MPI-MMG@Conferences

A joint event of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science and Humanities (BBAW), the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance and the Max Planck Institute for Religious and Ethnic 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
Workshop at Meertens Institute, Amsterdam [more]

"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]
Internal author workshop organized by Christine Lang (MPI-MMG Göttingen), Andreas Pott (IMIS/Osnabrück University) and Kyoko Shinozaki (Salzburg University). [more]

"Brown struggles and hoary settlers:the fragmented chronicles of Panjabis in Southall"

  • Date: Dec 3, 2019
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Sara Bonfanti (University of Trento)
  • Sara Bonfanti is a social anthropologist, specialized in gender studies, with expertise on South Asian diaspo-ras. She was awarded a PhD in Anthropology of Mi-grations for her multisite ethnography conducted be-tween Italy and India, analyzing generational change among Punjabi transnational families.
  • Location: Video Conference

"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

"Ritual and Pluralism: Religious Variations on Socialist Death Rituals in Urban China”

  • Date: Dec 9, 2019
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Huwy-min Lucia Liu (George Mason University)
  • Huwy-min Lucia Liu is an Assistant Professor in the Depart-ment of Sociology and Anthropology at George Mason University in the United States since 2019. Before joining Mason, she was an Assistant Professor in the Division of Humanities at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Dr. Liu received her PhD from the Anthropology Department at Boston University in 2015. Dr. Liu is a cultural anthropolo-gist whose research interests cover topics in politics, religions, socialism and change, subjectivity and governance, life and death study, rituals, and emotion. She is currently working on a book tentatively titled, Governing Death, Making Persons: The New Chinese Way of Death.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
  • Room: Conference Room

"Refugee and Migration Law Workshop"

Workshops, conferences 2019
Workshop organized by Tendayi Achiume (UCLA School of Law), Katerina Linos (Berkeley Law), Itamar Mann (University of Haifa Faculty of Law) and Ayelet Shachar (MPI-MMG). [more]

"The Art of Memory: A Sudanese Mystery"

Telling Times: Memories of Culture, Cultures of Memory - Lecture Series 2019
  • Date: Dec 16, 2019
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Noah Salomon (Carleton College)
  • Noah Salomon is Associate Professor of Religion at Carleton College. His first book, For Love of the Prophet: An Ethnography of Sudan’s Islamic State (Princeton University Press, 2016) examines the inner-workings of an Islamic political project and its refractions as it sought to reform state and society, and was in turn reformed by them. It won the 2017 Albert Hourani Prize from the Middle East Studies Association and a 2017 Excellence in the Study of Religion Award from the American Academy of Religion. A recent recipient of a Mellon New Directions Fellowship, Salomon is currently based in Beirut, Lebanon, working on a transregional project on the ethics of Islamic unity in the context of popular revolution and in its aftermath.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
  • Room: Conference Room

"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

"Religious Diversity Colloquium Spring/Summer 2020"

"Religion and the Nation-Form"

CANCELLED - "The unbearable lightness of trust: trade, masculinity and the life-world of Indian export agents in Yiwu, China"

Religious Diversity Colloquium Spring/Summer 2020
  • Date: Mar 30, 2020
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Filippo Osella (University of Sussex)
  • FILIPPO OSELLA is Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies at the University of Sussex (UK). Since3 1989 he has conducted research in Kerala (India), Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and in a number countries in the Gulf. His recent books include Islam, Politics and Anthropology (with B. Soares, 2010), Islamic Reforms in South Asia (with C. Osella, 2012), Religion and the Morality of the Market (with D. Rudnyckyj, 2017). Last year he has co-edited (with S. Ramaswamy) a special issue of Modern Asian Studies on “Charity and Philanthropy in South Asia” (2018). His current research focuses on trading networks between China, India and West Asia, and he has recently begun research on a two years, ESRC-funded project on artisanal fishers’ attitudes towards risk in Kerala (India).
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
  • Room: Conference Room

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]

"The appearance of history: approaching lottery divination in Chinese Buddhist temples in China today"

Religious Diversity Colloquium Spring/Summer 2020
  • Date: Apr 20, 2020
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Shen Yang (MPI-MMG)
  • YANG SHEN is a cultural anthropologist focusing on religion and secularism. Her work examines how humans become the ways they are at the intersection of political history, religious institutions, and cultural traditions.
  • Location: Video Conference

"Setting up a Muslim-Christian kindergarten – Interfaith dialogue at the local level in Germany""

Religious Diversity Colloquium Spring/Summer 2020
  • Date: May 11, 2020
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Arndt Emmerich (MPI-MMG)
  • ARNDT EMMERICH is a Research Fellow in the Department of Religious Diversity. As part of his new project, he will analyse the role of local mosque activism during the German refugee crisis through a comparative neighbourhood perspective.
  • Location: Video Conference

Discussion on theoretical writings on death and mourning, and on personhood, individualism, and the porosity of the self

Religious Diversity Colloquium Spring/Summer 2020
  • Date: May 25, 2020
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Peter van der Veer (MPI-MMG)
  • PETER VAN DER VEER is Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity at Göttingen.
  • Location: Video Conference

"Sacred matters"

"Terrorism in question: toward a new public anthropology"

Religious Diversity Colloquium Spring/Summer 2020
  • Date: Jun 15, 2020
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Irfan Ahmad (MPI-MMG)
  • IRFAN AHMAD is a Senior Research Fellow working on a book manuscript provisionally titled "Terrorism in Question: Toward An Anthropological Approach".
  • Location: Video Conference

WriteLab

Workshops, conferences 2020
  • Date: Jun 16, 2020
  • Time: 06:00 PM - 07:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: Video Conference
WriteLab is a space in which to workshop your writing. [more]

"Rethinking Gandhi’s secularism: how did Gandhi’s brahmacarya relate to his last political vision?"

