Veranstaltungen der Abteilung für soziokulturelle Vielfalt (in absteigender Reihenfolge)

Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen

6th International ART and the CITY Conference

Workshops, conferences 2024
The International Art and the City Conference was initiated in 2019 and has been hosted in different cities around the world every year. The 6th Conference sponsor is the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (MPI-MMG) Göttingen and it will take place at the Institute’s facilities 03-05 June 2024. [mehr]

Writing Workshop for invited authors of Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies Special Issue "Beyond Classification: Un/Making Categories in the Context of Migration"

Workshops, conferences 2024
The workshop is organised by Ulrike Bialas and Johanna M. Lukate, who are guest editing two special issues on the contestation of legal and social categories in the context of migration. [mehr]

"Encounters with Diversity: How the Local Matters"

Events 2023
This symposium brings together scholars from sociology, anthropology, geography, and critical migration studies around the theme of the “local” as a vantage point to research and theorize issues of migration-related diversity and social interaction. [mehr]

Writing Workshop for invited authors of Ethnic and Racial Studies Special Issue "Contested Categories in the Context of Migration"

Workshops, conferences 2023
Workshop participants (from left to right, bottom to top): Mira Burmeister-Rudolph (bottom left), Ángel A. Escamilla Garcia, Heike Drotbohm, Steven Vertovec, Adrian Favell (middle left), Amanda Cheong, Johanna M Lukate, Ulrike Bialas, Kiya Gezahegne (top left), Carolyn Choi, Gabriela Mezzanotti, Cecilia Menjívar [mehr]

Indigenous Peoples and Religious Modes of Othering: A Comparative History of Religions Perspective

Workshops, conferences 2023
A joint initiative by: Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen · Diversity Studies Centre Oslo (DISCO), Oslo Metropolitan University · Indigenous Values Initiative, Syracuse University Henry Luce Project, American Indian Law Alliance [mehr]

"Scholarship and Activism: Convergences and Contradictions"

Workshops, conferences 2023
Workshop organized by Katharyne Mitchell and Noor Amr [mehr]

"Borders, Money and Migration Trajectories"

HANNAH POHL is a Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies. Her research interests lie at the intersection between economic sociology and critical migration studies with a particular focus on migration trajectories and bordering processes. For her PhD thesis she conducted a multi-sited ethnography on Afghan migration trajectories in Iran, Turkey, Greece, and along the so-called Balkan route. She has been a visiting researcher at COMPAS Oxford University, Columbia University, and the Berlin Centre for Social Science. [mehr]

"Eritreans and Ethiopians in Sudan: Feminist Perspectives on Migration, Gender and Transitions to Adulthood"

Open Lectures Winter 2020
  • Datum: 30.01.2020
  • Uhrzeit: 14:15 - 16:00
  • Vortragende(r): Katarzyna Elzbieta Grabska (Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University in the Hague)
  • KATARZYNA (Kasia) GRABSKA – is a social anthropologist and a senior lecturer at the Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University in the Hague, the Netherlands. Her research focuses on gender, generation, youth, displacement, refuges, return, and identities, access to rights for refugees in urban settings. She has researched on displacement and forced migration issues in Egypt, Kenya, Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kyrgyzstan, and Vietnam. Kasia works with visual media, art-based research, feminist methodologies, and participatory methodologies. Since 2002, she has been carrying out a longitudinal study of gender relation transformations among Nuer from South Sudan in Egypt, Kenya, South Sudan and in Sudan, Khartoum. Her most recent research focuses on adolescent refugee girls’ experiences in Sudan, and on refugees’ involvement in civic change and hosting refugees in Sudan and in Switzerland. She collaborates often with artists in her research, and engages with art-based research to understand issues of belonging, displacement, mobilities and identities. She also is a film-maker. In 2016, in collaboration with a team of researchers and filmmakers, she produced a film based on her collaborative research project Time to look at girls: migrants in Ethiopia and Bangladesh. The long version of the film, 2 Girls, has been shown at over 30 film festivals and awarded 10 first prizes. She is also the writer, producer and co-director of the film Barbara Harrell-Bond: a life not ordinary (2018). She has published extensively on issues of gender relations and displacement. Kasia is the author of Gender, Identity and Home: Nuer repatriation to South Sudan (2014) which received the Armory Talbot Prize in 2015, co-editor of Forced Migration: Why Rights Matter? (2008), and a co-writer of Adolescent Girls’ Migration in the Global South: Transitions into Adulthood (2019).
  • Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Raum: Library Hall
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"Interconnected Mobilities: Social Mobility, Pentecostalism and Marriage in Africa"

Open Lectures Winter 2020
  • Datum: 14.01.2020
  • Uhrzeit: 14:15 - 16:00
  • Vortragende(r): Rijk van Dijk (Leiden University)
  • RIJK VAN DIJK is a Professor in the study of religion in contemporary Africa and its Diaspora at the African Studies Centre, Leiden University. He is the former Editor-in-chief of the Brill-published journal ‘African Diaspora’. He coedited The Quest for Fruition through Ngoma (2000), with R. Reis and M. Spierenburg; The Social Life of Connectivity in Africa (2012), with M. de Bruijn; and Religion and aids Treatment in Africa (2014), with H. Dilger, M. Burchardt, and Th. Rasing. His current research is on Pentecostalism, consumerism, and marriage in Botswana, on which he recently published; “The Tent versus Lobola : Marriage, Monetary Intimacies and the New Face of Responsibility in Botswana”, Anthropology Southern Africa 2017, 40 (1): 29-41.
  • Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Raum: Library Hall
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"Open Lectures Winter 2020"

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"Mass Media Science Communication"

Workshops, conferences 2019
Internal workshop [mehr]

"Quo vadis, migration studies? Towards a migratory epistemology. A critical reflection of the conventional concepts used in migration studies"

  • Datum: 19.11.2019
  • Uhrzeit: 14:15 - 16:00
  • Vortragende(r): Franck Düvell (German Institute for Integration and Migration Research, Berlin)
  • FRANCK DÜVELL, PhD, is head of the migration department at the new German Centre for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM), Berlin (since 2018). Previously, he was associate professor and senior researcher at the Centre for Migration, Policy and Society at the University of Oxford. Franck is an expert on refugee, irregular and transit migration and migration governance, specifically in the EU and its neighbourhood. He has also worked for the International Centre for Migration Policy Development, SEO Amsterdam Economics, the Nicolaas Witsen Foundation, the University of Exeter and University of Bremen and did consultancies for the IOM, OSCE, and World Bank and provided evidence to the EU Council, the Council of Europe, the British parliament, the Turkish Directorate General for Migration Management and many others. He has published 10 books and over 50 peer-reviewed articles.
  • Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Raum: Library Hall
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"Goodbye Tocqueville? Christianity and Democracy in Trump’s America"

  • Datum: 06.11.2019
  • Uhrzeit: 14:00 - 16:00
  • Vortragende(r): Philip Gorski (Yale University · Lichtenberg Kolleg)
  • PHILIP GORSKI is Professor of Sociology and Religious Studies at Yale University and a Senior Fellow at the Lichtenberg Kolleg. He is a historical sociologist focusing on the interplay of religion and politics in early mod-ern and modern Western Europe and North America. He is currently completing a book entitled “American Babylon: Christianity and Democracy Before and After Trump.”
  • Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Raum: Library Hall
Co-organized by the Department of Ethics, Law and Politics and the Department of Socio-Cultural Diversity [mehr]

