MPI-MMG@Conferences

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
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