Events

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Location: Zoom Meeting

ALUMNI HOUR | Gabriele Alex (University of Tübingen): “To, for, and on behalf of whom do we speak? Collaboration, participation, and questions of representation around research and publishing"

  • Date: Dec 5, 2023
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Gabriele Alex (University of Tübingen)
  • Gabriele Alex is full professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. She was one of the earliest Research Fellows at MPI MMG from 2009 until 2011. Before joining the Max Planck Institute, she was Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology while also serving as Director of the Master’s Program Health and Society in South Asia at the South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg. She has taught at various Universities in Germany, Slovenia, and Switzerland. She is one of the editors of the Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology.
  • Location: Zoom Meeting

ALUMNI HOUR | Maria Schiller (Erasmus University Rotterdam): “Ideas, networks and power in European local diversity policymaking: a personal account of my research trajectory"

  • Date: Oct 5, 2023
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Maria Schiller (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
  • Maria Schiller is Associate Professor of Public policy, Migration, and Diversity at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her work is motivated by the desire to understand and capture public policymaking on migration and diversity, with a focus on Europe, often comparing across countries and cities. In her research, she is interested in the practices and networks involved in governing migration-related diversity and investigates the role of officials, civil society, and private actors therein. Previously, she was a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen, a Substitute Assistant Professor at the University of Tübingen, a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Kent, and a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Vienna. She holds a Ph.D. in Migration Studies (2014) from the University of Kent.
  • Location: Zoom Meeting

ALUMNI HOUR | Benjamin Boudou (University of Rennes): “On academic hope”

  • Date: May 9, 2023
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Benjamin Boudou (University of Rennes)
  • Benjamin Boudou is a professor of political science at the University of Rennes. He is the editor of the political theory journal Raisons Politiques and a fellow at the French Collaborative Institute on Migration. He is the author of Politique de l'hospitalité: Une généalogie conceptuelle [Politics of hospitality: A conceptual genealogy] (CNRS Éditions, 2017) and Le dilemme des frontières [The Border Dilemma: Ethics and politics of immigration] (EHSS Editions, 2018). He has recently published in Social Research, European Journal of Political Theory, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Migration and Society, and Essays in Philosophy.
  • Location: Zoom Meeting

ALUMNI HOUR | Sahana Udupa (University of Munich): “Surviving or thriving? Work and life in Germany as an ‘international’ scholar”

  • Date: Feb 14, 2023
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Sahana Udupa (University of Munich)
  • Sahana Udupa is Professor of Media Anthropology at the University of Munich (LMU München) and Principal Investigator of the For Digital Dignity Research Network. She teaches and researches online extreme speech, politics of artificial intelligence, critical digital studies, news and journalism, and media policy. Her latest publications include the research paper on digital technology and extreme speech commissioned by the United Nations (2021), co-authored monograph, Digital Unsettling: Decoloniality and Dispossession in the Age of Social Media (New York University Press, 2023, with E.G. Dattatreyan), co-edited volume, Digital Hate: The Global Conjuncture of Extreme Speech (Indiana University Press, 2021). Udupa is the recipient of Joan Shorenstein Fellowship at the Harvard Kennedy School, European Research Council Grant Awards and Francqui Chair (Belgium).
  • Location: Zoom Meeting
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