Conference Pictures

EU Project VULNER - Kick-Off Workshop
On 19 and 20 February 2020, a workshop was organized at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology to launch the VULNER research project. more
The Future of Work
From 11 to 13 December 2019 a conference entitled “Work, Ethics and Freedom” took place at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (MPI). Using case studies, social anthropologists, sociologists, and legal scholars explored what is understood as “work” today and what rational, emotional, moral, and even spiritual dimensions work can have in various contexts. more
Searching for Patterns of Terrorism
On 21 and 22 November 2019 a workshop entitled “Is Terrorist Learning Different?” took place at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. The workshop was organized by members of the research group “How ‘Terrorists’ Learn”. more
Muslim Everyday Practice and Islamic Legal Dogma
On 9 and 10 November 2018 a conference entitled “Law, Islam and Anthropology” was held at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Social anthropologists, legal experts, and Islamic scholars discussed the role of Islamic legal understanding and moral expectations in the everyday life of Muslim believers; presentations drew on empirical studies on topics such as conflict regulation, family law, and credit financing. more
Forced migration: few opportunities for the poor
The workshop entitled “Forced Migration, Exclusion, and Social Class” took place at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (MPI) on 23 and 24 May 2019. Participants examined the ways that the prior economic and social background of refugees affect what opportunities are available to them during their flight and after arrival in a new country. more
Living in urban spaces – living in uncertainty
From 27 to 29 March 2019 the workshop entitled “Urban Precarity” took place at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (MPI). Workshop participants examined how urban life is shaped by various experiences of precariousness. Ethnographic field studies shed light on the multifaceted aspects of precarity. more
The power of money
The workshop “Financialization and the Production of Nature: New Frameworks for Understanding the Capital-Society-Nature Nexus”, organized by Natalia Buier from the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and Jaume Franquesa from the University at Buffalo – SUNY, was held at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology on 7 February 2019. more
Work and Social Relations in the Capitalocene
From 23 to 25 January 2019 a conference with the title “Social Relations of the Capitalocene: Work, Value(s) and Personhood Below the Commanding Heights” took place at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.The conference centred around presentations of case studies that look at social relations within enterprises and the value orientation of entrepreneurs worldwide. more
The Influence of Financial Capitalism on Social Worlds
On 10–12 September a conference entitled “Financialisation Beyond Crisis: Connections, Contradictions, Contestations” took place at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. It examined how global financial capitalism influences not only international politics and economy but also nearly every aspect of people’s lives. more
The Development of Central Asia after the Fall of the Soviet Union
On 11–13 October a workshop entitled “Ideas and Practices: exploring economic and social transformation in Central Asia” took place at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Participants presented the results of their research on the far-reaching processes of transformation that have taken place in the Central Asian states since the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991. The workshop was organized by the Centre for Anthropological Studies on Central Asia (CASCA), a cooperation between the Department ‘Integration and Conflict’ at the MPI and the Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies (ISEK) at the University of Zurich. more
The humanitarian visa – in search of an asylum policy that respects human dignity
For many years people fleeing from war zones and crisis areas have looked to Europe in search of refuge. But because an application for asylum can only be filed in person within the territory of an EU member state, thousands of individuals embark on dangerous journeys across the Mediterranean or the Balkans. One possibility that could enable a less risky passage to Europe would be to issue humanitarian visas. What would the humanitarian visa mean in practice and does it offer a meaningful alternative to current EU asylum and migration policy? This question was the topic of a conference entitled “Humanitarian visas and the external dimension of the EU migration and asylum policy,” which took place on 17 and 18 May 2018 at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. more
The Visegrád States in the Maelstrom of Postsocialist Change
Low wages, expanding social inequality, labour migration, xenophobia: these are all familiar problems in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia, known as the Visegrád countries, or V4. An international conference entitled “Visegrád Belongings: Freedoms, Responsibilities and Everyday Dilemmas” on 7 and 8 June 2018 considered the causes and the wide-ranging consequences of this situation. more
Workshop on out-migration and its effects in West Africa
On 12 and 13 April a workshop titled “Those Who Stay: how out-migration affects West African societies“ was held at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Organized by the research group “Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast“ headed by Prof. Dr. Jacqueline Knörr, the workshop was dedicated to a little-researched topic: how years of emigration have affected the lives of the people in West Africa.

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Conference on punishment, retaliation and mediation
A conference titled “Punishment – Negotiating Society” took place at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle on 14–16 February 2018. Thirty international anthropologists and legal scholars examined, among other topics, the role of criminal law and its norms in structuring and legitimating the social order. more
Unfettered Financial Markets and Private Households
On 22 and 23 February a workshop entitled “Households and Peripheral Financialisation in Europe” took place at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. more
Moral values and economic action in Eurasia
The Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology held a conference titled Moral Economies: Work, Values and Economic Ethics from 6 to 9 December 2017 at the Leucorea in Wittenberg. more
Money and Buddhist Monasteries
On 21–22 September 2017, the workshop "Sangha Economies: Temple Organisation and Exchanges in Contemporary Buddhism" was held at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany. more
Anthropologists examine Islam in Southeast Asia
Workshop at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropolgy from 7 to 8 September 2017: Conceptualizing the Bureaucratization of Islam and its Socio-Legal Dimensions in Southeast Asia: Anthropological and Transdisciplinary Perspectives
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