"INSIDE OUT - OUTSIDE IN. Shifting architectures of refugee inhabitation"

Workshops, conferences 2018
Conference organized by Shahd Wari (MPI-MMG), Somayeh Chitchian (MPI-MMG) and Maja Momic (HCU Hamburg) [mehr]

"Reminiscing through words and things: Asmara as life stories, rumor, proverb, objects and photographs"

African Diversities Colloquium Spring / Summer 2018
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"When states come out: transnational movements and the diffusion of LGBT rights in Europe"

Open Lectures Spring/Summer 2018
  • Datum: 31.05.2018
  • Uhrzeit: 14:15 - 16:00
  • Vortragende(r): Phillip M. Ayoub (Drexel University, Philadelphia)
  • Phillip M. Ayoub is Assistant Professor of Politics at Drexel University. His research bridges insights from international relations and comparative politics, engaging with literature on transnational politics, sexuality and gender, norm diffusion, and the study of social movements. He received the biennial 2013-2014 award for the best dissertation from the European Union Studies Association, as well as the 2014 Kenneth Sherrill Award for the best dissertation in the field of sexuality and politics, and the 2014 award for the best dissertation in the field of human rights from sections of the American Political Science Association. His articles have appeared in Comparative Political Studies, the European Journal of International Relations, Mobilization, the European Political Science Review, the Journal of Human Rights, and Social Movement Studies, among others.
  • Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Raum: Library Hall
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"Eyes of the storm: reflections on sacrifice, alterity and political violence in (de-industrializing) South Africa"

Keynote Lecture
Industrial capitalism did not merely transform the nature of production, Walter Benjamin reminds us; it made waste a source of value. But if the slag-heaps and refuse dumps of industrial production have become the locus of new economic and social forms, they are often also zones of informality and exception, abandonment and precarity—from which the institutions of law and policing have been withdrawn. [mehr]

"Contested understandings of concepts of racial and ethnic discrimination: a critical exploration"

Open Lectures Spring/Summer 2018
  • Datum: 08.03.2018
  • Uhrzeit: 14:15 - 16:00
  • Vortragende(r): John Wrench (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim)
  • John Wrench is Visiting Professor in the Centre for Diversity and Inclusion at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, and Honorary Professor at the Department of Culture and Global Studies’ Aalborg University. Until 2010 he was senior researcher at the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights in Vienna, responsible for European comparative research projects on migration. He has researched and published for many years in the area of ethnic inclusion and discrimination in the labour market, first at the University of Warwick, and later at the University of Southern Denmark. His publications include Diversity Management and Discrimination: Immigrants and Ethnic Minorities in the EU, Ashgate (2007), and Equal Opportunities and Ethnic Inequality in European Labour Markets: Discrimination, gender and policies of diversity, University of Amsterdam Press, (with Karen Kraal and Judith Roosblad), 2009.
  • Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Raum: Library Hall
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"Vanishing frontiers: the blurring of the US-Mexico border"

Open Lectures Spring/Summer 2018
  • Datum: 01.03.2018
  • Uhrzeit: 14:15 - 16:00
  • Vortragende(r): Andrew Selee (Migration Policy Institute)
  • Andrew Selee became President of the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), a think tank focused on migration processes and policies around the world, in August 2017. MPI is headquartered in Washington, DC with offices in Brussels and New York. Previously, he served as the Executive Vice President of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, as the Center’s Vice President, and as the founding Director of the Center’s Mexico Institute. In 2017 he was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship to finish the book Vanishing Frontiers, which will be published by PublicAffairs/Hachette in June 2018. His previous books include What Should Think Tanks Do? A Strategic Guide to Policy Impact (Stanford University Press, 2013), The Politics of Partnership: The United States and Mexico (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2013, edited with Peter H. Smith), Decentralization, Democratization, and Informal Power (Penn State University Press, 2011), Mexico’s Democratic Challenges (Stanford University Press, 2010, edited with Jacqueline Peschard), and Decentralization, Democratic Governance, and Civil Society in Comparative Perspective (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003, edited with Philip Oxhorn and Joseph Tulchin). Selee holds a PhD in Policy Studies from the University of Maryland, and he taught courses from 2006 to 2016 at both Johns Hopkins University and George Washington University.
  • Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Raum: Library Hall
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"Telepathy, empire, and public memory"

Open Lectures Spring/Summer 2018
  • Datum: 15.02.2018
  • Uhrzeit: 14:15 - 16:00
  • Vortragende(r): Pamela E. Klassen (University of Toronto)
  • Pamela Klassen is Professor in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto. She currently holds the Anneliese Maier Research Award from the Humboldt Foundation, in support of a five-year collaborative project entitled “Religion and Public Memory in Multicultural Societies,” undertaken together with Prof. Dr. Monique Scheer of the University of Tübingen. Her writings include: Blessed Events: Religion and Home Birth in America (Princeton UP, 2001) and Spirits of Protestantism: Medicine, Healing, and Liberal Christianity (University of California Press, 2011). She has two books forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press: The Story of Radio Mind: A Missionary’s Journey on Indigenous Land, and Ekklesia: Three Inquiries in Church and State, co-authored with Paul Christopher Johnson and Winnifred Fallers Sullivan.
  • Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Raum: Library Hall
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"Homo itinerans: an essay towards a global ethnography of Afghanistan"

Open Lectures Winter 2017/18
  • Datum: 18.01.2018
  • Uhrzeit: 14:15 - 16:00
  • Vortragende(r): Alessandro Monsutti (Graduate Institute Geneva)
  • Alessandro Monsutti is Head of Anthropology and Sociology at the Graduate Institute Geneva. Trained as a social anthropologist, Alessandro Monsutti became a member of the faculty in 2010, after having taught at the Graduate Institute of Development Studies from 2003 to 2007. He has been Research Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies (1999-2000) and Yale University (2008-2010), Grantee of the MacArthur Foundation (2004-2006), and Visiting Professor at the University of Vienna (2012) and Arizona State University (2014). He is also Research Associate at the Refugee Studies Centre (University of Oxford). In addition, he has worked as a consultant for several international and nongovernmental organisations such as UNHCR. Among his current research interests: the political economy of reconstruction in Afghanistan as an example of emerging forms of sovereignty and global governance; asylum seekers and refugees in Europe; migrants and non-migrants in urban neighbourhoods; the changing nature of borderlands in Europe and South Asia.
  • Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Raum: Library Hall
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"The market model: convergence and variation in immigration regimes worldwide"

Open Lectures Winter 2017/18
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"Cities of refuge and those that refuse: the policy, politics and praxis of local refugee reception in Europe"

Open Lectures Winter 2017/18
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"Migration control and global governance: an emergent international regime?"

