Online lectures

1 October 2021

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

30 September 2021

Marco Giugni (University of Geneva): "Institutional and Non-Institutional Partici-pation: Substitution or Complementarity?" [more]

9 December 2020

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

Ayelet Shachar (MPI-MMG): Shifting Borders in the Time of COVID-19

In her lecture, Ayelet Shachar looks at the concept of the boundary, which today is much more than a rigid geographical line, and talks to Patrick Cramer (MPI for Biophysical Chemistry). [more]

10 June 2020

Steven Vertovec (MPI-MMG): “Urban Diversity, Diversification and Complexity"

Keynote Lecture at the Twentieth International Conference on "Diversity in Organizations, Communities & Nations", University of Milan, Italy, 10-12 June 2020 [more]

22 January 2020

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

23 December 2019

Irfan Ahmad: "Critique & Islam"
Keynote Lecture by Irfan Ahmad at the 2019 Postcolonial Studies Association of the Global South (PSAGS) Annual Conference and Meeting on “Postcolonial Unreason: Nation, Calibanization and Silences”
Date: Saturday, December 21, 2019
Location: Netaji Subhas Open University, Salt Lake, Kolkata Campus [more]

4 December 2019

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

19 November 2019

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" [more]

13 November 2019

Tamar de Waal (University of Amsterdam): "Conditional Belonging"
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6 November 2019

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

14 June 2019

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

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12 April 2019

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

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27 February 2019

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

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25 January 2019

Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi (Barnard College Columbia University): "Decoloniality in the Camp & the University"

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17 January 2019

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

6 November 2018

Steven Vertovec (MPI-MMG): “Dynamics in the Public Understanding of Diversity” [more]

1 November 2018

Steven Vertovec (MPI-MMG), Dan Hiebert (University of British Columbia), Alan Gamlen (Monash University) and Paul Spoonley (Massey University): “Visualizing Urban Superdiversity” [more]

23 October 2018

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

12 October 2018

Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh (UCL): "From the Local to the Global..." [more]

8 June 2018

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