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Işıl Eğrikavuk joins global dis:connect
A warm welcome to our new fellow Işıl Eğrikavuk who joins global dis:connect in early October. Işıl Eğrikavuk holds an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and a Ph.D. in communication from Istanbul Bilgi University. Işıl has worked at the Berlin University of Arts (UdK) since 2017 and was the co-winner of Turkey’s Full Art Prize in 2012. Continue Reading
1 October 2024
Ever since the financial crisis of 2008 and the emergence of the New History of Capitalism, historians have rediscovered economic themes and sought to interrogate them with the conceptual and methodological tools developed by social and cultural historians. This new interest springs from global history — a broad church of scholarly endeavours that have sought to break the hold of national histories and area studies to emphasize broad contextualisation, connectivity and interdependence in historical developments across regions, ecosystems and geo-polities. While global histories are rooted in multiple scholarly traditions — the most influential of which remain environmental history, the new imperial history, postcolonialism and world-systems theories — most practitioners assume that scale matters and that transregional, transnational and global scales open new and important insights about questions previously regarded in local, national or even multinational frames. The New History of Capitalism contributes much to our understanding of global history but reinforces its neglect of some fundamental categories of social history — like the family and property — in favour of other key categories, mainly labour, work, production and a focus on the social context of specifically economic spheres of activity, like trade diasporas.
The lunchtime colloquium (“ltc”) of the gd:c continues in the winter term. The first session will take place on 15 October. The colloquium takes place on Tuesdays from 11.30 am to 1 pm at the library of the Research Centre.
You can download the programme of the lunchtime colloquium 
A warm welcome to our new fellow Elisabeth Leake who joins global dis:connect in early July.
Elisabeth Leake is the Lee E. Dirks Chair in Diplomatic History at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. She works on decolonisation, the global Cold War and histories of South Asia.
Her project at gd:c, Decolonization’s Discontents: Dissent and Opposition in the Aftermath of Independence, explores the development of different modes of opposition in the aftermath of political independence.
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. 
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.