MPI-MMG@Conferences

"Arrested circulation. Catholic missionaries, anthropological knowledge and the politics of cultural difference in Germany and East Africa, 1880-1914"

African Diversities Colloquium Winter 2015/16
FIRST ANNUAL GOETHE-GÖTTINGEN CRITICAL EXCHANGE • Co-organized by AYELET SHACHAR (MPI-MMG) and RAINER FORST (Normative Orders, Frankfurt) [more]

"The mechanical missionary: infrastructures of conversion and the Far East broadcasting company"

Tuesday Seminar Winter 2015/2016

"Between the Kingdom and the Desert Sun: Human Rights, Immigration, and Border Walls"

Joint Seminar Series 2015/16 "Diversity and Human Rights" & Special Lecture Series "Borders, Migrants and Refugees"
  • Date: Jan 20, 2016
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Moria Paz (Stanford)
  • Moria Paz is a legal scholar focusing on the intersection of minorities, immigrants, international law, and human rights. She is currently working on two books, Network or State? International Law and The History of Jewish Self-Determination (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2016) and The Law of Strangers – Critical Perspectives on Jewish Lawyering and International Legal Thought (co-edited with James Loeffler) (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2016). In 2015, her paper, Between the Kingdom and the Desert Sun: Human Rights, Immigration and Border Walls was selected as one of the best works of recent scholarship relating to immigration law in a review published by Jotwell. In 2014, her paper, the Tower of Babel: Human Rights and the Paradox of Language won the Law & Humanities Interdisciplinary Writing Competition and was selected by European Journal of International Law for its New Voices selection for 2014. In 2013, her paper The Failed Promise of Language Rights, was recognized in the New Voices Panel of the American Association of International Law (ASIL) and was selected for the Junior Faculty Forum for International Law. She also won the Laylin Prize for most outstanding paper in international law awarded by Harvard Law School (2007). Her papers have appeared in multiple journals, including Harvard International Law Journal, European Journal of International Law, and the American Society of International Law. Moria Paz is a Fellow at Stanford Law School. She received her S.J.D. doctoral degree from Harvard Law School. While at Harvard, she was awarded a number of fellowships, including at the Hauser Center for Non-Profit Organizations, The European Law Research Center, and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Before Harvard, she attended The School of Oriental and African Studies at The University of London (England) and Beijing Normal University (China).
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall
Co-Sponsored by the Special Lecture Series: Borders, Migrants, and Refugees [more]

"Seeking the uncertain: Possible futures and everyday hedging in Juba, South Sudan"

African Diversities Colloquium Winter 2015/16

"The walking undead: spirit victims and heroes in Post-Pinochet Chile"

Tuesday Seminar Winter 2015/2016

"Documentary projection: One day in my shoes"

African Diversities Colloquium Winter 2015/16

"Comparative Approaches to Inter-Asian Religious and Trade Networks"

Workshops, conferences 2016
Organized by KENNETH DEAN, Asia Research InstituteWith funding support from the Office of the Deputy President (Research & Technology) of the National University of Singapore; and in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany. [more]

"Transnationalism, Gender, Evangelism and Power in African Initiated Churches in Nigeria and its Diaspora"

Open Lectures Spring 2016
  • Date: Mar 3, 2016
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Mojúbàolú Olufúnké Okome (City University of New York)
  • Mojúbàolú Olufúnké Okome is Professor of Political Science, Brooklyn College, The City University of New York, United States. Her research interests include: Diaspora studies and contemporary African immigration; globalization and gender relations with a focus on Africa within the world economy; gender, politics and governance; Sub-Saharan African political economy, democratization and economic liberalization.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Workshop on Super-Diversity: A Transatlantic Conversation"

Workshops, conferences 2016
Sponsored by the Advanced Research Collaborative and Program in Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (MPI) [more]

"The Value of Comparison"

Workshops, conferences 2016
organized by RAN HIRSCHL (University of Toronto) and PETER VAN DER VEER (MPI-MMG) [more]

"Unravelling urban rhythms in the migrant experience: Polish migrants in Munich and Berlin"

