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Anna is lecturer in art history at the University of St Andrews. She authored Art and Ocean Objects of Early Modern Eurasia. Shells, Bodies, and Materiality (Amsterdam University Press, 2021) and Objects in Frames: Displaying Foreign Collectibles in Early Modern China and Europe (Reimer, 2019; second edition in preparation). Her articles have appeared in Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, Renaissance Studies and other journals. Anna is a subject editor at the review journal SEHEPUNKTE and a member of the editorial boards of the book series Global Epistemics and the Journal for the History of Knowledge.
Anna Grasskamp
Anna is lecturer in art history at the University of St Andrews. She authored Art and Ocean Objects of Early Modern Eurasia. Shells, Bodies, and Materiality (Amsterdam University Press, 2021) and Objects in Frames: Displaying Foreign Collectibles in Early Modern China and Europe (Reimer, 2019; second edition in preparation). Her articles have appeared in Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, Renaissance Studies and other journals. Anna is a subject editor at the review journal SEHEPUNKTE and a member of the editorial boards of the book series Global Epistemics and the Journal for the History of Knowledge.
Trash as Treasure: Value Disconnections and the Recycling of Chinese Matter in Art and Design, 1500–2020
Anna has been the principal investigator of two research projects funded by the Hong Kong Research Grants Council, Ocean Objects: Maritime Material Culture in Southern China from a Global Perspective (2018-2020) and Upcycling Hong Kong: The Circular Economy of Recycling Material Culture in Pearl River Delta Jewelry Design (2020–2022). At global dis:connect she will work on her project Trash as Treasure: Value Disconnections and the Recycling of Chinese Matter in Art and Design, 1500–2020.
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17 March 2025
Born in Kabul, and growing up in Kabul, Delhi and Berlin, Jeanno’s interests transcend national borders and genres. Initially focused on film and video art, her work now transcends genre boundaries. Starting from a narrative concept, she creates installations that include video, photography, objects and texts. Her art explores the places where she’s worked, travelled and had meaningful encounters. It engages with remembrance, identity and the social and cultural processes associated with them. She develops projects in relation to the place of their creation, examining the unique aspects of her surroundings.
Olisa joined global dis:connect funded by the 
On Monday, 30 June 2025, Corey Ross (Basel) will give a talk in the Lecture Series Global History. He will speak on “The Political Economy of Urban Waterworks in the Colonial World”.
The talk will take place at M 209 (LMU main building, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1) and will start at 4.15 pm. All are welcome!
The Lecture Series Global History is jointly organised by the 
In the 1930s and 1940s, London and New York were metropolises of artistic exile and places of refuge from National Socialist persecution. Exiles founded galleries, publishing houses, magazines, photo shops and agencies in the metropolises, cooperated with local artists, organised exhibitions and formed networks. In their works, they engaged with their metropolises and reflected on their personal experiences of emigration.
Art and photo historians Burcu Dogramaci and Helene Roth explored the diverse work of emigrants from the fields of art, photography and architecture in their engagement with their city of exile in their books, which they will present on 25 June: 'Exil London. Metropolis, Modernity and Artistic Emigration' and 'Urban Eyes. German-speaking photographers in exile in New York in the 1930s and 1940s' (both published by Wallstein Verlag). They will also talk about the ERC research project 'Relocating Modernism: Global Metropolises, Modern Art and Exile' (METROMOD, 2017-2023, LMU Munich), which researched six metropolises as places of refuge for exiled modernist artists.
The book launch will continue with a reading of poems and letters from exiles in New York and London. We will conclude the evening with snacks, drinks and music.
Date: 25 June 2025, 7pm
Venue: Köşk, Schillerstraße 38
Organiser: Burcu Dogramaci and Helene Roth
Book launch and reading in German. Entry is free. Registration is not required.
Martin has worked on such disparate topics as modernist closet dramas, revolutionary manifestos, Platonic dialogues, a history of world literature, environmental storytelling and Rotwelsch, the secret language of Central Europe. Having studied at the universities of Constance and Bologna, he pursued these topics at Columbia and Harvard, with shorter stints at Cornell, the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study, the New York Public Library and the American Academy. He occasionally attempts to bring the humanities to the attention of a larger public with op-eds, book reviews, essays, anthologies and open online courses.
Martin joined global dis:connect funded by the humboldt/siemens foundation.
Heidi is a Canada Research Chair (Tier II) and associate professor, jointly appointed at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and History at the University of British Columbia. Heidi received her BA (Hons) in modern and medieval languages with a double first from Cambridge University and earned her PhD in history from Harvard University. She is an award-winning researcher of media, communications, health, platform governance and international organisations.
Heidi joined global dis:connect funded by the 
Fabienne is a professor of film studies at the University of Zurich. In her current research, she is particularly interested in moving-image practises that critically engage with the exclusions and inclusions in the institutional frames of global arts and media. Her research project Exhibiting Film: Challenges of Format, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, examines how formats have contributed to the establishment of global infrastructures of film exhibition, and it addresses what they have disabled and displaced.
Fabienne joined global dis:connect funded by the 
Sebestian is a historian of early modern natural sciences and medicine in global contexts. He is a Leverhulme Trust Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge and a junior research fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge. Sebestian’s research seeks to uncover the variety of agencies across cultures, genders and social status involved in the making of knowledge amid the early modern expansion of global interactions, which engendered the birth of medicine, science and the modern world. He has published on indigenous tattooing in the Philippines, long-distance networks of knowledge exchange, Renaissance geography and gorillas, and on science and islands in Indo-Pacific worlds.
Sebestian joined global dis:connect funded by the