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Past Associated Fellows
Viviana’s work explores the connection between non-democratic states and theatre in a global context before and after 1989. Her published work focusses on Cold War and non-aligned expertise networks and strategies of cultural diplomacy. She is a gd:c alumna, having received a fellowship in 2023. The project expanded her research interest into the long-term impact of Cold War dynamics on the international theatre community in the past decades.
Viviana Iacob
Viviana’s work explores the connection between non-democratic states and theatre in a global context before and after 1989. Her published work focusses on Cold War and non-aligned expertise networks and strategies of cultural diplomacy. She is a gd:c alumna, having received a fellowship in 2023. The project expanded her research interest into the long-term impact of Cold War dynamics on the international theatre community in the past decades.
Globalisation by any other name: international organisations, theatre and non-democratic regimes around 1989
Viviana returns to gd:c with a new Humboldt research fellowship to pursue an editorial project on illiberalism, theatre and globalisation. The volume Theatre and Illiberalism in a Global Context is the result of two consecutive workshops hosted at the CEU in Budapest and at gd:c in 2023. They were instrumental in developing her work on international organisations and alternative globalisation as well as founding a workgroup on theatre and illiberalism. The edited volume will be its first print project. Viviana’s contribution to this project consists of situating illiberalism on a continuum of illiberal engagements with globalisation.
Find out more about the workshop Viviana organized during her last fellowship.
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27 March 2026
I am an economic and historical geographer and a professor of economic geography and sustainability research at the LMU Munich. I research sustainability issues related to resource-based economies, manufacturing and business networks. I’ve written The American Reaper: Harvesting Networks and Technology, 1830-1910 (2012) and, with Andreas Dix, edited Trading Environments: Frontiers, Commercial Knowledge and Environmental Transformation, 1750-1990 (2016). Currently, I focus on Europe’s blue economy and the relevance of deglobalisation to historical research.
Gordon joined global dis:connect funded by the LMU.