New Issue of static: Cultural Infrastructures in Africa
How are dominant narratives about Africa produced, archived and challenged? The new special issue Cu...
global dis:connect is an internationally oriented centre for advanced humanities research. It provides an intellectually open and collaborative environment for scholars examining historical and contemporary processes of globalisation.
Our research starts from a relational perspective: integration, disconnection, and disintegration are co-constitutive, not opposites. Migration, markets, and information circulate unevenly, encountering barriers, exclusions, and delays that are integral to globalisation itself. This perspective enables fellows to investigate the cultural, social, and interpretative dimensions of globalisation across disciplines.
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About us
global dis:connect is an internationally oriented centre for advanced humanities research. It provides an intellectually open and collaborative environment for scholars examining historical and contemporary processes of globalisation.
Our research starts from a relational perspective: integration, disconnection, and disintegration are co-constitutive, not opposites. Migration, markets, and information circulate unevenly, encountering barriers, exclusions, and delays that are integral to globalisation itself. This perspective enables fellows to investigate the cultural, social, and interpretative dimensions of globalisation across disciplines.
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About us
global dis:connect is an internationally oriented centre for advanced humanities research. It provides an intellectually open and collaborative environment for scholars examining historical and contemporary processes of globalisation.
Our research starts from a relational perspective: integration, disconnection, and disintegration are co-constitutive, not opposites. Migration, markets, and information circulate unevenly, encountering barriers, exclusions, and delays that are integral to globalisation itself. This perspective enables fellows to investigate the cultural, social, and interpretative dimensions of globalisation across disciplines.
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Dis:connectivity
Globalisation is often depicted as steadily increasing integration. Yet such linear accounts overlook the interruptions, exclusions, and asymmetries that shape global processes in practice.
global dis:connect treats integration, disconnection, and disintegration as co-constitutive. Migration, markets, and information circulation are uneven and contingent, structured by social, cultural, and linguistic conditions. Rather than negating integration, disconnections are intrinsic to globalisation itself.
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Voices from gd:c
- 13 May 2026
- 12 May 2026
Everything moves, or does it? Empires and im:mobility
claire louise blaser In 1937, British India issued a series of postage stamps featuring the n...
- 30 April 2026
Burcu Doğramacı co-curates exhibition on migration and material culture in Berlin
On 22 May 2026, the exhibition Tapetenwechsel – Migration und Mobiliar seit 1960 opens at the Muse...
Voices from gd:c
- 13 May 2026
New Issue of static: Cultural Infrastructures in Africa
How are dominant narratives about Africa produced, archived and challenged? The new special issue Cu...
- 12 May 2026
Everything moves, or does it? Empires and im:mobility
claire louise blaser In 1937, British India issued a series of postage stamps featuring the n...
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Coming events
lunch time colloquium summer term 26
The lunchtime colloquium of gd:c continues in the summer term. The first session will take place on ...
21-22 May, Theatre in Iraq and the Arab gulf states
history, governance and the post-oil vision Theatre in Iraq and the Arab Gulf has long shaped cultur...
18-19 June, In/tangible connections
material, embodied and sensory stories of global dis:connection Global interactions do not only crea...
Coming events
lunch time colloquium summer term 26
The lunchtime colloquium of gd:c continues in the summer term. The first session will take place on ...
21-22 May, Theatre in Iraq and the Arab gulf states
history, governance and the post-oil vision Theatre in Iraq and the Arab Gulf has long shaped cultur...
About us
The Käte Hamburger Research Centre “Dis:connectivity in Processes of Globalisation” (global dis:connect), which is sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR), 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.
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