Religious Diversity Colloquium Spring/Summer 2020
  • Date: Jun 22, 2020
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Eijiro Hazama (University of Tokyo)
  • EIJIRO HAZAMA specializes in South Asian intellectual history and historical anthropology, particularly the contemporary “post-enlightenment” issues revolving around nationalism, secularism, and the epistemological modernization in India.
  • Location: Video Conference

"Climate Change and Migration” and “Pathways to Sustainability"

Inhouse Discussion 2020
  • Date: Jun 25, 2020
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: Video Conference
Organized by the Ethics, Law and Politics Department [more]

WriteLab

Workshops, conferences 2020
  • Date: Jun 30, 2020
  • Time: 06:00 PM - 07:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: Video Conference
WriteLab is a space in which to workshop your writing. [more]

"Ritual and Anti-Ritual"

IMISCOE Standing Committee Migration, Citizenship and Political Participation (MIGCITPOL) Inaugural Workshop [more]

Stones May Break: On the Politics of Monumentalization in Times of Toppling Statues

Webinar 2020
  • Date: Oct 5, 2020
  • Time: 01:30 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: Zoom Meeting
A Zoom-based webinar hosted by the Max Planck Research Group “Empires of Memory: The Cultural Politics of Historicity in Former Habsburg and Ottoman Lands” [more]

"The Here and Now in Forced Migration: Everyday Intimacies, Imaginaries and Bureaucracies" "

Workshops, conferences 2020
  • Start: Oct 21, 2020
  • End: Oct 23, 2020
  • Location: Zoom Meeting
An international workshop organised by the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity [more]

"Germans without Footnotes: Islam, Belonging and Poetry Slam in Berlin"

  • Date: Oct 28, 2020
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Katarzyna Puzon (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
  • Katarzyna Puzon is an anthropologist and Research Fellow at the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMAH), Institute of European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
  • Location: Zoom Meeting

DNA Forensics and the Aftermath of Wars: Anthropological Feedback from Vietnam, the U.S, and the Middle East

Workshops, conferences 2020
  • Date: Nov 6, 2020
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: Zoom Meeting
Previous participation notice to q.nguyen@niod.knaw.nl is requested for sending the zoom link. [more]

Hagia Sophia’s Conversions: Reflections on the Political, Temporal, and Aesthetic Dimensions of Heritage

Workshops, conferences 2020
  • Date: Nov 10, 2020
  • Time: 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: Zoom Meeting
A Zoom-based webinar hosted by the Max Planck Research Group, “Empires of Memory: The Cultural Politics of Historicity in Former Habsburg and Ottoman Cities” [more]

"Missing in Action: DNA forensics and Vietnamese spirituality"

"Aspiring in Later Life: Making Selves, Places, Relations Across Locales"

Workshops, conferences 2020
  • Start: Nov 18, 2020
  • End: Nov 19, 2020
  • Location: Zoom Meeting
A workshop organized by the Max Planck Research Group “Ageing in a Time of Mobility” [more]

"Mothering Practices in Times of Legal Precarity"

Workshops, conferences 2020
A webinar organised by the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. [more]

"COVID-19 and Phyto-Religious Assemblages: An African Response to a Neo-Imperial Pandemic"

Religious Diversity Colloquium 2020

"Ethics of Abstraction: Death, Data, and Anonymity in the Philippines"

"Intersections of Religion and Race: Law, Politics, and everyday Life"

Workshops, conferences 2020
  • Start: Dec 9, 2020
  • End: Dec 10, 2020
  • Location: Zoom Meeting
Online Workshop at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity Organized by the Ethics, Law and Politics Department [more]

"The Social Production of our Moral Indifference: Muslims, Whiteness and the Wreckage of Racialization"

  • Date: Dec 9, 2020
  • Time: 04:15 PM - 05:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Nasar Meer (University of Edinburgh)
  • NASAR MEER is Professor of Race, Identity and Citizenship at the University of Edinburgh, and is the Principle Investigator of the JPI ERA Net / Horizon 2020 GLIMER project, examining the governance and local integration of migrants and Europe’s refugees.
  • Location: Zoom Meeting
Public Lecture at the Online Workshop “Intersections of Religion and Race: Law, Politics, and Everyday Life”, organized by the Department of Ethics, Law and Politics [more]

"Furnishing a foreign home: Habsburg Sarajevo’s Ottoman heritage coped with, appropriated, and displayed"

  • Date: Dec 10, 2020
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Maximilian Hartmuth (Universität Wien)
  • Maximilian Hartmuth is principal investigator in the ERC project “Islamic Architecture and Orientalizing Style in Habsburg Bosnia, 1878-1918” (ERC#758099, 2018-2023).
  • Location: Zoom Meeting

WriteLab

Workshops, conferences 2021
  • Date: Jan 12, 2021
  • Time: 05:30 PM - 06:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: Video Conference
WriteLab is a space in which to workshop your writing. [more]

Book and article presentation: “Sultanic Saviors and Tolerant Turks: Writing Ottoman Jewish History, Denying the Armenian Genocide”

"Southern Re-Configurations of the Ageing-Migration Nexus"

Workshops, conferences 2021
  • Start: Jan 21, 2021
  • End: Jan 22, 2021
  • Location: Zoom Meeting
A Special Issue project with the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (JEMS) (Eds. Dora Sampaio and Megha Amrith) [more]

"Ta'al Bachir (Come Tomorrow): The Politics of Waiting for Citizenship"

Harney Lecture Series - Winter 2021
Lecture Series hosted by the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto and co-sponsored with the Department of Ethics, Law and Politics [more]

"Organisationaler Wandel durch Migration? Beispiele aus der Zivilgesellschaft"

Workshops, conferences 2021
Auf dieser Abschlusskonferenz des vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) geförderten Verbundprojekts mit dem Titel „Zivilgesellschaftliche Organisationen und die Herausforderung von Migration und Diversität – Agents of change“ (ZOMiDi) werden ausgewählte Forschungsergebnisse vorgestellt und mit Akteur*innen aus der Zivilgesellschaft diskutiert. [more]

"Recognizing Hindu Orientalism"

  • Date: Jan 26, 2021
  • Time: 05:00 PM - 07:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Irfan Ahmad (MPI-MMG)
  • IRFAN AHMAD is a Senior Research Fellow working on a book manuscript provisionally titled "Terrorism in Question: Toward An Anthropological Approach".
  • Location: Video Conference
Guest lecture hosted by the Dept. of Indology at Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen [more]

“Plagued Legacies: Rethinking Black Death Narratives”

Telling Times: Memories of Culture, Cultures of Memory

Virtual Book Launch by Arndt Emmerich (MPI-MMG) on "Islamic Movements in India"

Workshops, conferences 2021
  • Date: Jan 29, 2021
  • Time: 06:30 PM - 08:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: Zoom Meeting
Hosted by the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. [more]

"Religion, Care and Reconciliation"

Religious Diversity Colloquium 2021

"Shaheen Bagh Is Not An Event of the Past, It Is An Interrupted Future"

