All our past fellows
Throughout the years we have welcomed many great artists and researchers as fellows.
ifeoluwa aboluwade
Ifeoluwa Aboluwade is a literary scholar with a background in imperial and literary history, early modern English theatre, critical digital humanities, (trans)cultural translation and adaptation, black diaspora studies, postcolonial literary criticism, and gender and intersectionality. She works at the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence and is a lecturer at the University of Bayreuth. Ifeoluwa has received many international awards and fellowships, such as Fulbright and DAAD scholarships, most recently receiving the Shakespeare Association of America-Folger Shakespeare Library Short Term Fellowship (2022/2023).
At gd:c, Ifeoluwa is investigating the histories, patterns and genealogies (dis)connecting Shakespearean drama and early modern West Africa through the topoi of the trickster and warrior. Drawing on diverse texts, the project shows that comparing tricksters and warriors across both literary cultures engenders a deeper understanding of their historical and ongoing entanglements, recasting the significations and transcultural spectres that haunt Shakespeare. It will also illuminate the tension between absence and presence of early modern English performances, especially in terms of race, gender, and class.
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ifeoluwa aboluwade
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Ifeoluwa Aboluwade is a literary scholar with a background in imperial and literary history, early modern English theatre, critical digital humanities, (trans)cultural translation and adaptation, black diaspora studies, postcolonial literary criticism, and gender and intersectionality. She works at the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence and is a lecturer at the University of Bayreuth. Ifeoluwa has received many international awards and fellowships, such as Fulbright and DAAD scholarships, most recently receiving the Shakespeare Association of America-Folger Shakespeare Library Short Term Fellowship (2022/2023).
At gd:c, Ifeoluwa is investigating the histories, patterns and genealogies (dis)connecting Shakespearean drama and early modern West Africa through the topoi of the trickster and warrior. Drawing on diverse texts, the project shows that comparing tricksters and warriors across both literary cultures engenders a deeper understanding of their historical and ongoing entanglements, recasting the significations and transcultural spectres that haunt Shakespeare. It will also illuminate the tension between absence and presence of early modern English performances, especially in terms of race, gender, and class.
cathrine bublatzky
Cathrine Bublatzky is a media anthropologist and senior lecturer at the University of Tübingen. She researches diaspora and exile, archives, visual and digital media cultures, photography, art, activism, and the aesthetics and politics of belonging throughout Europe, South Asia and the Middle East. Cathrine authored Along the Indian Highway: An Ethnography of an International Travelling Exhibition, a monograph published by Routledge. Her project Contemporary Photography as Cultural Praxis of Iranians in the European Diaspora, which she will continue at global dis:connect, was awarded a scholarship by the Baden-Württemberg Foundation.
During her fellowship at global dis:connect, Cathrine will research a private archive of personal and political photographs from 20th-century Iranian exiles. Assuming that photographs are mobile, constantly connecting and disconnecting times, places and people, Cathrine is concerned with politically sensitive photographs from the archive of an Iranian exiled artist and activist, and the questions of why and how photography functions as a central medium for global communication, information and memory processes as well as identification and belonging in the exiles’ everyday. She inquires how archives and photography contain traces of time and belonging for their audiences in and beyond exile as a cultural field of simultaneously dis:connective and interruptive social interactions.
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cathrine bublatzky
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Click HERE for a list of publications.
Cathrine Bublatzky is a media anthropologist and senior lecturer at the University of Tübingen. She researches diaspora and exile, archives, visual and digital media cultures, photography, art, activism, and the aesthetics and politics of belonging throughout Europe, South Asia and the Middle East. Cathrine authored Along the Indian Highway: An Ethnography of an International Travelling Exhibition, a monograph published by Routledge. Her project Contemporary Photography as Cultural Praxis of Iranians in the European Diaspora, which she will continue at global dis:connect, was awarded a scholarship by the Baden-Württemberg Foundation.
