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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- Here is where to find out about coming events, new publications, press releases and other news from global dis:connect.
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- 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.
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- 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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alumni fellows

Throughout the years we have welcomed many great artists and researchers as fellows.

Harald Fischer-Tiné
Harald is a professor of modern global history at ETH Zürich. Before joining ETH, he was an assist...
Katy Deepwell
Katy is an art critic based in London. She is the founder and editor of KT press (1998-present) and ...
Sarah E.K. Smith
Sarah is an associate professor and Canada Research Chair in Art, Culture and Global Relations at We...

associated alumni fellows

Elizabeth DeLoughrey
Elizabeth is a professor at UCLA. She authored Routes and Roots: Navigating Caribbean and Pacific Li...
Gordon Winder
I am an economic and historical geographer and a professor of economic geography and sustainability ...
Kevin Ostoyich
Hailing from Valparaiso University, Kevin has published on German migration, German-American history...
Monica Juneja
Monica is senior professor art history at the University of Heidelberg, and distinguished professor ...
Paul Blickle
Paul Blickle is a PhD candidate at the LMU Munich. He received his BA (2017) and MA (2020) in histor...

Alumni fellows archive