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We are thrilled to announce that Anna Grasskamp, an alumna fellow of the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect, has been awarded a 2023 ERC Consolidator Grant to jump start her project entitled ECOART - An Ecological History of Eurasian Art: Natural Resources, Aesthetic Practices, and Early Modern Globalization. While all the credit goes to Anna, of course, we'd like to think that her time at global dis:connect contributed as much to her ideas about global dis:connections in the ecology of art as much as her work has informed ours. We wish Anna every success and look forward to learning from her ongoing research! Continue Reading
Alumna fellow Anna Grasskamp awarded ERC Consolidator Grant
We are thrilled to announce that Anna Grasskamp, an alumna fellow of the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect, has been awarded a 2023 ERC Consolidator Grant to jump start her project entitled ECOART - An Ecological History of Eurasian Art: Natural Resources, Aesthetic Practices, and Early Modern Globalization. While all the credit goes to Anna, of course, we'd like to think that her time at global dis:connect contributed as much to her ideas about global dis:connections in the ecology of art as much as her work has informed ours. We wish Anna every success and look forward to learning from her ongoing research! Continue Reading
28 November 2023
In November Andreas Greiner commenced his term as a associated fellow at global dis:connect. Welcome.
Andreas Greiner is a fellow at the German Historical Institute Washington. He specialises in infrastructure networks and their spatiality and materiality in the 19th and 20th centuries.
At gd:c Andreas is studying intercontinental civil air routes between 1919 and 1947. The project examines the codification of aerospace as well as the diplomatic and economic factors driving intercontinental airway extension. 
A warm welcome to our new fellow Yvonne Kleinmann who joins global dis:connect in early October.
Yvonne Kleinmann is a professor of Eastern European history and director of the Aleksander Brückner Center for Polish Studies at Halle University
Her project at gd:c, Communicating Constitutions: A Cultural and Entangled History of Poland’s Basic Orders, deals with Polish constitutional history from the 14th century to the present from the angle of cultural history and (transnational) entanglement.
In early October, Matthias Leanza joins global dis:connect as a new fellow. Welcome to Munich, Matthias!
Matthias Leanza is a historical sociologist specialising in empires, colonialism and nation-state formation and is a senior lecturer at the University of Basel.
At global dis:connect Matthias will complete his current book project on the legacy of German colonialism. Drawing on a wide range of sources from European and African archives, the study shows how and why the German overseas empire helped consolidate the nascent German nation-state. Germany soon lost its colonies, but their effects on the country persisted, leaving a complex legacy. 
In October Valeska Huber commenced her term as a fellow at global dis:connect. Welcome.
Valeska Huber is a professor at the University of Vienna. She has led an Emmy Noether Research Group and has been a fellow at the German Historical Institute London. She is particularly interested in the mutual interdependence of opening and closure.
During her fellowship at global dis:connect, she will work on a monograph about the 20th-century dream of universal literacy, tracing the Each One Teach One method propagated by US missionary Frank C. Laubach and applied around the globe from the Philippines to Cuba and Brazil. 
A warm welcome to our new guest Joël Glasman who joins global dis:connect in october.
In September David Motadel commenced his term as a fellow at global dis:connect. Welcome.
David Motadel is an associate professor of international history at the LSE. A former Gates Scholar at Cambridge, he has held visiting positions at Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Sciences Po and the Sorbonne.
At gd:c he is working on a global history of Europe’s empires around the Second World War, 1935-1948, exploring the history of the war in the imperial world, its impact on colonial subjects; the history of the colonial soldiers who fought in Europe’s armies; the history of anti-colonial movements during the war, from the Viet Minh to the Quit India movement; and the war’s impact on the end of empire and twentieth-century world order. 
A warm welcome to our new fellow Günther Sandner who joins global dis:connect in early September.
Günther Sandner is a political scientist and historian. He works as a research fellow at the Institute Vienna Circle (University of Vienna) and teaches civic education extramurally. His research includes the history of logical empiricism and Isotype.
His project at gd:c, Following Isotype: visual languages and universal symbols in the decades after 1945, deals with projects that aimed to overcome the active absence of a universal language and to establish one with the help of pictures, graphics, symbols and pictograms. Its focus is on the 1950s and 1960s. 
In early September, Ayala Levin joins global dis:connect as a new fellow. Welcome to Munich, Ayala!
Ayala Levin is an associate professor of architectural history at the University of California, Los Angeles. Ayala specialises in architecture and urban planning in postcolonial African states with interest in the production of architectural knowledge as part of north-south or south-south exchange.
At global dis:connect Ayala will research how U.S. planners sought to reorganise rural spaces in post-independence African states to curb urban migration. 
Judd C. Kinzley from the University of Wisconsin-Madison joined global dis:connect in early July.
Judd Kinzley is a professor of modern Chinese history. His research treats borderlands, materiality and natural resources. He is currently working on the transnational exchange of Chinese raw materials for cash, weapons and industrial goods during World War II. This work reveals the transnational networks that developed to finance, produce and transport such resources. These trans-Pacific networks channelled objects in both directions during the war and served as the blueprint of a new postwar international order.
His project at gd:c focuses on the legacies of Allied wartime oil exports to China , the Middle East, SE Asia, the US and the European powers together.