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The workshop "New research on the (global) history of the South Caucasus and networking meeting" is a cooperation between the Chair of Russian-Asian Studies at LMU, the Max Weber Network Eastern Europe and gd:c.
The workshop will take place in German.
Dates: 20-21 November, 2025
Venue: Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect, Maria-Theresia-Str. 21, 81675 Munich
Convened by Helena Holzberger (LMU) and Moritz Florin (Max Weber Network Eastern Europe)
You can find the programme HERE. Continue Reading
20-21 november, new research on the (global) history of the South Caucasus and networking meeting
The workshop "New research on the (global) history of the South Caucasus and networking meeting" is a cooperation between the Chair of Russian-Asian Studies at LMU, the Max Weber Network Eastern Europe and gd:c.
The workshop will take place in German.
Dates: 20-21 November, 2025
Venue: Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect, Maria-Theresia-Str. 21, 81675 Munich
Convened by Helena Holzberger (LMU) and Moritz Florin (Max Weber Network Eastern Europe)
You can find the programme HERE. Continue Reading
5 November 2025
Azadeh Sharifi is a theatre and performance scholar who holds the chair for the theory and history of theatre at the Berlin University of the Arts. She has previously held visiting professorships at the Free University of Berlin, the University of Toronto and the Berlin University of the Arts. Her research focuses on postcolonial and postmigrant theatre and its history, contemporary performance art, and decolonial and activist practices in theatrical spaces. She is currently working on her second monograph, Theatre in Post-Migrant Germany: Performing Race, Migration and Coloniality Since 1945.
Elizabeth is a professor at UCLA. She authored Routes and Roots: Navigating Caribbean and Pacific Literatures, and 
Katy is an art critic based in London. She is the founder and editor of 
Monica is senior professor art history at the University of Heidelberg, and distinguished professor of the arts and humanities at Shiv Nadar University. She has written on transculturation and the disciplinary practices of art history in South Asia, the history of visuality in early modern South Asia, heritage and architectural histories. Her latest book Can Art History be Made Global? Meditations from the Periphery received the Opus Magnum award of the Volkswagen Foundation. She also received the Meyer-Struckmann Prize and the 2024 Distinguished Teaching of Art History Award of the CAA.
Monica joined global dis:connect funded by the 
Ulinka is a professor of early modern history at the University of Cambridge and fellow of the British Academy and St John’s College. Born in Tübingen, she studied history, art history, and sociology in Hamburg and Cambridge. Her award-winning books include The Astronomer & the Witch, Dürer’s Lost Masterpiece and Dressing Up. She has held fellowships in Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin and Harvard and published widely on the reformation and cultural identity.
Ulinka joined global dis:connect as a shared fellow with 
Mark is a professor of early modern history at the University of Bamberg. His research focusses on the economic, social, urban and cultural history of the early modern period and on the history of North America and the Atlantic world. Mark holds a PhD from the University of Augsburg. He was Feodor Lynen Fellow at Pennsylvania State University in 1999-2000 and a DFG Heisenberg Fellow from 2001-2004. He has been a member of the Academia Europaea since 2022 and is chairman of the Gesellschaft für Globalgeschichte e.V.
Carlo is currently a research fellow at Sciences Po. His research interests include political violence and radicalism; the far right and neofascism; political terrorism in post-war Europe; the history of extremist ideologies, social movements, and the history of citizenship.
He also teaches at Sciences Po, where he teaches a course entitled The Far Right in Europe at the Nancy campus. He holds a PhD in political science from Sciences Po. Previously, he worked as a temporary lecturer and researcher at the University of Lille and as a teaching assistant at Sciences Po and the Università degli Studi di Milano.
Filipe is an assistant professor at the Department of International Relations and International Organization (IRIO) at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Groningen. Before joining IRIO, he worked at the University of Erfurt, where he also earned his PhD. His current research focuses on the history, theory and politics of international law, imperial Germany and maps. He has published widely on these topics and has co-edited two volumes: The Politics of Translation in International Relations (2021) and Mapping, Connectivity and the Making of European Empires (2021).
Hadeel is a critical-theatre scholar and historian of SWANA countries. Her intellectual interest is theatre development as a mode of governance in Iraq. She worked as a senior research fellow and lecturer at Monash University, the University of Melbourne and the University of Baghdad. She has published in the Journal of Intercultural Studies and the Journal of Contemporary Iraq and the Arab World. As a fellow at gd:c, Hadeel will be working on her monograph, which examines how the confluence of global and transregional intellectual and artistic thought combined with state-building projects to form the glocal, Iraqi theatre-maker-citizen.