"How do organisations shape migration and inclusion?"

Workshops, conferences 2019

• Datum: 28.11.2019
• Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Raum: Conference Room

"Feminist trouble. Intersectional politics in post-secular times"

Open Lectures Spring/Summer 2019

• Datum: 16.05.2019
• Uhrzeit: 14:15 - 16:00
• Vortragende(r): Éléonore Lépinard (Université Lausanne)
• ÉLÉONORE LÉPINARD is a professor in Gender studies. She currently heads the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lausanne. Her research focuses on discrimination (intersectionality), feminist movements, gender quotas and feminist theory.
• Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Raum: Conference Room

"Urban Citizenship: History, Presence and Future"

• Datum: 09.05.2019
• Uhrzeit: 11:00 - 12:30
• Vortragende(r): Rainer Bauböck (Lichtenberg Kolleg)
• Rainer Bauböck is a political theorist who also engages with comparative political science. Since the 1990s, his main research theme has been citizenship, understood as a legal status and bundle of rights. He has been coordinating comparative research on citizenship laws and voting rights and is a co-director of GLOBALCIT, an open access research platform and database on these topics. From 2007 to 2018 he had a chair in social and political theory at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the European University Institute in Florence. He still has a part-time affiliation with the EUI’s Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, which hosts GLOBALCIT. Before 2007 he was based at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, where he now chairs a Commission on Migration and Integration Research.
• Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Raum: Conference Room

"The New Migration Law: A Roadmap for an Uncertain Future"

Open Lectures Spring/Summer 2019

• Datum: 17.01.2019
• Uhrzeit: 14:00 - 16:00
• Vortragende(r): Hiroshi Motomura (UCLA, Los Angeles)
• HIROSHI MOTOMURA is the Susan Westerberg Prager Distinguished Professor of Law at the School of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). A leading scholar and teacher of immigration and citizenship, he is the author of many influential articles and two award-winning books: Americans in Waiting (Oxford 2006) and Immigration Outside the Law (Oxford 2014), and a co-author of two casebooks widely used in U.S. law school courses: Immigration and Citizenship: Process and Policy (8th ed. West 2016), and Forced Migration: Law and Policy (2d ed. West 2013). He is Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of the National Immigration Law Center, founding director of the Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network (RMIAN), and a former member of the American Bar Association Commission on Immigration. He is now at work on a new book, The New Migration Law, with the support of a 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship.
• Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Raum: Conference Room

"Uncertainty, sociality and value: mediating indeterminacy in South Sudan and Kenya"

African Diversities Colloquium Spring / Summer 2018

• Datum: 03.07.2018
• Uhrzeit: 16:30 - 18:00
• Vortragende(r): Léonie Newhouse (MPI-MMG)
• Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Raum: Conference Room

"The emergence of Irreecha into the political scene in post-1991 Ethiopia"

African Diversities Colloquium Spring / Summer 2018

• Datum: 19.06.2018
• Uhrzeit: 17:00 - 18:30
• Vortragende(r): Serawit Bekele (MPI-MMG)
• Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Raum: Conference Room

"Crazy times: new (dis)orders and the emergence of psychotherapy in Uganda"

African Diversities Colloquium Spring / Summer 2018

• Datum: 05.06.2018
• Uhrzeit: 16:30 - 18:00
• Vortragende(r): Julia Vorhölter (University of Göttingen)
• Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Raum: Conference Room

"Soft Infrastructure: Recalibrating Aesthetics, Economies, and Urban Epistemologies"

Special Public Lecture hosted by the Academy for African Urban Diversity

• Datum: 09.11.2017
• Uhrzeit: 16:00 - 17:30
• Vortragende(r): Mpho Matsipa (Wits City Institute)
• Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Raum: Conference Room

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

African Diversities Colloquium Winter 2016/17

• Datum: 19.12.2016
• Uhrzeit: 16:30 - 18:30
• Vortragender: Giorgio Brocco (Freie Universität Berlin)
• Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Raum: Conference Room

"The contemporaneity of Bena Orature"

African Diversities Colloquium Winter 2016/17

• Datum: 05.12.2016
• Uhrzeit: 16:30 - 18:30
• Vortragender: Angelus Mnenuka (University of Leipzig)
• Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Raum: Conference Room

"Women farmers’ strategies and engagements in Colonial Southern Highlands of Tanzania, 1900-1960"

