Material bleeding: the erasure of Ajami neighbourhood and its evidence on Givat Aliyah/Jabaliyeh Beach
tal hafner In this essay, I look at expressions of historical erasure in the form of environm...
tal hafner In this essay, I look at expressions of historical erasure in the form of environm...
rim harmessi Was not the earth of God spacious enough for you to emigrate therein? [1] ...
florian bachmeier In my work as a documentary photographer, particularly in my reports on ref...
tal hafner In this essay, I look at expressions of historical erasure in the form of environm...
In this exhibition with international participation, the tim sheds light on a poignant piece of Germ...
Conference of the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect (LMU Munich) in cooperation wi...
The lunchtime colloquium (“ltc”) of the gd:c continues in the winter term. The fir...
In this exhibition with international participation, the tim sheds light on a poignant piece of Germ...
In September Wojciech Szymański commenced his term as a fellow at global dis:connect. Welcome. Wojc...
A warm welcome to our new fellow Gerald Siegmund who joins global dis:connect in September. Gerald S...
In early September Elisabeth DeLoughrey joins global dis:connect as a new fellow. Welcome to Munich,...
In September Wojciech Szymański commenced his term as a fellow at global dis:connect. Welcome. Wojc...
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.