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

"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

"AGING AND MIGRATION: ANTHROPOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF CARE AND RESPONSIBILITY"

Workshops, conferences 2014
  • Date: Dec 7, 2014
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: Los Angeles
Session on the 2014 American Anthropological Associoation Annual Meeting [more]

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

Open Lectures Autumn 2014

"Ethnicity in the New Rwanda"

African Diversities Colloquium Winter 2014/15

"VERNACULARS OF URBAN MULTIPLICITY / A Space for Ideas in the Making"

Workshops, conferences 2014
  • Start: Nov 19, 2014 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Nov 20, 2014 04:00 PM
  • Location: Cape Town
During the 19-20 November 2014 an intimate gathering of urbanists will take place in Cape Town at the behest of the African Centre for Cities and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. The purpose is to create a rare opportunity for in-depth discussion and exchange to allow participants’ time to air work-in-progress and get considered feedback. [more]

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

African Diversities Colloquium Winter 2014/15

"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

"Perspectives on Nation Unbound: The Transnational Migration Paradigm in the Current Conjuncture"

Workshops, conferences 2014
This workshop, organized by the Vrije Universiteit and co-sponsored by the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Ethnic and Religious Diversity, brings together anthropologists who have contributed to the development of the transnational migration paradigm with key interlocutors from related analytical frameworks. It aims to look back on twenty years of the paradigm’s development and renew its connection to the critical issues of the global political economy. [more]

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

African Diversities Colloquium Winter 2014/15

"The promises and perils of diversity and inclusion: deaf people in multiple contexts"

Workshops, conferences 2014
  • Date: Oct 16, 2014
  • Time: 09:00 AM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: Göttingen
Symposium [more]

"FROM NEW HELOTS TO NEW DIASPORAS: A retrospective for Robin Cohen"

Workshops, conferences 2014
Co-organized by the International Migration Institute (IMI, University of Oxford), the Oxford Martin School, the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, and the University of Warwick. [more]

"The 'quantified child'. Reflections on the role of the pediatrician in a super-diverse society"

Göttingen Research Campus Anthropology Colloquium (GRCAC) Sommer 2014
The Göttingen Research Campus Anthropology Colloquium is jointly organized by: Institute of Cultural and Social Anthropology (University of Göttingen) • Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (Göttingen) • Centre for Modern Indian Studies (University of Göttingen). Responsible for the program: Prof. Dr. Elfriede Hermann, Prof. Dr. Steven Vertovec, Prof. Dr. Patrick Eisenlohr [more]

"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

"Film: “A different kind of diversity. Astoria, New York City” by Anna Seegers-Krückeberg"

Göttingen Research Campus Anthropology Colloquium (GRCAC) Sommer 2014
The Göttingen Research Campus Anthropology Colloquium is jointly organized by: Institute of Cultural and Social Anthropology (University of Göttingen) • Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (Göttingen) • Centre for Modern Indian Studies (University of Göttingen). Responsible for the program: Prof. Dr. Elfriede Hermann, Prof. Dr. Steven Vertovec, Prof. Dr. Patrick Eisenlohr [more]

"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

"Encountering Urban Diversity in Asia: Class and Other Intersections"

Workshops, conferences 2014
This workshop is organised by the Migration Clusters of Asia Research Institute, & Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore. It also has support from Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany, & International Geographical Union Commission on Population Geography. [more]

"New Area Studies and Translation"

Göttingen Research Campus Anthropology Colloquium (GRCAC) Sommer 2014
The Göttingen Research Campus Anthropology Colloquium is jointly organized by: Institute of Cultural and Social Anthropology (University of Göttingen) • Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (Göttingen) • Centre for Modern Indian Studies (University of Göttingen). Responsible for the program: Prof. Dr. Elfriede Hermann, Prof. Dr. Steven Vertovec, Prof. Dr. Patrick Eisenlohr [more]

"Theory and Method of an Ethnographic Analysis of Border Regimes"

Göttingen Research Campus Anthropology Colloquium (GRCAC) Winter 2013/14
  • Date: Feb 6, 2014
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Sabine Hess (University of Göttingen)
  • Sabine Hess is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Göttingen University. Sabine Hess studied Political Science, History and Empirical Cultural Studies at Tübingen University. Between 2003 and 2005 she was a coordinator and researcher in the research and film project “TRANSIT MIGRATION” funded by the Cultural Foundation of Germany located at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology, Frankfurt am Main. October 2006 to February 2011 she has been working as an assistant professor at the Institute for Folklore Studies and European Ethnology at the Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich. Her main areas of research and teaching are globalisation and transnationalisation processes in Europe, migration and gender, Europeanisation and EU-integration.
  • Location: Universität Göttingen, Theaterplatz 15
  • Room: Hörsaal Ethnologie
The Göttingen Research Campus Anthropology Colloquium is jointly organized by: Institute of Cultural and Social Anthropology (University of Göttingen) • Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (Göttingen) • Centre for Modern Indian Studies (University of Göttingen). Responsible for the program: Prof. Dr. Elfriede Hermann, Prof. Dr. Steven Vertovec, Prof. Dr. Patrick Eisenlohr [more]

"When, why and how organisations respond to diversity"

Workshops, conferences 2014

"The everyday integration of migrants in Africa"

Open Lectures Winter 2013/14

"Diversity and Public Space"

Workshops, conferences 2014
Workshop co-organized by the Centre for Urban Studies, University of Amsterdam and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen. [more]

"Observing Diversification"

Göttingen Research Campus Anthropology Colloquium (GRCAC) Winter 2013/14
  • Date: Jan 9, 2014
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Steven Vertovec (MPI-MMG)
  • Steven Vertovec is Director at 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 Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, Director of the British Economic and Social Research Council’s Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), and Senior Research Fellow at Linacre College, Oxford. Prof. Vertovec is co-Editor of the journal Global Networks and Editor of the Routledge book series ‘Transnationalism’.
  • Location: Universität Göttingen, Theaterplatz 15
  • Room: Hörsaal Ethnologie
The Göttingen Research Campus Anthropology Colloquium is jointly organized by: Institute of Cultural and Social Anthropology (University of Göttingen) • Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (Göttingen) • Centre for Modern Indian Studies (University of Göttingen). Responsible for the program: Prof. Dr. Elfriede Hermann, Prof. Dr. Steven Vertovec, Prof. Dr. Patrick Eisenlohr [more]
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