Events

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"Urban Aspirations in Seoul (The Seoul Lab)"

Workshops, conferences 2012
  • Start: Dec 17, 2012
  • End: Dec 18, 2012
  • Location: RILCA, Mahidol University, Thailand
The 2nd Lab Meeting Program. The Seoul Lab workshop aims to share preliminary findings and future plans among the researchers, and further to make important decisions relating to the forthcoming international conference (June 26-7, 2013, Seoul). [more]

"From Urban Marginality to Marginal Urbanity"

Institute Colloquium Winter 2012/13
  • Date: Dec 13, 2012
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Felicitas Hillmann (Freie Universität Berlin)
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"ILLNESS NARRATIVE REVISITED. From the Semiotics of Language to the Materiality of Speech"

Workshops, conferences 2012
  • Start: Dec 6, 2012 09:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Dec 8, 2012 01:00 PM
  • Location: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford
  • Room: 64 Banbury Road, OX2 6PN
A conference of Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, and the Working Group Medical Diversity at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen. Organised by the Medical Anthropology at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (David Parkin and Elisabeth Hsu), the Health Experience Group in the Primary Care Department (Louise Locock), and the Literature and Medicine academic initiative, Green Templeton College (Laurie Maguire), University of Oxford, together with the Working Group Medical Diversity at the Max Planck Institute, Göttingen (Gabi Alex and Kristine Krause). [more]

"Urbanization in Between: Theorizing Urbanization in Rapidly Industrializing China"

Tuesday Seminar Winter 2012/2013
  • Date: Nov 27, 2012
  • Time: 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Andrew Kipnis (Australian National University)
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
  • Room: Conference Room

"Why Canada’s Conservative Party Supports Multiculturalism: How Political Incentives Can Drive Ideological Innovation"

Institute Colloquium Winter 2012/13
  • Date: Nov 22, 2012
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Triadafilos Triadafilopoulos (University of Toronto)
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Social life of Banknotes"

Tuesday Seminar Winter 2012/2013
  • Date: Nov 20, 2012
  • Time: 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Rumin Luo (MPI-MMG)
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
  • Room: Conference Room

"Migrant Encounters"

A Photography Exhibition
  • Date: Nov 17, 2012
  • Time: 08:00 AM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: 52 & 53 Duxton Road
  • Room: The Pigeonhole
A joint project by Helthservice and MPI-MMG, convened by Junhjia Ye (MPI-MMG), Shuxia Tai and Jessie Koh. [more]

"Religion in Contemporary China Workshop"

Workshops, conferences 2012
  • Date: Nov 7, 2012
  • Time: 09:10 AM - 04:40 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall
Visiting institution: Institute of World Religions, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). [more]

"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

"Translating the Apocalypse: Polyglot Pentecostalism and Interlinguistic Intimacy in Dharavi Mumbai"

Tuesday Seminar Winter 2012/2013
  • Date: Oct 30, 2012
  • Time: 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speakers: Nathaniel Roberts (MPI-MMG) and Rupa Viswanath (University of Göttingen)
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
  • Room: Conference Room
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