African Diversities Colloquium Winter 2016/17

• Datum: 21.11.2016
• Uhrzeit: 16:30 - 18:30
• Vortragende: Nives Kinunda (University of Göttingen)
• Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Raum: Conference Room

"Crude politics: making the oil refinery political in Niger"

African Diversities Colloquium Winter 2016/17

• Datum: 07.11.2016
• Uhrzeit: 16:30 - 18:30
• Vortragender: Jannik Schritt (University of Göttingen)
• Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Raum: Conference Room

"Class-based chronicities of suffering and seeking help--comparing addiction treatment programs in Uganda"

African Diversities Colloquium Spring/Summer 2016

• Datum: 11.07.2016
• Uhrzeit: 16:30 - 18:30
• Vortragende: Julia Vorhölter (University of Göttingen)
• Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Raum: Conference Room

"Communal work, authority and crisis: the role and impact of women in postcolonial self reliance and Ujamaa in Southern Highlands of Tanzania, 1966-1980"

African Diversities Colloquium Spring/Summer 2016

• Datum: 27.06.2016
• Uhrzeit: 16:30 - 18:30
• Vortragende: Nives Kinunda Ngullu (University of Göttingen)
• Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Raum: Conference Room

"The orphans of the plains: negotiating livelihood in the changing ethnic relations in the Singida-Mbulu Border, 1984-2012"

African Diversities Colloquium Spring/Summer 2016

• Datum: 13.06.2016
• Uhrzeit: 16:30 - 18:30
• Vortragender: Samwel S. Mhajida (University of Göttingen)
• Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Raum: Conference Room

" ‘If there’s no mobile, you’re not mobile’: unpacking livelihoods, infrastructures and urban ecologies in Lagos, Nigeria"

African Diversities Colloquium Spring/Summer 2016

• Datum: 30.05.2016
• Uhrzeit: 16:30 - 18:30
• Vortragende: Naluwembe Binaisa (MPI-MMG)
• Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Raum: Conference Room

"Conflict, social fragmentation, and the pursuit of unity in diversity in Johannesburg’s local churches: the case of the Catholic Festival of all nations"

African Diversities Colloquium Spring/Summer 2016

• Datum: 17.05.2016
• Uhrzeit: 16:30 - 18:30
• Vortragender: Peter Kankonde (MPI-MMG)
• Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Raum: Conference Room

"Gesture- and sign language-based language strategies and ideologies in Adamorobe, Ghana and Mumbai, India"

African Diversities Colloquium Spring/Summer 2016

• Datum: 02.05.2016
• Uhrzeit: 16:30 - 18:30
• Vortragende: Annelies Kusters (MPI-MMG)
• Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Raum: Conference Room

"Seeking the uncertain--possible futures and everyday hedging in Juba, South Sudan"

African Diversities Colloquium Spring/Summer 2016

• Datum: 18.04.2016
• Uhrzeit: 16:30 - 18:30
• Vortragende: Léonie Newhouse (MPI-MMG)
• Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Raum: Conference Room

"Documentary projection: One day in my shoes"

African Diversities Colloquium Winter 2015/16

• Datum: 08.02.2016
• Uhrzeit: 16:30 - 18:00
• Vortragender: Peter Kankonde Bukasa (MPI-MMG)
• Peter Kankonde joins the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity to prepare his doctorate via a research project in the field of ethnic diversity.
• Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Raum: Conference Room

"Seeking the uncertain: Possible futures and everyday hedging in Juba, South Sudan"

African Diversities Colloquium Winter 2015/16

• Datum: 25.01.2016
• Uhrzeit: 16:30 - 18:00
• Vortragende: Léonie Newhouse (MPI-MMG)
• Léonie Newhouse joins the Max Plank Institute of Religious and Ethnic Diversity to work in the ‘New Diversities in Africa’ research cluster.
• Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Raum: Conference Room

"Arrested circulation. Catholic missionaries, anthropological knowledge and the politics of cultural difference in Germany and East Africa, 1880-1914"

African Diversities Colloquium Winter 2015/16

• Datum: 11.01.2016
• Uhrzeit: 16:30 - 18:00
• Vortragender: Richard Hölzl (University of Göttingen)
• Richard Hölzl is a researcher at the Seminar for Medieval and Modern History, Georg August University Göttingen. He works on the history of Catholic missions, on the history of the environmental movement in Germany, as well as on the cultural history of forests.
• Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Raum: Conference Room