  • Date: Feb 3, 2021
  • Time: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Irfan Ahmad (MPI-MMG)
  • IRFAN AHMAD is a Senior Research Fellow working on a book manuscript provisionally titled "Terrorism in Question: Toward An Anthropological Approach".
  • Location: Video Conference
Virtual public lecture hosted by the Hyderabad Central University [more]

"Racial Borders"

Harney Lecture Series - Winter 2021
Lecture Series hosted by the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto and co-sponsored with the Department of Ethics, Law and Politics [more]

WriteLab

Workshops, conferences 2021
  • Date: Feb 9, 2021
  • Time: 05:00 PM - 07:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: Video Conference
WriteLab is a space in which to workshop your writing. [more]

"Corona Conversations: Mobility in a (Post) COVID Future"

A virtual public talk on the rise of nationalism and its effects on the diasporic communities in a post-Covid world. Hosted by the University of Cologne [more]

"Automation and Immigration"

Harney Lecture Series - Winter 2021
Lecture Series hosted by the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto and co-sponsored with the Department of Ethics, Law and Politics [more]

Anthropology of Science, Technology and Death Seminar

  • Date: Mar 1, 2021
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Tam Ngo (MPI-MMG/NIOD)
  • TAM NGO works half-time at the MPI and half-time at the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation (NIOD) in Amsterdam.
  • Location: Video Conference

"Ending the “Double Death”: Objective Science, The Moral Claims to Rebury the Disappeared, and Rewriting Spain’s Violent Past"

Religious Diversity Colloquium 2021
  • Date: Mar 4, 2021
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Nicole Iturriaga (MPI-MMG)
  • NICOLE ITURRIAGA is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Religious and Ethnic diversity.
  • Location: Video Conference

"Citizenship and Human Rights"

Max Planck Law Lecture

"The Rise of Authoritarianism and Populism"

Harney Lecture Series - Winter 2021
  • Date: Mar 11, 2021
  • Time: 04:10 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: ROUNDTABLE
  • Co-sponsor: Faculty of Law
  • Location: Toronto
Lecture Series hosted by the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto and co-sponsored with the Department of Ethics, Law and Politics [more]

"How Embedded Interventions Controlled Contagion: Ideas, Institutions and the First Vaccine in China and India"

Harney Lecture Series - Winter 2021
Lecture Series hosted by the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto and co-sponsored with the Department of Ethics, Law and Politics [more]

Book talk for The National Frame

"Unravelling the Nationalist Myth of Gandhian Non-Violence: How Did Gandhi Invent His “Hindu” Notion of Ahiṃsā?"

  • Date: Mar 30, 2021
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Eijiro Hazama (University of Shiga Prefecture/University of Tokyo, Japan)
  • EIJIRO HAZAMA (Ph.D.) has been a JSPS Post-doctoral Fellow at MPI-MMG from April 2020. He specializes in South Asian intellectual history and cultural anthropology, particularly contemporary ‘post-enlightenment’ issues revolving around nationalism, secularism, and epistemological modernization in India.
  • Location: Video Conference

"Ritual Polyphony"

  • Date: Apr 8, 2021
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Kenneth Dean (NUS)
  • KENNETH DEAN is the Raffles Professor in the Humanities at the National University of Singapore.
  • Location: Video Conference

"Between Spiritual Care and Forensic Care: Situating the Remains of War Dead in Contemporary Vietnam"

  • Date: Apr 13, 2021
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Tam Ngo (MPI-MMG/NIOD)
  • TAM NGO works half-time at the MPI and half-time at the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation (NIOD) in Amsterdam.
  • Location: Zoom Event
A lecture as part of the colloquium series "Understanding Asia: Bridging Margins" at Bielefeld University. [more]

"Toxic and explosive legacies: Anthropology of War Pollution"

  • Date: Apr 19, 2021
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Tam Ngo (MPI-MMG/NIOD)
  • TAM NGO works half-time at the MPI and half-time at the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation (NIOD) in Amsterdam.
  • Location: Video Conference

"Under the Banner of Islam (Oxford University Press)"

Workshops, conferences 2021
Gülay Türkmen is a sociologist and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Graz. Her work examines how macro-scale historical and political developments inform questions of belonging and identity-formation in multi-cultural societies. [more]

"Opioid addiction as a Problem of Ritual and Anti-Ritual"

"Religious ethics and plural sites of entanglement"

Workshops, conferences 2021
Engaging with the “ethical turn” in the anthropology of religion, this workshop panel examines multiple sites of entanglements between politics and religious ethics. [more]

"Diverse transnational care practices: a view from the South"

  • Date: Apr 27, 2021
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Tanja Bastia (University of Manchester)
  • Tanja Bastia teaches international development at the University of Manchester, where she is a Reader/ Associate Professor at the Global Development Institute. Her research interests revolve around social re-lations, inequality, mobility and space, with a partic-ular interest in labour migration.
  • Location: Video Conference

"Between a Rock and a Hard Place Sinophobia and Spiritual Warfare in Contemporary Vietnam"

  • Date: May 12, 2021
  • Time: 05:00 PM - 06:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Tam Ngo (MPI-MMG/NIOD)
  • Tam NGO is a senior, permanent fellow of the Max Planck Society (Germany) and the NIOD (Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences).
  • Location: Video Conference
EXTERNAL EVENT - China Research Seminar Series (Easter Term 2021) | FAMES, University of Cambridge [more]

"Heritage out of Control: Inheriting Waste, Spirits and Energies"

Workshops, conferences 2021
  • Start: May 17, 2021 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: May 19, 2021 05:00 PM
  • Location: Zoom Event
This Online Book Talk is hosted by the Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (NIOD), the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity and other. [more]

Without technology we’d be very stuck”: Ageing migrants’ comobility capital in pandemic times

  • Date: May 27, 2021
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Earvin Cabalquinto (Deakin University)
  • Earvin Charles Cabalquinto is a Lecturer in Communication at Deakin University. He is also a member of the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation.
  • Location: Video Conference

“Mirrors of Habsburg Memory”

  • Date: Jun 8, 2021
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Pamela Ballinger (University of Michigan)
  • Pamela Ballinger is Professor of History and the Fred Cuny Chair in the History of Human Rights in the Department of History at the University of Michigan.
  • Location: Zoom Meeting

“The Memory-Activism Nexus”

  • Date: Jun 15, 2021
  • Time: 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Ann Rigney (Utrecht University)
  • Ann Rigney is Professor of Comparative Literature at Utrecht University, and founder of the Utrecht Forum for Memory Studies.
  • Location: Zoom Meeting

Vulnerability and Care: an anthropology of the good, the bad, and the ugly?

