Social Sciences…
On March 13, 2019, Prof Dr Ayelet Shachar, Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, was awarded the prestigious Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
The Leibniz Prize is Germany’s highest and most prestigious research award. Honoring researchers who have distinguished themselves with extraordinary academic…
Ran Hirschl (PhD, Yale) joined the University of Göttingen as Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Comparative Constitutionalism, having been granted a much-coveted Alexander von Humboldt International Research Award. From 2006 to 2016 he held the Canada Research Chair in Constitutionalism, Democracy and Development at the University of Toronto…
Is Confucianism a Religion or a Secular Moral System
When asked about the place of religion in their culture, many Chinese people will answer that China is a secular country with no major impact of religion. However, as PETER VAN DER VEER explains in this video, the Chinese are more religious than this perspective suggests and perform many rituals…
