Brian Valente-Quinn - global dis:connect

the centre
- The global dis:connect research centre, which is sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, examines the dynamic, co-constitutive relationship of global integration, absent connections and disintegration in current and historical processes of globalisation.
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- By investigating global dis:connections, we are inaugurating a new field of research. It emphasises the role of delays and detours, of interruptions and resistances, of the active absence of connections in global contexts and investigates their social significance.
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- The cornerstone of global dis:connect is the fellowship programme, in which approximately ten scholars come to Munich each year. They research dis:connectivity on site and in close contact with the directors and their peers. Fellows also have the opportunity to host workshops on the topics of their research.
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Publications
- global dis:connect publishes innovative interventions on dis:connectivity across a range of media, from the blog, which covers the latest news, research and art at gd:c, to static, a periodical containing the best work from within and beyond global dis:connect, in addition to traditional scholarly formats.
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Brian Valente-Quinn

Brian is Associate Professor of Francophone African Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. His research focuses on theatre and performance in the Francophone World, especially in West Africa and France. His publications include Senegalese Stagecraft: Decolonizing Theater-Making in Francophone Africa, as well an interdisciplinary range of scholarly articles on francophone African literature and performance. In the 2023-2024 academic year, Brian was a Fulbright scholar at the Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.

Staging Extremism in the Francophone World: Performance and Radicalization in West Africa and France

Brian’s research project explores francophone theatre artists’ local and transnational responses to the rise of extremism in multiple forms and trajectories across the Francophone World. The interdisciplinary project considers aesthetic interventions as well as the effects of cultural policies and colonial and postcolonial histories to explore the possibilities and limits of the stage as a tool for preventing radicalization.

Contact

Click HERE to mail Brian and HERE for a list of his publications.