Open Lectures Spring 2016
  • Date: Apr 14, 2016
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Magda Nowicka / Agata Lisiak (HU Berlin)
  • Magdalena Nowicka is professor of migration and transnationalism at the Institute of Social Sciences and member in the Berlin Institute for Integration and Migration Research (BIM), both at the Humboldt University. Her current project is “Transforming Migration. Transnational Transfer of Multicultural Habitus” (www.transformig.hu-berlin.de). Her publications include The Ashgate Research Companion to Cosmopolitanism (edited with Maria Rovisco, Ashgate 2011) and numerous articles and book chapters on conviviality, cosmopolitanism and migrant transnationalism. Agata Lisiak is postdoctoral researcher at Humboldt University’s Institute of Social Sciences and lecturer at Bard College Berlin. She is the author of Urban Cultures in (Post)Colonial Central Europe (Purdue University Press 2010), as well as articles and book chapters on media representations of the city, cultural memory, gender and migration, and everyday life in the city. Her current research project is entitled “Immigrant Mothers as Agents of Change”.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Seeking the uncertain--possible futures and everyday hedging in Juba, South Sudan"

African Diversities Colloquium Spring/Summer 2016

"Justifying the Secular State: Trans-Atlantic Lessons on the Weakness of Rights as a Basis for Secularism"

Joint Seminar Series 2015/16 "Diversity and Human Rights"
  • Date: Apr 22, 2016
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Ronan McCrea (University College London)
  • Ronan McCrea is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the Faculty of Laws in University College London where he lectures on European law, constitutional law and the relationship between law and religion. He is the author of Religion and the Public Order of the European Union (OUP 2010) and Religion et l’ordre juridique de l’Union europeenne (Bruylant 2013). He is a former Referendaire in the Chambers of Advocate General Maduro at the Court of Justice of the European Union and a member of the Bars of England and Wales and the Republic of Ireland.
  • Location: Lichtenberg-Kolleg Historic Observatory, Geismar Landstraße 11, 37083 Göttingen
  • Room: Roter Saal
Organizers: Matthias Koenig (University of Göttingen) & Ayelet Shachar (MPI) [more]

"The Moral Background"

Religious Diversity Colloquium Spring 2016
  • Date: Apr 26, 2016
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Gabriel Abend (New York University/Lichtenberg-Kolleg)
  • Gabriel Abend is an associate professor of sociology at New York University and a current fellow of the Lichtenberg-Kolleg. He got his undergraduate degree at the Universidad de la República (Montevideo, Uruguay) and his PhD at Northwestern University (Evanston, United States). One of his ongoing projects takes issue with prevalent approaches to morality, because of their overreliance on individuals’ judgments, neglect of thick concepts, and blindness to the moral background that makes moral life possible. It shows what sociological, anthropological, and historical contributions can help rectify these errors. Another line of research compares the epistemological assumptions of different social scientific communities—see his articles “The Meaning of ‘Theory’”; “Styles of Causal Thought: An Empirical Investigation” (with C. Petre and M. Sauder); and “Styles of Sociological Thought: Sociologies, Epistemologies, and the Mexican and U.S. Quests for Truth.” A third ongoing project examines how the brain figures in societies’ institutionalized understandings about love, art, religion, spirituality, empathy, and morality.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Turning Points and Action Strategies of Young Adults with Migration Backgrounds in Germany and France"

Open Lectures Spring 2016

"Gesture- and sign language-based language strategies and ideologies in Adamorobe, Ghana and Mumbai, India"

African Diversities Colloquium Spring/Summer 2016

"Religious Accommodations in a Diverse Society"

Joint Seminar Series 2015/16 "Diversity and Human Rights"
  • Date: May 11, 2016
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Alan Patten (Princeton)
  • Alan Patten is Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Politics at Princeton University. A citizen of Canada and the United States, he has a B.A. from McGill, an M.A. from Toronto and an M. Phil. and D. Phil. (1996) from Oxford. He previously taught at McGill University and the University of Exeter, and has visited at the State Islamic University of Indonesia in Jakarta. His new book, Equal Recognition: The Moral Foundations of Minority Rights, appeared in 2014 with Princeton University Press. He is also the author of Hegel’s Idea of Freedom (Oxford, 1999), which won the APSA First Book Prize in Political Theory and the C.B. Macpherson Prize awarded by the Canadian Political Science Association. He is the co-editor, with Will Kymlicka, of Language Rights and Political Theory (Oxford, 2003). His articles have appeared in Political Theory, Ethics, Philosophy & Public Affairs, Journal of Political Philosophy, History of Political Thought, and the American Political Science Review. Professor Patten has served as Associate Chair, Department of Politics, and as Acting Director, University Center for Human Values. He is currently editor of Philosophy & Public Affairs.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Embracing the World in Isolation--the Rise of Protestant Christianity in Southeast China during the Cultural Revolution"