During her fellowship at global dis:connect, Cathrine will research a private archive of personal and political photographs from 20th-century Iranian exiles. Assuming that photographs are mobile, constantly connecting and disconnecting times, places and people, Cathrine is concerned with politically sensitive photographs from the archive of an Iranian exiled artist and activist, and the questions of why and how photography functions as a central medium for global communication, information and memory processes as well as identification and belonging in the exiles’ everyday. She inquires how archives and photography contain traces of time and belonging for their audiences in and beyond exile as a cultural field of simultaneously dis:connective and interruptive social interactions.
joël glasman
Joël Glasman focuses on West and Central Africa in the 20th century, particularly colonialism, governmentality, humanitarianism and the production of power as framed by praxis theory and science and technology studies. His publications inquire into social classifications produced by state institutions, international governmentality and private corporations. He further engages with the theory of global history, global norms and colonialism. His last book, Les humanités humanitaires. Manuel d’autodéfense à l’usage des volontaires (2023), reflects on the practical use of the humanities.
Joël’s project, Empire of waste, looks at imperialism as a regime of waste built on material exploitation and racial inequalities. Immobilisation, hiding and destruction of waste played a crucial role in imperial domination, as indicated by recent research on toxicity, waste dumping and radioactivity in Africa. It investigates two faces of the ‘Empire of Waste’. First, it analyses French corporate strategies of externalisation of waste and pollution. Second, it scrutinises forms of discard labour used by colonial corporations: forced labour, corvée, prison labour, wage labour, informal labour and child labour.
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joël glasman
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Joël Glasman focuses on West and Central Africa in the 20th century, particularly colonialism, governmentality, humanitarianism and the production of power as framed by praxis theory and science and technology studies. His publications inquire into social classifications produced by state institutions, international governmentality and private corporations. He further engages with the theory of global history, global norms and colonialism. His last book, Les humanités humanitaires. Manuel d’autodéfense à l’usage des volontaires (2023), reflects on the practical use of the humanities.
Joël’s project, Empire of waste, looks at imperialism as a regime of waste built on material exploitation and racial inequalities. Immobilisation, hiding and destruction of waste played a crucial role in imperial domination, as indicated by recent research on toxicity, waste dumping and radioactivity in Africa. It investigates two faces of the ‘Empire of Waste’. First, it analyses French corporate strategies of externalisation of waste and pollution. Second, it scrutinises forms of discard labour used by colonial corporations: forced labour, corvée, prison labour, wage labour, informal labour and child labour.
julian warner
artist fellow
Julian Warner is an artist and curator. He is the current artistic director of the Brechtfestival Augsburg and a performer and musician going by the stage name of Fehler Kuti. He is the editor of an anthology on questions regarding decolonial critique in Germany After Europe. Beiträge zur dekolonialen Kritik (Verbrecher Verlag, 2021) and was a visiting professor for dramaturgy at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design in 2022-23.
During his fellowship at global dis:connect, Julian will critically reflect on his curatorial practice, which positions itself at the intersection of globally circulating symbolic goods and locally specific contexts. Which contradictions and conflicts arise when international artists and projects engage with local institutions, audiences, and struggles? How may we further our understanding of such overdetermined constellations?
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julian warner
artist fellow
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Julian Warner is an artist and curator. He is the current artistic director of the Brechtfestival Augsburg and a performer and musician going by the stage name of Fehler Kuti. He is the editor of an anthology on questions regarding decolonial critique in Germany After Europe. Beiträge zur dekolonialen Kritik (Verbrecher Verlag, 2021) and was a visiting professor for dramaturgy at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design in 2022-23.
During his fellowship at global dis:connect, Julian will critically reflect on his curatorial practice, which positions itself at the intersection of globally circulating symbolic goods and locally specific contexts. Which contradictions and conflicts arise when international artists and projects engage with local institutions, audiences, and struggles? How may we further our understanding of such overdetermined constellations?
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