Open Lectures Winter 2017/18
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"From migrant integration towards diversity mainstreaming? Between concept and (urban) reality"

Open Lectures Summer 2017
  • Datum: 15.06.2017
  • Uhrzeit: 14:15 - 16:00
  • Vortragende(r): Peter Scholten (Erasmus University Rotterdam & IMISCOE)
  • Peter Scholten is Associate Professor for Public Policy at Erasmus University Rotterdam and director of IMISCOE, Europe’s largest academic research network in the area of international migration, integration and social cohesion. His work focuses on the governance of migration and migration-related diversity, on multi-level governance, and on the interaction between research and policy-making in the area of migration. Peter has published in various international journals and recently published the book ‘Politics of Migration and Immigration in Europe’ together with Andrew Geddes. Also, he is editor in chief of the journal Comparative Migration Studies and member of the editorial board of the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis. For more information, see www.peterscholten.eu
  • Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Raum: Library Hall
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"The 2017 French presidential election: Results and prospects"

Workshops, conferences 2017
For the second time in the history of the French fifth Republic, the Front National is on the second turn of the presidential election. For the first time, both main parties – the Socialist Party with Benoit Hamon and the Republicans with François Fillon – have been beaten. During a long campaign full of twists and turns (both winners of the primaries were underdogs, fake job scandals, etc.), a new leftist force has emerged, embodied by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, and a centrist candidate, Emmanuel Macron, who never got elected before, won it all. [mehr]

"The politics of naming and counting in the refugee crisis"

Open Lectures Spring 2017
  • Datum: 30.03.2017
  • Uhrzeit: 14:15 - 16:00
  • Vortragende(r): Nando Sigona (University of Birmingham)
  • Nando Sigona is Senior Lecturer and Deputy Director of the Institute of Research into Superdiversity at the University of Birmingham. His research interests include: statelessness; Romani politics and anti-Gypsyism; ‘illegality’ and the everyday experiences of undocumented migrant children and young people; governance and governmentality of forced migration in the EU; Mediterranean boat migration; Brexit and intra-European migration; and unaccompanied youth migration. He is author or editor of books and journal’s special issues including The Oxford Handbook on Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (with Fiddian Qasmiyeh, Loescher and Long, 2014), Sans Papiers. The social and economic lives of undocumented migrants (with Bloch and Zetter, 2014) and the forthcoming Within and Beyond Citizenship: Borders, rights and belonging (2017). Nando is a founding editor of the journal Migration Studies.
  • Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Raum: Library Hall
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"Deaf spaces on Mumbai trains. A film by Annelies Kusters

Workshops, conferences 2018
Presentation of film, talk & discussion [mehr]

"Migration out of poverty or flight from collective and individual violence? Biographic self-presentations of migrants andrefugees from and in Africa"

Open Lectures Winter 2016/17
  • Datum: 19.01.2017
  • Uhrzeit: 14:15 - 16:00
  • Vortragende(r): Gabriele Rosenthal (University of Göttingen)
  • Gabriele Rosenthal is Professor for Qualitative Methodology at the Center of Methods in Social Sciences, Georg-August-University of Goettingen, Germany. Major research on the intergenerational impact of the collective and familial history on biographical structures and actional patterns of individuals and family systems. Actual research on migration, ethnicity, collective and armed conflicts and trauma. Teaching qualitative methods, biographical research, family sociology and general sociology. She is the author and editor of numerous books, including The Holocaust in Three Generations (2009), Ethnicity, Belonging and Biography (2009; together with Artur Bogner) and Belonging to Outsiders and Established at the same Time. Self-Images and We-Images of Palestinians in the West Bank and in Israel (in press).
  • Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Raum: Library Hall
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"Registers and Racialization in South Africa"

InCoLaS Workshop "Language and inequality in the age of superdiversity" : Keynote Lecture
James Collins is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University at Albany/SUNY. An anthropologist and linguist by training, his work often combines fine-grained analysis of linguistic practices with ethnographic research engaging theoretical debates about power, identity and inequality. He has done fieldwork in Native American communities in Northern California, and in urban schools and communities in the West, Midwest, and Northeast of the U.S. [mehr]

"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
  • Datum: 08.12.2016
  • Uhrzeit: 14:15 - 16:00
  • Vortragende(r): 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.
  • Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Raum: Library Hall
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"Diversity of asylum seekers' needs and aspirations"

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

"Church networks, sanctuary, and migrant activism in Europe: preliminary ideas and findings"

Open Lectures Winter 2016/17
  • Datum: 17.11.2016
  • Uhrzeit: 14:15 - 16:00
  • Vortragende(r): Katharyne Mitchell (University of Washington, Seattle)
  • Katharyne Mitchell is Professor of Geography at the University of Washington. She is the author of Crossing the Neoliberal Line: Pacific Rim Migration and the Metropolis, and editor of Practising Public Scholarship: Experiences and Possibilities Beyond the Academy. Mitchell’s current research, on migration and the spaces of sanctuary in Europe, is made possible by fellowships from the Brocher Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation.
  • Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Raum: Library Hall
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"Volunteering for refugees in Germany. Between social movement and charity"

Open Lectures Winter 2016/17
  • Datum: 01.11.2016
  • Uhrzeit: 14:15 - 16:00
  • Vortragende(r): Serhat Karakayali (Humboldt University, Berlin)
  • Serhat Karakayali is Researcher at the Berlin Institute for Migration Research, Humboldt University. Before that he was Assistant Professor at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Halle, where he taught sociological theory. He completed his dissertation on the history of illegal immigration in Germany as a scholarship holder of the Heinrich-Böll Foundation. In the past few years his research has focussed on different forms of solidarity with migrants and refugees.
  • Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Raum: Library Hall
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"Segregation and Diversity as Multiscalar Phenomena. Why we need multiscale measures to understand neighborhoods and neighborhood effects"

Open Lectures Spring 2016
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"New Information and Communication Technologies and ‘New’ Stratifications of Society: Evidence from Chad, Mali and Cameroon"

Open Lectures Spring 2016
  • Datum: 26.05.2016
  • Uhrzeit: 14:00 - 16:00
  • Vortragende: Mirjam de Bruijn (University of Leiden)
  • Mirjam de Bruijn is professor in African Studies at Leiden University. She is a researcher at the African studies centre. Her recent research delves into the various ways we can understand new ICTs (mobile telephony, social media) in mobile and urban societies in Africa. Her research is historical-anthropological and has a firm valorization component.
  • Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Raum: Library Hall
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"Turning Points and Action Strategies of Young Adults with Migration Backgrounds in Germany and France"

Open Lectures Spring 2016
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"Unravelling urban rhythms in the migrant experience: Polish migrants in Munich and Berlin"

Open Lectures Spring 2016
  • Datum: 14.04.2016
  • Uhrzeit: 14:00 - 16:00
  • Vortragende: Magda Nowicka / Agata Lisiak (HU Berlin)
  • Magdalena Nowicka is professor of migration and transnationalism at the Institute of Social Sciences and member in the Berlin Institute for Integration and Migration Research (BIM), both at the Humboldt University. Her current project is “Transforming Migration. Transnational Transfer of Multicultural Habitus” (www.transformig.hu-berlin.de). Her publications include The Ashgate Research Companion to Cosmopolitanism (edited with Maria Rovisco, Ashgate 2011) and numerous articles and book chapters on conviviality, cosmopolitanism and migrant transnationalism. Agata Lisiak is postdoctoral researcher at Humboldt University’s Institute of Social Sciences and lecturer at Bard College Berlin. She is the author of Urban Cultures in (Post)Colonial Central Europe (Purdue University Press 2010), as well as articles and book chapters on media representations of the city, cultural memory, gender and migration, and everyday life in the city. Her current research project is entitled “Immigrant Mothers as Agents of Change”.
  • Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Raum: Library Hall
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"Transnationalism, Gender, Evangelism and Power in African Initiated Churches in Nigeria and its Diaspora"