Religious Diversity Colloquium Spring 2016

“Turkish Islamic Practice, Memory and Elision”

Telling Times: Memories of Culture, Cultures of Memory - Lecture Series 2016
  • Date: May 18, 2016
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Kimberly Hart (Buffalo State University)
  • Kimberly Hart is an Associate Professor at the State University of New York, Buffalo State. Having conducted over a decade of fieldwork in the Yuntdağ, north of Manisa, her work focused on a women’s carpet weaving cooperative, love and marriage, and Islamic practice. Her book, And Then We Work for God: Rural Sunni Islam in Western Turkey, published by Stanford University Press in 2013, was written while a member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. This year she has a Senior Scholar Fulbright Fellowship to study the street animals of Istanbul. Her new fieldwork considers urban transformation and the secular and Sunni-based configurations of meaning surrounding feline and canine lives in a rapidly changing urban landscape. Much of her work is visually-based and includes photography exhibits, the most recent, “Josephine’s Fragments,” is currently on view at the Erimtan Museum in Ankara.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
  • Room: Conference Room

"Economies of Sao Paolo: Image, Space, Circulation"

Religious Diversity Colloquium Spring 2016
  • Date: May 24, 2016
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Maria José de Abreu (Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Berlin)
  • De Abreu studied Anthropology of Media at SOAS, University of London, and received her PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam in 2009. Her work engages with a range of anthropological, philosophical and literary debates about religion, time, space, personhood, the human senses and their technological extensions. She is currently working on two projects. The first is on the flourishing of Byzantine imaginary in urban Sao Paolo through the practices of a media-savvy religious movement and the seconds is on experiences of impasse among Portuguese youth in the context of the Southern European financial crisis. She has published in various journals and edited volumes. She is currently affiliated to the ICI-Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry. In 2017 she will be both a fellow at Humboldt University and an assistant professor at the department of Anthropology at Columbia University in the city of New York.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
  • Room: Conference Room

"New Information and Communication Technologies and ‘New’ Stratifications of Society: Evidence from Chad, Mali and Cameroon"

Open Lectures Spring 2016
  • Date: May 26, 2016
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Mirjam de Bruijn (University of Leiden)
  • Mirjam de Bruijn is professor in African Studies at Leiden University. She is a researcher at the African studies centre. Her recent research delves into the various ways we can understand new ICTs (mobile telephony, social media) in mobile and urban societies in Africa. Her research is historical-anthropological and has a firm valorization component.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Sacred Geography and Alchemical Ideology: A Sectarian Standpoint"

Religious Diversity Colloquium Spring 2016

"The Oxford Handbook of Citizenship Authors’ Conference"

Workshops, conferences 2016
Conference organized by the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity and the European University Institute • Conveners: Rainer Bauböck, Irene Bloemraad, Ayelet Shachar, Maarten Vink [more]

"Yearning, Modern Destinies and Christian Morality at the Margins of the Chinese State"

Religious Diversity Colloquium Spring 2016

"Theorizing Cultural Religion"

Seminar Series MPI Fellow Group „Governance of Cultural Diversity – Socio-Legal Perspectives“

"Segregation and Diversity as Multiscalar Phenomena. Why we need multiscale measures to understand neighborhoods and neighborhood effects"

Open Lectures Spring 2016
  • Date: Jun 9, 2016
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Christopher S. Fowler (Penn State University)
  • Christopher Fowler is Assistant Professor of Geography and Demography at Penn State University. His research interests are centered on how benefits get distributed when cities spend money with a particular focus on processes of neighborhood change and stability linked to economic development programs.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Death and the Afterlife"

