MPI-MMG@Conferences

Location: Zoom Meeting

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]

"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]

“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]

Book talk for The National Frame

"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]
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]

“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

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
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