All our past fellows
Throughout the years we have welcomed many great artists and researchers as fellows.
ifeoluwa aboluwade
Ifeoluwa Aboluwade is a literary scholar with a background in imperial and literary history, early modern English theatre, critical digital humanities, (trans)cultural translation and adaptation, black diaspora studies, postcolonial literary criticism, and gender and intersectionality. She works at the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence and is a lecturer at the University of Bayreuth. Ifeoluwa has received many international awards and fellowships, such as Fulbright and DAAD scholarships, most recently receiving the Shakespeare Association of America-Folger Shakespeare Library Short Term Fellowship (2022/2023).
At gd:c, Ifeoluwa is investigating the histories, patterns and genealogies (dis)connecting Shakespearean drama and early modern West Africa through the topoi of the trickster and warrior. Drawing on diverse texts, the project shows that comparing tricksters and warriors across both literary cultures engenders a deeper understanding of their historical and ongoing entanglements, recasting the significations and transcultural spectres that haunt Shakespeare. It will also illuminate the tension between absence and presence of early modern English performances, especially in terms of race, gender, and class.
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ifeoluwa aboluwade
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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.
roii ball
Roii Ball is a social historian of 19th and 20th-century Germany and Central Europe and their colonial entanglements. He is a postdoctoral lead researcher at the Religion and Politics Cluster of Excellence at the University of Münster. Ball earned his PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2021 with a dissertation on the social dynamics and bureaucratic practices of German colonisation in the Polish provinces of Prussia before WWI (Advisor: David Sabean).
Roii’s work focuses on family and kinship to explore histories of colonisation and their intersection with empire-making and nation-making. His research interests include the history of knowledge, history of childhood, environmental history, and digital history. He has held fellowships at the University of Cologne, the German Historical Institute in Warsaw, and the Leibnitz Institute for European History in Mainz.
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roii ball
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Roii Ball is a social historian of 19th and 20th-century Germany and Central Europe and their colonial entanglements. He is a postdoctoral lead researcher at the Religion and Politics Cluster of Excellence at the University of Münster. Ball earned his PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2021 with a dissertation on the social dynamics and bureaucratic practices of German colonisation in the Polish provinces of Prussia before WWI (Advisor: David Sabean).
Roii’s work focuses on family and kinship to explore histories of colonisation and their intersection with empire-making and nation-making. His research interests include the history of knowledge, history of childhood, environmental history, and digital history. He has held fellowships at the University of Cologne, the German Historical Institute in Warsaw, and the Leibnitz Institute for European History in Mainz.
cathrine bublatzky
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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cathrine bublatzky
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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.
Elizabeth DeLoughrey
Elizabeth DeLoughrey is a professor at UCLA. She authored Routes and Roots: Navigating Caribbean and Pacific Literatures, and Allegories of the Anthropocene andco-edited Caribbean Literature and the Environment: Between Nature and Culture; Postcolonial Ecologies: Literatures of the Environment; and Global Ecologies and the Environmental Humanities: Postcolonial Approaches in addition to numerous journal issues on critical ocean, island and militarism studies. Her scholarship has been supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Fulbright New Zealand, the Rachel Carson Center and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.
During her fellowship at the gd:c, Elizabeth will be working on a book project entitled Submarine Futures: Cold War Aesthetics and its Afterlives, which examines the deep seas as a vital frontier for Cold War militarism and a cultural and aesthetic space for contemporary art from the global South. More specifically, she will be writing about the International Seabed Authority and its configuration of deep-sea polymetallic nodules as figures of non-life, placing these discourses in conversation with indigenous ontologies of the ocean and its inhabitants.
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Elizabeth DeLoughrey
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Elizabeth DeLoughrey is a professor at UCLA. She authored Routes and Roots: Navigating Caribbean and Pacific Literatures, and Allegories of the Anthropocene andco-edited Caribbean Literature and the Environment: Between Nature and Culture; Postcolonial Ecologies: Literatures of the Environment; and Global Ecologies and the Environmental Humanities: Postcolonial Approaches in addition to numerous journal issues on critical ocean, island and militarism studies. Her scholarship has been supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Fulbright New Zealand, the Rachel Carson Center and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.