Workshops, conferences 2016
What does one do with the dead? Burial, entombment, mummification, or cremation hint at creative ritual possibilities that tell us how we care for the dead. In several contexts, the dead form an unquestionable social good that encompasses a number of tropes, such as designating ancestors for a family, configuring the nation-state on memorials and mortal remains, meditating on death as part of ethical self-formation, and so on. Added to this, is the whole range of beliefs in souls, spirits, ghosts, zombies, saints, and shamans that anthropologists routinely encounter, which testifies to the idea of a vibrant afterlife and puts into serious doubt any conceptualization of death as finitude or cessation. Conversely, the dead and especially mortal remains also entail vital registers of forgetting, of ostracism and of obliteration. [more]

"Translanguaging and repertoires across signed and spoken languages: Insights from linguistic ethnographies in (super)diverse contexts"

Workshops, conferences 2016
Workshop organized by Annelies Kusters (MPI-MMG).The aim of this symposium is to foreground contributions based on linguistic ethnographies which were undertaken in educational settings and public/private/parochial settings in which people engage in the practice of translanguaging. With translanguaging we mean the linguistic practices in which people with diverse and multilingual backgrounds engage in order to make themselves understood by others. When doing so, they do not make use of separated languages but use elements/lexicon/grammar of (what might be regarded as) two or more different languages, hence the term ‘translanguaging’. In the process of translanguaging, people typically make use of a variety of channels or modalities: they may speak, point, gesture, sign, write, in a variety of combinations – ie multimodality. [more]

"The Politics of the Human"

Joint Seminar Series 2015/16 "Diversity and Human Rights"
  • Date: Jun 22, 2016
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Anne Phillips (London School of Economics)
  • Anne Phillips is the Graham Wallas Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics. She was previously Director of the LSE Gender Institute, one of the largest centres for gender teaching and research in Europe. Her publications include The Politics of Presence (1995), Multiculturalism without Culture (2007); Gender and Culture (2010); Our Bodies, Whose Property? (2013); and The Politics of the Human (2015). She holds honorary degrees from the Universities of Aalborg and Bristol. She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2003 and of the (British) Academy of Social Sciences in 2012.
  • Location: Lichtenberg-Kolleg Historic Observatory, Geismar Landstraße 11, 37083 Göttingen
Co-Sponsored by the Lichtenberg Kolleg [more]

" ‘Spiritual Warfare’ on Multi-religious Terrain: Political Cosmologies in Postwar Sri Lanka"

Religious Diversity Colloquium Spring 2016
Organization: Matthias Koenig (sociology, University of Göttingen, Lichtenberg Kolleg & Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity), mkoenig@gwdg.de [more]

"Re-ordering Diversity: Humanitarian Assistance in the Context of Forced Migration and Displacement"

Workshops, conferences 2016
A cooperation between the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 923 “Threatened Order - Societies under Stress“, the Center for Gender and Diversity Research, and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (Göttingen). [more]
Co-organizers: Sinem Adar • Markus Dressler • Matthias Koenig • Zeynep Özgen [more]

"Class-based chronicities of suffering and seeking help--comparing addiction treatment programs in Uganda"

African Diversities Colloquium Spring/Summer 2016

"After the urban is over or before it has really begun? Urban theory today"

Workshops, conferences 2016
WORKSHOP organized by AbdouMaliq Simone, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity [more]

"Frontiers of Social Change: Migration, Mobility and World-Making"

Workshops, conferences 2016
A joint workshop between the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity and Brigham Young University [more]

"Public institutions as the venue for negotiating religious diversity and secularism in Europe"

Workshops, conferences 2016
Organizers: Julia Martínez-Ariño, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, & Ines Michalowski, WZB, Berlin Social Science Center [more]

"Beyond Dichotomous Understandings of Host State Migration Policy: Examining ‘Ambivalence’ in Egypt, Morocco & Turkey"

