Events Archive

Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen

"The religious lives of migrant minorities: creating local spaces for global faiths"

Workshops, conferences 2009
Workshop organized by the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (MMG) and American Social Science Research Council (SSRC). [more]

"From medical pluralism to medical diversity?"

Workshops, conferences 2009
The goal of the workshop was to critically discuss the extent to which the concepts of diversity can enhance dicussions related to medical pluralism. [more]

"Global Cities Conference"

Workshops, conferences 2009
Conference organized by Arjun Appadurai and Peter van der Veer. [more]

"Understanding diversity: theoretical and methodological challenges"

Workshops, conferences 2009
IMISCOE B6 Workshop. [more]

"Integration and its Impacts on Diasporas-Homelands Relations"

Seminar Series “Studying Diversity – Theoretical and Methodological Issues” Winter 2009/10

"Structuring Diversity: A Fitting Theoretical Framework with Empirical Illustrations"

Seminar Series “Studying Diversity – Theoretical and Methodological Issues” Winter 2009/10

"Integration Research in Europe: Old Questions and a New Project"

Seminar Series “Studying Diversity – Theoretical and Methodological Issues” Winter 2009/10

"The next generation? „Jüngere“ Ethnologie der Migration im deutschsprachigen Raum"

Workshops, conferences 2009
Workshop organized by Heike Drotbohm (Universität Freiburg) und Boris Nieswand (MPI-MMG). [more]

"Homogenizing diverse collective and familial histories. Strategies of ethnic Germans from and in the (former) Soviet Union"

Seminar Series “Studying Diversity – Theoretical and Methodological Issues” Winter 2009/10

"Cosmopolitanism: challenges and promises of the idea"

Workshops, conferences 2009
Workshop organized by Ewa Morawska (University of Essex) and Magdalena Nowicka (LMU München). [more]

"Religion, Culture and the Politicization of Honor Killing: A Critical Analysis of Media and Policy Debates in Germany, the UK, and Canada"

Seminar Series “Studying Diversity – Theoretical and Methodological Issues” Winter 2009/10

"Negotiating diversity in the Balkans: past, present and future perspectives"

Workshops, conferences 2009
Workshop organized by Monika Palmberger (MPI-MMG) and Goran Janev (MPI-MMG). [more]

"Local Parliaments & Immigrant Representation: NRW 2009"

Seminar Series “Studying Diversity – Theoretical and Methodological Issues” Winter 2009/10

"Diversity and Group Focused Enmity"

Seminar Series “Studying Diversity – Theoretical and Methodological Issues” Winter 2009/10

"The Question of Culture in Multicultural Discourse"

"Key Concepts and Methods in Ethnography, Language & Communication"

Workshops, conferences 2010
Organized by the King’s College London, the Tilburg University and the Institute of Education, University of London. [more]

"Social Milieus and Diversity"

Workshops, conferences 2010
The goal of the workshop is to introduce theoretical concepts and operationalizations of social milieus and to discuss what the term “milieus” has to offer the concept of diversity. The workshop will include lectures by Prof. Em. Dr. Michael Vester (Universität Hannover) about concepts of social milieus and Dr. Darius Zifonun (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen) about the usefulness of this concept in migration research. [more]

"Gesellschaftliche Vielfalt und jugendamtliche Praxis"

Workshops, conferences 2010
Organized by Boris Nieswand, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. [more]

"Cosmopolitanization"

Workshops, conferences 2010
Workshop with Ulrich Beck, Professor for Sociology at the University of Munich Centennial Professor in the Department of Sociology. [more]

"The Revival of Nalanda University: The Re-establishment of the Ancient Buddhist Networks"

  • Date: Apr 27, 2010
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Tansen Sen (Baruch College, City University of New York)
  • Tansen Sen is Associate Professor of Asian history and religons at Baruch College, The City University of New York. Currently he is visiting senior research fellow at the Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore. He received his MA from Peking University and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He has special scholarly interests in Buddhism, Sino-Indian relations, Indian Ocean trade, and Silk Road archeology. He has done extensive research in India, China, and Japan with grants from the American Institute of Indian Studies, the Japan Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"The Culture of Work and the Work of Culture in India"

Workshops, conferences 2010
Workshop with Chris Fuller (London School of Economics), Carol Upadhya (School of Social Sciences in Bangalore, Indien) and Nicole Mayer-Ahuja (Soziologisches Forschungsinstitut Göttingen - SOFI) [more]

"Religion and globalization"

"Yellow Shirts and Red Shirts: Political Protest in Thailand Today"

Workshops, conferences 2010
This workshop intends to further an anthropological understanding of the current political crisis in Thailand and the use of a symbolic repertoire by the different groups that are engaged in political struggle. [more]

"Mapping Chinese Temple Networks in Southeast Asia"

"Building Theravada Buddhist networks in Nepal and Beyond"

  • Date: Jun 16, 2010
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: David Gellner (University of Oxford)
  • David Gellner is Professor of Social Anthropology, a Fellow of All Souls, and Head of the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnogra­phy. His doctoral research (1982-4) was on the traditional, Vaj­ra­yana Buddhism of the Newars and on Newar social organization, in the Kath­mandu Valley, Nepal. He has carried out fieldwork in the Kathmandu Valley on many subsequent occasions, broadening his interests to include politics and ethnicity, healers, mediums, and popular approaches to misfortune, religious change, activism, and democratization. His current research is on reli­gion in the Nepali diaspora in the UK.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Why there is no ‘European Islam’: Contrasting contours of Islam in England and France"

"Civility and Intercultural Relations in Goa (India) and Malaysia"

"Ethno-cultural Capital and Re-migration in Shanghai"

Institute Colloquium Winter 2010/11
  • Date: Sep 1, 2010
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Da Wu (Shanghai University)
  • Professor Wu received his MPhil and Ph.D. degrees in Cultural Anthropology from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He was an Assistant Researcher Fellow in the Chinese Academic of Social Sciences from 1989 to 1998. He has been with Shanghai University since 2008.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Does Secularization Lead to Moral Decline?"

Institute Colloquium Winter 2010/11
  • Date: Sep 8, 2010
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Hans Joas (Max Weber Center, Erfurt)
  • Hans Joas is Max Weber Professor and Director of the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt. He is also Professor of Sociology and a member of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. In 1979, he obtained his Ph.D. from the Free University in Berlin and worked, from 1984 to 1987, as a Heisenberg fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. From 1990 until 2002, he held a chair at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies and the Insti­tute for Sociology at FU Berlin. Hans Joas has taught at many institutions in Europe and the US as visiting professor. He is a regular member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Place as a focus for belonging: a preliminary report from an interdisciplinary research project"

Workshops, conferences 2010
Workshop with Thomas Hylland Eriksen (University of Oslo), Elisabeth Eide (Oslo University College) and Sharam Alghasi [more]

"Intersections between Indian and Chinese Vernacular Urbanisms"

Institute Colloquium Winter 2010/11
  • Date: Sep 22, 2010
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Solomon Benjamin (National Institute for Advanced Study, Bangalore)
  • Solomon Benjamin is an Associate Professor at the Bangalore based, National Institute of Advanced Studies and co-anchor of a newly established Urban Research and Policy Program (URPP). Benjamin’s doctoral work at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning (1996) looked at the politics of land and small firms in East Delhi. His present research looks at globalization as it shaped city politics, economy and land.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"The City as Stage: Speculative Violence and the Violence of Speculation"

Institute Colloquium Winter 2010/11
  • Date: Sep 29, 2010
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Vyjayanthi Rao (The New School for Social Research, New York)
  • Vyjayanthi Rao is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the New School for social Research, New York. She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Chicago and was a Post-Doctoral Associate at Yale University prior to joining The New School. Her Research Interests include: Anthropology and Ethnography of South Asia; Urban Culture, Architecture and Infrastructure; Monuments and Material Culture; Displacement, Memory and Citizenship; Ethics, Aesthetics and Globalization.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Neoliberal Urban Forms and Comparisons: Chicago, Budapest and Planned Housing Developments"

Institute Colloquium Winter 2010/11

"Public Affect Effects: Enacting in/Civilities in Public Space"

Institute Colloquium Winter 2010/11

"The (Un)Making of Policy in the Shadow of the World Bank: Mumbai Urban Transport Project, Infrastructure Development and Urban Resettlement"

Institute Colloquium Winter 2010/11

"Sacred Frontiers: The Reinvention of Everyday Life in Jerusalem’s Old City"

Institute Colloquium Winter 2010/11
  • Date: Oct 27, 2010
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Wendy Pullan (University of Cambridge)
  • Wendy Pullan teaches architecture and urbanism at the University of Cambridge. She is Principal Investigator for ‚Conflict in Cities and the Contested State, an international and multidisciplinary research project funded by the ESRC‘s Large Grants Programme. In 2006, she received the Royal Institute of British Architects‘ inaugural President‘s Award for University Led Research for work on Conflict in Cities. Dr Pullan has published widely on Mediterranean and Middle Eastern architecture and cities, especially Jerusalem, and has advised on issues to do with urban uncertainty, change and security. She is a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Global Migration, Diversification and Cities"

Institute Colloquium Winter 2010/11
  • Date: Nov 3, 2010
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Steven Vertovec (MPI-MMG)
  • Steven Vertovec is Director of 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 University of Oxford and Director of the British Economic and Social Research Council’s Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS).
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"No Longer at Ease: East German Home Comings in Urban Context"

Institute Colloquium Winter 2010/11

"Cities and the Ethic of Care Among Strangers"

Institute Colloquium Winter 2010/11

"Conceiving and researching multi-ethnic urban spaces"

