Events of the Department of Ethics, Law and Politics (in descending order)

Location: MPI-MMG, Goettingen

"Welcoming Refugees: The Role of Religion"

Workshops, conferences 2018
Conference organized by the Department of Ethics, Law and Politics at the MPI-MMG ▪ Additional support is provided by the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship in Comparative Constitutionalism [more]

"Labor Migration. Global and Comparative Dimensions"

Workshops, conferences 2018
Workshop organized by Ayelet Shachar, Director at the Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, and Olaf Deinert, Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Göttingen. With a keynote by Christine Langenfeld (Göttingen) and Holger Kolb (Berlin). [more]

"Borders, Fences, Firewalls. Assessing the changing relationship of territory and institutions"

Workshops, conferences 2017
Conference at the Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Department of Ethics, Law and Politics • Recent years have provided us with new images of a world in which persons can interact almost seamlessly regardless of distance. Various private and public institutions draw on changing means of communication and transport that seem to transcend particular spaces and times. Concepts such as liquid democracy suggest the revolutionary potential of digital media for our thinking about politics. At the same time, we are also witnessing an unbroken and even growing focus on securing territorial borders. [more]
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