Migration and Membership in Troubled Times - Ethics, Law and Politics, Seminar Series 2016/17
  • Date: Sep 20, 2016
  • Time: 11:30 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Kelsey Norman (University of California, Irvine)
  • Kelsey Norman is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. She specializes in Comparative Politics and International Relations and her research focuses on Middle East and North African states as countries of migrant and refugee settlement. Between 2012 and 2015 she conducted research in Egypt, Morocco and Turkey and has been affiliated with the Center for Migration and Refugee Studies at the American University in Cairo, the Arab-American Language Institute in Morocco, and the Center for Migration Research at Istanbul Bilgi University in Turkey. Her studies are supported by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada doctoral fellowship, and she has current and forthcoming publications in the International Journal of Migration and Border Studies, Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture, Égypte/Monde arabe, Refugee Review, The Postcolonialist, The Cairo Review of Global Affairs, Jadaliyya, Muftah, and The Washington Post’s Monkey Cage Blog.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"From excarnation to ashes: changes in Zoroastrian ritual infrastructure in Mumbai"

Religious Diversity Colloquium Winter 2016/17

"Rifah-e-Aam Club, Lucknow: politics and poetics in India’s changing public sphere"

Religious Diversity Colloquium Winter 2016/17

"Engaging tolerance: privacy and publicity in the inter-religious engagement of Mumbai’s Ismaili Muslims"

Religious Diversity Colloquium Winter 2016/17

"Legal Multiculturalism: Comparing Gays and Muslims"

Migration and Membership in Troubled Times - Ethics, Law and Politics, Seminar Series 2016/17
  • Date: Oct 18, 2016
  • Time: 03:00 PM - 04:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Christian Joppke (University of Bern)
  • Christian Joppke holds a chair in sociology at the University of Bern (CH). He is also a recurrent Visiting Professor in the Nationalism Studies Program at Central European University, Budapest, and an Honorary Professor in the Department of Political Science and Government at Aarhus University. He is Member of the German Expert Council on Integration and Migration (SVR). A UC Berkeley Ph.D. (1989), Joppke has taught at the University of Southern California, European University Institute, University of British Columbia (Vancouver), International University Bremen, and the American University of Paris. He also held fellowships at Georgetown University and at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York. His recent books are Legal Integration of Islam (with John Torpey) (Harvard UP 2013), The Secular State under Siege: Religion and Politics in Europe and America (Cambridge: Polity 2015), and Is Multiculturalism Dead? Crisis and Persistence in the Constitutional State (Cambridge: Polity 2017).
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

“Disciplining the Past? Sites of Memory and Forgetting in Former Ottoman Lands”

Telling Times: Memories of Culture, Cultures of Memory - Lecture Series 2016
  • Date: Oct 26, 2016
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Jeremy F. Walton (MPI-MMG)
  • Jeremy F. Walton is the leader of the Max Planck Research Group, “Empires of Memory: The Cultural Politics of Historicity in Former Habsburg and Ottoman Cities,” at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen, Germany, a position that he began in March 2016. Since graduating from the University of Chicago with Ph.D. in Anthropology in 2009, Dr. Walton has had the good fortune to pursue a variety of teaching and research positions. From 2009 to 2012, he was an Assistant Professor and Faculty Fellow in New York University’s Religious Studies Program; from 2012 to 2013, he was a Jamal Daniel Levant Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS); from 2013 to 2015, he was a member of the CETREN Transregional Research Network at Georg August University of Göttingen; and, from 2015 to 2016, he was a research fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies of South Eastern Europe at the University of Rijeka.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
  • Room: Conference Room

"Inhabiting the corridor: surging resource economies and urban life in East Africa"

Workshops, conferences 2016

"Are you afraid of cockroaches?’: Compassion and the horrors of abjection in Taiwanese Buddhism"

Religious Diversity Colloquium Winter 2016/17

"Ethnography as history: marriage and moral horizons in Mayotte"

Religious Diversity Colloquium Winter 2016/17

"Volunteering for refugees in Germany. Between social movement and charity"

Open Lectures Winter 2016/17
  • Date: Nov 1, 2016
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Serhat Karakayali (Humboldt University, Berlin)
  • Serhat Karakayali is Researcher at the Berlin Institute for Migration Research, Humboldt University. Before that he was Assistant Professor at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Halle, where he taught sociological theory. He completed his dissertation on the history of illegal immigration in Germany as a scholarship holder of the Heinrich-Böll Foundation. In the past few years his research has focussed on different forms of solidarity with migrants and refugees.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"The Politics of Secularism and Religion in France and Turkey"

