MPI-MMG@Conferences

Location: Video Conference

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]

"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]

"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]

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]

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

"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

"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

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

"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]

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

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

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