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Past events 2021
Together with our partners at GHI Washington, the Kolleg hosted an exploratory workshop on ‘Global Infrastructures: In/Exclusion’ from 2 to 3 December 2021. Ever since the rising trend of Global History in the early 2000s, numerous studies have celebrated the exploration of past border-crossings and far-reaching transregional relations. This enthusiasm, however, has provoked increasing skepticism toward smooth narratives of connectivity, increasing mobility flows, and networks. This workshop examined approaches to Global History that emphasise the interplay of connections and interruptions, of integration and exclusion, of expansion and reterritorialization. Contributors included Boris Belge (Basel), Andreas Greiner, Carolin Liebisch-Gümüş, Mario Peters (all GHI Washington) as well as Paul Blickle, Tom Menger and Christoph Streb (all Munich).
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2-3 Dec 21, Exploratory Workshop on Global Infrastructures
2 December 2020
On 30 November, our fellow Änne Söll (Bochum) contributed to the winter term lunchtime colloquium series with a talk on “Internships, scholarship, friendships: how Yvonne Hackenbroch reconnected with the world of art history, 1937–1989”.
You will find the lunchtime colloquium programme for the winter term 21/22 
On 23 November, global dis:connect team member and manager of our TransferLab Christian Steinau spoke on “Lab cultures: the rise of laboratories and the question of labour” in our winter term lunchtime colloquium series.
You will find the lunchtime colloquium programme for the winter term 21/22 
Andreas Greiner (GHI Washington) and Mikko Toivanen (Osk. Huttunen Fellow at the Kolleg) have organised an international workshop that explored the dynamics of tourist travel in colonial and imperial contexts. It brought together case studies from all geographical areas, dating roughly from the onset of the age of steam until the era of decolonization. Three hitherto neglected aspects informed the agenda: the connection between tourism and imperial (infra)structures; the trans-colonial and intra-regional dimension of tourism; as well as the workers of imperial tourism.
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On 16 November, our fellow Ann-Sophie Schoepfel (Harvard/Sciences Po) contributed to the winter term lunchtime colloquium series with a talk on “After the French Empire: the invisible history of decolonisation, de-imperialisation and de-Cold War”.
You will find the lunchtime colloquium programme for the winter term 21/22 
On Wednesday, 3 November 2021, researchers from Edinburgh and Munich came together in an online roundtable on ‘Disconnection and (institutional) cooperation in Global History’. The roundtable considered how the concept of ‘disconnect’ could be useful for thinking about the research agenda of global history and its relationship to the present – and how to counter ‚disconnect‘ at an institutional level.
Speakers were: Christina Brauner (Tübingen/Munich), Jeremy Dell, Meha Priyadarshini (both Edinburgh) and Roland Wenzlhuemer (Munich). The event was chaired by Ismay Milford (Edinburgh). 
On 2 November, our fellow Callie Wilkinson (Warwick) contributed to the winter term lunchtime colloquium series with a talk on “Bearing witness in wartime: the East India Company’s soldiers in the public domain, 1764–1857”.
You will find the lunchtime colloquium programme for the winter term 21/22 
Together with Ursula Ströbele (ZI für Kunstgeschichte), Burcu Dogramaci, art historian and one of the Kolleg’s directors, organized an online workshop that discussed the hitherto rarely studied topic of infrastructures, transport and art in a global perspective from the 19th century to the present day. 
On 26 October, our fellow Sabine Soergel (Surrey) contributed to the winter term lunchtime colloquium series with a talk on “In globalisation’s shadow: cultural memory, European identity, and post-imperial nationalism”.
You will find the lunchtime colloquium programme for the winter term 21/22 