MPI-MMG @ IMISCOE conference 2021

Keynote Lecture [more]
Conceiving mobile corporate professionals as part of the growing transnational migrant population is a rather novel turn in migration research. Likewise, research on their families – including their trailing spouses and third culture kids – is an emerging field. Based on interviews with 43 male transnational corporate professionals in Tokyo, this lecture paper presents their take on the effects that their marrying and starting a family had on their socio-spatial patterns within the urban space. [more]

"Lived Citizenship, Uprising and Migration: Everyday Politics, Imaginaries and Contestation"

Workshops, conferences 2021
  • Start: Sep 30, 2021
  • End: Oct 1, 2021
  • Location: Zoom Meeting
Virtual workshop organized by HANIA SOBHY (MPI-MMG), SALWA ISMAIL (SOAS) and NADINE ABDALLA (AUC). Supported by the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (MPI-MMG). [more]
The Tokyo 2020 Olympics has taken “Unity and Diversity” as one of its main mottos - this, in times of global migration-led diversification of societies, also called superdiversity by Vertovec. Recent migration policy changes and rising social movements in diversity issues seem to showcase Japan as an open and cosmopolitan country for diversity. Indeed, while the intentions for hosting such mega-events have often given priority to the economic effects, expectations have recently risen to also leave social and cultural legacies behind. However, besides the motto of “Unity in Diversity” as a rather ubiquitous feature of the Olympics, not much appears to have changed - at least politically - beyond marketing and urban re-development. Based on recent developments of policy and public debates regarding diversity issues in Japan, this paper examines the measures (not) taken by governmental actors, but also explores how the LGBT* community and activists seized the opportunity provided by the Olympics and the global media attention to initiate a momentum for a social change in the local society. Reflecting on the different dimensions of diversity from a transnationalism and superdiversity perspective, I argue how the Olympics might have contributed sustainably to the new awareness for the factual societal diversification in Japan. [more]
The interactions between religion and globalization have taken many forms over the past 20 years. The future of these interactions will be shaped by new forces, such as the rise of religious nationalism, the ongoing project of seculariszation, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on religious life across the region and the challenges to religious and cultural heritage preservation. This roundtable discusses these themes and introduces new approaches to the study of these issues that have been developed in the Religion and Globalisation Research Cluster in collaboration with international research centres in Europe, the US, and Japan. [more]

ALUMNI HOUR | Angie Heo (University of Chicago’s Divinity School): “The Christian Right and Refugee Rights in South Korea”

  • Date: Oct 26, 2021
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Angie Heo (University of Chicago’s Divinity School)
  • Angie Heo is Assistant Professor of the Anthropology and Sociology of Religion at the University of Chicago’s Divinity School. Her first book is The Political Lives of Saints: Christian-Muslim Mediation in Egypt (University of California Press, 2018).
  • Location: Zoom Meeting
This talk concerns living experiences of ageing, transnational family care, and border regimes in the context of displacement. Drawing from multi-sited ethnographic research among the East Timorese, I discuss how older adults cope with family separation and life in exile, their aspirations, when and how transnational care becomes ‘on hold’, and how they deal with the impossibility of meeting intergenerational and cultural obligations. The talk examines care through the lens of ‘circulation’ and attends to the asymmetries entailed in intergenerational relationships and border regimes in the waysthey shape (and are shaped by) transnational care exchanges. In the context of ‘ageing in exile’, it is essential to understand older people’s narratives as they are linked with the ambivalences of other family members across generations. Forms of immobility withholding or limiting care can transcend physical borders, including the social and emotional boundaries conflict-divided communities build against one another over time. These imaginary borders require us to think about how precarious familial relations affect understandings of transnational care amid enduring legacies of violence. [more]

“In the Ruins of Futures Past: Potentiality, Planning, and the Contested Revival of Cyprus’s Ghost City”

  • Date: Oct 28, 2021
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Rebecca Bryant (Utrecht University)
  • Rebecca Bryant holds the Chair in Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University and is a Visiting Professor in the European Institute at the London School of Economics.
  • Location: Zoom Meeting

Naika Foroutan: "Die postmigrantische Gesellschaft"

Über "Die postmigrantische Gesellschaft: Ein Versprechen der pluralen Demokratie" (Transcript 2019) spricht die Professorin für Integrationsforschung und Gesellschaftspolitik an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin nach ihrem Vortrag mit Karen Schönwälder (MPI zur Erforschung multireligiöser und multiethnischer Gesellschaften). [more]

"Schwarze deutsche Geschichte und Literatur"

  • Date: Nov 22, 2021
  • Time: 06:30 PM - 08:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: Online Event
Am 22.11. sprechen die Expertinnen Marion Kraft und Katharina Oguntoye über Schwarze deutsche Geschichte und Literatur. Johanna Lukate übernimmt die Moderation des Gesprächs. [more]

Peter van der Veer: "Rituals and Revolutions"

Disputes over rituals have given rise to major revolutionary movements in human history. This is true for the Protestant Revolution of 16th century Europe, perhaps the most important revolution in the making of the modern world, but also for the failed Mutiny and Taiping risings of 19th century in India and China, as well as for the various atheistic Communist revolutions in Asia. These disputes over rituals are often interpreted as “sideshows” of the real political struggles or as “the hidden registers of resistance”, but in fact, they are really about the efficacy, rationality, or “sincerity” of certain rituals. Such controversies have immense impact on the values and political orientations of people, as is shown by the rise of vegetarianism and non-violent politics in India. In China and Vietnam, the anti-superstition and anti-cult aspects of repressive authoritarianism have had huge consequences. The repression of certain rituals does not result in the abolition of all ritual. In fact, Protestantism and Communism have come up with their own rituals. This talk will discuss the dynamic of ritual and anti-ritual from an anthropological viewpoint in general, theoretical terms, but will take its examples from India, China, and Vietnam. [more]

MPI-MMG in Dialogue "Migration Studies without the Nation State?"

