MPI-MMG@Conferences
| ▪ | Jamila Hamidu: "Integration via political participation of ethnic minorities in Britain: The case of the Ghanaian diaspora in London" 2nd Organizing Migration and Integration in Contemporary Societies (OMICS) Conference November 21-25, 2023 | Gotherburg, Sweden |
| ▪ | Jamila Hamidu: "Ghanaian diaspora transnational political engagement in London: Identity politics of here and there" NIAS Conference 2023 "Belonging and Mobility" October 17-21, 2023 | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| ▪ | Swetlana Torno: Lecture on MPG and MPG/MMG booth support Deutsch-Kasachischer Wissenschaftstag "New prospects and opportunities for the German-Kazakh Science and Research cooperation" October 11-13, 2023 | Almaty, Kazakhstan |
| ▪ | Yael Peled: “Uncertain Linguistic Justice: The Philosophical Sources of Normative Orders in Language” Political Theory in Times of Uncertainty conference September 27-29, 2023 | University of Bremen |
| ▪ | Swetlana Torno: "Postcolonial migrations and welfare system entanglements: The case of elderly Tajik nationals seeking a ‘Soviet pension’ in Russia" Regional Conference of the European Society for Central Asian Studies (ESCAS) titled “Power, people and cultural change in an ever-evolving Central Asia” September 22-24, 2023 | Almaty, Kazakhstan |
| ▪ | Helena Hof: "Gender Dynamics in high-tech startups: An intersectional perspective on labor in transnational entrepreneurship" SAGS Conference 2023 Gendere(d) Labour September 14-15, 2023 | Lausanne, Schwitzerland |
| ▪ | Akif Tahiiev at the Workshop "Muslims in Ukraine - old history, new challenges" September 14, 2023 | University of Basel, Switzerland |
| ▪ | Johanna Lukate: "Going natural: Black and mixed-race women in England and Germany narrating embodied identity transformations" 18th conference at the Social Psychology Section September 11-13, 2023 | Graz, Austria |
| ▪ | Johanna Lukate: hosting the preconference workshop on Monday, 21 August, on the topic of (Towards) Doing Critical Qualitative Research on Migration and Diversity" | speaking on the spotlight panel on Wednesday, 23 August, on the topic of "Engaging in participaction action research: working with and for communities" 4th Cultural Diversity, Migration, and Education Conference August 21-23, 2023 | Halle (Saale) |
| ▪ | Madeline J. Bass: “Dismantling Disembodied Borders: Abolitionist Approaches to Oromo Sovereignty” Oromo Studies Association Annual Conference July 29, 2023 | Virtual Session |
| ▪ | Madeline J. Bass, discussant at the panel titled “(Pan-)afrikanische Frauenbewegungen in Konflikt-Situationen” Conference ‘Panafrikanischer Frauentag’ July 28, 2023 | Potsdam |
| ▪ | Megha Amrith, Victoria K. Sakti, Swetlana Torno and Nele Wolter German Anthropological Association Conference 2023 July 25-28, 2023 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
| ▪ | Yael Peled: "Linguistic Justice and/in Global Knowledge Production" 8th Max Planck Symposium "The rise of social, economic and environmental justice" July 23-26, 2023 | Harnack-Haus, Berlin |
| ▪ | Margherita Cusmano: "Migrants‘ Attitudes Toward Distributive Justice Principles" Konferenz der International Society for Justice Research (ISJR) July 22-26, 2023 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
| ▪ | MPI-MMG @ IMISCOE conference 2023 "Migration and Inequalities. In search of answers and solutions" July 2-6, 2023 | Warsaw (Hybrid) Participants from our Institute: Ulrike Bialas • Margherita Cusmano • Eloisa Harris • Elisa Lanari • Karen Schönwälder |
| ▪ | Akif Tahiiev: Keynote 11th Migration Research Lab “ 'Cultural Diversity,' 'Minorities' and 'Integration' as Categories of Practice and Analysis in Countries with a Soviet Past” June 29, 2023 | Zentrum für Globale Migrationsstudien, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany |
| ▪ | Megha Amrith: “Care: Contributions & Contours of an Expansive Concept“ Keynote Lecture at the workshop on ‘Service – Duty – Care: Theorizing Civic Engagement from Asia to Europe and beyond’ June 28-29, 2023 | Ca’Foscari University of Venice |
