Sebastian Conrad - global dis:connect

the centre
- The Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect, funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space, investigates globalisation as a dynamic process shaped by the interplay of integration, disconnection, and disintegration. Our work focuses on understanding how connections emerge, fail, or remain absent, in both historical and contemporary contexts.
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research
- global dis:connect approaches globalisation through the lens of dis:connectivity, focusing on absences, detours and interruptions that shape historical and contemporary global processes. Rather than assuming linear integration, we examine the gaps, delays and disruptions that make globalisation uneven and socially significant.
  
  Our research is structured around six key areas – absences, detours, interruptions, laboratories, cultural infrastructures and temporalities – which foster interdisciplinary dialogue without normative assumptions or claims of completeness.
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fellows
- 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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events
- Here is where to find out about coming events, new publications, press releases and other news from global dis:connect.
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outreach
- At global dis:connect, research is meant to circulate. Through publications, media formats and artist events, we connect academic research with public debate and artistic perspectives.
- outreach
  - gd:c blog
  - static
  - podcast
- 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.
- publications
  - aperiodic open-access publications

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Sebastian Conrad

Sebastian holds the Chair of Modern History at the Free University of Berlin. With a background in European and Japanese history, his work has focused mainly on issues of colonialism and postcolonialism, global history and historiography/memory. Among his recent publications are Nefertiti: The Making of a Global Icon (forthcoming); What is Global History? (2016) and An Emerging Modern World, 1750-1870 (2018), which he co-edited with Jürgen Osterhammel.

Shaping the body in the global age

Shaping the body in the global age aims to reconstruct how bodily practices and notions of bodily beauty have changed over the past 150 years, in global perspective. The project interrogates the relation between bodily practices and norms on the one hand, and social inclusion/exclusion, social inequality, the commodification of bodies, ethnicity and race, power and geopolitical hierarchies on the other. The history how engaging with the body has changed is a valuable window onto important social transformations and simultaneously an opportunity to study the changing grammar of globalisation since the late 19th century.

Have a look at Sebastian’s research poster about his project.

Contact

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