Online lectures

The transmission of Chinese civilizational techniques to Southeast Asia

Public lecture by Kenneth Dean (Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore).

1 October 2021

Peter Nyers (McMaster University):
"Decolonizing Lived Citizenship: Lessons from the Blockades"

Institutional and Non-Institutional Participation: Substitution or Complementarity?

Public Keynote Lecture by Marco Giugni (University of Geneva)

9 December 2020

Nasar Meer (University of Edinburgh):
"The Social Production of our Moral Indifference: Muslims, Whiteness and the Wreckage of Racialization"

22 January 2020

Hiroshi Motomura (UCLA, Los Angeles):
“The Current State of Immigration Law and Policy in the United States"

4 December 2019

Jaclyn L. Neo (National University of Singapore):
“Managing Religious Diversity: The Law of ‘Religious Harmony’ "

Franck Düvell (German Institute for Integration and Migration Research, Berlin):
"Quo vadis, migration studies? Towards a migratory epistemology. A critical reflection of the conventional concepts used in migration studies. A critical reflection of the conventional concepts"

13 November 2019

Tamar de Waal (University of Amsterdam):
"Conditional Belonging"

6 November 2019

Philip Gorski (Yale University · Lichtenberg Kolleg:
"Goodbye Tocqueville? Christianity and Democracy in Trump’s America"

14 June 2019

Phillippe Van Parijs (University of Louvain):
“Is it really solidarity that we Europeans need?”

12 April 2019

Deborah Cowen (University of Toronto):
“Imprints of Empire: Border Infrastructures and the Landscape of Jurisdiction”

27 February 2019

Andreas Reckwitz (Europa Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder):
"Hyperculture and cultural essentialism: Two modes of culturalization in late modernity"

25 January 2019

Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi (Barnard College Columbia University):
"Decoloniality in the Camp & the University"
Romola Sanyal (LSE, London):
“Unsettling Architectural Narratives of Refuge: From Camps to Cities"

17 January 2019

Hiroshi Motomura (UCLA, Los Angeles):
“The New Migration Law: A Roadmap for an Uncertain Future”

23 October 2018

Sarah Lamb (Brandeis University):
"Ageing and Mobility: Care, Generations, and Citizenship beyond the Views of the West"

12 October 2018

Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh (UCL):
"From the Local to the Global: The Roles of Local Faith Communities in Refugee Situations in the Global South”

8 June 2018

Kenneth Dean (Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore): "The transmission of Chinese civilizational techniques to Southeast Asia ...

18 May 2018

Christine Langenfeld (Göttingen) and Holger Kolb (Berlin): "Legal Limits: On the Shrinking Relevance ...

3 May 2018

Rosalind C. Morris (Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University): “Eyes of the storm: ...

22 March 2018

Ayelet Shachar (MPI-MMG): "Shifting Borders of Justice: Territory, Market, Migration"

1 March 2018

Andrew Selee (Migration Policy Institute): “Vanishing frontiers: the blurring of the US-Mexico border"

15 February 2018

Pamela E. Klassen (University of Toronto): “Telepathy, empire, and public memory"

13 July 2017

Ben Kaplan (University College London): "The Legal Rights of Religious Refugees in the ...

28 June 2017

Steven Vertovec (MPI-MMG): “Understanding Urban Diversity ...

22 March 2017

Sara Wallace Goodman (University of California, Irvine): “Tolerance at what Cost? ...

18 October 2016

Christian Joppke (University of Bern): “Legal Multiculturalism: Comparing Gays and Muslims”

22 June 2016

Anne Phillips (London School of Economics): “The Politics of the Human”

11 May 2016

Alan Patten (Princeton): “Religious Accommodations in a Diverse Society”

22 April 2016

Ronan McCrea (University College London): “Justifying the Secular State: Trans-Atlantic ...

4-5 April 2016

Steven Vertovec (MPI-MMG): “Super-diversity as concept and approach: whence it came, where it’s at, and whither it’s going”

18 November 2015

Itamar Mann (Georgetown): “Refugees: from Managerialism to 'Our Way of Life' ”

11 December 2014

Maurice Crul (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Erasmus University Rotterdam): “Pathways to Success”

19 June 2014

Suzanne Hall (University of London / LSE): “Super-diverse street: a ‘trans-ethnography’ ...

21 May 2014

Alison Dundes Renteln (University of Southern California): “Should the state grant exemptions from ...

19 December 2013

Christina von Hodenberg (Queen Mary University of London): “Television bigots and ...