| ▪ | Swetlana Torno: "Gendered boundaries in informal care networks: intimacy and caring for elderly men in Tajikistan" 6th Transforming Care Conference June 26-28, 2023 | Sheffield |
| ▪ | Helena Hof: “Foreign Entrepreneurs’ ‘Urban Transnationalism’: Rooted in the Urban Space, Growing Businesses in the Digital Space” ISA World Congress of Sociology June 25 – July 1 | Melbourne, Australia |
| ▪ | Akif Tahiiev: "The role of Slavic converts in the promotion of Shia Islam in Eastern Europe" Sixth Annual Conference of the European Academy of Religion June 19-23, 2023 | St. Andrews, Scotland |
| ▪ | Megha Amrith: “ ‘Thinking about Myself’: New Financialized Subjectivities of Ageing Migrant Domestic Workers“ Talk at the Anthropological Colloquium June 13, 2023 | Institut für Ethnologie, University of Hamburg |
| ▪ | Karen Schönwälder: “Demokratiekrise, Migration, De-Globalisierung - Gesellschaft im Wandel” Public Event (in German) with Livestream June 12, 2023 | VolkswagenStiftung |
| ▪ | Swetlana Torno, discussant at the panel titled “Care for future generations” Conference ‘(Un)growing Into Generational Roles’ June 8-9, 2023 | ZMO, Berlin |
| ▪ | Nele Wolter: “Placed on hold: how internally displaced persons in Cameroon reinvent their future” European Conference on African Studies, African Futures May 31 – June 3 | University of Cologne |
| ▪ | Akif Tahiiev: "Dynamic Ijtihad in Shi’ism" Annual Conference of the British Association for Islamic Studies May 15-16, 2023 | London, UK |
| ▪ | Akif Tahiiev: "Imam Hussein through the eyes of Ukrainian Orientalists” International Conference “Imam Hussain and Orientalism” May 12-13, 2023 | Warith al-Anbiya Institute, Karbala, Iraq |
| ▪ | Eloisa Harris presenting results of DivA survey Workshop at the Inequality cluster May 10-12, 2023 | Konstanz, Germany |
| ▪ | Yael Peled: “The Practical Ethics of Linguistic Integration: Three Challenges” Exclusion, Integration, and Democracy workshop May 10-12, 2023 | UiT – The Arctic University of Norway |
| ▪ | Yael Peled at "Language and Pain: A Dialogue of Medical and Language-Related Disciplines" May 5-6, 2023 | Bielefeld University |
| ▪ | Akif Tahiiev: “Shia Muslims of Ukraine during the Russian invasion” Expert Workshop 'The War in Ukraine and Its Impact on Ethno-Religious Minorities in the Region' May 4-5, 2023 | European Centre for Minority Issues, Flensburg, Germany |
| ▪ | Akif Tahiiev: “Challenges for Shia Islam in the Post-Soviet Region” Göttinger Orient-Symposium April 26, 2023 | Seminar für Arabistik/Islamwissenschaft, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen |
| ▪ | Eloisa Harris: "The micro-foundations of Welfare Chauvinism on the Left" University of Southern Denmark, Odense April 20-21, 2023 | London, UK |
| ▪ | Margherita Cusmano: "Reinterpreting Places of Migration within the European Asylum System. A Case Study of 'Secondary' Migration" "Departures, arrivals, border-crossings: changing migrations in times of crises", the Midterm Conference of ESA’s Research Network 35 “Sociology of Migration” March 30-31, 2023 | University Federico II, Naples (Italy) |
| ▪ | Steven Vertovec: "The Future of Migration. Issues and Challenges in Post Pandemic Societies" India Office of Max Planck Gesellschaft & University of Göttingen March 29, 2023 | Web-talk |
| ▪ | Yael Peled: “The Other Language Barrier” Canada Research Chair on Epistemic Injustice and Agency, UQAM March 10, 2023 | Online Event |
| ▪ | Karen Schönwälder: "Auf dem Weg zur gleichberechtigten Gestaltung vielfältiger Stadtgesellschaften?" Bremer Armutskonferenz/Schwerpunkt Migrationsgesellschaft March 2, 2023 | Konsul-Hackfeld-Haus, Bremen |
| ▪ | Yuliya Byelikova: “The influence of cultural factors on the re-identification of Ukrainian refugees” "Comparing Recent and Older Refugee Migration in and to Europe – Sociological Perspectives", a joint conference of the Sections Sociology of Europe and Migration and Ethnic Minorities of the German Sociological Association (DGS) March 2-3, 2023 | Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg |
