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Cathrine Bublatzky is a media anthropologist and senior lecturer at the University of Tübingen. She researches diaspora and exile, archives, visual and digital media cultures, photography, art, activism, and the aesthetics and politics of belonging throughout Europe, South Asia and the Middle East. Cathrine authored Along the Indian Highway: An Ethnography of an International Travelling Exhibition, a monograph published by Routledge. Her project Contemporary Photography as Cultural Praxis of Iranians in the European Diaspora, which she will continue at global dis:connect, was awarded a scholarship by the Baden-Württemberg Foundation.

During her fellowship at global dis:connect, Cathrine will research a private archive of personal and political photographs from 20th-century Iranian exiles. Assuming that photographs are mobile, constantly connecting and disconnecting times, places and people, Cathrine is concerned with politically sensitive photographs from the archive of an Iranian exiled artist and activist, and the questions of why and how photography functions as a central medium for global communication, information and memory processes as well as identification and belonging in the exiles’ everyday. She inquires how archives and photography contain traces of time and belonging for their audiences in and beyond exile as a cultural field of simultaneously dis:connective and interruptive social interactions.

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Joël Glasman focuses on West and Central Africa in the 20th century, particularly colonialism, governmentality, humanitarianism and the production of power as framed by praxis theory and science and technology studies. His publications inquire into social classifications produced by state institutions, international governmentality and private corporations. He further engages with the theory of global history, global norms and colonialism. His last book, Les humanités humanitaires. Manuel d’autodéfense à l’usage des volontaires (2023), reflects on the practical use of the humanities.

Joël’s project, Empire of waste, looks at imperialism as a regime of waste built on material exploitation and racial inequalities. Immobilisation, hiding and destruction of waste played a crucial role in imperial domination, as indicated by recent research on toxicity, waste dumping and radioactivity in Africa. It investigates two faces of the ‘Empire of Waste’. First, it analyses French corporate strategies of externalisation of waste and pollution. Second, it scrutinises forms of discard labour used by colonial corporations: forced labour, corvée, prison labour, wage labour, informal labour and child labour.

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Nic Leonhardt is a theatre scholar and writer commenting on global theatre history; media, popular and visual cultures; and archiving and curating theatrical history. She has served as a senior researcher and fellow in multiple projects. Her latest monograph, Theatre Across Oceans. Mediators of Transatlantic Exchange (1890-1925), was published in 2021. She edits Global Theatre Histories and created the theatre history podcast Theatrescapes.

Nic is co-president of SIBMAS. Together with artist Reza Nassrollahi, she runs the global art and charity project 1001SOUL.

At global dis:connect, Nic will address the challenges of global theatre histories and the difficulties in understanding and writing a globally interconnected history of the performing arts. She will interrogate the gap between global and entangled histories, which are both shared and divided. This project invokes connections, disconnections and detours extending across research, knowledge transfer, methodology and epistemology.

Her research will cover two case studies on female theatre practitioners and networks in Europe and the USA (early 20^th century) and in Iran (1940s and 1950s).

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Camille is a professor of art history at Southern Connecticut State University. She received her doctorate in art history from Yale in 1997, where she focused on images of medieval Paris. Since then, her research has focused primarily on the relationship between painting and mapmaking in late medieval and early modern Europe, with particular attention to the ways that artistic techniques and practices both enhanced and undermined the authority of cartography. The links between cartography and painting in 16th century France are also the subject of her recently completed book manuscript.

Her project, Border Control: Cartography and its Frames in Early Modernity, 1500-1650, explores how frames and border motifs animate early modern cartography and provide an interpretive lens for the mutable image of the world. Because knowledge of geography and sovereign boundaries were constantly in flux, frames enhanced the authority of maps that were almost immediately made obsolete by new exploration or conflict. As a new appraisal of the assertive role of the cartographic frame, the project will recuperate the agency of cartographic ornament, enhancing the legibility of early modern maps.

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Jie-Hyun Lim holds the CIPSH Chair of Global Easts and is a founding director of the Critical Global Studies Institute at Sogang University. He has published on nationalism, Marxism, Polish history, transnational history and global memory. He is a principal investigator of the Mnemonic Solidarity: Colonialism, War and Genocide in the Global Memory Space (2017-2024) research project and edits the Entangled Memories in the Global South series among others. His recent books include Victimhood Nationalism-Global History and Memory (2024), Opfernationalismus. Erinnerung und Herrschaft in der postkolonialen Welt (2024) and Global Easts: Remembering, Imagining, Practicing (2022).

During his fellowship at gd:c, he will work on multilingual versions of victimhood nationalism as a conceptual tool to illustrate competing memories of victimhood in the postwar Vergangenheitsbewältigung across Europe and East Asia. By drawing on the entangled past of the political and cultural production, representations, consumption and distribution of victimhood memories between Korea and Japan, and between Poland, Germany and Israel, my book traces the global trajectory of victimhood nationalism.

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Catherine Gidney is an adjunct research professor of history at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, N.B., Canada. Her research focuses on the intersection of the history of education and other fields such as youth culture, health and religion in 20^th-century Canada. She most recently authored Captive Audience: How Corporations Invaded Our Schools (Between the Lines, 2019) and co-edited Feeling Feminism: Activism, Affect, and Canada’s Second Wave (UBC Press, 2022). In 2016 she was elected to the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists.

Catherine’s current research focuses on the history of the modern mindfulness movement. She is particularly interested in the transformation of mindfulness from a primarily countercultural and individual practice to one prominently featured in global corporations. Her research aims to shed light not only on the origins and spread of the mindfulness movement, but also on the role and implications of this movement in the processes of cultural globalisation.