Events of the Department of Socio-Cultural Diversity (in descending order)

Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen

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

African Diversities Colloquium Winter 2015/16

"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
  • Date: Nov 23, 2015
  • Time: 04:30 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: 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.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
  • Room: Conference Room

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

African Diversities Colloquium Winter 2015/16
  • Date: Nov 9, 2015
  • Time: 04:30 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: 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).
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
  • Room: Conference Room

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

African Diversities Colloquium Winter 2015/16

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

African Diversities Colloquium Spring/Summer 2015

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

Workshops, conferences 2015
Authors Workshop organized by Marian Burchardt (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity), Stefan Höhne (Center for Metropolitan Studies, Technical University Berlin) and AbdouMaliq Simone (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity) [more]

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

African Diversities Colloquium Spring/Summer 2015

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

African Diversities Colloquium Spring/Summer 2015

"Is there an African middle class?"

African Diversities Colloquium Spring/Summer 2015

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

African Diversities Colloquium Spring/Summer 2015

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African Diversities Colloquium Winter 2014/15

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African Diversities Colloquium Winter 2014/15

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

African Diversities Colloquium Winter 2014/15
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