Workshops, conferences 2010
Workshop with Ash Amin (Durham) and Talja Blokland (Humboldt University, Berlin). [more]

" 'Moving bodies – transforming values' – Socio-cultural and ethical issues of transnational biomedicine"

Workshops, conferences 2010
Workshop organised by Silke Schicktanz (University of Göttingen) & Tulsi Patel (Delhi University) in co-operation with the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (Göttingen). [more]

"Deutsche Migrations‐ und Integrationspolitik im europäischen Vergleich"

Workshops, conferences 2011
Veranstalter: Arbeitskreis 'Migrationspolitik' in der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft (DVPW) in Kooperation mit dem Max‐Planck‐Institut zur Erforschung multireligiöser und multiethnischer Gesellschaften in Göttingen [more]

"Super-diversity, Wellbeing and Access to Healthcare - Developing a Research Agenda"

Workshops, conferences 2011
Workshop organized by the International Research Group on Superdiversity and Health (Max Planck Institute, Göttingen, Medical Diversity Programme). [more]

"Markets and diversity: cross cultural perspectives"

Workshops, conferences 2011
Workshop organized by Gertrud Hüwelmeier (Humboldt University Berlin) and Steven Vertovec (MPI-MMG). [more]

"Workshop with faculty, postdoctoral fellows, & doctoral students"

Workshops, conferences 2011
Together with the Centre for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto. [more]

"Medical diversity and its spaces"

Workshops, conferences 2011
Conference organized by Gabi Alex, Kristine Krause and David Parkin. Discussants: Henrike Donner and Michi Knecht. [more]

"Intergroup contact and the reduction of prejudice: From ‘hypothesis’ to ‘integrated theory’"

Institute Colloquium Series "Difference and (In)Equalities" Spring/Summer 2011
  • Date: Apr 27, 2011
  • Time: 05:00 PM - 06:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Miles Hewstone (Oxford)
  • Professor Miles Hewstone is Professor of Social Psychology and Fellow of New College, University of Oxford. He has previously held chairs in social psychology at the universities of Bristol, U.K., Mannheim, Germany, Cardiff, U.K. His current work centres on the reduction of intergroup conflict, via intergroup contact, stereotype change and crossed categorization. At MPI-MMG Prof. Hewstone is wor­king closely with the Department of Socio-Cultural Diversity on several pro­jects, including ‘Ethno-religious Dive rsity and Social Trust’, ‘Super-diversity in South Africa’ and ‘Diversity and Contact (DivCon)’.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Diversity and Contact. Interactions between Migrants and non-Migrants in Cities"

Workshops, conferences 2011

"Contextualizing inequalities. A critique of methodological nationalism in research on social inequality"

Institute Colloquium Series "Difference and (In)Equalities" Spring/Summer 2011

"Religion & Communism: Comparative Perspectives"

Workshops, conferences 2011

"From state socialism to state Zionism: Former Soviet Jewish immigrants in the ethno-national mosaic of Israel"

Institute Colloquium Series "Difference and (In)Equalities" Spring/Summer 2011

"Does the EU help to promote diversity? The anti-discrimination directives and their implementation"

Institute Colloquium Series "Difference and (In)Equalities" Spring/Summer 2011

"Families, intergenerational transmission, transnational links: Interactions between Turkey and Germany"

Institute Colloquium Series "Difference and (In)Equalities" Spring/Summer 2011

"Horizontal inequalities and conflict: Understanding group violence in multiethnic societies"

Institute Colloquium Series "Difference and (In)Equalities" Spring/Summer 2011

"Liberal democracies and the challenge of accommodating diversity – a transatlantic perspective"

Institute Colloquium Series "Difference and (In)Equalities" Spring/Summer 2011

"Comparing Conviviality. Dreams and Realities of Living-with-Difference"

Workshops, conferences 2011

"Institutionalising Intersectionality? Reflections on the British Experience"

Institute Colloquium Series "Difference and (In)Equalities" Spring/Summer 2011

"Ethnologie der Migration im deutschsprachigen Raum"

Workshops, conferences 2011
Workshop organized by Boris Nieswand (MPI-MMG). [more]

"Civic stratification and the cosmopolitan ideal: the case of asylum and welfare in Britain"

Institute Colloquium Series "Difference and (In)Equalities" Spring/Summer 2011

"Transcendence and Control in a Global Mega City"

Workshops, conferences 2011
Sponsored by PUKAR, the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity and Tata Institute of Social Science. [more]

"Transnational religion, Missionization, and refugee Migrants in Comparative perspective"

Workshops, conferences 2011
Organized by Alexander Horstmann and Jin-heon Jung. [more]

"Universalist Faiths and Particularist Identities: Islam, Socialism and Minzu in Eastern Xinjiang"

Institute Colloquium Series "Intersections of Religion and Ethnicity" Winter 2011/12

"Interethnic contact in urban spaces: investigating Austrian and German neighborhoods"

Workshops, conferences 2011
A joint workshop of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (MPI-MMG) and the Institute for Urban and Regional Research (ISR) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. [more]

"Turkey, the Islamic Peril, and Cultural Politics of European Union Membership"

Institute Colloquium Series "Intersections of Religion and Ethnicity" Winter 2011/12

"Multiple Belonging and the Challenges of Biographical Navigation"

Institute Colloquium Series "Intersections of Religion and Ethnicity" Winter 2011/12

"Religion and Ethnicity in the Social Structure of the Caribbean"

Institute Colloquium Series "Intersections of Religion and Ethnicity" Winter 2011/12
  • Date: Dec 8, 2011
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Colin Clarke (University of Oxford)
  • Professor Colin Clarke is an Emeritus Professor at Oxford University and an Emeritus Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford. He has taught at the Universities of Toronto and Liverpool, where he was, until 1981, Reader in Geography and Latin American Studies. He has carried out numerous field investigations in Mexico and the Caribbean and published 12 books and more than 100 research papers and chapters.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Transcending Religious and Ethnic Differences: Practical Rationalities of Healing in Western India"

Institute Colloquium Series "Intersections of Religion and Ethnicity" Winter 2011/12

"Beyond the Domestication of Islam in Europe"

Institute Colloquium Series "Intersections of Religion and Ethnicity" Winter 2011/12

"Chinese Buddhism as Social Force: Thirty Years of Revival"

Institute Colloquium Series "Intersections of Religion and Ethnicity" Winter 2011/12
  • Date: Jan 26, 2012
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Ji Zhe (CNRS, Paris)
  • Dr. Ji Zhe is a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités (GSRL) at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Paris. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris) in 2007.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Religion and Culture: the Growing Gap"

Institute Colloquium Series "Intersections of Religion and Ethnicity" Winter 2011/12

"Differential Protection of the Right to Equal Treatment for Religious and Ethnic Minorities: International Legal Perspectives"

Institute Colloquium Series "Regulations of Cultural Diversity" Spring/Summer 2012
  • Date: Apr 26, 2012
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 03:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Kristin Henrard (Erasmus University of Rotterdam)
  • Professor Kristin Henrard is professor minority protection at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam (EUR) as well as associate professor constitutional law. Kristin Henrard teaches human rights, comparative human rights, mino­rity protection, constitutional law, introduction to public law and law pertaining to immigration (including refugee law). Her main publications pertain to the areas of human rights and minority protection. She is the founder of the Minority Research Network, which she also coordinates. The Minority Research Network encompasses currently more than 115 academics working on minority protection themes from different regions of the world as well as from a broad variety of disciplines.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Multiple Secularities: A Cultural Sociological Approach"

Institute Colloquium Series "Regulations of Cultural Diversity" Spring/Summer 2012
  • Date: May 3, 2012
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 03:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Monika Wohlrab-Sahr (University of Leipzig)
  • Monika WOHLRAB-SAHR is Professor of Cultural Socio­logy at the University of Leipzig (since 2006). From 1999 to 2006 she was Professor of Sociology of Religion at the same university. She did her habilitation on “Conversion to Islam in Germany and the United States” at the Free University of Berlin in 1998, where she worked as an assistant professor from 1992 to 1999. In 1996 she was a visiting scholar at the University of Berkeley, California. In 2007/8 she was Fernand Braudel Fellow at the European University Insti­tute in Florence, Italy.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"The Secularist Appeal of Constitutional Law and Courts: A Comparative Account"

Institute Colloquium Series "Regulations of Cultural Diversity" Spring/Summer 2012
  • Date: May 10, 2012
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 03:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Ran Hirschl (University of Toronto)
  • Ran Hirschl is Professor of Political Science and Law, and holds a senior Canada Research Chair in Constitutionalism, Democracy & Development. He completed his B.A., LL.B., and M.A. at Tel-Aviv University, and received his M.Phil and Ph.D. from Yale University. His primary areas of interest are comparative constitutional law, constitutional and judicial politics, and comparative legal traditions and institutions more generally.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Chinese Religiosities"

Workshops, conferences 2012
20 minutes for each presentation; 60 minutes for each group discussion [more]

"Ethnographic Film Screening: So Heddan So Hoddan"

Ethnographic Film Screening 2012
Directors Anjali Monteiro and K.P. Jayasankar are Professors at the Centre for Media and Cultural Stu­dies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Both of them are involved in media production, teaching and research. A presiding thematic of much of their work has been a problematising of notions of self and the other, of normality and deviance, of the local and the global, through the exploration of diverse narratives and rituals. These range from the stories and paintings of indigenous peoples to the poetry of prison inmates. Jointly they have won twenty-eight national and international awards for their films. [more]

"Framing Immigration. Varieties of Arguments, Actors and Opportunity Structures"

