During the meeting the winner of the 2019 EMDI master thesis award will also be presented. The lecture will be followed by drinks.
Location: Mandeville, T3-02
Lecture by Steven Vertovec
Describing urban diversity – are we there yet?
In 2011, the late renowned sociologist Ulrich Beck said: “We do not even have the language through which contemporary superdiversity in the world can be described, conceptualized, understood, explained and researched.” In this talk, Prof. dr Steven Vertovec, visiting professor at ESSB and leading scholar in the fields of migration and diversity, will examine a variety of ways in which social scientists and others have tried to develop relevant language, concepts and methods – asking: “Are we there yet?”