Open Lectures Spring 2016
  • Datum: 03.03.2016
  • Uhrzeit: 14:00 - 16:00
  • Vortragende: Mojúbàolú Olufúnké Okome (City University of New York)
  • Mojúbàolú Olufúnké Okome is Professor of Political Science, Brooklyn College, The City University of New York, United States. Her research interests include: Diaspora studies and contemporary African immigration; globalization and gender relations with a focus on Africa within the world economy; gender, politics and governance; Sub-Saharan African political economy, democratization and economic liberalization.
  • Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Raum: Library Hall
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"Between the Kingdom and the Desert Sun: Human Rights, Immigration, and Border Walls"

Joint Seminar Series 2015/16 "Diversity and Human Rights" & Special Lecture Series "Borders, Migrants and Refugees"
  • Datum: 20.01.2016
  • Uhrzeit: 14:00 - 16:00
  • Vortragende: Moria Paz (Stanford)
  • Moria Paz is a legal scholar focusing on the intersection of minorities, immigrants, international law, and human rights. She is currently working on two books, Network or State? International Law and The History of Jewish Self-Determination (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2016) and The Law of Strangers – Critical Perspectives on Jewish Lawyering and International Legal Thought (co-edited with James Loeffler) (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2016). In 2015, her paper, Between the Kingdom and the Desert Sun: Human Rights, Immigration and Border Walls was selected as one of the best works of recent scholarship relating to immigration law in a review published by Jotwell. In 2014, her paper, the Tower of Babel: Human Rights and the Paradox of Language won the Law & Humanities Interdisciplinary Writing Competition and was selected by European Journal of International Law for its New Voices selection for 2014. In 2013, her paper The Failed Promise of Language Rights, was recognized in the New Voices Panel of the American Association of International Law (ASIL) and was selected for the Junior Faculty Forum for International Law. She also won the Laylin Prize for most outstanding paper in international law awarded by Harvard Law School (2007). Her papers have appeared in multiple journals, including Harvard International Law Journal, European Journal of International Law, and the American Society of International Law. Moria Paz is a Fellow at Stanford Law School. She received her S.J.D. doctoral degree from Harvard Law School. While at Harvard, she was awarded a number of fellowships, including at the Hauser Center for Non-Profit Organizations, The European Law Research Center, and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Before Harvard, she attended The School of Oriental and African Studies at The University of London (England) and Beijing Normal University (China).
  • Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Raum: Library Hall
Co-Sponsored by the Special Lecture Series: Borders, Migrants, and Refugees [mehr]

"The Refugee’s Trauma. Reflections on North- and South Vietnamese in East- and West Germany"

Special Lecture Series "Borders, Migrants and Refugees"
  • Datum: 09.12.2015
  • Uhrzeit: 14:00 - 16:00
  • Vortragende: Tam Ngo and Peter van der Veer (MPI-MMG)
  • Peter van der Veer is Director at the Max Planck Institute. His book on The Value of Comparison will be published by Duke University Press in 2016. Tam Ngo is a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute. Her book on the Hmong in Vietnam and the US will be published by the University of Washington Press in 2016. Together they work on a project on the Vietnamese in Germany.
  • Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Raum: Library Hall
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"Unaccompanied Minor Refugees: Principles and Practices of their Reception in Germany and the EU"

Special Lecture Series "Borders, Migrants and Refugees"
  • Datum: 26.11.2015
  • Uhrzeit: 14:00 - 16:00
  • Vortragender: Boris Nieswand (Tübingen)
  • Boris Nieswand is Junior Professor for Transnational Cultural Comparison and Migration at Tübingen University. He obtained a PhD in social anthropology from Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in 2008 and a diploma in sociology from the University of Bielefeld in 2000. Boris Nieswand was a visiting professor at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder, a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen and a PhD-candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle.
  • Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Raum: Library Hall
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"Law, Ethics and Politics of the European Agenda on Migration"

Joint Seminar Series 2015/16 "Diversity and Human Rights" & Special Lecture Series "Borders, Migrants and Refugees"
  • Datum: 18.11.2015
  • Uhrzeit: 14:00 - 16:00
  • Vortragender: Itamar Mann (Georgetown)
  • Itamar Mann is the national security law fellow at Georgetown Law Center. He studies international law and political theory, with special interests in migration and refugee law, transnational counter-terrorism law, and international criminal law. His book, Humanity at Sea: Unuthorized Migration and the Foundations of International Law is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press (2016). He is a graduate of Tel Aviv University (L.L.B.) and Yale Law School (L.L.M. and J.S.D.)
  • Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Raum: Library Hall
Co-Sponsored by the Special Lecture Series: Borders, Migrants, and Refugees [mehr]

"Multi-level governance of an intractable policy problem: migrants with irregular status in European cities"

Open Lectures Spring 2015
  • Datum: 16.07.2015
  • Uhrzeit: 14:15 - 16:00
  • Vortragende: Sarah Spencer (COMPAS, University of Oxford)
  • Sarah Spencer is Director of the Global Exchange on Migration (https://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/globalexchange/) and Diversity at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) at the University of Oxford. Her research interests are in irregular migrants, integration, human rights and equality issues, and in the policy making process. She was an Open Society Fellow (2012-2014) exploring issues relating to irregular migrants in Europe, on which her presentation will draw. Her publications can be seen at compas (https://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/people/staff/sarah-spencer/publications/). Sarah was awarded her doctorate at Erasmus University Rotterdam, has an MPhil from University College London and took her first degree in Sociology at the University of Nottingham. She is a former Deputy Chair of the Commission for Racial Equality in Britain, Chair of the network of civil society equality organisations, the Equality and Diversity Forum, and Director of Liberty.
  • Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Raum: Library Hall
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"The human becomes a vicious circle: objects of belief, displaced units of responsibility, and the tensions of diversity in homicide regulations in Sudan"

Open Lectures Spring 2015
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"The quest for respect and equality: responses to stigmatization and discrimination in the US, Brazil and Israel"

Open Lectures Spring 2015
[mehr]

"Migration und Macht. Soziologische Theorien und empirische Befunde zu Machtbeziehungen in Einwanderungsländern"

Workshops, conferences 2015
Frühjahrstagung der DGS-Sektion „Migration und ethnische Minderheiten“ gemeinsam mit dem Soziologischen Forschungsinstitut Göttingen (SOFI) und dem Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung multireligiöser und multiethnischer Gesellschaften (MPI MMG) ▪ Organisation: Prof. Dr. Annette Treibel (Pädagogische Hochschule Karlsruhe) und Dr. Janina Söhn (SOFI Göttingen) für den Sektionsvorstand [mehr]

"Framing Muslims in France today: the impact of institutions on perceptions and boundaries"

Open Lectures Spring 2015
[mehr]

"The Radical Ambiguities of Diversity Politics in a Global City: Lessons from London"

Open Lectures Spring 2015
[mehr]

"Pathways to Success. The Second Generation in Germany, France, Sweden and the Netherlands"

Open Lectures Autumn 2014
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"The urban roots of immigrant rights movements - Los Angeles, Amsterdam, Paris"

Open Lectures Autumn 2014
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"Resentment, Repression, and Refuge. A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Ethno-Political Conflict"