Institute Colloquium Series "Regulations of Cultural Diversity" Spring/Summer 2012
  • Date: May 24, 2012
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 03:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Marc Helbling (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin)
  • Marc Helbling is head of the Emmy-Noether research group ‘Immigration Policies in Comparison’ (IMPIC) at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB). From 2009 to 2011 he was a senior researcher in the research unit ‘Migration, Integration, Transnationalization’ at the same institution. He holds a PhD in political science from the University of Zurich (2007).
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Religion, space and diversity - negotiating the religious in the public sphere"

Workshops, conferences 2012
7th International Colloquium on the Changing Religious Landscape in Europe [more]

"Language, Religion, and the Political Accommodation of Cultural Heterogeneity"

Institute Colloquium Series "Regulations of Cultural Diversity" Spring/Summer 2012
  • Date: Jun 7, 2012
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 03:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Rogers Brubaker (University of California, Los Angeles)
  • Rogers Brubaker is Professor of Sociology and UCLA Foundation Chair at the University of California, Los Angeles. Brubaker has written widely on social theory, immigration, citizenship, nationalism, and ethnicity. His first book explored the idea of rationality in the work of Max Weber, while his essays on Pierre Bourdieu helped introduce Bourdieu to an English-speaking audience. His next two books analyzed European nationalism in historical and comparative perspective. Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany (1992) sought to explain the sharply differing ways in which citizenship has been defined vis-à-vis immigrants in France and Germany and helped establish what has since become a flourishing field of citizenship studies; Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe (1996) compared contemporary East European nationalisms with those of the interwar period, both emerging after the breakup of multi­national states into would-be nation-states. Subsequently, in a series of analytical essays, many of them collected in Ethnicity without Groups (2004), Brubaker has critically engaged prevailing analytical stances in the study of ethnicity, race, and nationalism and sought to develop alternative analytical resources. These informed his collaborative book Natio­na­list Politics and Everyday Ethnicity in a Transylvanian Town (2006), which examined the everyday workings of ethnicity in a setting of highly charged ethnonational conflict.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Rights Make Might: Global Human Rights and Minority Social Movements in Japan"

Institute Colloquium Series "Regulations of Cultural Diversity" Spring/Summer 2012
  • Date: Jun 21, 2012
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 03:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Kiyoteru Tsutsui (University of Michigan)
  • Kiyoteru Tsutsui is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan. He holds an MA degree from Kyoto University and a PhD from Stanford University. His research interests lie in political/comparative sociology, social movements, globalization, human rights, and Japanese society.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Secularism and Religion-Making: The Case of Turkey"

Institute Colloquium Series "Regulations of Cultural Diversity" Spring/Summer 2012
  • Date: Jun 28, 2012
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 03:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Markus Dressler (Istanbul Technical University)
  • Markus Dressler is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Department for Social Sciences and Humanities, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Istanbul Technical University. Dressler holds a PhD in Religious Studies from the University of Erfurt and has received numerous fellowships and research grants, including at Columbia University, the American Research Institute in Turkey, and the Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Secularism and Religious Pluralism in Europe: Current Legal Challenges"

Institute Colloquium Series "Regulations of Cultural Diversity" Spring/Summer 2012
  • Date: Jul 5, 2012
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 03:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Marie-Claire Foblets (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Halle/Saale)
  • Marie-Claire Foblets is Director of the Department “Law & Anthropology” at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle a/d Saale. She was trained in law at the universities of Antwerp (1977-1979) and Leuven (1979-1982) in Belgium, while at the same time receiving an education in Thomist philosophy. Thanks to a study fellowship (1982-1983), she was given the opportunity to pursue further study in philosophy at the Wilhelms-Universität of Münster, in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, and to complete her studies in social and cultural anthro­pology (1985). For more than twenty years Marie-Claire Foblets taught social and cultural anthropology in the universities of Antwerp and Brussels. Before becoming a member of the Max Planck Society in March 2012, she was ordinary professor at the Catholic University of Leuven, where she headed the Institute for Migration Law and Legal Anthropology. Among her manifold publications is the edited volume with A.D. Renteln and J.-F. Gaudreault-DesBiens, Cultural Diversity and the Law. State Responses from Around the World, Brussels/Montréal, Bruylant/Blois (2010).
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"How Empires Handle Ethnic Diversity"

Institute Colloquium Series "Regulations of Cultural Diversity" Spring/Summer 2012
  • Date: Jul 12, 2012
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 03:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Günther Schlee (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Halle/Saale)
  • Günther Schlee was until 1999 Professor of Social Anthro­pology at the University of Bielefeld, having studied anthropology, romance languages and general linguistics in Hamburg. He received his doctorate for research on the belief and social systems of the Rendille, an ethnic group in northern Kenya. Alongside widespread fieldwork trips in Kenya, Ethiopia and Sudan, he was also guest lecturer in Padang (Sumatra) and at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales in Paris. Typical of the research of Günther Schlee is the “inter-ethnic” procedure and the combining of historical, sociological and philological methods. One of his manifold publications is Changing identifications and alliances in North Eastern Africa (co-editor: Elizabeth E. Watson.), Volume I: Ethiopia and Kenya, Volume II: Sudan, Uganda, and the Ethiopia-Sudan Borderlands. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2009.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Super-Diversity: Comparative Questions"

Workshops, conferences 2012
The notion of super-diversity underlines a call to re-evaluate concepts and policies surrounding diversity by way of moving beyond an ethno-focal understanding of diversity and adopting a multi-dimensional approach. In this two day workshop, participants will explore how this notion has been operationalised in empirical research on urban areas around the world. [more]

"Refashioning the Self through New Therapeutics in Urban China"

Institute Colloquium Winter 2012/13
  • Date: Oct 11, 2012
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Li Zhang (University of California, Davis)
  • Prof. Dr. Li Zhang received her doctoral degree in anthropology from Cornell University in 1998 and a M.A. degree in social relations from UC Irvine in 1993. Before coming to the U.S., she studied Chinese literature and literary theory at Peking University and received her B.A. and first M.A. there. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University (1998-1999).
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Transnational Daoist Dis-Orientations and the Predicament of Modern Spirituality"

Institute Colloquium Winter 2012/13
  • Date: Nov 1, 2012
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: David A. Palmer (University of Hong Kong)
  • Dr. David A. Palmer is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Hong Kong University. Before joining the HKU in 2008, he held appointments as the Eileen Barker Fellow in Religion and Contemporary Society at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and as a research fellow at the Ecole Française d‘Extrême-Orient (French School of Asian Studies), where he was the director of its Hong Kong centre, located at the Institute of Chinese Studies of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, from 2004 to 2008.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Religion in Contemporary China Workshop"

Workshops, conferences 2012
Visiting institution: Institute of World Religions, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). [more]

"From Urban Marginality to Marginal Urbanity"

Institute Colloquium Winter 2012/13

"Rising Nativism and Changing Racism: A New Form of American Exclusion"

Public Lectures Spring/Summer 2013

"Politics of Historical Fiction and Sectarian Conflict in Egypt: Debates around Azazeel"

Public Lectures Spring/Summer 2013
  • Date: Apr 25, 2013
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Saba Mahmood (University of California, Berkeley / presently American Academy in Berlin)
  • Saba Mahmood is an associate professor of social cultural anthro­pology at the University of California Berkeley. She was awarded the 2013 Axel Springer Berlin Prize Fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin. Saba Mahmood’s research interests lie in exploring historically specific articulations of secular modernity in postcolonial societies, with particular attention to issues of subject formation, religio­sity, embodiment, and gender. Currently she is examining secular-liberal interpretations of Islam in the context of the Middle East and South Asia.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Ways of Belonging and Expressing Critique in the European Immigration Society"

Public Lectures Spring/Summer 2013

"Contested Citizenships: The racialization of belongings in France"

Public Lectures Spring/Summer 2013

"How to study diffusion - Theories, methods, and research designs"

Workshops, conferences 2013
Workshop co-organized by Anja Jetschke (University of Göttingen) & Matthias Koenig (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity). [more]

"Lamenting with Words the Loss of the Black Tent. Tibetan Nomads’ Settlement through the Eyes of Tibetan Writers in Tibet"

Religious Diversity Colloquium Winter 2013/14
  • Date: Oct 29, 2013
  • Time: 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Françoise Robin (INALCO, Paris)
  • Françoise Robin is a maître de conférence at l’INALCO and is a specialist of Tibet. She received a DEA at INALCO in 1999. In 2003, she submitted a doctoral thesis on TIbetan literature also at l’INALCO, under the supervision of Heather Stoddard, titled « La littérature de fiction d’expression tibétaine au Tibet (RPC) depuis 1950 : sources textuelles anciennes, courants principaux et fonctions dans la société contemporaine tibétaine ». She has had many trips to China specifically to Tibet University as part of her research. Françoise Robin is a member of UMR 8155 « Centre de recherche sur les civilisations chinoise, japonaise et tibétaine » and is responsible for the programme « Dictionnaire thématique français-tibétain » au sein de l’UMR 8155.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Difference rules. Governing ethnically diverse populations in the British and the Habsburg empires"

Open Lectures Winter 2013/14

"Migration and the city commons"

Open Lectures Winter 2013/14
  • Date: Nov 28, 2013
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Michael Keith (COMPAS, University of Oxford)
  • Michael Keith is Director of the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), Co-Director of the Oxford Programme for the Future of Cities http://www.futureofcities.ox.ac.uk/ and holds a personal chair in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Oxford. He is the author of ten books on issues of urban change, race, ethnicity and migration including – most recently – ’China Constructing Capitalism: Economic Life and Urban Change’.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Television bigots and transitional audiences in the sixties cultural revolution"

