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

Room: Library Hall

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

Open Lectures Autumn 2014
  • Date: Dec 11, 2014
  • Time: 03:00 PM - 04:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Maurice Crul (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Erasmus University Rotterdam)
  • Maurice Crul is a professor of Sociology at the VU University in Amsterdam and the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. His most recent books include The Changing Face of World Cities co-authored with John Mollenkopf and Superdiversity. A New Vision on Integration. He is international chair of the IMISCOE network. Last year he was a distinguished guest professor at the Advanced Research Collaborative of CUNY in New York.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"The urban roots of immigrant rights movements - Los Angeles, Amsterdam, Paris"

Open Lectures Autumn 2014

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

Open Lectures Autumn 2014
  • Date: Oct 30, 2014
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: 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.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Lived diversity in Bradford and Duisburg"

Open Lectures Summer 2014

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

Open Lectures Summer 2014
  • Date: Jun 19, 2014
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: 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.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Towards the Ethnography of Super-Diversity"

Workshops, conferences 2014

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

Open Lectures Summer 2014
  • Date: May 21, 2014
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: 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.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"The everyday integration of migrants in Africa"

Open Lectures Winter 2013/14
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