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Erika is a Brazilian lecturer, curator and researcher in photography and visual culture based in London. She has a PhD in history (visual culture) from UNICAMP, with a séjour doctoral at EHESS, Paris and a postdoc at the Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of São Paulo. She has taught at Birkbeck College and the University of Bedfordshire and has authored papers on Latin American photography, photography and gender, war photography, as well as three recent books on these topics.
Have a look at Erika’s research poster about her project.
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Erika Zerwes
Erika is a Brazilian lecturer, curator and researcher in photography and visual culture based in London. She has a PhD in history (visual culture) from UNICAMP, with a séjour doctoral at EHESS, Paris and a postdoc at the Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of São Paulo. She has taught at Birkbeck College and the University of Bedfordshire and has authored papers on Latin American photography, photography and gender, war photography, as well as three recent books on these topics.
Dis:connecting histories of photography: the transits between Latin America and Europe in the 1970s and 1980s
My project treats the dis:connections between Latin American and European photography between the 1970s and early 1980s. Departing from the Latin American Photography Colloquia (1978, 1981), it analyses archival findings resulting from research carried out in Brazil, Latin America and Europe, which is focused on public European spaces where Latin American photography circulated, such as publications and exhibitions, and how they promoted specific cultural transfers between Latin America and Europe related to the international institutionalisation of photography.Contact
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29 January 2026
The lunchtime colloquium of gd:c continues in the summer term. The first session will take place on 14 April. 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 
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 
Azadeh Sharifi is a theatre and performance scholar and is currently covering professorship 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.