28 November 2013

Michael Keith (COMPAS, University of Oxford): “Migration and the city commons”

31 October 2013

Benno Gammerl (MPI für Bildungsforschung) / Institut national d’études démographiques): “Difference ...

6 June 2013

Patrick Simon (Centre d’études européennes / Institut national d’études démographiques): “Contested ...

23 May 2013

Nikola Tietze (Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung): “Ways of Belonging and Expressing ...

25 April 2013

Saba Mahmood (University of California, Berkeley): “Politics of Historical Fiction and Sectarian ...

9 April 2013

Mary C. Waters (Harvard University): “Rising Nativism and Changing Racism: A New Form of ...

31 January 2013

Sabine Hess (Georg August University, Göttingen): “De-Naturalizing Transit Migration ...

17 January 2013

Michel Wieviorka (Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme / L’École des hautes études en ...

13 December 2012

Felicitas Hillmann (Freie Universität Berlin): “From Urban Marginality to Marginal Urbanity"

1 November 2012

David Palmer (University of Hong Kong): “Transnational Daoist Dis-Orientations and the ...

11 October 2012

Li Zhang (University of California, Davis): “Refashioning the Self through New Therapeutics ...

5 July 2012

Marie-Claire Foblets (MPI for Social Anthropology Halle/ Saale): “Secularism and Religious ...

28 June 2012

Markus Dressler (Technical University Istanbul): “Secularism and Religion-Making: The Case of ...

24 May 2012

Marc Helbling (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin): “Framing Immigration. Varieties of Arguments ...

3 May 2012

Monika Wohlrab-Sahr (University of Leipzig): “Multiple Secularities: A Cultural Sociological Approach"

26 April 2012

Kristin Henrard (Erasmus University of Rotterdam): “Differential Protection of the Right ...

2 February 2012

Olivier Roy (Florenz): “Religion and Culture: the Growing Gap"

3 November 2011

Chris Hann (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale): “Universalist ...

29 June 2011

Judith Squires (Bristol): “Institutionalising intersectionality? Reflections on the British ...

15 June 2011

Oliver Schmidtke (Victoria): “Liberal democracies and the challenge of ...

8 June 2011

Frances Stewart (Oxford): “Horizontal inequalities and conflict: Understanding group violence ...

1 June 2011

Helen Baykara-Krumme (Chemnitz): “Families, intergenerational transmission, transnational ...

18 May 2011

Virginie Guiraudon (Paris): “Does the EU help to promote diversity? The anti-discrimination ...

11 May 2011

Larissa Remennick (Tel Aviv): “From state socialism to state Zionism: former Soviet Jewish ...

4 May 2011

Anja Weiss (Duisburg-Essen): “Contextualizing inequalities. A critique of methodological nationalism ...

24 November 2010

Ash Amin (Durham University): “Cities and the ethic of care among strangers"

17 November 2010

Jörg Dürrschmidt (Univ. of Kassel / Internat. Forschungszentrum Kulturwiss., Wien): “No longer at ...

27 October 2010

Wendy Pullan (University of Cambridge): “Sacred Frontiers: The Reinvention ...

20 October 2010

Shalini Randeria (University of Zurich/Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Göttingen): “The (un)making ...

13 October 2010

Sophie Watson (Open University, UK): “Public affect effects: enacting in/civilities in public space"

29 September 2010

Vyjayanthi Rao (The New School for Social Research, New York): “The dity as stage: speculative ...

22 September 2010

Solomon Benjamin (National Institute for Advanced Study, Bangalore): “Intersections ...

1 September 2010

Da Wu (Shanghai University): “Ethno-cultural capital and re-migration in Shanghai"

1 July 2010

Alberto Gomes (La Trobe University, Melbourne): “Civility and intercultural relations in ...

24 June 2010

John R. Bowen (Washington University, St. Louis): “Why there is no ‘European Islam’: ...

16 June 2010

David Gellner (University of Oxford): “Building Theravada Buddhist networks in Nepal and ...

9 June 2010

Oscar Salemink (VU University Amsterdam): “The Politicization of Religion and the ...

2 June 2010

Kenneth Dean (McGill University): “Mapping Chinese Temple Networks in Southeast Asia"

26 May 2010

Stephan Feuchtwang (London School of Economics): “Hospitality to Ghosts, in China and Elsewhere; ...

19 May 2010

Birgit Meyer (Free University Amsterdam): “Aesthetics of persuasion. Global Christianity ...

5 May 2010

José Casanova (Georgetown University, Washington, DC): “Religion and globalization"

28 April 2010

Joel Robbins (University of California, San Diego): “Anthropology, Pentecostalism and the New Paul ...