"Congolais debout fierement partout: Mobile gender courts in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo"

African Diversities Colloquium Winter 2015/16

• Datum: 07.12.2015
• Uhrzeit: 16:30 - 18:00
• Vortragender: Patrick Hoenig (Hamburg Foundation for the promotion of Science and Culture)
• Patrick holds a PhD in law from the University of Cologne and an LLM from Columbia University School of Law. He is currently affiliated with the Hamburg Foundation for the promotion of Science and Culture, working on a research project on transitional justice and hybrid normative orders in the Democratic Republic of congo and the wider Great Lakes region of Africa.
• Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Raum: Conference Room

"Growing up in a community in transition to oblivion: Memories of my pastoral boyhood in Central Tanzania, 1979-1993"

African Diversities Colloquium Winter 2015/16

• Datum: 23.11.2015
• Uhrzeit: 16:30 - 18:00
• Vortragender: Samuel Mhajida (University of Göttingen)
• Since October, 2013 Samuel has been enrolled in a PhD programme in the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Goettingen, under Professor Roman Loimeier. He is looking at the consequences of spatial competitions of the Datoga pastoral communities in Central and North Tanzania, from the late 19th to the first decades of the twenty first century.
• Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Raum: Conference Room

"Negotiating Ethiopia’s ‘ethnic citizenship’ in everyday Addis Ababa"

African Diversities Colloquium Winter 2015/16

• Datum: 09.11.2015
• Uhrzeit: 16:30 - 18:00
• Vortragende: Sabine Mohamed (MPI-MMG)
• Sabine Mohamed is a Doctoral Candidate at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity pursuing her PhD at the Anthropology Department at the Ruprecht Karls University in Heidelberg. Her project examines the creation of a pluralist state founded upon ethnic diversity, from the viewpoint of the urban regional hub of Addis Ababa (Ethiopia).
• Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Raum: Conference Room

"Through a glass, multiculturally: on the politics of alterity"

African Diversities Colloquium Winter 2015/16

• Datum: 26.10.2015
• Uhrzeit: 16:30 - 18:00
• Vortragende: Demetrius Eudell (Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, USA)
• Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Raum: Conference Room

" ‘Xenophobia’ in South Africa: order, chaos, and the moral economy of witchcraft"

African Diversities Colloquium Spring/Summer 2015

• Datum: 13.07.2015
• Uhrzeit: 16:30 - 18:00
• Vortragender: Jason Hickel (The London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE)
• Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Raum: Conference Room

"The Infrastructures of Diversity: Materiality and Culture in Urban Space"

Workshops, conferences 2015

• Beginn: 09.07.2015 14:00
• Ende: 10.07.2015 15:30
• Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Raum: Conference Room

"Supernatural defense: causality, possession, belief in condominium jurisprudence"

African Diversities Colloquium Spring/Summer 2015

• Datum: 08.06.2015
• Uhrzeit: 16:30 - 18:00
• Vortragender: Manuel Schwab (Makerere Institute of Social Research, Kampala, Uganda)
• Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Raum: Conference Room

"Afterwards: reflections on the necessity for ‘ontological turn’ in African studies with reference to religion and migration ecologies of knowledge production"

African Diversities Colloquium Spring/Summer 2015

• Datum: 01.06.2015
• Uhrzeit: 16:30 - 18:00
• Vortragender: Peter Kankonde (MPI-MMG)
• Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Raum: Conference Room

"Global charity and local health need. Elite’s celebration of life in Gaborone, Botswana"

African Diversities Colloquium Spring/Summer 2015

• Datum: 18.05.2015
• Uhrzeit: 16:30 - 18:00
• Vortragende: Astrid Bochow (Georg August University Göttingen)
• Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Raum: Conference Room

"Is there an African middle class?"