Open Lectures Autumn 2014
  • Datum: 30.10.2014
  • Uhrzeit: 14:00 - 15:30
  • Vortragender: Stefan Lindemann (Frankfurt)
  • Stefan Lindemann is currently Sector Economist for Peace and Security at KfW Development Bank and an Associate Research Fellow at the GIGA Institute of African Affairs. He was previously a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity and an Associate Lecturer at the Department of Political Science of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. He holds a PhD in Development Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and a German-French Double Master in Political Science from the Freie Universität Berlin and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (IEP). Stefan is interested in a broad range of peace and security related issues, with a particular focus on ethnic armed conflict. His work has been published in journals such as African Affairs, Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, Third World Quarterly, Conflict, Security & Development, and Global Environmental Politics, among others.
  • Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Raum: Library Hall
[mehr]

"Lived diversity in Bradford and Duisburg"

Open Lectures Summer 2014
[mehr]

"Super-diverse street: a ‘trans-ethnogarphy’ across migrant localities"

Open Lectures Summer 2014
  • Datum: 19.06.2014
  • Uhrzeit: 14:15 - 16:00
  • Vortragende: Suzanne Hall (University of London / LSE)
  • Suzanne Hall is an urban ethnographer, and has practised as an architect in South Africa. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Researcher at LSE Cities, London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research and teaching interests are foregrounded in local formations of global urbanisation, particularly, urban migration and migrant mico-economies, urban multiculture and civility, ethnography and visual methods. She currently leads a research project on ‘Ordinary Streets’, focusing on migrant economies and urban space.
  • Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Raum: Library Hall
[mehr]

"Towards the Ethnography of Super-Diversity"

Workshops, conferences 2014
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"Should the State Grant Exemptions from Noise Laws: Balancing Religious Freedom against the Human Right to Quiet"

Open Lectures Summer 2014
  • Datum: 21.05.2014
  • Uhrzeit: 14:15 - 16:00
  • Vortragende: Alison Dundes Renteln (University of Southern California)
  • Alison Dundes Renteln is Professor of Political Science at the University of Southern California where she teaches Law and Public Policy with an emphasis on international law and human rights. She holds joint appointments in Anthropology, the Price School of Public Policy, and the Gould School of Law. A graduate of Harvard (History and Literature), she has a Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from the University of California, Berkeley and a J.D. from the USC Gould School of Law. She has served as Director of the Jesse Unruh Institute of Politics, Vice-Chair, and Chair of the Department of Political Science. In 2005 she received the USC Associates Award for Excellence in Teaching (campus-wide). In Fall 2013 was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University where she conducted research on incentives for civic engagement including the legal duty to rescue. In Spring 2014 she will be a Human Rights Fellow at the School of Advanced Study at the University of London.
  • Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Raum: Library Hall
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"The everyday integration of migrants in Africa"

Open Lectures Winter 2013/14
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"Television bigots and transitional audiences in the sixties cultural revolution"

Open Lectures Winter 2013/14
  • Datum: 19.12.2013
  • Uhrzeit: 14:15 - 16:00
  • Vortragende: 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.
  • Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Raum: Library Hall
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"Migration and the city commons"

Open Lectures Winter 2013/14
  • Datum: 28.11.2013
  • Uhrzeit: 14:15 - 16:00
  • Vortragender: 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’.
  • Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Raum: Library Hall
[mehr]

"Difference rules. Governing ethnically diverse populations in the British and the Habsburg empires"

Open Lectures Winter 2013/14
[mehr]

"Contested Citizenships: The racialization of belongings in France"

Public Lectures Spring/Summer 2013
[mehr]

"Ways of Belonging and Expressing Critique in the European Immigration Society"

Public Lectures Spring/Summer 2013
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"Politics of Historical Fiction and Sectarian Conflict in Egypt: Debates around Azazeel"

Public Lectures Spring/Summer 2013
  • Datum: 25.04.2013
  • Uhrzeit: 14:00 - 15:30
  • Vortragende: Saba Mahmood (University of California, Berkeley / presently American Academy in Berlin)
  • Saba Mahmood is an associate professor of social cultural anthro­pology at the University of California Berkeley. She was awarded the 2013 Axel Springer Berlin Prize Fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin. Saba Mahmood’s research interests lie in exploring historically specific articulations of secular modernity in postcolonial societies, with particular attention to issues of subject formation, religio­sity, embodiment, and gender. Currently she is examining secular-liberal interpretations of Islam in the context of the Middle East and South Asia.
  • Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Raum: Library Hall
[mehr]

"Rising Nativism and Changing Racism: A New Form of American Exclusion"

Public Lectures Spring/Summer 2013
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"De-Naturalizing Transit Migration - Theory and Methods of an Ethnographic Regime Analysis"

Institute Colloquium Winter 2012/13
[mehr]

"Multiculturalism: a Problem Now, or Still a Solution?"

Institute Colloquium Winter 2012/13
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"From Urban Marginality to Marginal Urbanity"

Institute Colloquium Winter 2012/13
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"Why Canada’s Conservative Party Supports Multiculturalism: How Political Incentives Can Drive Ideological Innovation"

Institute Colloquium Winter 2012/13
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"Transnational Daoist Dis-Orientations and the Predicament of Modern Spirituality"

Institute Colloquium Winter 2012/13
  • Datum: 01.11.2012
  • Uhrzeit: 14:00 - 15:30
  • Vortragender: David A. Palmer (University of Hong Kong)
  • Dr. David A. Palmer is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Hong Kong University. Before joining the HKU in 2008, he held appointments as the Eileen Barker Fellow in Religion and Contemporary Society at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and as a research fellow at the Ecole Française d‘Extrême-Orient (French School of Asian Studies), where he was the director of its Hong Kong centre, located at the Institute of Chinese Studies of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, from 2004 to 2008.
  • Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Raum: Library Hall
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"Refashioning the Self through New Therapeutics in Urban China"

Institute Colloquium Winter 2012/13
  • Datum: 11.10.2012
  • Uhrzeit: 14:00 - 15:30
  • Vortragende: Li Zhang (University of California, Davis)
  • Prof. Dr. Li Zhang received her doctoral degree in anthropology from Cornell University in 1998 and a M.A. degree in social relations from UC Irvine in 1993. Before coming to the U.S., she studied Chinese literature and literary theory at Peking University and received her B.A. and first M.A. there. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University (1998-1999).
  • Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Raum: Library Hall
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"Super-Diversity: Comparative Questions"

Workshops, conferences 2012
The notion of super-diversity underlines a call to re-evaluate concepts and policies surrounding diversity by way of moving beyond an ethno-focal understanding of diversity and adopting a multi-dimensional approach. In this two day workshop, participants will explore how this notion has been operationalised in empirical research on urban areas around the world. [mehr]

"How Empires Handle Ethnic Diversity"

Institute Colloquium Series "Regulations of Cultural Diversity" Spring/Summer 2012
  • Datum: 12.07.2012
  • Uhrzeit: 14:15 - 15:45
  • Vortragender: Günther Schlee (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Halle/Saale)
  • Günther Schlee was until 1999 Professor of Social Anthro­pology at the University of Bielefeld, having studied anthropology, romance languages and general linguistics in Hamburg. He received his doctorate for research on the belief and social systems of the Rendille, an ethnic group in northern Kenya. Alongside widespread fieldwork trips in Kenya, Ethiopia and Sudan, he was also guest lecturer in Padang (Sumatra) and at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales in Paris. Typical of the research of Günther Schlee is the “inter-ethnic” procedure and the combining of historical, sociological and philological methods. One of his manifold publications is Changing identifications and alliances in North Eastern Africa (co-editor: Elizabeth E. Watson.), Volume I: Ethiopia and Kenya, Volume II: Sudan, Uganda, and the Ethiopia-Sudan Borderlands. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2009.
  • Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Raum: Library Hall
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"Secularism and Religious Pluralism in Europe: Current Legal Challenges"

