MPI-MMG@Conferences

"The religious lives of migrant minorities: creating local spaces for global faiths"

Workshops, conferences 2009
Workshop organized by the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (MMG) and American Social Science Research Council (SSRC). [more]

" Little India – Secularism, Transnationalism and Religious Pluralism in Mauritius"

Joint Seminar Series 2009 "Dimensions of Diversity"
Co-organized by: Peter van der Veer & Steve Vertovec (Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Ethnic and Religious Diversity) ▪ Matthias Koenig & Andrea Lauser (Göttingen University) [more]

"From medical pluralism to medical diversity?"

Workshops, conferences 2009
The goal of the workshop was to critically discuss the extent to which the concepts of diversity can enhance dicussions related to medical pluralism. [more]

"Can Multi-National Federations Work? The Case of Iraq"

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"Global Cities Conference"

Workshops, conferences 2009
Conference organized by Arjun Appadurai and Peter van der Veer. [more]

"Memories of Justice: Redistribution and the Reconfiguration of Economic"

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"Researching ‘super-diversity’ in European cities: conceptual and methodological challenges"

Workshops, conferences 2009
Workshop on the International IMISCOE/SUS.DIV Conference 2009 "Sustainable diversity, migration and social cohesion" from 9 until 11 september 2009 at Stockholm University, Sweden. The workshop was organized by Susanne Wessendorf (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity). [more]

"Understanding diversity: theoretical and methodological challenges"

Workshops, conferences 2009
IMISCOE B6 Workshop. [more]

"Integration and its Impacts on Diasporas-Homelands Relations"

Seminar Series “Studying Diversity – Theoretical and Methodological Issues” Winter 2009/10
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"Structuring Diversity: A Fitting Theoretical Framework with Empirical Illustrations"

Seminar Series “Studying Diversity – Theoretical and Methodological Issues” Winter 2009/10
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"Integration Research in Europe: Old Questions and a New Project"

Seminar Series “Studying Diversity – Theoretical and Methodological Issues” Winter 2009/10
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"The next generation? „Jüngere“ Ethnologie der Migration im deutschsprachigen Raum"

Workshops, conferences 2009
Workshop organized by Heike Drotbohm (Universität Freiburg) und Boris Nieswand (MPI-MMG). [more]

"Homogenizing diverse collective and familial histories. Strategies of ethnic Germans from and in the (former) Soviet Union"

Seminar Series “Studying Diversity – Theoretical and Methodological Issues” Winter 2009/10
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"Martyrdom and Nationalism in Kurdish Poetry"

  • Date: Dec 3, 2009
  • Time: 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Mariwan Kanie (Amsterdam)
  • Mariwan Kanie comes originally from Iraqi Kurdistan. Since 1993 he lives and works in Holland. Recently he is writing a Doctoral thesis on martyrdom at the University of Amsterdam and teaches the intellectual history of Arab and Islamic world at the same university.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
  • Room: Conference Room
In co-operation with the Iranian Studies Seminar, Göttingen University. [more]

"Buddhist Revival in Post-Mao China: An Analysis of External Dynamics"

  • Date: Dec 8, 2009
  • Time: 09:30 AM - 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Ji Zhe (Nantes Institute for Advanced Studies, France)
  • JI Zhe is a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités, and Resident Research Fellow in the Nantes Institute for Advanced Studies (2009-2010) in France. He received his PhD in sociology from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris) in 2007. He has published articles on Chinese Buddhism, Confucianism, youth religiosity and sociological theory of religion in various journals including Perspectives Chinoises, Social Compass, Cahiers internationaux de sociologie and Nova Religio. Based on his doctoral thesis, his book on modern changes in Chan Buddhism will be published by the Editions de l’EHESS (in the “En temps & lieux” series, 2010, Paris). He guest-edits a special issue of the French academic annual Extrême-Orient Extrême-Occident, which focuses on religion as educative space in modern and contemporary China (forthcoming in 2011). His current research is on Buddhism and Confucianism in the post-Mao era, and Chinese secularism.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
  • Room: Conference Room
In co-operation with the Iranian Studies Seminar, Göttingen University. [more]

"Cosmopolitanism: challenges and promises of the idea"

Workshops, conferences 2009
Workshop organized by Ewa Morawska (University of Essex) and Magdalena Nowicka (LMU München). [more]

"Religion, Culture and the Politicization of Honor Killing: A Critical Analysis of Media and Policy Debates in Germany, the UK, and Canada"

Seminar Series “Studying Diversity – Theoretical and Methodological Issues” Winter 2009/10
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"Negotiating diversity in the Balkans: past, present and future perspectives"

Workshops, conferences 2009
Workshop organized by Monika Palmberger (MPI-MMG) and Goran Janev (MPI-MMG). [more]
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