Infrastructures of musical globalisation, 1850–2000
23 to 25 June 2022, Historisches Kolleg, Munich friedemann pestel & martin rempe Infrastructures...
23 to 25 June 2022, Historisches Kolleg, Munich friedemann pestel & martin rempe Infrastructures...
david grillenberger From 2 to 5 of August 2022, 20 scholars – PhD students, organisers Anna...
rahel losier [Rahel Losier participated in our first annual summer school in August 2022. Her artist...
The lunchtime colloquium (“ltc”) of the gd:c continues in the winter term. The first ses...
On 8 February 2023, the Centre will hold a workshop centring on the representation of Istanbul in Ge...
A warm welcome to our new guest Arnab Dey who joins the Kolleg in early February. Currently an assoc...
A warm welcome to our new guest Katharina Wilkens who joins the Kolleg in early February. Katharina ...
A warm welcome to our new guest Jeanno Gaussi who joins the Kolleg in early February. Born in Kabul,...
The Käte Hamburger Research Centre “Dis:connectivity in Processes of Globalisation” (global dis:connect), which is sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), examines the dynamic, co-constitutive relationship of global integration, absent connections and disintegration in current and historical processes of globalisation. The Centre emphasises the indispensability of the humanities in globalisation research, whose differentiated instrumentarium is required to recognize the social manifestations of processes of globalisation, their cultural contexts and their individual and collective interpretations.
Our work at the Centre focuses on the deep significance of the interstices that emerge from the simultaneity and co-constitution of integrative and disintegrative elements. In this context, the term dis:connection is central, as it emphasises precisely this co-constitutive, dynamic relationship of global integration, disintegration, and absent connections, which only become relevant in relation to each other. The term privileges neither integrative nor disintegrative processes, focussing instead on their reciprocal interactions and highlighting them as the decisive factor in grasping the social significance of globalisation. This represents a fundamentally new approach to globalisation research, one that deserves to be further developed, established, and applied in concrete scholarly enquiries in the coming years.