Events 2021
The on-going corona pandemic appears to have ultimately ushered in a caesura in the understanding of governance and politics, fundamentally questioning free movement. In the same line of thought, Adrian Favell, one of the leading social and political theorists on migration, integration and citizenship at University of Leeds and fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, critically reviews what he calls “optimistic post-national forms of governance”. In this panel discussion, Steven Vertovec, Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, and Christine Lang, former MPI MMG researcher and currently at the Institute of Geography and the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at Osnabrück University, discuss the past and presence of nation states and their migration/integration policies, and whether migration research should indeed be reoriented by detaching itself from the nation-state. The discussion is moderated by Karen Schönwälder, research group leader at MPI-MMG. [more]
AVA Award – Awarding the Prizes and Presentations [Facilitator: Barbara Pieta] - This event will celebrate the launching of the inaugural AVA Award for Best Visual Ethnographic Material. Selected works will be showcased (in accordance with copyrights) on the AGENET website, and the authors invited to present and discuss their work. [more]
Since the 1970s, a significant number of migrant domestic workers from the Asian region (primarily from the Philippines, Indonesia, India, and Sri Lanka) have worked to sustain households in cities such as Singapore and Hong Kong. Amidst public debate about the ever-increasing need for migrant domestic workers to assist with eldercare in Asia, we hear little about their own futures. Based on ethnographic research, this talk traces the journeys of an older generation of migrant domestic workers who have spent much of their working lives abroad on temporary contracts. Given the restrictive long-term residence policies in the places in which they work, migrant domestic workers must return to their countries of origin upon retirement. The talk focuses on the ‘ends’ of transnational care, considering both the individual, collective and familial life projects and aspirations that long-term domestic workers have sought to cultivate in their years of work abroad; as well as the new aspirations that ageing domestic workers develop as they imagine their futures towards the end of their transnational working lives. I argue that the aspirations of migrant women, while initially stated in linear terms, rarely settle; rather, they take on novel and ambivalent forms that are often temporally at odds with the restrictive migration regimes which shape their transnational care trajectories. [more]

“Memory, Race, Decolonial Activism”

ALUMNI HOUR | Fran Meissner (University of Twente, Netherlands): “Superdiversity in times of big data technologies – social scoring, socio-spatial sorting and the future of urban diversity”

  • Date: Feb 16, 2022
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Fran Meissner (University of Twente, Netherlands)
  • Fran Meissner is an Assistant Professor of Critical Geodata Studies and Geodata Ethics at the University of Twente, Netherlands. Before starting at Twente, Fran was an Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at the University of Leiden. Amongst other positions, she has previously held a highly competitive Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellowship at the TU Delft and a Max Weber Fellowship at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. She is also a long-term research partner at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. Her research focuses on contemporary urban social configurations and how – in times of datafication – these are transformed through international migration. Based on her expertise in complex urban diversities, her most recent work grapples with questions about how data technologies – specifically geodata applications – shape the way migrants get to access urban spaces and how those technologies exclude migrants from urban life. Her work aims to make visible the migration information infrastructures behind increasingly data-mediated experiences of urban diversity.
  • Location: Zoom Meeting

“Ambivalent Infrastructures.The Geology and Geopolitics of Power in the Upper Euphrates”

  • Date: Feb 17, 2022
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Zeynep Kezer (Newcastle University)
  • Zeynep Kezer is a Professor at the School of Architecture Planning at Newcastle University (UK). She is interested in examining how modern state-formation processes and nationalist ideologies play out in the built environment, informing everyday practices and identity formation.
  • Location: Zoom Meeting

Peter Hennessy, Jane Alison and Farhan Samanani: "Post-war/post-Covid"

Peter Hennessy, Jane Alison and Farhan Samanani discuss Britain post-war and post-Covid, with Helen Lewis. [more]

"The Presence and Absence of the Past"

Workshops, conferences 2022
A symposium to mark the conclusion, and afterlife, of the Max Planck Research Group “Empires of Memory: The Cultural Politics of Historicity in Former Habsburg and Ottoman Cities” [more]

MPI-MMG in Dialogue "Sanitizing Imperial Pasts"

Events 2022
How do the empires of the past continue to exist today? And what is forgotten when bygone empires are so adamantly remembered? For the past five-and-a-half years, the Max Planck Research Group,“Empires of Memory: The Cultural Politics of Historicity in Former Habsburg and Ottoman Cities,” has investigated these questions by examining the cities of central Europe, the Balkans, Anatolia, and beyond. The “In Dialogue” event “Sanitizing Imperial Pasts” will present selected results from this research in order to explore how bygone empires continue to shape our world today. The discussion is moderated by Jelena Radovanović, a researcher of the Max Planck Research Group “Empires of Memory“. [more]
Steven Vertovec will be Discussant at the Presidential Panel "Visualizing Super-diversity and "Seeing" Urban Social Complexity" [more]
Co-Sponsored by the Frances Loeb Library, Harvard Graduate School of Design and Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity [more]
Comparative and International Education Society | 66th Annual Conference | Illuminating the Power of Idea/lism | April 18 - 22, 2022 [more]
Hania Sobhy is part of the Organizing Committee. [more]
Steven Vertovec is one of the Presenters at the Webinar "Climate change and migration: communicating complexity" [more]
- by invitation only - [more]

Johanna Lukate at "Beyond the Difference to Integration"

Workshops, conferences 2022
  • Date: May 23, 2022
  • Time: 07:00 AM - 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: Hybrid
In-Person meeting Location: National Institute for Unification Education, Education Center 1, 4th Floor, Grand Lecture Room (국립통일교육원 제1교육관 4층 대강의실)Zoom meeting link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85086034584 (Meeting ID: 850 8603 4584) [more]
The COVID-19 pandemic has clearly dominated public debate for 2 years, but it is now timely and important to think about continuities and change in a migration world. This means a world that has been, is and will continue to be powerfully shaped by international migration in its various forms and by responses to that migration. The pandemic has had massive effects, but we do not privilege it as the sole cause or driver of the dynamics of contemporary international migration. The aims of the conference are to understand more about: (1) new patterns and trends in migration and mobility and to examine the factors that shape them, including, but not confined to the pandemic; and (2), understanding more about the factors that shape social, legal, political and economic responses to international migration in its various forms. [more]

"Psychological Anthropology Today: Theoretical and Practical Interventions in an Interconnected World"

Workshops, conferences 2022
  • Start: Jun 2, 2022
  • End: Jun 3, 2022
  • Location: Hybrid
Workshop of the psychological anthropology network of the German Anthropological Association (DGSKA), co-hosted by the Research Group Ageing in a Time of Mobility, MPI-MMG [more]

ALUMNI HOUR | Marian Burchardt (Leipzig University): “Configuring Diversity: Infrastructures and Affinities in Pandemic Spaces”