During her fellowship at the gd:c, Elizabeth will be working on a book project entitled Submarine Futures: Cold War Aesthetics and its Afterlives, which examines the deep seas as a vital frontier for Cold War militarism and a cultural and aesthetic space for contemporary art from the global South. More specifically, she will be writing about the International Seabed Authority and its configuration of deep-sea polymetallic nodules as figures of non-life, placing these discourses in conversation with indigenous ontologies of the ocean and its inhabitants.
joël glasman
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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joël glasman
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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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Michael Goebel
Michael Goebel is the Einstein Professor of Global History and co-director of the Frankreich-Zentrum at Freie Universität Berlin. He earned his Ph.D. from University College London (2006) and in 2018–21 was the Pierre du Bois Chair Europe and the World at the Geneva Graduate Institute. Originally an intellectual historian of Latin America, his 2015 book Anti-Imperial Metropolis awakened a growing interest in urban history and, more recently, social and economic history. He is currently the principal investigator of the SNSF-funded project Patchwork Cities.
During his fellowship at gd:c, he’s investigating the interrelationship between globalisation and inequality in Latin American and Southeast Asian port cities, particularly in the late-nineteenth century. His key interest is how the global development of capitalism and imperialism intersected with local socio-economic transformations in urban space, focusing on the interplay between ethnicity, migration and real-estate markets. His research thus connects to scholarship about segregation, but seeks to expand its purview beyond its customary focus on the North Atlantic.
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Michael Goebel
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Michael Goebel is the Einstein Professor of Global History and co-director of the Frankreich-Zentrum at Freie Universität Berlin. He earned his Ph.D. from University College London (2006) and in 2018–21 was the Pierre du Bois Chair Europe and the World at the Geneva Graduate Institute. Originally an intellectual historian of Latin America, his 2015 book Anti-Imperial Metropolis awakened a growing interest in urban history and, more recently, social and economic history. He is currently the principal investigator of the SNSF-funded project Patchwork Cities.
During his fellowship at gd:c, he’s investigating the interrelationship between globalisation and inequality in Latin American and Southeast Asian port cities, particularly in the late-nineteenth century. His key interest is how the global development of capitalism and imperialism intersected with local socio-economic transformations in urban space, focusing on the interplay between ethnicity, migration and real-estate markets. His research thus connects to scholarship about segregation, but seeks to expand its purview beyond its customary focus on the North Atlantic.
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Valeska Huber
Valeska is a professor at the University of Vienna. She has led an Emmy Noether Research Group and has been a fellow at the German Historical Institute London. She is particularly interested in the mutual interdependence of opening and closure. More specifically, she has worked on mobility and migration, on epidemics and international health policy, and on education and literacy training. She has authored Channelling Mobilities: Migration and Globalisation in the Suez Canal Region and co-edited Global Publics: Their Power and their Limits.
Valeska is currently focusing on global publics – their power, reach, and limits. During her fellowship at global dis:connect, she will work on a monograph about the 20th-century dream of universal literacy, tracing the Each One Teach One method propagated by US missionary Frank C. Laubach and applied around the globe from the Philippines to Cuba and Brazil.
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Valeska Huber
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Valeska is a professor at the University of Vienna. She has led an Emmy Noether Research Group and has been a fellow at the German Historical Institute London. She is particularly interested in the mutual interdependence of opening and closure. More specifically, she has worked on mobility and migration, on epidemics and international health policy, and on education and literacy training. She has authored Channelling Mobilities: Migration and Globalisation in the Suez Canal Region and co-edited Global Publics: Their Power and their Limits.
Valeska is currently focusing on global publics – their power, reach, and limits. During her fellowship at global dis:connect, she will work on a monograph about the 20th-century dream of universal literacy, tracing the Each One Teach One method propagated by US missionary Frank C. Laubach and applied around the globe from the Philippines to Cuba and Brazil.