Institute Colloquium Series "Regulations of Cultural Diversity" Spring/Summer 2012
  • Datum: 05.07.2012
  • Uhrzeit: 14:15 - 15:45
  • Vortragende: Marie-Claire Foblets (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Halle/Saale)
  • Marie-Claire Foblets is Director of the Department “Law & Anthropology” at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle a/d Saale. She was trained in law at the universities of Antwerp (1977-1979) and Leuven (1979-1982) in Belgium, while at the same time receiving an education in Thomist philosophy. Thanks to a study fellowship (1982-1983), she was given the opportunity to pursue further study in philosophy at the Wilhelms-Universität of Münster, in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, and to complete her studies in social and cultural anthro­pology (1985). For more than twenty years Marie-Claire Foblets taught social and cultural anthropology in the universities of Antwerp and Brussels. Before becoming a member of the Max Planck Society in March 2012, she was ordinary professor at the Catholic University of Leuven, where she headed the Institute for Migration Law and Legal Anthropology. Among her manifold publications is the edited volume with A.D. Renteln and J.-F. Gaudreault-DesBiens, Cultural Diversity and the Law. State Responses from Around the World, Brussels/Montréal, Bruylant/Blois (2010).
  • Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Raum: Library Hall
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"Secularism and Religion-Making: The Case of Turkey"

Institute Colloquium Series "Regulations of Cultural Diversity" Spring/Summer 2012
  • Datum: 28.06.2012
  • Uhrzeit: 14:15 - 15:45
  • Vortragender: Markus Dressler (Istanbul Technical University)
  • Markus Dressler is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Department for Social Sciences and Humanities, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Istanbul Technical University. Dressler holds a PhD in Religious Studies from the University of Erfurt and has received numerous fellowships and research grants, including at Columbia University, the American Research Institute in Turkey, and the Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin.
  • Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Raum: Library Hall
[mehr]

"Rights Make Might: Global Human Rights and Minority Social Movements in Japan"

Institute Colloquium Series "Regulations of Cultural Diversity" Spring/Summer 2012
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"Language, Religion, and the Political Accommodation of Cultural Heterogeneity"

Institute Colloquium Series "Regulations of Cultural Diversity" Spring/Summer 2012
  • Datum: 07.06.2012
  • Uhrzeit: 14:15 - 15:45
  • Vortragender: Rogers Brubaker (University of California, Los Angeles)
  • Rogers Brubaker is Professor of Sociology and UCLA Foundation Chair at the University of California, Los Angeles. Brubaker has written widely on social theory, immigration, citizenship, nationalism, and ethnicity. His first book explored the idea of rationality in the work of Max Weber, while his essays on Pierre Bourdieu helped introduce Bourdieu to an English-speaking audience. His next two books analyzed European nationalism in historical and comparative perspective. Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany (1992) sought to explain the sharply differing ways in which citizenship has been defined vis-à-vis immigrants in France and Germany and helped establish what has since become a flourishing field of citizenship studies; Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe (1996) compared contemporary East European nationalisms with those of the interwar period, both emerging after the breakup of multi­national states into would-be nation-states. Subsequently, in a series of analytical essays, many of them collected in Ethnicity without Groups (2004), Brubaker has critically engaged prevailing analytical stances in the study of ethnicity, race, and nationalism and sought to develop alternative analytical resources. These informed his collaborative book Natio­na­list Politics and Everyday Ethnicity in a Transylvanian Town (2006), which examined the everyday workings of ethnicity in a setting of highly charged ethnonational conflict.
  • Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Raum: Library Hall
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"Religion, space and diversity - negotiating the religious in the public sphere"

Workshops, conferences 2012
7th International Colloquium on the Changing Religious Landscape in Europe [mehr]

"Framing Immigration. Varieties of Arguments, Actors and Opportunity Structures"

Institute Colloquium Series "Regulations of Cultural Diversity" Spring/Summer 2012
  • Datum: 24.05.2012
  • Uhrzeit: 14:15 - 15:45
  • Vortragender: Marc Helbling (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin)
  • Marc Helbling is head of the Emmy-Noether research group ‘Immigration Policies in Comparison’ (IMPIC) at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB). From 2009 to 2011 he was a senior researcher in the research unit ‘Migration, Integration, Transnationalization’ at the same institution. He holds a PhD in political science from the University of Zurich (2007).
  • Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Raum: Library Hall
[mehr]

"The Secularist Appeal of Constitutional Law and Courts: A Comparative Account"

Institute Colloquium Series "Regulations of Cultural Diversity" Spring/Summer 2012
  • Datum: 10.05.2012
  • Uhrzeit: 14:15 - 15:45
  • Vortragender: Ran Hirschl (University of Toronto)
  • Ran Hirschl is Professor of Political Science and Law, and holds a senior Canada Research Chair in Constitutionalism, Democracy & Development. He completed his B.A., LL.B., and M.A. at Tel-Aviv University, and received his M.Phil and Ph.D. from Yale University. His primary areas of interest are comparative constitutional law, constitutional and judicial politics, and comparative legal traditions and institutions more generally.
  • Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Raum: Library Hall
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"Multiple Secularities: A Cultural Sociological Approach"

Institute Colloquium Series "Regulations of Cultural Diversity" Spring/Summer 2012
  • Datum: 03.05.2012
  • Uhrzeit: 14:15 - 15:45
  • Vortragende: Monika Wohlrab-Sahr (University of Leipzig)
  • Monika WOHLRAB-SAHR is Professor of Cultural Socio­logy at the University of Leipzig (since 2006). From 1999 to 2006 she was Professor of Sociology of Religion at the same university. She did her habilitation on “Conversion to Islam in Germany and the United States” at the Free University of Berlin in 1998, where she worked as an assistant professor from 1992 to 1999. In 1996 she was a visiting scholar at the University of Berkeley, California. In 2007/8 she was Fernand Braudel Fellow at the European University Insti­tute in Florence, Italy.
  • Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Raum: Library Hall
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"Differential Protection of the Right to Equal Treatment for Religious and Ethnic Minorities: International Legal Perspectives"

Institute Colloquium Series "Regulations of Cultural Diversity" Spring/Summer 2012
  • Datum: 26.04.2012
  • Uhrzeit: 14:15 - 15:45
  • Vortragende: Kristin Henrard (Erasmus University of Rotterdam)
  • Professor Kristin Henrard is professor minority protection at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam (EUR) as well as associate professor constitutional law. Kristin Henrard teaches human rights, comparative human rights, mino­rity protection, constitutional law, introduction to public law and law pertaining to immigration (including refugee law). Her main publications pertain to the areas of human rights and minority protection. She is the founder of the Minority Research Network, which she also coordinates. The Minority Research Network encompasses currently more than 115 academics working on minority protection themes from different regions of the world as well as from a broad variety of disciplines.
  • Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Raum: Library Hall
[mehr]

"Religion and Culture: the Growing Gap"

Institute Colloquium Series "Intersections of Religion and Ethnicity" Winter 2011/12
[mehr]

"Chinese Buddhism as Social Force: Thirty Years of Revival"

Institute Colloquium Series "Intersections of Religion and Ethnicity" Winter 2011/12
  • Datum: 26.01.2012
  • Uhrzeit: 14:00 - 15:30
  • Vortragender: Ji Zhe (CNRS, Paris)
  • Dr. Ji Zhe is a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités (GSRL) at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Paris. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris) in 2007.
  • Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Raum: Library Hall
[mehr]

