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CHAIRPERSON

Prof Kenneth Dean, Asia Research Institute, and Department of Chinese Studies, National University of Singapore

ABSTRACT

In this talk, Prof Vertovec will provide an introduction to the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity and the work of its Department for Socio-cultural Diversity. This includes an open discussion of what ‘urban diversity’ might mean conceptually, and of ways in which the topic can be researched. The talk will also entail findings from the five-year ‘GlobaldiverCities’ project on migration-driven diversification and socio-spatial patterns in New York, Johannesburg and Singapore (see http://www.mmg.mpg.de/subsites/globaldivercities/about/ ).

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Steven Vertovec is Director at the Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen and Honorary Joint Professor of Sociology and Ethnology, University of Göttingen. Previously he was Professor of Transnational Anthropology at the University of Oxford, Director of the British Economic and Social Research Council’s Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), and Senior Research Fellow at Linacre College, Oxford. His education includes a BA (Magna cum laude) in Anthropology and Religious Studies from the University of Colorado, a MA in Religious Studies from the University of California – Santa Barbara, and a DPhil in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford.

Prof Vertovec is currently a co-editor of the journal Global Networks and editor of the Palgrave Macmillan book series ‘Global Diversities’. He has held fellowships at the University of California, University of Warwick, Free University Berlin, Humboldt University Berlin, University of British Columbia and Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute for Advanced Study), Berlin. His research interests surround international migration, transnational social formations, ethnic diasporas and contexts of urban diversity. Prof Vertovec is the author of Hindu Trinidad (Macmillan, 1992), The Hindu Diaspora (Routledge, 2000), Transnationalism (Routledge, 2009) and Super-diversity (Routledge, forthcoming), co-author of Diversity and Contact (Palgrave, 2016) and editor or co-editor of thirty-five volumes including Islam in Europe (Macmillan, 1997), Migration, Diasporas and Transnationalism (Edward Elgar, 1999), Conceiving Cosmopolitanism (Oxford University Press, 2003), The Multicultural Backlash (Routledge 2010), Migration and Diversity (Elgar, 2014), International Handbook of Diversity Studies (Routledge, 2015) and Diversities Old and New (Palgrave, 2015).

Prof Vertovec has acted as expert or consultant for numerous agencies, including the Expert Council of German Foundations on Migration and Integration, the UK government’s Cabinet Office, and Home Office, Department for International Development, Department of Communities and Local Government, the British Council, the European Commission, the G8, World Bank and UNESCO.

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