Judd C. Kinzley
Judd Kinzley is a professor of modern Chinese history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research treats borderlands, materiality and natural resources. He is currently working on the transnational exchange of Chinese raw materials for cash, weapons and industrial goods during World War II. This work reveals the transnational networks that developed to finance, produce and transport such resources. These trans-Pacific networks channelled objects in both directions during the war and served as the blueprint of a new postwar international order.
Judd works in both Chinese and English, with experience researching in several archives in China, Taiwan, the United States and the United Kingdom.
Judd’s project at gd:c focuses on the legacies of Allied wartime oil exports to China, and how brought China, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, the United States and the European imperial powers together. Support of China’s war effort through deliveries of petroleum products relied on the transformation of global petroleum infrastructures that had long connected petroleum-producing regions to imperial metropoles, mostly in Western Europe. Oil transports from Burma and Iran into China during the war served as a detour, an “interruption” that bound the Middle East to the United States and East Asia, reshaping global energy flows.
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Judd C. Kinzley
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Judd Kinzley is a professor of modern Chinese history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research treats borderlands, materiality and natural resources. He is currently working on the transnational exchange of Chinese raw materials for cash, weapons and industrial goods during World War II. This work reveals the transnational networks that developed to finance, produce and transport such resources. These trans-Pacific networks channelled objects in both directions during the war and served as the blueprint of a new postwar international order.
Judd works in both Chinese and English, with experience researching in several archives in China, Taiwan, the United States and the United Kingdom.
Judd’s project at gd:c focuses on the legacies of Allied wartime oil exports to China, and how brought China, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, the United States and the European imperial powers together. Support of China’s war effort through deliveries of petroleum products relied on the transformation of global petroleum infrastructures that had long connected petroleum-producing regions to imperial metropoles, mostly in Western Europe. Oil transports from Burma and Iran into China during the war served as a detour, an “interruption” that bound the Middle East to the United States and East Asia, reshaping global energy flows.
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Yvonne Kleinmann
Yvonne Kleinmann is a professor of Eastern European history and director of the Aleksander Brückner Center for Polish Studies at Halle University. Her research focuses on Russian imperial history in comparative perspective, Jewish history of Eastern Europe, and Polish history through the ages. She is especially interested in the intersections between historiography, philology, ethnography and law. In her publications she has explored migrations, interreligious relations, urban history, legal history, anthropology and the history of knowledge.
In her gd:c project Communicating Constitutions: A Cultural and Entangled History of Poland’s Basic Orders, she is analysing Polish constitutional history from the 14th century to the present from the angle of cultural history and (transnational) entanglement. The core question is how to narrate the constitutional history of a community with many political discontinuities and dependencies. Drawing on the example of Poland, the project offers new approaches to constitutional history from the perspectives of imperial history, biographical research, regional history, gender studies, law and literature.
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Yvonne Kleinmann
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Yvonne Kleinmann is a professor of Eastern European history and director of the Aleksander Brückner Center for Polish Studies at Halle University. Her research focuses on Russian imperial history in comparative perspective, Jewish history of Eastern Europe, and Polish history through the ages. She is especially interested in the intersections between historiography, philology, ethnography and law. In her publications she has explored migrations, interreligious relations, urban history, legal history, anthropology and the history of knowledge.
In her gd:c project Communicating Constitutions: A Cultural and Entangled History of Poland’s Basic Orders, she is analysing Polish constitutional history from the 14th century to the present from the angle of cultural history and (transnational) entanglement. The core question is how to narrate the constitutional history of a community with many political discontinuities and dependencies. Drawing on the example of Poland, the project offers new approaches to constitutional history from the perspectives of imperial history, biographical research, regional history, gender studies, law and literature.