Open Lectures Winter 2013/14
  • Date: Dec 19, 2013
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Christina von Hodenberg (Queen Mary University of London)
  • Christina von Hodenberg is Professor of History at Queen Mary University of London. She has written widely on the social and cultural history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Germany. She has taught at the universities of Berkeley and Freiburg and held fellowships at Harvard, Université de Montréal and the Zentrum für Zeitgeschichtliche Forschung in Potsdam. Her PhD is from Bielefeld and her MA from Munich.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"The everyday integration of migrants in Africa"

Open Lectures Winter 2013/14

"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

"Towards the Ethnography of Super-Diversity"

Workshops, conferences 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

"Lived diversity in Bradford and Duisburg"

Open Lectures Summer 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

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

Open Lectures Autumn 2014

"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 Radical Ambiguities of Diversity Politics in a Global City: Lessons from London"

Open Lectures Spring 2015

"Framing Muslims in France today: the impact of institutions on perceptions and boundaries"

Open Lectures Spring 2015

"Migration und Macht. Soziologische Theorien und empirische Befunde zu Machtbeziehungen in Einwanderungsländern"

Workshops, conferences 2015
Frühjahrstagung der DGS-Sektion „Migration und ethnische Minderheiten“ gemeinsam mit dem Soziologischen Forschungsinstitut Göttingen (SOFI) und dem Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung multireligiöser und multiethnischer Gesellschaften (MPI MMG) ▪ Organisation: Prof. Dr. Annette Treibel (Pädagogische Hochschule Karlsruhe) und Dr. Janina Söhn (SOFI Göttingen) für den Sektionsvorstand [more]

"The quest for respect and equality: responses to stigmatization and discrimination in the US, Brazil and Israel"

Open Lectures Spring 2015

"The Geobody of Vietnam"

Workshops, conferences 2015
Co-sponsored by the Max Planck Institute for Religious and Ethnic Diversity and the Asia Center, Harvard University ▪ Conveners: Hue Tam Ho-Tai and Tam T. T. Ngo [more]

"Political Cosmologies: Global and Contextual Categories in the Study of India"

Workshops, conferences 2015
Organized by: Ajay Gandhi, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity & Shankar Ramaswami, Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University [more]

"The human becomes a vicious circle: objects of belief, displaced units of responsibility, and the tensions of diversity in homicide regulations in Sudan"

Open Lectures Spring 2015

"Religious Networks in Asia"

Workshops, conferences 2015
Co-organized by Utrecht University and by the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity [more]

"Multi-level governance of an intractable policy problem: migrants with irregular status in European cities"

Open Lectures Spring 2015
  • Date: Jul 16, 2015
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Sarah Spencer (COMPAS, University of Oxford)
  • Sarah Spencer is Director of the Global Exchange on Migration (https://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/globalexchange/) and Diversity at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) at the University of Oxford. Her research interests are in irregular migrants, integration, human rights and equality issues, and in the policy making process. She was an Open Society Fellow (2012-2014) exploring issues relating to irregular migrants in Europe, on which her presentation will draw. Her publications can be seen at compas (https://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/people/staff/sarah-spencer/publications/). Sarah was awarded her doctorate at Erasmus University Rotterdam, has an MPhil from University College London and took her first degree in Sociology at the University of Nottingham. She is a former Deputy Chair of the Commission for Racial Equality in Britain, Chair of the network of civil society equality organisations, the Equality and Diversity Forum, and Director of Liberty.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Law, Ethics and Politics of the European Agenda on Migration"

Joint Seminar Series 2015/16 "Diversity and Human Rights" & Special Lecture Series "Borders, Migrants and Refugees"
  • Date: Nov 18, 2015
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Itamar Mann (Georgetown)
  • Itamar Mann is the national security law fellow at Georgetown Law Center. He studies international law and political theory, with special interests in migration and refugee law, transnational counter-terrorism law, and international criminal law. His book, Humanity at Sea: Unuthorized Migration and the Foundations of International Law is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press (2016). He is a graduate of Tel Aviv University (L.L.B.) and Yale Law School (L.L.M. and J.S.D.)
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall
Co-Sponsored by the Special Lecture Series: Borders, Migrants, and Refugees [more]

"Unaccompanied Minor Refugees: Principles and Practices of their Reception in Germany and the EU"

Special Lecture Series "Borders, Migrants and Refugees"
  • Date: Nov 26, 2015
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Boris Nieswand (Tübingen)
  • Boris Nieswand is Junior Professor for Transnational Cultural Comparison and Migration at Tübingen University. He obtained a PhD in social anthropology from Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in 2008 and a diploma in sociology from the University of Bielefeld in 2000. Boris Nieswand was a visiting professor at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder, a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen and a PhD-candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"The Refugee’s Trauma. Reflections on North- and South Vietnamese in East- and West Germany"

Special Lecture Series "Borders, Migrants and Refugees"
  • Date: Dec 9, 2015
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speakers: Tam Ngo and Peter van der Veer (MPI-MMG)
  • Peter van der Veer is Director at the Max Planck Institute. His book on The Value of Comparison will be published by Duke University Press in 2016. Tam Ngo is a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute. Her book on the Hmong in Vietnam and the US will be published by the University of Washington Press in 2016. Together they work on a project on the Vietnamese in Germany.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall
FIRST ANNUAL GOETHE-GÖTTINGEN CRITICAL EXCHANGE • Co-organized by AYELET SHACHAR (MPI-MMG) and RAINER FORST (Normative Orders, Frankfurt) [more]

"Between the Kingdom and the Desert Sun: Human Rights, Immigration, and Border Walls"

Joint Seminar Series 2015/16 "Diversity and Human Rights" & Special Lecture Series "Borders, Migrants and Refugees"
  • Date: Jan 20, 2016
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Moria Paz (Stanford)
  • Moria Paz is a legal scholar focusing on the intersection of minorities, immigrants, international law, and human rights. She is currently working on two books, Network or State? International Law and The History of Jewish Self-Determination (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2016) and The Law of Strangers – Critical Perspectives on Jewish Lawyering and International Legal Thought (co-edited with James Loeffler) (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2016). In 2015, her paper, Between the Kingdom and the Desert Sun: Human Rights, Immigration and Border Walls was selected as one of the best works of recent scholarship relating to immigration law in a review published by Jotwell. In 2014, her paper, the Tower of Babel: Human Rights and the Paradox of Language won the Law & Humanities Interdisciplinary Writing Competition and was selected by European Journal of International Law for its New Voices selection for 2014. In 2013, her paper The Failed Promise of Language Rights, was recognized in the New Voices Panel of the American Association of International Law (ASIL) and was selected for the Junior Faculty Forum for International Law. She also won the Laylin Prize for most outstanding paper in international law awarded by Harvard Law School (2007). Her papers have appeared in multiple journals, including Harvard International Law Journal, European Journal of International Law, and the American Society of International Law. Moria Paz is a Fellow at Stanford Law School. She received her S.J.D. doctoral degree from Harvard Law School. While at Harvard, she was awarded a number of fellowships, including at the Hauser Center for Non-Profit Organizations, The European Law Research Center, and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Before Harvard, she attended The School of Oriental and African Studies at The University of London (England) and Beijing Normal University (China).
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall
Co-Sponsored by the Special Lecture Series: Borders, Migrants, and Refugees [more]

"Transnationalism, Gender, Evangelism and Power in African Initiated Churches in Nigeria and its Diaspora"

Open Lectures Spring 2016
  • Date: Mar 3, 2016
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Mojúbàolú Olufúnké Okome (City University of New York)
  • Mojúbàolú Olufúnké Okome is Professor of Political Science, Brooklyn College, The City University of New York, United States. Her research interests include: Diaspora studies and contemporary African immigration; globalization and gender relations with a focus on Africa within the world economy; gender, politics and governance; Sub-Saharan African political economy, democratization and economic liberalization.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"The Value of Comparison"

Workshops, conferences 2016
organized by RAN HIRSCHL (University of Toronto) and PETER VAN DER VEER (MPI-MMG) [more]

"Unravelling urban rhythms in the migrant experience: Polish migrants in Munich and Berlin"

Open Lectures Spring 2016
  • Date: Apr 14, 2016
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Magda Nowicka / Agata Lisiak (HU Berlin)
  • Magdalena Nowicka is professor of migration and transnationalism at the Institute of Social Sciences and member in the Berlin Institute for Integration and Migration Research (BIM), both at the Humboldt University. Her current project is “Transforming Migration. Transnational Transfer of Multicultural Habitus” (www.transformig.hu-berlin.de). Her publications include The Ashgate Research Companion to Cosmopolitanism (edited with Maria Rovisco, Ashgate 2011) and numerous articles and book chapters on conviviality, cosmopolitanism and migrant transnationalism. Agata Lisiak is postdoctoral researcher at Humboldt University’s Institute of Social Sciences and lecturer at Bard College Berlin. She is the author of Urban Cultures in (Post)Colonial Central Europe (Purdue University Press 2010), as well as articles and book chapters on media representations of the city, cultural memory, gender and migration, and everyday life in the city. Her current research project is entitled “Immigrant Mothers as Agents of Change”.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"The Moral Background"

Religious Diversity Colloquium Spring 2016
  • Date: Apr 26, 2016
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Gabriel Abend (New York University/Lichtenberg-Kolleg)
  • Gabriel Abend is an associate professor of sociology at New York University and a current fellow of the Lichtenberg-Kolleg. He got his undergraduate degree at the Universidad de la República (Montevideo, Uruguay) and his PhD at Northwestern University (Evanston, United States). One of his ongoing projects takes issue with prevalent approaches to morality, because of their overreliance on individuals’ judgments, neglect of thick concepts, and blindness to the moral background that makes moral life possible. It shows what sociological, anthropological, and historical contributions can help rectify these errors. Another line of research compares the epistemological assumptions of different social scientific communities—see his articles “The Meaning of ‘Theory’”; “Styles of Causal Thought: An Empirical Investigation” (with C. Petre and M. Sauder); and “Styles of Sociological Thought: Sociologies, Epistemologies, and the Mexican and U.S. Quests for Truth.” A third ongoing project examines how the brain figures in societies’ institutionalized understandings about love, art, religion, spirituality, empathy, and morality.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Turning Points and Action Strategies of Young Adults with Migration Backgrounds in Germany and France"