Seminar Series MPI Fellow Group „Governance of Cultural Diversity – Socio-Legal Perspectives“
  • Date: Nov 3, 2016
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Murat Akan (Bosphorous University)
  • Murat Akan is Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics and Political Theory in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science (2005) from Columbia University, New York. He was a non-residential post-doctoral research fellow with the University of Amsterdam (2009-2012), and a guest researcher in-residence at the Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen (2012-2013). He will be a visiting scholar in George Washington University in July and August 2017. He has a forthcoming book from Columbia University Press on secularism in France and Turkey.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Crude politics: making the oil refinery political in Niger"

African Diversities Colloquium Winter 2016/17

"Tribe, caste and class in contemporary India"

Religious Diversity Colloquium Winter 2016/17
ETHICS, LAW AND POLITICS SYMPOSIUM [more]

"The spatial genealogy of Muharram rituals"

Religious Diversity Colloquium Winter 2016/17

"Church networks, sanctuary, and migrant activism in Europe: preliminary ideas and findings"

Open Lectures Winter 2016/17
  • Date: Nov 17, 2016
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Katharyne Mitchell (University of Washington, Seattle)
  • Katharyne Mitchell is Professor of Geography at the University of Washington. She is the author of Crossing the Neoliberal Line: Pacific Rim Migration and the Metropolis, and editor of Practising Public Scholarship: Experiences and Possibilities Beyond the Academy. Mitchell’s current research, on migration and the spaces of sanctuary in Europe, is made possible by fellowships from the Brocher Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"Women farmers’ strategies and engagements in Colonial Southern Highlands of Tanzania, 1900-1960"

African Diversities Colloquium Winter 2016/17

"An inescapable comparison: casteism and racism in the diaspora"

Religious Diversity Colloquium Winter 2016/17
  • Date: Nov 22, 2016
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Meena Dhanda (University of Wolverhampton)
  • Meena Dhanda is a Reader in Philosophy and Cultural Politics at the University of Wolverhampton where she has taught for the last 24 years. She migrated from the Indian Punjab to the U.K. as a Commonwealth Scholar at Oxford University in 1987 and was later awarded a Rhodes JRF. Her first publication on the question of caste and untouchability was an article in 1993 “L’eveil des intouchables en Inde” in Le respect : De l’estime à la deference: une question de limite ed. by Catherine Audard, les Editions Autrement - Serie Morales, France. Translated by Isabelle di Natale, which she wishes had been published in English as she does not read French! She engaged with the problematic question of the identity of a dalit in her DPhil which was later published as The Negotiation of Personal Identity (Saarbruken: VDM Verlag, 2008). She is interested in questions of intersecting discriminations and in her collection Reservations for Women (ed.) (New Delhi: Women Unlimited, 2008) she touched upon gender and caste. From 2007, Meena has engaged in transdisciplinary studies connected with caste, publishing several papers. ‘Punjabi Dalit Youth: Social Dynamics of Transitions in Identity’, (Contemporary South Asia, 2009); ‘Runaway Marriages: A Silent Revolution?’, (Economic and Political Weekly, 2012); ‘Caste and International Migration, India to the UK’ (The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration, 2013); ‘Certain Allegiances, Uncertain Identities: The Fraught Struggles of Dalits in Britain’ (Tracing the New Indian Diaspora, 2014); ‘Do only South Asians reclaim honour’? (‘Honour’ and Women’s Rights, 2014); ‘Anti-Castism and Misplaced Nativism’ (Radical Philosophy, 2015) and ‘Ensuring Protection against Caste Discrimination in Britain: Should the Equality Act Be Extended? (International Journal of Discrimination and the Law, 2016).
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
  • Room: Conference Room

"What Gura Killed: Wildmen, White Men, and the Beastly Excess to Differences That Matter"