  • Date: Jun 9, 2022
  • Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Marian Burchardt (Leipzig University)
  • Marian Burchardt is Professor of Sociology at Leipzig University. Previously, he worked as research fellow at MMG from 2012 to 2017 and published extensively on “Diversity”. Moreover, he was a senior researcher at the Centre “Multiple Secularities - Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities”. He is the author of Regulating Difference: Religious Diversity and Nationhood in the Secular West (Rutgers UP, 2020) and Faith in the Time of AIDS: Religion, Biopolitics and Modernity in South Africa (Palgrave Macmillan 2015).
  • Location: Zoom Meeting

MPI-MMG @ IMISCOE conference 2022

  • Start: Jun 29, 2022 12:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Jul 1, 2022 12:00 AM
  • Location: Oslo (Hybrid)
  • Host: IMISCOE
MPI-MMG at 19th annual IMISCOE conference "Migration and Time. Temporalities of mobility, governance and resistance" 2022 in Oslo: Colleagues from the institute are organizing 3 panels at the annual conference of the biggest European migration research network in Oslo. [more]

MPI-MMG in Dialogue "Can advocacy organisations be intersectional?"

Events 2022
The panel will discuss the results of the ZOMiDi research project, which investigated how and why civil society organizations change in response to migration and societal diversity. Do organizations that focus on differences respond in similar ways to the challenges linked with migration? What ‘best practices’ for organizational change can they offer? [more]
Lecture by Swetlana Torno at Khujand State University, Khujand, Tajikistan [more]

Steven Vertovec at the 25th International Metropolis Conference 2022

Steven Vertovec is one of the Speakers at wrap-up. [more]
Conference title: "Looking back to look forward: Celebrating 10 Years of Research onMigration, Forced Displacement and Superdiversity" [more]
Johanna Lukate is one of the Speakers at SPSSI's new webinar series, "Decolonial Perspectives on the Psychological Study of Social Issues". [more]

ALUMNI HOUR | Anna Cieslik (University of Cambridge): “Research Funding Opportunities and Applications”

  • Date: Sep 28, 2022
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Anna Cieslik (University of Cambridge)
  • Anna Cieslik received her PhD in Human Geography from Clark University. From 2011 to 2013 she worked as a postdoc at the MMG-MPG and then as an assistant professor at New Jersey City University. Currently she is a Research Facilitator for Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Cambridge. Anna is involved in analyzing funding trends and seeking funding opportunities. She provides advice and feedback on grant applications. Her work includes supporting research strategy development, running workshops and training sessions, and helping researchers develop their projects. She is a Course Director for a Postgraduate Certificate Course on Research and Innovation Leadership.
  • Location: Zoom Meeting

ENCOUNTERS RESEARCH MEETING

Workshops, conferences 2022
Research meeting of the ORA joint research project "Muslim-Jewish encounter, diversity & distance in urban Europe: Religion, culture and social model" [more]

Akif Tahiiev: “Shia Translations of the Qur’an into Russian”

Akif Tahiiev is one of the Speakers at GloQur workshop "Nation States and the Qur’an:Translators, Narratives and Debates in the Post-Soviet Space". [more]

Helena Hof: “Deviant Innovators? Foreign Entrepreneurs in Tokyo’s Startup Ecosystem”

Helena Hof is one of the Presenters at the VSJF Conference 2022 "Deviance and Norms in Times of Change in Japan", 18-20 November 2022. [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]
Helena Hof is one of the Presenters at the Workshop “Researching Whiteness in a Transnational Pandemic Context”, 1-2 December 2022. [more]
This event launches the Special Issue of Citizenship Studies "Migrations through Law, Bureaucracy and Kin: Navigating Citizenship in Relations" (Vol. 26, No. 6). The editors and contributors will present the Special Issue and individual articles exploring the ways in which migrants (de-)kinning practices and their struggles of ‘doing family’ constitute navigations of citizenship. [more]

Akif Tahiiev: “Evolution of Ijtihad in Shia Islamic Law”

Akif Tahiiev is Research Fellow at MPI-MMG. He holds a PhD in Law from Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University (Ukraine) with a thesis on Shia Islamic Law and its specifics. His wider research interests include Shia Islam, Minorities, Islamic Law, Comparative Law, Human Rights and Legal History. [more]

Akif Tahiiev: “Women's rights in Iran: theory and practice of Shia Islamic Law”

Akif Tahiiev is Research Fellow at MPI-MMG. He holds a PhD in Law from Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University (Ukraine) with a thesis on Shia Islamic Law and its specifics. His wider research interests include Shia Islam, Minorities, Islamic Law, Comparative Law, Human Rights and Legal History. [more]

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

Yael Peled: “On the Just Distribution of Linguistic Authority and its Legitimacy Claim”

Yael Peled is one of the Presenters at the workshop "Language and Authority", taking place from 15 until 16 February 2023 at the University of Augsburg. [more]
Ulrike Bialas is one of the Presenters at "Comparing Recent and Older Refugee Migration in and to Europe – Sociological Perspectives", a joint conference of the Sections Sociology of Europe and Migration and Ethnic Minorities of the German Sociological Association (DGS), 2-3 March 2023. [more]
Yulia Byelikova is one of the Presenters at "Comparing Recent and Older Refugee Migration in and to Europe – Sociological Perspectives", a joint conference of the Sections Sociology of Europe and Migration and Ethnic Minorities of the German Sociological Association (DGS), 2-3 March 2023. [more]
Karen Schönwälder wird auf der Bremer Armutskonferenz/Schwerpunkt Migrationsgesellschaft, die am 2. März in Bremen stattfindet, über das Thema "Auf dem Weg zur gleichberechtigten Gestaltung vielfältiger Stadtgesellschaften?" sprechen. [more]

Yael Peled: “The Other Language Barrier”

Yael Peled is one of the Presenters at the Canada Research Chair on Epistemic Injustice and Agency, UQAM . [more]
The India Office of Max Planck Gesellschaft and University of Göttingen is organising a web talk on “The Future of Migration: Issues and Challenges in Post Pandemic Societies” on Wednesday 29th March 2023 from 14:00-15:30h IST (10:30-12:00h CET). [more]
Margherita Cusmano is one of the Presenters at "Departures, arrivals, border-crossings: changing migrations in times of crises", the Midterm Conference of ESA’s Research Network 35 “Sociology of Migration”, in collaboration with the University Federico II, taking place from 30 until 31 March 2023 in Naples (Italy). [more]

"Visualizing Migration and Diversity: What can we see?"