Open Lectures Spring 2016

"Religious Accommodations in a Diverse Society"

Joint Seminar Series 2015/16 "Diversity and Human Rights"
  • Date: May 11, 2016
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Alan Patten (Princeton)
  • Alan Patten is Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Politics at Princeton University. A citizen of Canada and the United States, he has a B.A. from McGill, an M.A. from Toronto and an M. Phil. and D. Phil. (1996) from Oxford. He previously taught at McGill University and the University of Exeter, and has visited at the State Islamic University of Indonesia in Jakarta. His new book, Equal Recognition: The Moral Foundations of Minority Rights, appeared in 2014 with Princeton University Press. He is also the author of Hegel’s Idea of Freedom (Oxford, 1999), which won the APSA First Book Prize in Political Theory and the C.B. Macpherson Prize awarded by the Canadian Political Science Association. He is the co-editor, with Will Kymlicka, of Language Rights and Political Theory (Oxford, 2003). His articles have appeared in Political Theory, Ethics, Philosophy & Public Affairs, Journal of Political Philosophy, History of Political Thought, and the American Political Science Review. Professor Patten has served as Associate Chair, Department of Politics, and as Acting Director, University Center for Human Values. He is currently editor of Philosophy & Public Affairs.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"New Information and Communication Technologies and ‘New’ Stratifications of Society: Evidence from Chad, Mali and Cameroon"

Open Lectures Spring 2016
  • Date: May 26, 2016
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Mirjam de Bruijn (University of Leiden)
  • Mirjam de Bruijn is professor in African Studies at Leiden University. She is a researcher at the African studies centre. Her recent research delves into the various ways we can understand new ICTs (mobile telephony, social media) in mobile and urban societies in Africa. Her research is historical-anthropological and has a firm valorization component.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Segregation and Diversity as Multiscalar Phenomena. Why we need multiscale measures to understand neighborhoods and neighborhood effects"

Open Lectures Spring 2016
  • Date: Jun 9, 2016
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Christopher S. Fowler (Penn State University)
  • Christopher Fowler is Assistant Professor of Geography and Demography at Penn State University. His research interests are centered on how benefits get distributed when cities spend money with a particular focus on processes of neighborhood change and stability linked to economic development programs.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall
Organization: Matthias Koenig (sociology, University of Göttingen, Lichtenberg Kolleg & Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity), mkoenig@gwdg.de [more]
Co-organizers: Sinem Adar • Markus Dressler • Matthias Koenig • Zeynep Özgen [more]

"Beyond Dichotomous Understandings of Host State Migration Policy: Examining ‘Ambivalence’ in Egypt, Morocco & Turkey"

Migration and Membership in Troubled Times - Ethics, Law and Politics, Seminar Series 2016/17
  • Date: Sep 20, 2016
  • Time: 11:30 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Kelsey Norman (University of California, Irvine)
  • Kelsey Norman is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. She specializes in Comparative Politics and International Relations and her research focuses on Middle East and North African states as countries of migrant and refugee settlement. Between 2012 and 2015 she conducted research in Egypt, Morocco and Turkey and has been affiliated with the Center for Migration and Refugee Studies at the American University in Cairo, the Arab-American Language Institute in Morocco, and the Center for Migration Research at Istanbul Bilgi University in Turkey. Her studies are supported by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada doctoral fellowship, and she has current and forthcoming publications in the International Journal of Migration and Border Studies, Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture, Égypte/Monde arabe, Refugee Review, The Postcolonialist, The Cairo Review of Global Affairs, Jadaliyya, Muftah, and The Washington Post’s Monkey Cage Blog.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Legal Multiculturalism: Comparing Gays and Muslims"

Migration and Membership in Troubled Times - Ethics, Law and Politics, Seminar Series 2016/17
  • Date: Oct 18, 2016
  • Time: 03:00 PM - 04:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Christian Joppke (University of Bern)
  • Christian Joppke holds a chair in sociology at the University of Bern (CH). He is also a recurrent Visiting Professor in the Nationalism Studies Program at Central European University, Budapest, and an Honorary Professor in the Department of Political Science and Government at Aarhus University. He is Member of the German Expert Council on Integration and Migration (SVR). A UC Berkeley Ph.D. (1989), Joppke has taught at the University of Southern California, European University Institute, University of British Columbia (Vancouver), International University Bremen, and the American University of Paris. He also held fellowships at Georgetown University and at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York. His recent books are Legal Integration of Islam (with John Torpey) (Harvard UP 2013), The Secular State under Siege: Religion and Politics in Europe and America (Cambridge: Polity 2015), and Is Multiculturalism Dead? Crisis and Persistence in the Constitutional State (Cambridge: Polity 2017).
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Ethnography as history: marriage and moral horizons in Mayotte"

Religious Diversity Colloquium Winter 2016/17

"Volunteering for refugees in Germany. Between social movement and charity"

Open Lectures Winter 2016/17
  • Date: Nov 1, 2016
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Serhat Karakayali (Humboldt University, Berlin)
  • Serhat Karakayali is Researcher at the Berlin Institute for Migration Research, Humboldt University. Before that he was Assistant Professor at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Halle, where he taught sociological theory. He completed his dissertation on the history of illegal immigration in Germany as a scholarship holder of the Heinrich-Böll Foundation. In the past few years his research has focussed on different forms of solidarity with migrants and refugees.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"The Politics of Secularism and Religion in France and Turkey"

Seminar Series MPI Fellow Group „Governance of Cultural Diversity – Socio-Legal Perspectives“
  • Date: Nov 3, 2016
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Murat Akan (Bosphorous University)
  • Murat Akan is Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics and Political Theory in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science (2005) from Columbia University, New York. He was a non-residential post-doctoral research fellow with the University of Amsterdam (2009-2012), and a guest researcher in-residence at the Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen (2012-2013). He will be a visiting scholar in George Washington University in July and August 2017. He has a forthcoming book from Columbia University Press on secularism in France and Turkey.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall
ETHICS, LAW AND POLITICS SYMPOSIUM [more]

"Church networks, sanctuary, and migrant activism in Europe: preliminary ideas and findings"

Open Lectures Winter 2016/17
  • Date: Nov 17, 2016
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Katharyne Mitchell (University of Washington, Seattle)
  • Katharyne Mitchell is Professor of Geography at the University of Washington. She is the author of Crossing the Neoliberal Line: Pacific Rim Migration and the Metropolis, and editor of Practising Public Scholarship: Experiences and Possibilities Beyond the Academy. Mitchell’s current research, on migration and the spaces of sanctuary in Europe, is made possible by fellowships from the Brocher Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"What Gura Killed: Wildmen, White Men, and the Beastly Excess to Differences That Matter"

Religious Diversity Colloquium Winter 2016/17
  • Date: Nov 23, 2016
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Nils Bubandt (Aarhus University)
  • Nils Bubandt is Professor of Anthropology at Aarhus University, where he (with Anna Tsing) co-directs AURA (Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene). With Mark Graham, he is also editor-in-chief of Ethnos. Recent and forthcoming publications include The Empty Seashell: Witchcraft and Doubt on an Indonesian Island (Cornell University Press, 2014); Democracy, Corruption and the Politics of Spirits in Contemporary Indonesia (Routledge 2014); and Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet (co-edited with Anna Tsing, Heather Swanson and Elaine Gan)(University of Minnesota Press, 2017).
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Diversity of asylum seekers' needs and aspirations"

Workshops, conferences 2016
Abschlussveranstaltung zum Projekt "Die Vielfalt der Bedürfnisse und Zukunftsvisionen von Geflüchteten" [more]

"Bremainers versus Brexiters: is it all about Immigration? Where did the New Political Cleavage in the UK come from and what does it mean for the Future of Party Politics in the UK"

Open Lectures Winter 2016/17
  • Date: Dec 8, 2016
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Maria Sobolewska (University of Manchester)
  • Maria Sobolewska is a Senior Lecturer in Politics (Quantitative Methods) at the University of Manchester and a member of CoDE www.ethnicity.ac.uk. She completed her doctorate on the political attitudes and voting of ethnic minorities in Britain at the University of Oxford. She works on the political integration and representation of ethnic minorities in Britain, public perceptions of integration, and the production and framing of public opinion of British Muslims. She has been part of the team conducting the Ethnic Minority British Election Survey in 2010 and is currently part of the PATHWAYS project: a seven country study of the descriptive and substantive representation of immigrant-origin minorities headed by Prof Thomas Saalfeld, University of Bamberg.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"The Law and Politics of Diversity"

Workshops, conferences 2016
Workshop organized by Ayelet Shachar, Director at the Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity In cooperation with- University of California, Berkeley- Göttingen Campus [more]

"Registers and Racialization in South Africa"

InCoLaS Workshop "Language and inequality in the age of superdiversity" : Keynote Lecture
James Collins is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University at Albany/SUNY. An anthropologist and linguist by training, his work often combines fine-grained analysis of linguistic practices with ethnographic research engaging theoretical debates about power, identity and inequality. He has done fieldwork in Native American communities in Northern California, and in urban schools and communities in the West, Midwest, and Northeast of the U.S. [more]