"Beyond the Domestication of Islam in Europe"

Institute Colloquium Series "Intersections of Religion and Ethnicity" Winter 2011/12
[mehr]

"Transcending Religious and Ethnic Differences: Practical Rationalities of Healing in Western India"

Institute Colloquium Series "Intersections of Religion and Ethnicity" Winter 2011/12
[mehr]

"Religion and Ethnicity in the Social Structure of the Caribbean"

Institute Colloquium Series "Intersections of Religion and Ethnicity" Winter 2011/12
  • Datum: 08.12.2011
  • Uhrzeit: 14:00 - 15:30
  • Vortragender: Colin Clarke (University of Oxford)
  • Professor Colin Clarke is an Emeritus Professor at Oxford University and an Emeritus Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford. He has taught at the Universities of Toronto and Liverpool, where he was, until 1981, Reader in Geography and Latin American Studies. He has carried out numerous field investigations in Mexico and the Caribbean and published 12 books and more than 100 research papers and chapters.
  • Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Raum: Library Hall
[mehr]

"Multiple Belonging and the Challenges of Biographical Navigation"

Institute Colloquium Series "Intersections of Religion and Ethnicity" Winter 2011/12
[mehr]

"Turkey, the Islamic Peril, and Cultural Politics of European Union Membership"

Institute Colloquium Series "Intersections of Religion and Ethnicity" Winter 2011/12
[mehr]

"Interethnic contact in urban spaces: investigating Austrian and German neighborhoods"

Workshops, conferences 2011
A joint workshop of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (MPI-MMG) and the Institute for Urban and Regional Research (ISR) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. [mehr]

"Universalist Faiths and Particularist Identities: Islam, Socialism and Minzu in Eastern Xinjiang"

Institute Colloquium Series "Intersections of Religion and Ethnicity" Winter 2011/12
[mehr]

"Civic stratification and the cosmopolitan ideal: the case of asylum and welfare in Britain"

Institute Colloquium Series "Difference and (In)Equalities" Spring/Summer 2011
[mehr]

"Ethnologie der Migration im deutschsprachigen Raum"

Workshops, conferences 2011
Workshop organized by Boris Nieswand (MPI-MMG). [mehr]

"Institutionalising Intersectionality? Reflections on the British Experience"

Institute Colloquium Series "Difference and (In)Equalities" Spring/Summer 2011
[mehr]

"Comparing Conviviality. Dreams and Realities of Living-with-Difference"

Workshops, conferences 2011
[mehr]

"Liberal democracies and the challenge of accommodating diversity – a transatlantic perspective"

Institute Colloquium Series "Difference and (In)Equalities" Spring/Summer 2011
[mehr]

"Horizontal inequalities and conflict: Understanding group violence in multiethnic societies"

Institute Colloquium Series "Difference and (In)Equalities" Spring/Summer 2011
[mehr]

"Families, intergenerational transmission, transnational links: Interactions between Turkey and Germany"

Institute Colloquium Series "Difference and (In)Equalities" Spring/Summer 2011
[mehr]

"Does the EU help to promote diversity? The anti-discrimination directives and their implementation"

Institute Colloquium Series "Difference and (In)Equalities" Spring/Summer 2011
[mehr]

"From state socialism to state Zionism: Former Soviet Jewish immigrants in the ethno-national mosaic of Israel"

Institute Colloquium Series "Difference and (In)Equalities" Spring/Summer 2011
[mehr]

"Contextualizing inequalities. A critique of methodological nationalism in research on social inequality"

Institute Colloquium Series "Difference and (In)Equalities" Spring/Summer 2011
[mehr]

"Diversity and Contact. Interactions between Migrants and non-Migrants in Cities"

Workshops, conferences 2011
[mehr]

"Intergroup contact and the reduction of prejudice: From ‘hypothesis’ to ‘integrated theory’"

Institute Colloquium Series "Difference and (In)Equalities" Spring/Summer 2011
  • Datum: 27.04.2011
  • Uhrzeit: 17:00 - 18:30
  • Vortragender: Miles Hewstone (Oxford)
  • Professor Miles Hewstone is Professor of Social Psychology and Fellow of New College, University of Oxford. He has previously held chairs in social psychology at the universities of Bristol, U.K., Mannheim, Germany, Cardiff, U.K. His current work centres on the reduction of intergroup conflict, via intergroup contact, stereotype change and crossed categorization. At MPI-MMG Prof. Hewstone is wor­king closely with the Department of Socio-Cultural Diversity on several pro­jects, including ‘Ethno-religious Dive rsity and Social Trust’, ‘Super-diversity in South Africa’ and ‘Diversity and Contact (DivCon)’.
  • Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Raum: Library Hall
[mehr]

"Medical diversity and its spaces"

Workshops, conferences 2011
Conference organized by Gabi Alex, Kristine Krause and David Parkin. Discussants: Henrike Donner and Michi Knecht. [mehr]

"Markets and diversity: cross cultural perspectives"

Workshops, conferences 2011
Workshop organized by Gertrud Hüwelmeier (Humboldt University Berlin) and Steven Vertovec (MPI-MMG). [mehr]

"Super-diversity, Wellbeing and Access to Healthcare - Developing a Research Agenda"

Workshops, conferences 2011
Workshop organized by the International Research Group on Superdiversity and Health (Max Planck Institute, Göttingen, Medical Diversity Programme). [mehr]

"Deutsche Migrations‐ und Integrationspolitik im europäischen Vergleich"

Workshops, conferences 2011
Veranstalter: Arbeitskreis 'Migrationspolitik' in der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft (DVPW) in Kooperation mit dem Max‐Planck‐Institut zur Erforschung multireligiöser und multiethnischer Gesellschaften in Göttingen [mehr]

" 'Moving bodies – transforming values' – Socio-cultural and ethical issues of transnational biomedicine"

Workshops, conferences 2010
Workshop organised by Silke Schicktanz (University of Göttingen) & Tulsi Patel (Delhi University) in co-operation with the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (Göttingen). [mehr]

"Conceiving and researching multi-ethnic urban spaces"

Workshops, conferences 2010
Workshop with Ash Amin (Durham) and Talja Blokland (Humboldt University, Berlin). [mehr]

"Cities and the Ethic of Care Among Strangers"

Institute Colloquium Winter 2010/11
[mehr]

"No Longer at Ease: East German Home Comings in Urban Context"

Institute Colloquium Winter 2010/11
[mehr]

"Global Migration, Diversification and Cities"

Institute Colloquium Winter 2010/11
  • Datum: 03.11.2010
  • Uhrzeit: 14:00 - 16:00
  • Vortragender: Steven Vertovec (MPI-MMG)
  • Steven Vertovec is Director of the Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diver­sity, Göttingen and Honorary Joint Professor of Sociology and Ethnology, University of Göttingen. Previously he was Professor of Transnational Anthropology at the University of Oxford and Director of the British Economic and Social Research Council’s Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS).
  • Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Raum: Library Hall
[mehr]

"Sacred Frontiers: The Reinvention of Everyday Life in Jerusalem’s Old City"