Workshops, conferences 2023
At this workshop, a small group of invited participants will present recently created data visualizations surrounding migration and diversity. We will learn of their reasons for, and processes of, creating such tools and will discuss a variety of matters concerning the potential impacts (and drawbacks?) of such modalities for understanding dynamics of international migration and the diversification of societies. [more]

MPI-MMG in Dialogue "Superdiversity and the dynamics of diversification"

Events 2023
An event marking the launch of Steven Vertovec’s new book. [more]

Eloisa Harris: "The micro-foundations of Welfare Chauvinism on the Left"

Eloisa Harris is presenting her paper, “The micro-foundations of Welfare Chauvinism on the Left” at the Annual Danish Welfare “VelNet” Conference at the University of Southern Denmark. [more]

"Multimodal Ethnography and Digital Curating in the Research on Ageing"

Events 2023
  • Date: Apr 24, 2023
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: Online Event
On 24th April 2023, Megha Amrith, Victoria Kumala Sakti and Nele Wolter participated at a virtual roundtable discussion on ‘Multimodal Ethnography and Digital Curating in the Research on Ageing’ organized by the Age and Generations Network (AGENET), a registered network of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA). [more]
14:30-16:00 (CEST) ▪ Dora Sampaio is Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Utrecht University, Netherlands. She is an affiliated researcher with the Max Planck Research Group ‘Ageing in a Time of Mobility’. Her research interests focus on migration, transnational families, care, intergenerational inequalities, and the life course. She is the author of Migration, Diversity and Inequality in Later Life: Ageing at a Crossroads and co-editor of two recent journal special issues on ageing and migration. [more]
First Expert Workshop in the framework of the project “The New Guards: Re-bordering the Southeast Mediterranean in an age of migration” [more]
Workshop organized by Katharyne Mitchell and Noor Amr [more]

Yael Peled at "Language and Pain: A Dialogue of Medical and Language-Related Disciplines"

Yael Peled is one of the Discussants at the workshop "Language and Pain: A Dialogue of Medical and Language-Related Disciplines" at the Center for Interdisciplinary Resarch at Bielefeld University. [more]

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

Yael Peled: “The Practical Ethics of Linguistic Integration: Three Challenges”

Yael Peled is one of the Presenters at the Goodint Project Workshop on Exclusion, integration, and democracy at The Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø. [more]

Eloisa Harris presenting results of DivA survey

Eloisa Harris is presenting results of DivA survey. [more]

Akif Tahiiev: "Dynamic Ijtihad in Shi’ism"

Akif Tahiiev is one of the Presenters at the Annual Conference of the British Association for Islamic Studies of the Aga Khan University, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, 15-16 May 2023. [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 Project International Meeting

Workshops, conferences 2023
  • Start: Jun 5, 2023
  • End: Jun 7, 2023
  • Location: Strasbourg
The Encounters Project meeting in Strasbourg is taking place between 5-7th of June 2023. The Encounters project studies everyday interactions between Jews and Muslims in different urban contexts; aiming to restore these relations in their complexity and promoting dialogues with different actors of civil society. Strasbourg, one of the six cities in the scope of this project, will host international research team, bringing together multiple disciplines: sociology, anthropology, urban planning, and migration studies. [more]
Akif Tahiiev is one of the Presenters at the Sixth Annual Conference of European Academy of Religion, 19-23 June 2023. [more]

Helena Hof

The XX ISA World Congress of Sociology will focus on how sociologists worldwide can (and do) contribute to the understanding of the resurgent authoritarianism and analyze the new entanglements of religions, politics, and economies. It will also focus on how sociologists engage (physically and critically) in the formidable social movements we are witnessing today in different parts of the world and in a renascent civil society. [more]

MPI-MMG in Dialogue "Understanding support for diversity"

Events 2023
Invited scholars discuss cutting-edge research and new ideas with the institute’s scientists [more]

MPI-MMG @ IMISCOE conference 2023

MPI-MMG at 20th annual IMISCOE conference "Migration and Inequalities. In search of answers and solutions" 2023 in Warsaw: three colleagues from the institute are participating at the annual conference of the biggest European migration research network. [more]
This workshop is part of a seed funding project awarded equally to Co-PIs Dr Xiang Ren and Dr Victoria Sakti by the British Academy and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for a UK-Germany cooperation project on ‘Home-coming and Home-making: Linking Spatio-temporal Heritages and Experiences of South-East Asian Diasporas in Europe’. The School of Architecture, Faculty of Social Sciences of The University of Sheffield and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity are the cooperating institutes, and the Max Planck Research Group ‘Ageing in a Time of Mobility’ is co-hosting the workshop. [more]

Yael Peled: “Uncertain Linguistic Justice: The Philosophical Sources of Normative Orders in Language”

Yael Peled is one of the Presenters at the conference "Political Theory in Times of Uncertainty" at the University of Bremen. [more]

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
Invited scholars discuss cutting-edge research and new ideas with the institute’s scientists [more]

Encounters Project International Meeting

Workshops, conferences 2023
Encounters’ final event in Berlin brings to a close a 3-year ORA Joint Research Project on intercultural, interethnic and interreligious encounters of Muslims and Jews in urban Europe. Researchers from Germany, France and UK, will share the results of their analysis and fieldwork on the specificities of and commonalities between Muslim-Jewish encounters in Berlin and Frankfurt, Paris and Strasbourg, London and Manchester, shaped by different national histories of integration including the place of religion in social and political life. [more]
Paul Stoller is Professor of Anthropology at West Chester University and Permanent Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Friedrich Alexander University, Erlangen-Nuremberg. [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]

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

"Using Critical, Qualitative Tools to Study Youth Development in Sociocultural Context"

Events 2024
Racism and intersecting systems of inequity shape daily life in the United States and around the globe. The form such inequity takes, as well as how young people navigate this context as they form identity related beliefs and behaviors, has implications for their own development and for the society around them. [more]

AGENET 2024 conference "Kinning, Moving, and Growing in Later Life"

Events 2024
jointly organized by AGENET and Piera Rossetto from the Uni’s Department of Asian and North African Studies, in collaboration with Swetlana Torno (MPI-MMG), Francesco Diodati (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) and Simone Anna Fielding (German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases - DZNE) [more]
Raymund Vitorio is an Associate Professor at De La Salle University in Manila, Philippines. [more]

"Migration, Ageing and Translocal Social Protection"