"Migration out of poverty or flight from collective and individual violence? Biographic self-presentations of migrants andrefugees from and in Africa"

Open Lectures Winter 2016/17
  • Date: Jan 19, 2017
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Gabriele Rosenthal (University of Göttingen)
  • Gabriele Rosenthal is Professor for Qualitative Methodology at the Center of Methods in Social Sciences, Georg-August-University of Goettingen, Germany. Major research on the intergenerational impact of the collective and familial history on biographical structures and actional patterns of individuals and family systems. Actual research on migration, ethnicity, collective and armed conflicts and trauma. Teaching qualitative methods, biographical research, family sociology and general sociology. She is the author and editor of numerous books, including The Holocaust in Three Generations (2009), Ethnicity, Belonging and Biography (2009; together with Artur Bogner) and Belonging to Outsiders and Established at the same Time. Self-Images and We-Images of Palestinians in the West Bank and in Israel (in press).
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"The Moral Right to International Freedom of Movement"

Migration and Membership in Troubled Times - Ethics, Law and Politics, Seminar Series 2016/17
  • Date: Jan 31, 2017
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Andreas Cassee (Freie Universität Berlin)
  • Andreas Cassee is a visiting fellow of the Kollegforschergruppe Justitia Amplificata at Freie Universität Berlin. He received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Zurich, where he was a research assistant at the Chair for Applied Ethics. His publications include the monograph „Globale Bewegungsfreiheit. Ein philosophisches Plädoyer für offene Grenzen“ (Suhrkamp 2016) and the volume „Migration und Ethik“ (edited with Anna Goppel, Mentis 2012).
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Beings without bodies: contemporary Catholic exorcism and the discourse of evil"

Religious Diversity Colloquium Winter 2016/17
  • Date: Feb 6, 2017
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Thomas J. Csordas (University of California San Diego)
  • Thomas J. Csordas is the Dr. James Y. Chan Presidential Chair in Global Health, Professor and Chair in the Department of Anthropology, Director of the Global Health Program, and Associate Director of the Global Health Institute at the University of California, San Diego, as well as a past president of the Society for the Anthropology of Religion and a member of the American Society for the Study of Religion. His research interests include anthropological theory, comparative religion, medical and psychological anthropology, cultural phenomenology and embodiment, globalization and social change, and language and culture. He has conducted ethnographic research among Charismatic Catholics, Navajo Indians, adolescent psychiatric patients in New Mexico, and Catholic exorcists in the United States and Italy. Among his publications are The Sacred Self: A Cultural Phenomenology of Charismatic Healing (1994); Embodiment and Experience: The Existential Ground of Culture and Self (1994); Language, Charisma, and Creativity: Ritual Life in the Catholic Charismatic Renewal (1997); Body/Meaning/Healing (2002); and Transnational Transcendence: Essays on Religion and Globalization (2009).
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Deaf spaces on Mumbai trains. A film by Annelies Kusters

Workshops, conferences 2018
Presentation of film, talk & discussion [more]

"Workshop in Visual Ethnography"

Workshops, conferences 2017
organized by the Max Planck Research Group "Empires of Memory" [more]

"Tolerance at what Cost? The Consequences of Redistribution on Multicultural Support"

Migration and Membership in Troubled Times - Ethics, Law and Politics, Seminar Series 2016/17
  • Date: Mar 22, 2017
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Sara Wallace Goodman (University of California, Irvine)
  • Sara Wallace Goodman is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. Her research examines democratic inclusion and the shaping of political identity through citizenship, immigrant integration, and education policy. She is the author of Immigration and Membership Politics in Western Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2014). Her work has also appeared in Comparative Political Studies, World Politics, West European Politics, and the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"The politics of naming and counting in the refugee crisis"

Open Lectures Spring 2017
  • Date: Mar 30, 2017
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Nando Sigona (University of Birmingham)
  • Nando Sigona is Senior Lecturer and Deputy Director of the Institute of Research into Superdiversity at the University of Birmingham. His research interests include: statelessness; Romani politics and anti-Gypsyism; ‘illegality’ and the everyday experiences of undocumented migrant children and young people; governance and governmentality of forced migration in the EU; Mediterranean boat migration; Brexit and intra-European migration; and unaccompanied youth migration. He is author or editor of books and journal’s special issues including The Oxford Handbook on Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (with Fiddian Qasmiyeh, Loescher and Long, 2014), Sans Papiers. The social and economic lives of undocumented migrants (with Bloch and Zetter, 2014) and the forthcoming Within and Beyond Citizenship: Borders, rights and belonging (2017). Nando is a founding editor of the journal Migration Studies.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Ambivalent Legacies: Memory and Amnesia in Post-Habsburg and Post-Ottoman Cities"

Workshops, conferences 2017
The empires that once defined the political geography of Europe are no more. One cannot meet a Prussian, Romanov, Habsburg, or Ottoman today; these dusty categories of affiliation have ceded to myriad national identities. Yet it would be mistaken to assume that Europe’s bygone empires have become mere relics of history. Imperial pasts continue to inspire nostalgia, identification, pride, anxiety, skepticism, and disdain in the present. The afterlives of empires as objects of memory exceed historical knowledge, precisely because these afterlives shape and recast the present and the future. Simultaneously, present- and future-oriented imperatives accentuate imperial pasts in selective ways, yielding new configurations of post-imperial amnesia as well as memory. Our conference brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars working on post-imperial legacies in relation to a variety of specific cities, including Vienna, Istanbul, Budapest, Sarajevo, Trieste, Thessaloniki, Zagreb, and Belgrade. Our contributors pursue the politics and cultures of memory in relation to two general, interrelated questions: What are the effects of imperial legacies on contemporary cities? and, How do present-day urban processes reshape the forms of post-imperial memory and forgetting? [more]

"The 2017 French presidential election: Results and prospects"

Workshops, conferences 2017
For the second time in the history of the French fifth Republic, the Front National is on the second turn of the presidential election. For the first time, both main parties – the Socialist Party with Benoit Hamon and the Republicans with François Fillon – have been beaten. During a long campaign full of twists and turns (both winners of the primaries were underdogs, fake job scandals, etc.), a new leftist force has emerged, embodied by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, and a centrist candidate, Emmanuel Macron, who never got elected before, won it all. [more]

"Skopje 2014: Monumentalizing the Past for a Majoritarian Present?"

Workshops, conferences 2017
Over the past decade, Skopje, the capital of Macedonia, has witnessed a spectacular transformation in its urban environment. A project known as “Skopje 2014,” spearheaded by former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, endowed the center of city with a plethora of neoclassical and neo-Baroque monuments, including a victory arch reminiscent of Paris’ Arc de Triomphe, a massive statue of Philip II of Macedon, and an even larger version of Alexander the Great, perched on an outsize plinth at the center of the city’s main square. [more]

"From migrant integration towards diversity mainstreaming? Between concept and (urban) reality"

Open Lectures Summer 2017
  • Date: Jun 15, 2017
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Peter Scholten (Erasmus University Rotterdam & IMISCOE)
  • Peter Scholten is Associate Professor for Public Policy at Erasmus University Rotterdam and director of IMISCOE, Europe’s largest academic research network in the area of international migration, integration and social cohesion. His work focuses on the governance of migration and migration-related diversity, on multi-level governance, and on the interaction between research and policy-making in the area of migration. Peter has published in various international journals and recently published the book ‘Politics of Migration and Immigration in Europe’ together with Andrew Geddes. Also, he is editor in chief of the journal Comparative Migration Studies and member of the editorial board of the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis. For more information, see www.peterscholten.eu
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Approximately 52 seconds: the time of prior commitment"

Religious Diversity Colloquium Spring/Summer 2017
  • Date: Jul 12, 2017
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: William Mazzarella (University of Chicago)
  • William Mazzarella is the Neukom Family Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 2001. His work deals with the political anthropology of mass publicity. He is, in addition to a broad range of articles on media, aesthetics, affect, and crowds, the author of Shoveling Smoke: Advertising and Globalization in Contemporary India (2003), Censorium: Cinema and the Open Edge of Mass Publicity (2013), and The Mana of Mass Publicity (2017). He is also the editor of K D Katrak: Collected Poems (2016) and the co-editor, with Raminder Kaur, of Censorship in South Asia: Cultural Regulation from Sedition to Seduction (2009).
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall
Co-sponsored by the Department of Religious Diversity and the Max Planck Research Group “Empires of Memory“ [more]

"The Legal Rights of Religious Refugees in the 'Exulantenstädte' of the Holy Roman Empire"

Migration and Membership in Troubled Times - Ethics, Law and Politics, Seminar Series 2016/17
  • Date: Jul 13, 2017
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Ben Kaplan (University College London)
  • Ben Kaplan is Professor at University College London, where he holds the Chair in Dutch History. He received his BA from Yale University (1981) and his PhD from Harvard (1989). Prior to UCL, he taught at Brandeis University and the University of Iowa, and from 2001 to 2011 he held a joint appointment at the University of Amsterdam. He is the recipient of numerous awards and prizes, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Leverhulme Research Fellowship. His most recent book is Cunegonde’s Kidnapping: A Story of Religious Conflict in the Age of Enlightenment, published in 2014 by Yale University Press.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Through the Looking Glass of the Local: Rereading Istanbul’s Heterogeneous Pasts"

Workshops, conferences 2017
Like any city of its size and longevity (but, then, is there any other city of both its size and longevity?), Istanbul can only be described by way of a series of contrasts that both demand and defy reconciliation: both palimpsest of historical strata and kaleidoscope of the contemporary; both text to be interpreted and object that frustrates interpretation; both brand commodity and site of silenced memories; both consumerist utopia and dystopian urban noir; both target of political-economic projects and uneven topography of powers past and present; both mundane lifeworld and myth; both the reflective nostalgia of lugubrious hüzün and the restorative nostalgia of Neo-Ottoman pomp; both May 1st and May 27th; both Gezi and Çamlıca. [more]

"Migration control and global governance: an emergent international regime?"

