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Olisa Godson Muojama

Olisa Muojama  joined global dis:connect funded by the Munich Centre for Global History.  
 

German Subjects and Properties in Colonial West Africa during World War II, 1939-1945

This study aims to examine the wartime relations between Germany and the Allied powers in their colonial territories of West Africa during the Second World War (1939-1945). It specifically deals with the wartime status and treatment of Germans (traders, professionals, researchers and missionaries) and their properties (firms, estates, factories, missions, patents and trade mark) in British West Africa during World War II, with a special emphasis on Nigeria, including Cameroon under the British mandate.

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Heidi Tworek

Heidi Tworek is a 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 Munich Centre for Global History.  
 

Global History of Health Communications

At global dis:connect, Heidi worked on a project about the global history of health communications. By tracing how communications networks became crucial for combating pandemics in the 19th and 20th centuries, she explored the relationship between nations, empires and international organisations. Communication alone could not have stopped epidemics like Ebola in 2014, but better communication could have saved thousands of lives, including during the COVID-19 pandemic. The history of health communications provides another way to understand how and why communications came to play as vital a role in disease management as medical treatments themselves.

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Fabienne Liptay

Fabienne Liptay 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 Munich Centre for Global History.  
 

Exhibiting Film: Challenges of Format

At global dis:connect, Fabienne investigated artistic and non-artistic uses of formats that challenge notions of connectivity. The focus is on contexts, in which formats based on interoperability not only facilitate processes of global networking, but also produce disconnections that are politically and socially effective.  

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Sebestian Kroupa

Sebestian Kroupa 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 Munich Centre for Global History.  
 

Plants on the Move: The Making of Cross-Cultural Knowledge in Southeast Asia, c.1650-1750

At global dis:connect and the Munich Centre of Global History, Sebestian worked on his monograph, Plants on the Move: The Making of Cross-Cultural Knowledge in Southeast Asia, c.1650–1750, which contributes to recent efforts to decentre and decolonise European histories of science, medicine, and modernity.

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David Armitage

David Armitage is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University, where he teaches intellectual history and international history. David was born in Britain and educated at the University of Cambridge and Princeton University. Before moving to Harvard in 2004, he taught for 11 years at Columbia University. A prize-winning teacher and writer, he has lectured on six continents and has held research fellowships and visiting positions in Australia, Britain, China, France, Germany, South Korea and the United States.   David joined global dis:connect funded by the Munich Centre for Global History.  
 

Project

While attached to global dis:connect, David worked on three major projects. The first is a new global history of treaty-making and treaty-breaking since the 17th century, on which he lectured at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg during his visit. The second is a set of essays on opera and international law, which the offerings of the Bavarian State Opera and a visit to nearby Salzburg greatly enriched. The third was the international conference, Oceans Disconnect that he co-organised with Roland Wenzlhuemer and Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge/gd:c fellow alumnus), in tandem with the Cambridge University Press series on oceanic history that he co-edits with Sujit.  
Find out more about the workshop David organized during his fellowship together with Sujit Sivasundaram and Roland Wenzlhuemer.

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