| ▪ | Ulrike Bialas: “Unaccompanied Minors and their Legal Guardians: A Microcosm of Encounters between Refugees and Germans” "Comparing Recent and Older Refugee Migration in and to Europe – Sociological Perspectives", a joint conference of the Sections Sociology of Europe and Migration and Ethnic Minorities of the German Sociological Association (DGS) March 2-3, 2023 | Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg |
| ▪ | Yael Peled: “On the Just Distribution of Linguistic Authority and its Legitimacy Claim” Workshop "Language and Authority" February 15-16, 2023 | University of Augsburg |
| ▪ | Akif Tahiiev: “Women's rights in Iran: theory and practice of Shia Islamic Law” February 6, 2023 | Online Event |
| ▪ | Megha Amrith, Victoria Kumala Sakti and Dora Sampaio at the second workshop of the DFG Network on ‘Migration and im/mobilities in the Global South in Pandemic Times’ January 19, 2023 | University of Bielefeld |
| ▪ | Akif Tahiiev: “Evolution of Ijtihad in Shia Islamic Law” December 27, 2022 | International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) |
| ▪ | Magdalena Suerbaum and Hania Sobhy at "Migrations through Law, Bureaucracy and Kin: Navigating Citizenship in Relations" December 12, 2022 | Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient |
| ▪ | Helena Hof: “Disentangling Whiteness in contemporary East and Southeast Asia: A new analytical approach” Workshop “Researching Whiteness in a Transnational Pandemic Context” December 1, 2022 | University of Amsterdam |
| ▪ | Helena Hof: “Deviant Innovators? Foreign Entrepreneurs in Tokyo’s Startup Ecosystem” VSJF Conference 2022 "Deviance and Norms in Times of Change in Japan" November 19, 2022 | University of Zurich |
| ▪ | Akif Tahiiev: “Shia Translations of the Qur’an into Russian” GloQur workshop "Nation States and the Qur’an:Translators, Narratives and Debates in the Post-Soviet Space" October 15, 2022 | Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg |
| ▪ | Johanna Lukate at “Space, race and identity: An ethnographic study of the Black hair care and beauty landscape and Black women's racial identity constructions in England” SPSS - Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues September 14, 2022 | Online Event |
| ▪ | MPI-MMG @ IRiS 10th anniversary international conference Conference "Looking back to look forward: Celebrating 10 Years of Research onMigration, Forced Displacement and Superdiversity" September 14, 2022 | Institute for Research into Superdiversity, University of Birmingham, UK |
| ▪ | Steven Vertovec at the 25th International Metropolis Conference 2022 September 9, 2022 | Berlin |
| ▪ | Swetlana Torno at Khujand State University, Khujand, Tajikistan September 7, 2022 | Khujand State University |
| ▪ | Helena Hof at “Innovation from Outside, Innovation from within? Foreign Entrepreneurs in Tokyo’s and Singapore’s Knowledge-Intensive Startup Ecosystems” SASE - Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics July 10, 2022 | University of Amsterdam |
| ▪ | MPI-MMG @ IMISCOE conference 2022 "Migration and Time. Temporalities of mobility, governance and resistance" June 29 - July 1, 2022 | Oslo (Hybrid) Participants from our Institute: Megha Amrith • Ulrike Bialas • Sanja Bökle • Eloisa Harris • Victoria Kumala Sakti • Johanna Lukate • Vanessa Rau • Dora Sampaio • Karen Schönwälder |
| ▪ | Peter van der Veer and Tam Ngo at the International Conference "Actions for the Missing. Scientific and Vernacular Forms of War Dead Accounting" NIOD Instituut June 8-9, 2022 | Amsterdam |
| ▪ | Eloisa Harris at "Migration Policy Centre Conference 2022: Continuities and Change in a Migration World" May 23, 2022 | European University Institute, Florence, Italy |
| ▪ | Johanna Lukate at "Beyond the Difference to Integration" May 23, 2022 | Hybrid |
| ▪ | Steven Vertovec at the International Metropolis Webinar: “Climate change and migration: communicating complexity” Metropolis April 28, 2022 | Online Event |
