Imperial margins take centre stage: a conference report (by Mikko Toivanen & Ben Kamis)
Together with the Munich Centre for Global History, global dis:connect recently had the privilege of...
Together with the Munich Centre for Global History, global dis:connect recently had the privilege of...
The visual archive of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center contains countless fascinating images, am...
In his exile on Büyükada/Prinkipo, one of the largest of the Princes' Islands off the Asian side o...
A warm welcome to our new fellow Martin Rempe who joins the Kolleg until autumn. Martin studies mode...
From 3 to 5 August 2022, global dis:connect will host its first summer school Postcolonial interrupt...
On 21 and 22 November 2022, global dis:connect will host the international workshop Oceans Disconnec...
This workshop explores Cold War internationalisms – their promises, possibilities, and practices. ...
The workshop delves into the material conditions as well as the explicit and implicit prerequisites ...
On 4 July, author and journalist Timo Feldhaus will present his book of historical fiction on the er...
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.