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Matthias Leanza
Matthias Leanza is a historical sociologist specialising in empires, colonialism and nation-state formation and is a senior lecturer at the University of Basel. In 2017, his dissertation received the Erasmus Prize for the Liberal Arts and Sciences. In 2019, he joined the Postdoc Network of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) at Bielefeld University. He was a visiting scholar at the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research in Berlin, the University of Virginia and the University of Michigan. In 2020, he co-founded the Historical Sociology Working Group in the German Sociological Association.
During his fellowship at global dis:connect, Matthias will complete his current book project on the legacy of German colonialism. Drawing on a wide range of sources from European and African archives, the study shows how and why the German overseas empire helped consolidate the nascent German nation-state. Germany soon lost its colonies, but their effects on the country persisted, leaving a complex legacy.
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Matthias Leanza
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Matthias Leanza is a historical sociologist specialising in empires, colonialism and nation-state formation and is a senior lecturer at the University of Basel. In 2017, his dissertation received the Erasmus Prize for the Liberal Arts and Sciences. In 2019, he joined the Postdoc Network of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) at Bielefeld University. He was a visiting scholar at the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research in Berlin, the University of Virginia and the University of Michigan. In 2020, he co-founded the Historical Sociology Working Group in the German Sociological Association.
During his fellowship at global dis:connect, Matthias will complete his current book project on the legacy of German colonialism. Drawing on a wide range of sources from European and African archives, the study shows how and why the German overseas empire helped consolidate the nascent German nation-state. Germany soon lost its colonies, but their effects on the country persisted, leaving a complex legacy.
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Nic Leonhardt
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 20th century) and in Iran (1940s and 1950s).
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Nic Leonhardt
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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 20th century) and in Iran (1940s and 1950s).
Ayala Levin
Ayala Levin is an associate professor of architectural history at the University of California, Los Angeles. Ayala specialises in architecture and urban planning in postcolonial African states with interest in the production of architectural knowledge as part of north-south or south-south exchange. She authored Architecture and Development: Israeli Construction in Sub Saharan Africa and the Settler Colonial Imagination (Duke University Press 2022), and she co-edited Architecture in Development: Systems and the Emergence of the Global South (Routledge 2022).
At global dis:connect, Ayala will research how U.S. planners sought to reorganise rural spaces in post-independence African states to curb urban migration. This project reframes conventional accounts of Third World urbanisation by directing attention to the entangled phenomenon of ruralisation, namely the modernisation of the countryside. It asks how the countryside was physically transformed to elevate standards of living, and how this transformation was employed to eradicate colonial precepts that associated modernity and social mobility exclusively with the city.
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Ayala Levin
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Ayala Levin is an associate professor of architectural history at the University of California, Los Angeles. Ayala specialises in architecture and urban planning in postcolonial African states with interest in the production of architectural knowledge as part of north-south or south-south exchange. She authored Architecture and Development: Israeli Construction in Sub Saharan Africa and the Settler Colonial Imagination (Duke University Press 2022), and she co-edited Architecture in Development: Systems and the Emergence of the Global South (Routledge 2022).
At global dis:connect, Ayala will research how U.S. planners sought to reorganise rural spaces in post-independence African states to curb urban migration. This project reframes conventional accounts of Third World urbanisation by directing attention to the entangled phenomenon of ruralisation, namely the modernisation of the countryside. It asks how the countryside was physically transformed to elevate standards of living, and how this transformation was employed to eradicate colonial precepts that associated modernity and social mobility exclusively with the city.
Małgorzata Mirga-Tas
Artist fellow
The work of Romani artist, educator, and activist Małgorzata Mirga-Tas (b. 1978, Zakopane) addresses anti-Roma stereotypes and engages in building an affirmative iconography of Roma communities. Her art depicts everyday life: relationships, alliances, and shared activities. Mirga-Tas’s vibrant textile collages are created from materials and fabrics collected from family and friends, imbuing them with a life of their own and a corresponding immediacy. Textiles made of curtains, jewellery, shirts, and sheets are sewn together to form ‘microcarriers’ of history, with the resulting images revising macro perspectives. Her vibrant works offer a rare opportunity to see the Roma on their own terms, both as a contemporary community and as a people with a rich heritage.
