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Claiton Marcio da Silva takes up fellowship

In June Claiton Marcio da Silva commenced his term as a fellow at global dis:connect. Welcome. Claiton Marcio da Silva is an associate professor of history at the Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul (UFFS), Brazil, with a PhD in the history of science. At global dis:connect, Claiton Marcio Is exploring soybean production and exports as a fundamental dis:connectivity in globalisation, with a focus on political and socioenvironmental aspects. Continue Reading

Welcome, Shane Boyle!

In early July, Shane Boyle joins global dis:connect as a new fellow. Welcome to Munich, Shane! Shane Boyle is a senior lecturer in the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary University of London. His research focuses on logistics, Marxism, and performance history. At global dis:connect, Shane will write a monograph on how the art world has become entangled in the planetary mine of supply chain capitalism. Continue Reading

Philipp W. Stockhammer takes up fellowship

In July Philipp W. Stockhammer commenced his term as a fellow at global dis:connect. Welcome. Philipp W. Stockhammer is a professor of prehistoric archaeology focussing on the Eastern Mediterranean at the LMU Munich and co-director of the Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. In his research at gd:c he focuses on the dis:connectivities. He confronts as a (pre-)historian: the transformative power of dis:connectivity in the past and the challenge of narrating the past between othering and nostrification. Continue Reading

New gd:c exhibition is big news!

Sabrina Moura's exhibition "Travelling back: Reframing a 19th-century Expedition from Munich to Brazil" about the coloniality of Natural History, kidnapped Amazonian children and the circulation of ethnographic artefacts is moving and meaningful. So it’s no wonder that it’s been turning heads in the media and around the internet.   For an idea of why we're so proud of Sabrina and why everyone is so excited, check out the following links:  
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Nic Leonhardt accepted into the DFG Heisenberg Programme

Nic Leonhardt, currently a fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center Research Centre in the Humanities, global dis:connect, has been honored with acceptance into the prestigious Heisenberg Programme of the German Research Foundation (DFG). Her research Programme, "Global Theatre History - Dis:connectivities, Challenges, Infrastructures," encompasses the study of dance and theatre in Iran during the 19th and 20th centuries. This work broadens global theatre historiography by highlighting transnational women's networks in theatre since the 19th century and exploring the role of infrastructures in global theatre history. Leonhardt's research perfectly aligns with and enriches the agenda of global dis:connect, bringing in a nuanced perspective from theatre and cultural studies. The Käte Hamburger Kolleg is proud to host Nic Leonhardt's Heisenberg Fellowship. We extend our heartfelt congratulations and look forward to the continued collaboration! Continue Reading

Jie-Hyun Lim takes up fellowship

In March Jie-Hyun Lim commenced his term as a fellow at global dis:connect. Welcome. Jie-Hyun Lim holds the CIPSH Chair of Global Easts and is a founding director of the Critical Global Studies Institute at Sogang University. At gd:c Jie-Hyun will work on multilingual versions of victimhood nationalism as a conceptual tool to illustrate competing memories of victimhood in the postwar Vergangenheitsbewältigung across Europe and East Asia. Continue Reading

Out now!

Burcu Dogramaci and Marta Smolińska. Grenze|Granica. Art on the German-Polish Border after 1990. Cologne: Böhlau, 2024. This book analyses for the very first time a selection of works by international contemporary artists that reference the German–Polish border and draws attention to artworks created between 1990 and the early 2020s. The projects explored reference narratives of expulsion and the fluid, spectral and aesthetic nature of borders through sensory and somaesthetic perception. They examine the historical shifts of that border from the angle of changing political and societal contexts, lost homelands, expulsion of people and new political orders. The volume is the product of research in the field at the German–Polish border, interviews with artists, visits to their studios and archival work. It employs a transdisciplinary toolbox, combining methods from art history, border (art) studies, migration studies, memory studies, geopoetics, limotrophy and more. The book questions the double figure of dividing and sharing that finds expression in the German expression ‘eine (Grenze) teilen’, which means both to divide or to share a border: separation by a shared border and shared historical experience, regarded from two, often dissimilar perspectives. The study focuses on artistic projects ranging from photography to installation art and artistic methods from mapping to re-enacting, which address the issue of the borderland as a dynamic transition space. Continue Reading

gd:c team member at berlinale

It's no wonder that our gd:c videos always look so beautiful and cinematic. Aydin Alinejad, our friend and colleague who produces our videos and manages our IT, co-wrote a screenplay that has just won two prizes at the 74th Berlinale Film Festival! The film by Narges Kalhor, entitled Shahid, tells the fictional story of an Iranian migrant in Germany on a quest to change her name and dispel with some historical family baggage in the process. Her family and the German bureaucratic apparatus get in her way, as relatives and bureaucrats love to do. In particular, Shahid won the Caligari Prize for experimental, boundary-breaking films and the CICAE Art Cinema Award. Bravo Aydin! Continue Reading

4-5 April, Agriculture and the production of the Global South, 1900s-1960s

Workshop at the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect, LMU Munich  4-5 April 2024 The importance of agriculture and extractive industries to the making of the Global South in the 20th century has been obfuscated by the resonance of modernisation theory, dependency theory and development economics since the Second World War. With this workshop, themed Agriculture and the production of the Global South, 1900s-1960s, we seek to move beyond the rigid dualism of postwar models of growth and development by excavating processes and trajectories in the Global South and Global North that reveal the importance of agriculture and extractive production to the making of our contemporary world. Organisers: Paula Vedoveli, Judd Kinzley Please click here to download the programme. Please register here by 28 March.Programme Continue Reading

gd:c podcast has launched

Our new podcast has just launched. It (maybe unsurprisingly) looks at the topic of globalisation by examining the intricate web of connections and disconnections that define our world. All our episodes are based on current research done at or around the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect and delve deep into the social significance of globalisation processes. The first two episodes look at the role of the telegraph in globalisation and at Empire and climate change in Central Asia. New episodes will come out every two weeks. You find the podcast on all major platforms. Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/global-dis-connect/id1718709789 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6SuroxNtXZpw61A4VEKmnR Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/show/1000468182 *** Continue Reading