News & Updates 2021

Podcast “What do Germans think about diversity (in German)”

July 2021
detektor.fm presenter Lara-Lena Gödde spoke with Karen Schönwälder about diversity in the podcast "Ach, Mensch!". Karen Schönwälder examines how far acceptance in society really goes and straightens such a crooked picture. „Ach, Mensch!“ Is a cooperation with the Max Planck Society.

Youtube-Video "Diversity, 'diversity' and the social organization of difference"

July 2021
Keynote by Steven Vertovec at the Conference ‘Studying Diversity after the Reflexive Turn’, Tübingen 7-9 July 2021

Roundtable „Zugehörigkeit als Staatsziel? Ethik und Politik der Integration“

June 2021
(in German) Roundtable of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster on June 29, 2021. On the podium, the sociologist Dr. Asligül Aysel and the philosopher Dr. Matthias Hoesch from the Cluster of Excellence with political scientist Prof. Dr. Karen Schönwälder (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity) and the legal scholar Daniel Thym (University of Konstanz). On the basis of current developments in integration policy, they discussed the standards by which this should be based.

New Podcast Series

May 2021
The City show is a podcast about complexity and how people live and adapt to life in fast-changing cities across Africa, Latin America and Asia. It's made by Dhashen Moddley, Tau Tavengwa, Freddie Boswell, Michael Rahfaldt, and Jo Jackson. It's a collaboration between Cityscapes Magazine, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity and African Centre for Cities. It's a Cityscapes/Radio Workshop production. Music by 23rd Parallel.

Religious Ethics and Plural Sites of Entanglement

April 2021
Workshop on April 22, 16.00-18.00 CET Engaging with the “ethical turn” in the anthropology of religion, this workshop panel examines multiple sites of entanglements between politics and religious ethics.

"Refugees and Religion" book launch

April 2021
hosted by SPUI25, Amsterdam The editors and authors Peter van der Veer, Abdoulaye Sounaye, Tam T.T. Ngo, Birgit Meyer and Arjun Appadurai will discuss the issue of religion from a broader, comparative and historical perspective, understanding religious refugees as an integral part of the modern world.