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Please note that registration is now open for global dis:connect's opening ceremony on 12 May 2022. The event will take place at the Historisches Kolleg in Kaulbachstrasse. The occasion will be marked by a keynote lecture from Heidelberg art historian Monica Juneja who will speak on “Awkward, unstable, creative: Dis:connection as world-making”. The lecture will be followed by an evening reception. All are welcome, but as seating is limited you are kindly asked to pre-register below. Please note that you can leave the password field blank if you do not want to create an account.
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registration now open! – global dis:connect opening ceremony
Please note that registration is now open for global dis:connect's opening ceremony on 12 May 2022. The event will take place at the Historisches Kolleg in Kaulbachstrasse. The occasion will be marked by a keynote lecture from Heidelberg art historian Monica Juneja who will speak on “Awkward, unstable, creative: Dis:connection as world-making”. The lecture will be followed by an evening reception. All are welcome, but as seating is limited you are kindly asked to pre-register below. Please note that you can leave the password field blank if you do not want to create an account.
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4 March 2022
A warm welcome to our new fellow Ayşe Güngör who just joined the Kolleg for then next twelve months.
On 8 and 9 December, global dis:connect will host a workshop to look at "Colonial violence beyond the borders of empires: dis/connections, transfers, and mobilities, ca. 1850–1954". The workshop is funded by global dis:connect and the University of Cologne. The Call for Papers is now open and can be found in our 
A warm welcome to our new fellow Enis Maci who just joined the Kolleg for two fellow stints, one in winter/spring and one in summer 2022.
The center extends a warm welcome to Sujit Suvasundaram (Cambridge) who joins as a new research fellow for the year 2022.
Sujit has taken a circuitous path to his current post as Professor of World History and Director of the Centre of South Asian Studies in Cambridge. Bouncing between the Asia-Pacific region and Europe, he has left his mark on imperial history, oceanic history, cultural history, and the history of science. This path has taken him through the LSE, the EHESS in Paris, the Universities of Singapore and Sydney, and the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. During his fellowship with us in Munich, Sujit will be focusing on the long history of Colombo. He is interested in the challenges of building a city such as this, at the centre of the Indian Ocean, in a marshy terrain, and the labour and community formation that met such an environmental challenge. He will be developing his perspective on connection as an unstable practice, especially when tied to capitalism and empire, because of its potential to segment and divide places and people. He is also interested in the art and visual practice surrounding this city and what it tells us of how globalisation is visualised and propagandised.
Burcu Dogramaci, art historian and one of the Kolleg’s directors, spoke on “Pandemische Kamera: Gefahr und Schutz im fotografischen Bild” at the conference “Digital Realities: Political Imagery and Mediatized Nature in Times of COVID-19” on 15 December 2021.
Roland Wenzlhuemer, historian and one of the Kolleg’s directors, delivered the opening lecture for the Master program "Global History at the University of Bayreuth. He spoke on “Ships' ballast in Global History”.
On 8 November, Christopher Balme, theatre scholar and one of the Kolleg’s directors, spoke on “Perpendicular Theatres and Mammy Wagons: The infrastructure of tragedy in post-independence Nigeria. Workshop “Traveling Tragedy”” at the University of Konstanz.
On 5 November, Burcu Dogramaci, art historian and one of the Kolleg’s directors, presented her work at the Jahrestagung des Verbands Österreichischer Kunsthistorikerinnen und Kunsthistoriker in Vienna. She spoke on “Kunst handeln. Galeristinnen der Moderne im Einsatz für die Kunst ihrer Zeit“.
We are proud to report that our future fellow Sujit Sivasundaram’s latest book ‘Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire’ wins this year’s British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding. Sujit, who will join the Kolleg as a fellow in January, is a historian at the University of Cambridge. In his book, he radically shifts perspective and re-thinks British colonial history as seen from the southern seas. In doing so, he presents a much-needed adjustment in our Eurocentric imagination of the Age of Revolutions.