Open Lectures Winter 2017/18
We welcome you to the Symposium on Irfan Ahmad’s bookReligion as Critique: Islamic Critical Thinking from Mecca to the Marketplace (University of North Carolina Press, 2017 and Oxford University Press, Delhi) [more]

"Cities of refuge and those that refuse: the policy, politics and praxis of local refugee reception in Europe"

Open Lectures Winter 2017/18

"The market model: convergence and variation in immigration regimes worldwide"

Open Lectures Winter 2017/18
Workshop co-organized by Matthias Koenig (University of Göttingen & MPI MMG) and Kiyoteru Tsutsui (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor). ▪ This workshop forms part of a collaborative project that examines how legitimatingprinciples of nation-states have changed since the emergence of nation-states in the late eighteenthcentury by analyzing written constitutions. [more]

"Homo itinerans: an essay towards a global ethnography of Afghanistan"

Open Lectures Winter 2017/18
  • Date: Jan 18, 2018
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Alessandro Monsutti (Graduate Institute Geneva)
  • Alessandro Monsutti is Head of Anthropology and Sociology at the Graduate Institute Geneva. Trained as a social anthropologist, Alessandro Monsutti became a member of the faculty in 2010, after having taught at the Graduate Institute of Development Studies from 2003 to 2007. He has been Research Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies (1999-2000) and Yale University (2008-2010), Grantee of the MacArthur Foundation (2004-2006), and Visiting Professor at the University of Vienna (2012) and Arizona State University (2014). He is also Research Associate at the Refugee Studies Centre (University of Oxford). In addition, he has worked as a consultant for several international and nongovernmental organisations such as UNHCR. Among his current research interests: the political economy of reconstruction in Afghanistan as an example of emerging forms of sovereignty and global governance; asylum seekers and refugees in Europe; migrants and non-migrants in urban neighbourhoods; the changing nature of borderlands in Europe and South Asia.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Telepathy, empire, and public memory"

Open Lectures Spring/Summer 2018
  • Date: Feb 15, 2018
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Pamela E. Klassen (University of Toronto)
  • Pamela Klassen is Professor in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto. She currently holds the Anneliese Maier Research Award from the Humboldt Foundation, in support of a five-year collaborative project entitled “Religion and Public Memory in Multicultural Societies,” undertaken together with Prof. Dr. Monique Scheer of the University of Tübingen. Her writings include: Blessed Events: Religion and Home Birth in America (Princeton UP, 2001) and Spirits of Protestantism: Medicine, Healing, and Liberal Christianity (University of California Press, 2011). She has two books forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press: The Story of Radio Mind: A Missionary’s Journey on Indigenous Land, and Ekklesia: Three Inquiries in Church and State, co-authored with Paul Christopher Johnson and Winnifred Fallers Sullivan.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Vanishing frontiers: the blurring of the US-Mexico border"

Open Lectures Spring/Summer 2018
  • Date: Mar 1, 2018
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Andrew Selee (Migration Policy Institute)
  • Andrew Selee became President of the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), a think tank focused on migration processes and policies around the world, in August 2017. MPI is headquartered in Washington, DC with offices in Brussels and New York. Previously, he served as the Executive Vice President of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, as the Center’s Vice President, and as the founding Director of the Center’s Mexico Institute. In 2017 he was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship to finish the book Vanishing Frontiers, which will be published by PublicAffairs/Hachette in June 2018. His previous books include What Should Think Tanks Do? A Strategic Guide to Policy Impact (Stanford University Press, 2013), The Politics of Partnership: The United States and Mexico (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2013, edited with Peter H. Smith), Decentralization, Democratization, and Informal Power (Penn State University Press, 2011), Mexico’s Democratic Challenges (Stanford University Press, 2010, edited with Jacqueline Peschard), and Decentralization, Democratic Governance, and Civil Society in Comparative Perspective (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003, edited with Philip Oxhorn and Joseph Tulchin). Selee holds a PhD in Policy Studies from the University of Maryland, and he taught courses from 2006 to 2016 at both Johns Hopkins University and George Washington University.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Contested understandings of concepts of racial and ethnic discrimination: a critical exploration"

Open Lectures Spring/Summer 2018
  • Date: Mar 8, 2018
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: John Wrench (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim)
  • John Wrench is Visiting Professor in the Centre for Diversity and Inclusion at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, and Honorary Professor at the Department of Culture and Global Studies’ Aalborg University. Until 2010 he was senior researcher at the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights in Vienna, responsible for European comparative research projects on migration. He has researched and published for many years in the area of ethnic inclusion and discrimination in the labour market, first at the University of Warwick, and later at the University of Southern Denmark. His publications include Diversity Management and Discrimination: Immigrants and Ethnic Minorities in the EU, Ashgate (2007), and Equal Opportunities and Ethnic Inequality in European Labour Markets: Discrimination, gender and policies of diversity, University of Amsterdam Press, (with Karen Kraal and Judith Roosblad), 2009.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall
Industrial capitalism did not merely transform the nature of production, Walter Benjamin reminds us; it made waste a source of value. But if the slag-heaps and refuse dumps of industrial production have become the locus of new economic and social forms, they are often also zones of informality and exception, abandonment and precarity—from which the institutions of law and policing have been withdrawn. [more]

"When states come out: transnational movements and the diffusion of LGBT rights in Europe"

Open Lectures Spring/Summer 2018
  • Date: May 31, 2018
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Phillip M. Ayoub (Drexel University, Philadelphia)
  • Phillip M. Ayoub is Assistant Professor of Politics at Drexel University. His research bridges insights from international relations and comparative politics, engaging with literature on transnational politics, sexuality and gender, norm diffusion, and the study of social movements. He received the biennial 2013-2014 award for the best dissertation from the European Union Studies Association, as well as the 2014 Kenneth Sherrill Award for the best dissertation in the field of sexuality and politics, and the 2014 award for the best dissertation in the field of human rights from sections of the American Political Science Association. His articles have appeared in Comparative Political Studies, the European Journal of International Relations, Mobilization, the European Political Science Review, the Journal of Human Rights, and Social Movement Studies, among others.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Unpacking the Ageing-Migration Nexus"

Keynote Lecture
  • Date: Oct 23, 2018
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Russell King (University of Sussex)
  • Russell King is Professor of Geography at the University of Sussex, where he founded and directed the Sussex Centre for Migration Research. During 2012-13 he was Willy Brandt Guest Professor in Migration Studies at Malmö University. He has long-standing and wide- ranging research interests in the interdisciplinary field of migration studies, including theorizing migration in its various forms, and empirical studies on labour migration, international retirement migration, student migration, return migration, diasporas, and the relationship between migration and development. Most of his field research has been carried out in Southern Europe and the Balkans. Amongst his recent books have been Counter- Diaspora: The Greek Second Generation Returns ‘Home’ (Harvard University Press, 2015, joint with Anastasia Christou), Remittances, Gender and Development (I.B. Tauris, 2011, joint with Julie Vullnetari), and Out of Albania (Berghahn, 2008, joint with Nicola Mai). From 2000 to 2013 he was the editor of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Ageing and Mobility: Care, Generations, and Citizenship beyond the Views of the West"

Keynote Lecture
  • Date: Oct 23, 2018
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Sarah Lamb (Brandeis University)
  • Sarah Lamb is Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University. Her research focuses on ageing, gender, families, ethical strivings, and understandings of personhood in India and the United States. Her books include: White Saris and Sweet Mangoes: Aging, Gender and Body in North India; Aging and the Indian Diaspora: Cosmopolitan Families in India and Abroad; and (as editor) Successful Aging as a Contemporary Obsession: Global Perspectives. She is the editor of the Rutgers University Press book series Global Perspectives on Aging.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"The Family, Human Rights and Internationalism"

Workshops, conferences 2018
- by intivation only - Conference organized by Dr Julia Moses, Dept. of History, University of Sheffield & Institute of Sociology, University of Göttingen and Prof Matthias Koenig, Institute of Sociology, University of Göttingen & Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity ▪ Keynote speakers include Professor Glenda Sluga (University of Sydney) and Professor Miloš Vec (University of Vienna) [more]
Conference organized by the Department of Ethics, Law and Politics at the MPI-MMG and the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship in Comparative Constitutionalism [more]

"INSIDE OUT - OUTSIDE IN. Shifting architectures of refugee inhabitation"

Workshops, conferences 2018
Conference organized by Shahd Wari (MPI-MMG), Somayeh Chitchian (MPI-MMG) and Maja Momic (HCU Hamburg) [more]
Conveners: Patrick Eisenlohr (Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of Göttingen) and Peter van der Veer (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen) [more]
Workshop organized by the Department of Ethics, Law and Politics at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, and Normative Orders, Frankfurt • Cosponsored by Normative Orders/Goethe University Frankfurt, and the Max Planck Fellow Group in Comparative Constitutionalism [more]

"EDINOST & EUROPEAN EDINOST. Co-writing and Art platforms for dialogue on Memory politics, migration & antifascism"