| ▪ | Hania Sobhy is part of the Organizing Committee Authors‘ Workshop "Lived Citizenship and Uprisings in the Middle East: Everyday Politics, Contestation and Transnational Belonging" April 28-29, 2022 | Crowne Plaza Hotel, Beirut & online |
| ▪ | Hania Sobhy: "Reforms for Another Planet: Digitalization and Deskilling in Egypt's New Education System" CIES - Comparative and International Education Society April 21, 2022 | Online Event |
| ▪ | Steven Vertovec is Discussant at the Presidential Panel "Visualizing Super-diversity and "Seeing" Urban Social Complexity" Eastern Sociological Society Conference 2022 “Strategic Sites and Ways for Sociology to Fight Inequality and Injustice” March 11, 2022 | Online Event |
| ▪ | Peter Hennessy, Jane Alison and Farhan Samanani: "Post-war/post-Covid" BBC radio February 28, 2022 | Podcast |
| ▪ | Megha Amrith: "The Ends of Transnational Care: Aspirations of Ageing Migrant Domestic Workers" Universität Bielefeld, Faculty of Sociology January 19, 2022 | Online Event |
| ▪ | Victoria Sakti and Alvaro Martinez: "Ageing (Im)mobilities and Imagination: The story of Avó Marta caring for family across borders" easa - European Association of Social Anthropologists December 1, 2021 | Online Event |
| ▪ | Peter van der Veer: "Rituals and Revolutions" Asia Research Institute (ARI) of National University of Singapore November 23, 2021 | Online Event |
| ▪ | Johanna Lukate moderiert "Schwarze deutsche Geschichte und Literatur" Holtzbrinck Berlin in Kooperation mit der Humboldt Universität zu Berlin November 22, 2021 | Online Event |
| ▪ | Karen Schönwälder im Gespräche mit Naika Foroutan: "Die postmigrantische Gesellschaft" Göttinger Literaturherbst November 1, 2021 | Paulinerkirche Göttingen |
| ▪ | Victoria Kumala Sakti: "Ageing, Displacement, and Transnational Family Care among the East Timorese in Indonesia" Universität Bielefeld, Faculty of Sociology October 27, 2021 | Online Event |
| ▪ | Peter van der Veer at Roundtable Discussion "Mapping Changes in Religion and Globalization across Asia" Asia Research Institute (ARI) of National University of Singapore - Anniversary Roundtable Series October 19, 2021 | Online Event |
| ▪ | Sakura Yamamura: "Tokyo 2020 Unity in Diversity – From a Mega-event Motto to Social Change to (Super-)Diversity?" GIGA German Institute for Global and Area Studies October 7, 2021 | Online Event |
| ▪ | Sakura Yamamura: "Mobile professionals and their families: The making of transnational spaces in Tokyo from a male perspective" DIJ Tokyo - Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien September 7, 2021 | Online Event |
| ▪ | Sakura Yamamura: "Corporate migration industries in the production of transnational spaces in the global city Tokyo" University of Antwerp July 14, 2021 | Online Event |
| ▪ | Steven Vertovec: "Diversity, 'diversity' and the social organization of difference" Keynote Lecture at the University of Tübingen July 7, 2021 | Online Event |
| ▪ | MPI-MMG @ IMISCOE conference 2021 July 7-9, 2021 | Luxembourg (Hybrid) Participants from our Institute: Steven Vertovec (also as a member of the Board of Directors) • Karen Schönwälder • Vanessa Rau • Lucas G. Drouhot • Sanja Bökle • Christine Lang • Nele Wolter • Megha Amrith • Michalis Moutselos • Samuel Schmid • Magdalena Suerbaum • Dora Sampaio • Julia Borowicz • Ludmila Bogdan • Magdalena Ulceluse • Helena Hof |
| ▪ | Michael Stasik: "Emplacing arrivals: West African migrants in Accra’s central bus station" Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz July 1, 2021 | Online Event |
| ▪ | Sakura Yamamura: "Migrant-led diversification in Japan: urban superdiversity in Tokyo 2021?" Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | Japan-Zentrum June 28, 2021 | Online Event |
| ▪ | Karen Schönwälder at Roundtable „Zugehörigkeit als Staatsziel? Ethik und Politik der Integration“ Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster June 22, 2021 | Online Event |
| ▪ | Sakura Yamamura: "Mental mapping: Rediscovering and reframing a geographical method for mobility patterns" Deutsches Institut für Japan-Studien May 26, 2021 | Online Event |