Religious Diversity Colloquium Winter 2016/17
  • Date: Nov 23, 2016
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Nils Bubandt (Aarhus University)
  • Nils Bubandt is Professor of Anthropology at Aarhus University, where he (with Anna Tsing) co-directs AURA (Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene). With Mark Graham, he is also editor-in-chief of Ethnos. Recent and forthcoming publications include The Empty Seashell: Witchcraft and Doubt on an Indonesian Island (Cornell University Press, 2014); Democracy, Corruption and the Politics of Spirits in Contemporary Indonesia (Routledge 2014); and Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet (co-edited with Anna Tsing, Heather Swanson and Elaine Gan)(University of Minnesota Press, 2017).
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"WeberWorldCafé “Diversity – Limits and Opportunities"

Workshops, conferences 2016
Hosted by the Max Weber Stiftung and the Forum Transregionale Studien in cooperation with the German Institute for Japanese Studies Tokyo (DIJ), the Diversity Research Institute of the Georg-August-University Göttingen and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. “Diversity – Limits and Opportunities” is curated and organized by Phoebe Holdgrün (DIJ Tokyo) and Gesche Schifferdecker (Max Weber Stiftung). [more]

“(Dis)placing Memories in the Context of War and Migration”

Telling Times: Memories of Culture, Cultures of Memory - Lecture Series 2016
  • Date: Nov 30, 2016
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Monika Palmberger (Visiting Professor, University of Leuven and Hertha Firnberg Research Fellow, University of Vienna)
  • Monika Palmberger is Visiting Professor at the Interculturalism, Migration and Minorities Research Centre at the University of Leuven and Hertha Firnberg Research Fellow at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna. She earned her PhD at the University of Oxford in 2011 and thereafter has pursued postdoctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen and at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna. Her central research interests are memory, generation and the life course in contexts of war/migration. She is author/editor of three books: How Generations Remember: Conflicting Histories and Shared Memories in Post-War Bosnia and Herzegovina (Palgrave 2016), Memories on the Move: Experiencing Mobility, Rethinking the Past (with Jelena Tosic, Palgrave 2016), Caring on the Move: Ethnographic Explorations of Aging and Migration Across Societies (with Azra Hromadzic, Berghahn, forthcoming 2017).
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen
  • Room: Conference Room

MPI PhD Workshop – “Creative Value” with Samuel Lengen, Xiao He, and Shaheed Tayob

Religious Diversity Colloquium Winter 2016/17

"Diversity of asylum seekers' needs and aspirations"

Workshops, conferences 2016
Abschlussveranstaltung zum Projekt "Die Vielfalt der Bedürfnisse und Zukunftsvisionen von Geflüchteten" [more]

"Transactional Sociality: Market Moralities and Embedded Capital in Modern South Asia"

Workshops, conferences 2016
Funded by MPI-MMG and the Centre for Modern Indian Studies, Göttingen University. Conveners: Ajay Gandhi, Sebastian Schwecke [more]

"The contemporaneity of Bena Orature"

African Diversities Colloquium Winter 2016/17

"Songs to the Jinas and of the Gurus: historical comparisons between Jain and Sikh devotional music"

Religious Diversity Colloquium Winter 2016/17

"Bremainers versus Brexiters: is it all about Immigration? Where did the New Political Cleavage in the UK come from and what does it mean for the Future of Party Politics in the UK"

Open Lectures Winter 2016/17
  • Date: Dec 8, 2016
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Maria Sobolewska (University of Manchester)
  • Maria Sobolewska is a Senior Lecturer in Politics (Quantitative Methods) at the University of Manchester and a member of CoDE www.ethnicity.ac.uk. She completed her doctorate on the political attitudes and voting of ethnic minorities in Britain at the University of Oxford. She works on the political integration and representation of ethnic minorities in Britain, public perceptions of integration, and the production and framing of public opinion of British Muslims. She has been part of the team conducting the Ethnic Minority British Election Survey in 2010 and is currently part of the PATHWAYS project: a seven country study of the descriptive and substantive representation of immigrant-origin minorities headed by Prof Thomas Saalfeld, University of Bamberg.
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall

"The Law and Politics of Diversity"

Workshops, conferences 2016
Workshop organized by Ayelet Shachar, Director at the Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity In cooperation with- University of California, Berkeley- Göttingen Campus [more]

"New biosocial horizons: political subjectivity and Albinism in glocal Tanzania"

African Diversities Colloquium Winter 2016/17
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