  • Date: Oct 14, 2019
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Alessio Mazzaro (IUAV University Venice)
  • Alessio Mazzaro (Italy, 1985) is a visual artist, director and researcher on questions of history. His practice mainly involves sound pieces and performance, using field recordings, interviews, and discursive and participatory practices. Working on the discrepancies between subjectivity and history, he is attracted by peculiar voices that speak of a more complex and human history and reality. He graduated in Envioronmental Engineering (Bsc and Msc), and studied Fine Art and Theatre at IUAV University (BA). Mazzaro has given performances in different workshops at important institutions such as Biennale College Teatro (Venice) and Workspace Brussels. In recent years he was an assistant of Flaka Haliti at the 56th Biennale d’Arte di Venezia and of Petrit Halilaj at the 55th Biennale (Kosovo Pavilion, 2015, 2013).
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall
This October, Alessio Mazzaro will run a workshop as part of the activities of the Stadtlabor, to co-create and co-write a fanzine publication on co-habitation in Europe. The fanzine represents the new issue of European Edinost, an editorial project and investigation run by Mazzaro within the program “Courageous Citizens of the European Cultural Foundation.” On this occasion the lecture will present the story of Edinost, starting with its two years of activity in Trieste (Italy) as a communi-ty-based project, and, then, its European journey. [more]

"Goodbye Tocqueville? Christianity and Democracy in Trump’s America"

  • Date: Nov 6, 2019
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Philip Gorski (Yale University · Lichtenberg Kolleg)
  • PHILIP GORSKI is Professor of Sociology and Religious Studies at Yale University and a Senior Fellow at the Lichtenberg Kolleg. He is a historical sociologist focusing on the interplay of religion and politics in early mod-ern and modern Western Europe and North America. He is currently completing a book entitled “American Babylon: Christianity and Democracy Before and After Trump.”
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall
Co-organized by the Department of Ethics, Law and Politics and the Department of Socio-Cultural Diversity [more]

"Conditional Belonging"

Public Lectures Winter 2019/20
  • Date: Nov 13, 2019
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Tamar de Waal (University of Amsterdam)
  • TAMAR DE WAAL is Assistant Professor at Amsterdam Law School (University of Amsterdam). In 2017 she defended her disser-tation Conditional Belonging on the proliferation of integration re-quirements in EU Member States, for which she received the VWR-dissertation prize for best disser-tation in legal philosophy in the Netherlands. It examines the rela-tionship between the proclaimed commitment of Member States states to the core liberal-demo-cratic values of the EU and their actual integration laws and prac-tices. During her visit at MPI she will be revising her dissertation for publication as a monograph at Hart Publishing.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Quo vadis, migration studies? Towards a migratory epistemology. A critical reflection of the conventional concepts used in migration studies"

  • Date: Nov 19, 2019
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Franck Düvell (German Institute for Integration and Migration Research, Berlin)
  • FRANCK DÜVELL, PhD, is head of the migration department at the new German Centre for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM), Berlin (since 2018). Previously, he was associate professor and senior researcher at the Centre for Migration, Policy and Society at the University of Oxford. Franck is an expert on refugee, irregular and transit migration and migration governance, specifically in the EU and its neighbourhood. He has also worked for the International Centre for Migration Policy Development, SEO Amsterdam Economics, the Nicolaas Witsen Foundation, the University of Exeter and University of Bremen and did consultancies for the IOM, OSCE, and World Bank and provided evidence to the EU Council, the Council of Europe, the British parliament, the Turkish Directorate General for Migration Management and many others. He has published 10 books and over 50 peer-reviewed articles.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Mass Media Science Communication"

Workshops, conferences 2019
Internal workshop [more]

"Managing Religious Diversity: The Law of ‘Religious Harmony’"

  • Date: Dec 4, 2019
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Jaclyn L. Neo (National University of Singapore)
  • JACLYN L. NEO is Associate Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore (NUS) where she specializes in constitutional law, as well as law and religion. Her work aims to forefront Asian jurisdictions and mainstream them in comparative constitutional law. A graduate of NUS Faculty of Law and Yale Law School, Jaclyn is a recipient of multiple academic scholarships and competitive research grants. She has published in leading journals in her field, including the International Journal of Constitutional Law (I-CON) and the Oxford Journal of Law and Religion. She is the editor of Constitutional Interpretation in Singapore: Theory and Practice (Routledge, 2017) and co-editor of Pluralist Constitutions in Southeast Asia (Hart, 2019), and Regulating Religion in Asia: Norms, Modes, and Challenges (Cambridge University Press, 2019). She has also served as guest editor for the Journal of Law, Religion, and State, the Journal of International and Comparative Law, the Journal of Comparative Law, and the Singapore Academy of Law Journal. Starting 1 January 2020, she will assume the directorship of the Centre for Asian Legal Studies at NUS.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Open Lectures Winter 2020"

"Interconnected Mobilities: Social Mobility, Pentecostalism and Marriage in Africa"

Open Lectures Winter 2020
  • Date: Jan 14, 2020
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Rijk van Dijk (Leiden University)
  • RIJK VAN DIJK is a Professor in the study of religion in contemporary Africa and its Diaspora at the African Studies Centre, Leiden University. He is the former Editor-in-chief of the Brill-published journal ‘African Diaspora’. He coedited The Quest for Fruition through Ngoma (2000), with R. Reis and M. Spierenburg; The Social Life of Connectivity in Africa (2012), with M. de Bruijn; and Religion and aids Treatment in Africa (2014), with H. Dilger, M. Burchardt, and Th. Rasing. His current research is on Pentecostalism, consumerism, and marriage in Botswana, on which he recently published; “The Tent versus Lobola : Marriage, Monetary Intimacies and the New Face of Responsibility in Botswana”, Anthropology Southern Africa 2017, 40 (1): 29-41.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"The Current State of Immigration Law and Policy in the United States"

Open Lectures Winter 2020
  • Date: Jan 22, 2020
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: 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 a member 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.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Material Temporalities"

Workshops, conferences 2020
A workshop organized by Jeremy F. Walton (MPI-MMG), Patrick Eisenlohr (CeMIS, University of Göttingen) and Sasha Newell (Université Libre de Bruxelles) [more]

"Eritreans and Ethiopians in Sudan: Feminist Perspectives on Migration, Gender and Transitions to Adulthood"

Open Lectures Winter 2020
  • Date: Jan 30, 2020
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Katarzyna Elzbieta Grabska (Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University in the Hague)
  • KATARZYNA (Kasia) GRABSKA – is a social anthropologist and a senior lecturer at the Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University in the Hague, the Netherlands. Her research focuses on gender, generation, youth, displacement, refuges, return, and identities, access to rights for refugees in urban settings. She has researched on displacement and forced migration issues in Egypt, Kenya, Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kyrgyzstan, and Vietnam. Kasia works with visual media, art-based research, feminist methodologies, and participatory methodologies. Since 2002, she has been carrying out a longitudinal study of gender relation transformations among Nuer from South Sudan in Egypt, Kenya, South Sudan and in Sudan, Khartoum. Her most recent research focuses on adolescent refugee girls’ experiences in Sudan, and on refugees’ involvement in civic change and hosting refugees in Sudan and in Switzerland. She collaborates often with artists in her research, and engages with art-based research to understand issues of belonging, displacement, mobilities and identities. She also is a film-maker. In 2016, in collaboration with a team of researchers and filmmakers, she produced a film based on her collaborative research project Time to look at girls: migrants in Ethiopia and Bangladesh. The long version of the film, 2 Girls, has been shown at over 30 film festivals and awarded 10 first prizes. She is also the writer, producer and co-director of the film Barbara Harrell-Bond: a life not ordinary (2018). She has published extensively on issues of gender relations and displacement. Kasia is the author of Gender, Identity and Home: Nuer repatriation to South Sudan (2014) which received the Armory Talbot Prize in 2015, co-editor of Forced Migration: Why Rights Matter? (2008), and a co-writer of Adolescent Girls’ Migration in the Global South: Transitions into Adulthood (2019).
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

CANCELLED - "Islamic Movements in India: Moderation and its Discontents"

Workshops, conferences 2020
We welcome you to the Symposium on Arndt Emmerich’s book"Islamic Movements in India: Moderation and its Discontents" (Routledge, London 2020) [more]
HANNAH POHL is a Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies. Her research interests lie at the intersection between economic sociology and critical migration studies with a particular focus on migration trajectories and bordering processes. For her PhD thesis she conducted a multi-sited ethnography on Afghan migration trajectories in Iran, Turkey, Greece, and along the so-called Balkan route. She has been a visiting researcher at COMPAS Oxford University, Columbia University, and the Berlin Centre for Social Science. [more]
Workshop organized by Katharyne Mitchell and Noor Amr [more]

Indigenous Peoples and Religious Modes of Othering: A Comparative History of Religions Perspective

Workshops, conferences 2023
A joint initiative by: Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen · Diversity Studies Centre Oslo (DISCO), Oslo Metropolitan University · Indigenous Values Initiative, Syracuse University Henry Luce Project, American Indian Law Alliance [more]
Workshop participants (from left to right, bottom to top): Mira Burmeister-Rudolph (bottom left), Ángel A. Escamilla Garcia, Heike Drotbohm, Steven Vertovec, Adrian Favell (middle left), Amanda Cheong, Johanna M Lukate, Ulrike Bialas, Kiya Gezahegne (top left), Carolyn Choi, Gabriela Mezzanotti, Cecilia Menjívar [more]

"Encounters with Diversity: How the Local Matters"

Events 2023
This symposium brings together scholars from sociology, anthropology, geography, and critical migration studies around the theme of the “local” as a vantage point to research and theorize issues of migration-related diversity and social interaction. [more]

"Disentangling the Multiplicity of Crises: Im/mobilities and Uncertainties beyond Perceptions of Emergency "

Events 2023
DFG-funded network: Migration and im/mobilities in the Global South in Pandemic Times · 3rd network meeting (MPI-MMG Göttingen) · Organizer: Heike Drotbohm, Mainz University [more]
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