Events 2024
In a global context of population ageing, migration and forced displacement, questions of transnational and translocal social protection remain paramount. Migrants and refugees at different stages of the life course seek social protection through a variety of channels: from formal state-based pension and social security schemes; cash transfers and humanitarian initiatives; to informal forms of social protection through kinship, religious networks, neighbourhood support groups, co-operatives and civil society organizations. Cutting across these different spaces are financial institutions and markets in promoting ideas and products around individualized future security. Piecing together these different forms of social protection is far from seamless and there are numerous inequalities that migrants and refugees confront in securing social protection and wellbeing, where some are eligible for formal support and others are excluded. [more]
The workshop is organised by Ulrike Bialas and Johanna M. Lukate, who are guest editing two special issues on the contestation of legal and social categories in the context of migration. [more]

Workshop on Disability and Migration

Workshops, conferences 2024
The workshop explores the intersection of disability and migration and seeks to get a deeper understanding of the neglect of this intersection, the different or similar logics of both categories of differences, the social and political and historical effects this intersection evokes, and the insights about societal inequality it offers. [more]
Dana Schmalz is a senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. Her work sits at the intersection of international law and legal theory, with a focus on refugee law and human rights. Dana holds a Ph.D. in law from the University of Frankfurt and an LL.M. in Comparative Legal Thought from Cardozo Law School, New York. Her book “Refugees, Democracy and the Law. Political Rights at the Margins of the State” was published in 2020. Her book “Das Bevölkerungsargument” (the population argument) is forthcoming with Suhrkamp in 2024. [more]

6th International ART and the CITY Conference

Workshops, conferences 2024
The International Art and the City Conference was initiated in 2019 and has been hosted in different cities around the world every year. The 6th Conference sponsor is the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (MPI-MMG) Göttingen and it will take place at the Institute’s facilities 03-05 June 2024. [more]

“Researching Gender & Race”

Workshops, conferences 2024
This workshop aims to facilitate the exchange of recent results as well as to encourage future collaborations between the “Gender, Migration, and Social Mobility among West African Women in Europe” Research Group situated at the MPI for Social Anthropology (Halle) and the “Migration, Identity and Blackness in Europe” Research Group based at the MPI for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (Göttingen). The workshop is jointly organized by both groups. [more]
The European Union’s New Pact on Migration and Asylum is a long-awaited answer to the refugee problem to some – and a disastrous demolition of refugee rights to others. Its supporters presented the Pact as a historical agreement that comes to address long-standing shortcomings and imbalances in terms of solidarity and responsibility sharing. [more]

ENCOUNTERS RESEARCH MEETING

Workshops, conferences 2024
Research meeting of the ORA joint research project "Muslim-Jewish encounter, diversity & distance in urban Europe: Religion, culture and social model" [more]

Book Discussion with Steven Vertovec

Prof. Dr. Steven Vertovec has been working with his "Superdiversity" concept for 20 years. The book "Superdiversity. Migration and Social Complexity", published in 2023, was translated into German for the first time this year under the title "Superdiversität. Migration and Social Complexity" was translated into German for the first time this year. It analyzes the new levels of migration in the 21st century.This is an opportunity for the National Discrimination and Racism Monitorto take a look at his theory together with the author. [more]

Talking about migration – words, data, images

Workshops, conferences 2024
Co-convened by CERC Scholar of Excellence Daniel Hiebert, Professor Emeritus University of British Columbia, Steven Vertovec, Director, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, and Anna Triandafyllidou, Chair, CERC Migration, Toronto Metropolitan University [more]

Epistemic Trust and Migration Studies

Workshops, conferences 2024
  • Start: Oct 16, 2024
  • End: Oct 18, 2024
  • Location: Berlin
The way scholars produce their facts: a closer look at methods (and methodologies) of engagements in migration research. [more]

Ageing in a Time of Mobility: Reflections on the Field from Past to Future

Events 2024
Organized by the Max Planck Research Group ‘Ageing in a Time of Mobility’ [more]
Magdalena Suerbaum is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies at Bielefeld University, Germany. Her research interests are on forced displacement, gender, legal precarity, and belonging, with a current focus on parenting practices and intergenerational transmission of knowledge among Syrians living in Turkey and Germany. Previously, she was a post-doctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen. She has co-edited three Special Issues (Ethnic and Racial Studies 2023; Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 2022; Citizenship Studies 2022) and is the author of “Masculinities and Displacement in the Middle East: Syrian refugees in Egypt” (I.B. Tauris, 2020). [more]

Jewish–Muslim Encounters in Urban Europe: Under Pressure

Workshops, conferences 2024
  • Date: Nov 4, 2024
  • Location: Berlin
Final meeting of the ORA joint research project "Muslim-Jewish encounter, diversity & distance in urban Europe: Religion, culture and social model" [more]
Organized by the Minerva Fast Track Research Group Migration, Identity and Blackness in Europe (Johanna Lukate & Madeline Bass) [more]

“Black Visuality in Europe”- Public Event

Workshops, conferences 2024
The roundtable discussion will link the academy to creative explorations of Blackness, with input from guests Dr. Melody Howse (MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle), Yero Adugna (Black in Berlin), and Solomon Mekonen (University of Oslo, Norway). [more]

Keynote Lecture “African Diaspora Studies on Europe: Some Concluding Reflections on Conceptual Frameworks”

Workshops, conferences 2024
Given by Dr. Michael McEachrane during the workshop "Black multiplicities, African multiplicities? Theorising Migration, Identity, and Blackness from a European standpoint". [more]

QuaMaFa Closing Workshop

Workshops, conferences 2024
  • Start: Dec 18, 2024 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Dec 19, 2024 03:00 PM
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Goettingen
Final event of collaborative project “Qualification and Skill in the Migration Process of Foreign Workers in Asia” (QuaMaFa) [more]
This event will bring together experts on highly skilled migration in major migrant receiving countries in (South) East Asia as well as Germany to explore and compare the challenges of retaining, rather than simply recruiting, highly skilled migrants in ageing societies. [more]
Julia Martínez-Ariño is Assistant Professor of Sociology of Religion at the University of Groningen (the Netherlands) and Director of the Centre for Religion, Conflict and Globalization. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the MPI in 2013 and in 2014-2017. Her research focuses on public policies on religious diversity, secularism, Jewish heritage practices and religious disaffiliation and nonreligion. [more]

The Visceral and the Virtual: Memorial Practices in Eastern and Southeastern Europe

Workshops, conferences 2025
Organized by Goran Janev, Monika Palmberger, Steven Vertovec, and Jeremy F. Walton. [more]
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