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

MPI-MMG in Dialogue "Migration, Retention & Incorporation of the Highly Skilled"

Events 2024
  • Date: Dec 18, 2024
  • Time: 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Goettingen
  • Room: Hybrid event: Livestream/ Live, Hermann Föge Weg 11
This event will bring together experts on highly skilled migration in major migrant receiving countries in (South) East Asia as well as Germany to explore and compare the challenges of retaining, rather than simply recruiting, highly skilled migrants in ageing societies. [more]

QuaMaFa Closing Workshop

Workshops, conferences 2024
  • Start: Dec 18, 2024 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Dec 19, 2024 03:00 PM
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Goettingen
Final event of collaborative project “Qualification and Skill in the Migration Process of Foreign Workers in Asia” (QuaMaFa) [more]

Keynote Lecture “African Diaspora Studies on Europe: Some Concluding Reflections on Conceptual Frameworks”

Workshops, conferences 2024
  • Date: Nov 20, 2024
  • Time: 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Goettingen
  • Room: Modular building
Given by Dr. Michael McEachrane during the workshop "Black multiplicities, African multiplicities? Theorising Migration, Identity, and Blackness from a European standpoint". [more]

“Black Visuality in Europe”- Public Event

Workshops, conferences 2024
  • Date: Nov 19, 2024
  • Time: 05:30 PM - 07:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall
The roundtable discussion will link the academy to creative explorations of Blackness, with input from guests Dr. Melody Howse (MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle), Yero Adugna (Black in Berlin), and Solomon Mekonen (University of Oslo, Norway). [more]

“Black multiplicities, African multiplicities? Theorising Migration, Identity, and Blackness from a European standpoint”

Workshops, conferences 2024
  • Start: Nov 18, 2024
  • End: Nov 21, 2024
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Goettingen
Organized by the Minerva Fast Track Research Group Migration, Identity and Blackness in Europe (Johanna Lukate & Madeline Bass) [more]

Jewish–Muslim Encounters in Urban Europe: Under Pressure

Workshops, conferences 2024
  • Date: Nov 4, 2024
  • Location: Berlin
Final meeting of the ORA joint research project "Muslim-Jewish encounter, diversity & distance in urban Europe: Religion, culture and social model" [more]

Epistemic Trust and Migration Studies

Workshops, conferences 2024
  • Start: Oct 16, 2024
  • End: Oct 18, 2024
  • Location: Berlin
The way scholars produce their facts: a closer look at methods (and methodologies) of engagements in migration research. [more]

Talking about migration – words, data, images

Workshops, conferences 2024
  • Date: Oct 1, 2024
  • Time: 09:30 AM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: Hybrid (In person at CERC Migration office / online via Zoom)
Co-convened by CERC Scholar of Excellence Daniel Hiebert, Professor Emeritus University of British Columbia, Steven Vertovec, Director, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, and Anna Triandafyllidou, Chair, CERC Migration, Toronto Metropolitan University [more]

Book Discussion with Steven Vertovec

  • Date: Sep 19, 2024
  • Time: 06:30 PM - 08:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Steven Vertovec (MPI-MMG)
  • Location: DeZIM, Mauerstr. 76, 10117 Berlin
  • Room: Saal 3 OG
Prof. Dr. Steven Vertovec has been working with his "Superdiversity" concept for 20 years. The book "Superdiversity. Migration and Social Complexity", published in 2023, was translated into German for the first time this year under the title "Superdiversität. Migration and Social Complexity" was translated into German for the first time this year. It analyzes the new levels of migration in the 21st century.This is an opportunity for the National Discrimination and Racism Monitorto take a look at his theory together with the author. [more]

ENCOUNTERS RESEARCH MEETING

Workshops, conferences 2024
  • Start: Jun 24, 2024
  • End: Jun 25, 2024
  • Location: Harnack Haus, Berlin
Research meeting of the ORA joint research project "Muslim-Jewish encounter, diversity & distance in urban Europe: Religion, culture and social model" [more]

Roundtable "Asylum in Europe: Implications of the New Pact on Migration and Asylum and the European Parliament elections"

Workshops, conferences 2024
  • Date: Jun 18, 2024
  • Time: 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Goettingen, Room: Hybrid event: Livestream/ Live, Hermann Föge Weg 11
  • Room: Library Hall
The European Union’s New Pact on Migration and Asylum is a long-awaited answer to the refugee problem to some – and a disastrous demolition of refugee rights to others. Its supporters presented the Pact as a historical agreement that comes to address long-standing shortcomings and imbalances in terms of solidarity and responsibility sharing. [more]

“Researching Gender & Race”

Workshops, conferences 2024
  • Start: Jun 5, 2024 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Jun 6, 2024 04:00 PM
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
  • Room: Conference Room Villa
This workshop aims to facilitate the exchange of recent results as well as to encourage future collaborations between the “Gender, Migration, and Social Mobility among West African Women in Europe” Research Group situated at the MPI for Social Anthropology (Halle) and the “Migration, Identity and Blackness in Europe” Research Group based at the MPI for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (Göttingen). The workshop is jointly organized by both groups. [more]

6th International ART and the CITY Conference

Workshops, conferences 2024
  • Start: Jun 3, 2024
  • End: Jun 4, 2024
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall
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. [more]

Workshop on Disability and Migration

Workshops, conferences 2024
  • Start: May 23, 2024
  • End: May 24, 2024
  • Location: Oeconomicum, Platz der Göttinger Sieben, Göttingen, Germany
  • Room: 0.211
The workshop explores the intersection of disability and migration and seeks to get a deeper understanding of the neglect of this intersection, the different or similar logics of both categories of differences, the social and political and historical effects this intersection evokes, and the insights about societal inequality it offers. [more]

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
  • Start: May 15, 2024
  • End: May 16, 2024
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall
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. [more]
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