Institute Colloquium Winter 2010/11
  • Datum: 27.10.2010
  • Uhrzeit: 14:00 - 16:00
  • Vortragende: Wendy Pullan (University of Cambridge)
  • Wendy Pullan teaches architecture and urbanism at the University of Cambridge. She is Principal Investigator for ‚Conflict in Cities and the Contested State, an international and multidisciplinary research project funded by the ESRC‘s Large Grants Programme. In 2006, she received the Royal Institute of British Architects‘ inaugural President‘s Award for University Led Research for work on Conflict in Cities. Dr Pullan has published widely on Mediterranean and Middle Eastern architecture and cities, especially Jerusalem, and has advised on issues to do with urban uncertainty, change and security. She is a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge.
  • Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Raum: Library Hall
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"The (Un)Making of Policy in the Shadow of the World Bank: Mumbai Urban Transport Project, Infrastructure Development and Urban Resettlement"

Institute Colloquium Winter 2010/11
[mehr]

"Public Affect Effects: Enacting in/Civilities in Public Space"

Institute Colloquium Winter 2010/11
[mehr]

"Neoliberal Urban Forms and Comparisons: Chicago, Budapest and Planned Housing Developments"

Institute Colloquium Winter 2010/11
[mehr]

"The City as Stage: Speculative Violence and the Violence of Speculation"

Institute Colloquium Winter 2010/11
  • Datum: 29.09.2010
  • Uhrzeit: 14:00 - 16:00
  • Vortragende: Vyjayanthi Rao (The New School for Social Research, New York)
  • Vyjayanthi Rao is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the New School for social Research, New York. She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Chicago and was a Post-Doctoral Associate at Yale University prior to joining The New School. Her Research Interests include: Anthropology and Ethnography of South Asia; Urban Culture, Architecture and Infrastructure; Monuments and Material Culture; Displacement, Memory and Citizenship; Ethics, Aesthetics and Globalization.
  • Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Raum: Library Hall
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"Intersections between Indian and Chinese Vernacular Urbanisms"

Institute Colloquium Winter 2010/11
  • Datum: 22.09.2010
  • Uhrzeit: 14:00 - 16:00
  • Vortragender: Solomon Benjamin (National Institute for Advanced Study, Bangalore)
  • Solomon Benjamin is an Associate Professor at the Bangalore based, National Institute of Advanced Studies and co-anchor of a newly established Urban Research and Policy Program (URPP). Benjamin’s doctoral work at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning (1996) looked at the politics of land and small firms in East Delhi. His present research looks at globalization as it shaped city politics, economy and land.
  • Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Raum: Library Hall
[mehr]

"Place as a focus for belonging: a preliminary report from an interdisciplinary research project"

Workshops, conferences 2010
Workshop with Thomas Hylland Eriksen (University of Oslo), Elisabeth Eide (Oslo University College) and Sharam Alghasi [mehr]

"Does Secularization Lead to Moral Decline?"

Institute Colloquium Winter 2010/11
  • Datum: 08.09.2010
  • Uhrzeit: 14:00 - 16:00
  • Vortragender: Hans Joas (Max Weber Center, Erfurt)
  • Hans Joas is Max Weber Professor and Director of the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt. He is also Professor of Sociology and a member of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. In 1979, he obtained his Ph.D. from the Free University in Berlin and worked, from 1984 to 1987, as a Heisenberg fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. From 1990 until 2002, he held a chair at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies and the Insti­tute for Sociology at FU Berlin. Hans Joas has taught at many institutions in Europe and the US as visiting professor. He is a regular member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
  • Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Raum: Library Hall
[mehr]

"Ethno-cultural Capital and Re-migration in Shanghai"

Institute Colloquium Winter 2010/11
  • Datum: 01.09.2010
  • Uhrzeit: 14:00 - 16:00
  • Vortragender: Da Wu (Shanghai University)
  • Professor Wu received his MPhil and Ph.D. degrees in Cultural Anthropology from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He was an Assistant Researcher Fellow in the Chinese Academic of Social Sciences from 1989 to 1998. He has been with Shanghai University since 2008.
  • Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Raum: Library Hall
[mehr]

"Cosmopolitanization"

Workshops, conferences 2010
Workshop with Ulrich Beck, Professor for Sociology at the University of Munich Centennial Professor in the Department of Sociology. [mehr]

"Gesellschaftliche Vielfalt und jugendamtliche Praxis"

Workshops, conferences 2010
Organized by Boris Nieswand, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. [mehr]

"Social Milieus and Diversity"

Workshops, conferences 2010
The goal of the workshop is to introduce theoretical concepts and operationalizations of social milieus and to discuss what the term “milieus” has to offer the concept of diversity. The workshop will include lectures by Prof. Em. Dr. Michael Vester (Universität Hannover) about concepts of social milieus and Dr. Darius Zifonun (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen) about the usefulness of this concept in migration research. [mehr]

"Key Concepts and Methods in Ethnography, Language & Communication"

Workshops, conferences 2010
Organized by the King’s College London, the Tilburg University and the Institute of Education, University of London. [mehr]

"The Question of Culture in Multicultural Discourse"

[mehr]

"Diversity and Group Focused Enmity"

Seminar Series “Studying Diversity – Theoretical and Methodological Issues” Winter 2009/10
[mehr]

"Local Parliaments & Immigrant Representation: NRW 2009"

Seminar Series “Studying Diversity – Theoretical and Methodological Issues” Winter 2009/10
[mehr]

"Negotiating diversity in the Balkans: past, present and future perspectives"

Workshops, conferences 2009
Workshop organized by Monika Palmberger (MPI-MMG) and Goran Janev (MPI-MMG). [mehr]

"Religion, Culture and the Politicization of Honor Killing: A Critical Analysis of Media and Policy Debates in Germany, the UK, and Canada"

Seminar Series “Studying Diversity – Theoretical and Methodological Issues” Winter 2009/10
[mehr]

"Cosmopolitanism: challenges and promises of the idea"

Workshops, conferences 2009
Workshop organized by Ewa Morawska (University of Essex) and Magdalena Nowicka (LMU München). [mehr]

"Homogenizing diverse collective and familial histories. Strategies of ethnic Germans from and in the (former) Soviet Union"

Seminar Series “Studying Diversity – Theoretical and Methodological Issues” Winter 2009/10
[mehr]

"The next generation? „Jüngere“ Ethnologie der Migration im deutschsprachigen Raum"

Workshops, conferences 2009
Workshop organized by Heike Drotbohm (Universität Freiburg) und Boris Nieswand (MPI-MMG). [mehr]

"Integration Research in Europe: Old Questions and a New Project"

Seminar Series “Studying Diversity – Theoretical and Methodological Issues” Winter 2009/10
[mehr]

"Structuring Diversity: A Fitting Theoretical Framework with Empirical Illustrations"

Seminar Series “Studying Diversity – Theoretical and Methodological Issues” Winter 2009/10
[mehr]

"Integration and its Impacts on Diasporas-Homelands Relations"

Seminar Series “Studying Diversity – Theoretical and Methodological Issues” Winter 2009/10
[mehr]

"Understanding diversity: theoretical and methodological challenges"

Workshops, conferences 2009
IMISCOE B6 Workshop. [mehr]

"Memories of Justice: Redistribution and the Reconfiguration of Economic"

[mehr]

"Can Multi-National Federations Work? The Case of Iraq"

[mehr]

"From medical pluralism to medical diversity?"

Workshops, conferences 2009
The goal of the workshop was to critically discuss the extent to which the concepts of diversity can enhance dicussions related to medical pluralism. [mehr]
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