African Diversities Colloquium Spring/Summer 2015

• Datum: 04.05.2015
• Uhrzeit: 16:30 - 18:00
• Vortragender: Roman Loimeier (Georg August University Göttingen)
• Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Raum: Conference Room

"Troubling justice: a case for a ludic Ubuntu ethic"

African Diversities Colloquium Spring/Summer 2015

• Datum: 27.04.2015
• Uhrzeit: 16:30 - 18:00
• Vortragende: Mechthild Nagel (Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies, SUNY Cortland)
• Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Raum: Conference Room

"No title"

African Diversities Colloquium Winter 2014/15

• Datum: 09.02.2015
• Uhrzeit: 16:30 - 18:00
• Vortragende: Rebekka Habermas (University of Göttingen)
• Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Raum: Conference Room

"No title"

African Diversities Colloquium Winter 2014/15

• Datum: 26.01.2015
• Uhrzeit: 16:30 - 18:00
• Vortragender: Peter Kankonde Bukasa (MPI-MMG)
• Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Raum: Conference Room

"Contagious modernity - The emergence of a therapeutic society in urban Africa"

African Diversities Colloquium Winter 2014/15

• Datum: 12.01.2015
• Uhrzeit: 16:30 - 18:00
• Vortragende: Julia Vorhölter (University of Göttingen)
• Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Raum: Conference Room

"We‘ll take their money and vote for someone else“: How political competition undermines clientelistic networks in Africa‘s patronage democracies"

African Diversities Colloquium Winter 2014/15

• Datum: 08.12.2014
• Uhrzeit: 16:30 - 18:00
• Vortragende: Elena Gadjanova (MPI-MMG)
• Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Raum: Conference Room

"Ethnicity in the New Rwanda"

African Diversities Colloquium Winter 2014/15

• Datum: 24.11.2014
• Uhrzeit: 16:30 - 18:00
• Vortragender: Mark Geraghty (MPI-MMG)
• Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Raum: Conference Room

"Mobilities and belonging: Congolese making ‘home’ within three urban spaces in the African Great Lakes"

African Diversities Colloquium Winter 2014/15

• Datum: 10.11.2014
• Uhrzeit: 16:30 - 18:00
• Vortragende: Naluwembe Binaisa (MPI-MMG)
• Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Raum: Conference Room

"Brewing and drinking: negotiating the gendered terrain of labor and value in rural South Sudan"

African Diversities Colloquium Winter 2014/15

• Datum: 27.10.2014
• Uhrzeit: 16:30 - 18:00
• Vortragende: Léonie Newhouse (MPI-MMG)
• Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Raum: Conference Room

"(Mis)managing and (mis)understanding diversity in Macedonia"

Workshops, conferences 2010

• Datum: 22.11.2010
• Uhrzeit: 10:00 - 12:30
• Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Raum: Conference Room

"Ethnography, language & communication: a workshop"

Workshops, conferences 2010

• Datum: 10.11.2010
• Uhrzeit: 10:00 - 16:00
• Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Raum: Conference Room

"Catholic Charismatic Communities: A Global Geography of the Spirit"

Institute Colloquium Winter 2010/11

• Datum: 25.10.2010
• Uhrzeit: 15:00 - 17:00
• Vortragender: Thomas J. Csordas (University of California, San Diego)
• Dr. Thomas Csordas is an anthropologist whose principal interests are in medical and psychological anthropology, comparative religion, anthropological theory, cultural phenomenology and embodiment, globalization and social change, language and culture. He has conducted ethnographic research with Charismatic Catholics, Navajo Indians, and adolescents in the American Southwest on topics including therapeutic process in religious healing, ritual language and creativity, sensory imagery, self transformation, techniques of the body, causal reasoning about illness, and the experience of psychiatric inpatients.
• Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Raum: Conference Room

"Published - a brief overview of English language book publishing today: the key issues for publishers and authors"

Workshops, conferences 2010

• Datum: 08.10.2010
• Uhrzeit: 10:00 - 11:30
• Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Raum: Conference Room

"Qualitative Forschungen zum sozialen Leben in Wohngebieten: methodische Fragen" / "Qualitative research on social life in residential areas: methodological issues"

Workshops, conferences 2010

• Datum: 23.09.2010
• Uhrzeit: 13:30 - 17:00
• Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Raum: Conference Room

"Visual Anthropology"

Workshops, conferences 2010

• Datum: 07.09.2010
• Uhrzeit: 10:00 - 13:00
• Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Raum: Conference Room

"Varieties of Second Modernity: Extra-European and European Experiences and Perspectives"

Workshops, conferences 2010

• Datum: 23.06.2010
• Uhrzeit: 10:00 - 13:00
• Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Raum: Conference Room

" Little India – Secularism, Transnationalism and Religious Pluralism in Mauritius"

Joint Seminar Series 2009 "Dimensions of Diversity"

• Datum: 29.04.2009
• Uhrzeit: 14:00 - 15:30
• Vortragender: Patrick Eisenlohr (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
• Ort: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
• Raum: Conference Room