Mirga-Tas’s portrayals adopt the perspective of ‘minority feminism’, consciously advocating for women’s strength while acknowledging the artist’s cultural roots. She was the official Polish representative at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022, the first Roma artist to represent any country. She graduated from the Faculty of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in 2004. Her works have been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including: Tate St. Ives (2024), Bonnefanten (2024), Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (2023-2024), Kortrijk Triennial (2024), Barbican (2023), Brücke Museum (2023), 14th Gwangju Biennale (2023), Göteborgs Konsthall (2023), documenta15 (2022), International Cultural Center in Krakow (2022), Guangzhou Triennale in China (2022), 11th Berlin Biennale (2020), Art Encounters Biennale in Timișoara (2019, 2021), 3rd Autostrada Biennale in Prizren (2021), Moravian Gallery in Brno (2017), Polish Sculpture Center in Oronsko (2020), and the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2020). She lives and works in Czarna Góra.
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Małgorzata Mirga-Tas
artist fellow
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The work of Romani artist, educator, and activist Małgorzata Mirga-Tas (b. 1978, Zakopane) addresses anti-Roma stereotypes and engages in building an affirmative iconography of Roma communities. Her art depicts everyday life: relationships, alliances, and shared activities. Mirga-Tas’s vibrant textile collages are created from materials and fabrics collected from family and friends, imbuing them with a life of their own and a corresponding immediacy. Textiles made of curtains, jewellery, shirts, and sheets are sewn together to form ‘microcarriers’ of history, with the resulting images revising macro perspectives. Her vibrant works offer a rare opportunity to see the Roma on their own terms, both as a contemporary community and as a people with a rich heritage.
Mirga-Tas’s portrayals adopt the perspective of ‘minority feminism’, consciously advocating for women’s strength while acknowledging the artist’s cultural roots. She was the official Polish representative at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022, the first Roma artist to represent any country. She graduated from the Faculty of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in 2004. Her works have been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including: Tate St. Ives (2024), Bonnefanten (2024), Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (2023-2024), Kortrijk Triennial (2024), Barbican (2023), Brücke Museum (2023), 14th Gwangju Biennale (2023), Göteborgs Konsthall (2023), documenta15 (2022), International Cultural Center in Krakow (2022), Guangzhou Triennale in China (2022), 11th Berlin Biennale (2020), Art Encounters Biennale in Timișoara (2019, 2021), 3rd Autostrada Biennale in Prizren (2021), Moravian Gallery in Brno (2017), Polish Sculpture Center in Oronsko (2020), and the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2020). She lives and works in Czarna Góra.
David Motadel
David Motadel is an associate professor of international history at the LSE. A former Gates Scholar at Cambridge, he has held visiting positions at Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Sciences Po and the Sorbonne. His articles have been published in numerous academic journals, including Past & Present, The American Historical Review and the Annales. His reviews and essays on current affairs have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, The New York Review of Books, The London Review of Books and The Times Literary Supplement, among others. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
During his year at gd:c, David is working on a global history of Europe’s empires around the Second World War, 1935-1948, exploring the history of the war in the imperial world, its impact on colonial subjects; the history of the colonial soldiers who fought in Europe’s armies; the history of anti-colonial movements during the war, from the Viet Minh to the Quit India movement; and the war’s impact on the end of empire and twentieth-century world order. Drawing on multilingual literature and sources from five continents, the book provides a truly global view of the most cataclysmic conflict in human history.
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David Motadel
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David Motadel is an associate professor of international history at the LSE. A former Gates Scholar at Cambridge, he has held visiting positions at Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Sciences Po and the Sorbonne. His articles have been published in numerous academic journals, including Past & Present, The American Historical Review and the Annales. His reviews and essays on current affairs have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, The New York Review of Books, The London Review of Books and The Times Literary Supplement, among others. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
During his year at gd:c, David is working on a global history of Europe’s empires around the Second World War, 1935-1948, exploring the history of the war in the imperial world, its impact on colonial subjects; the history of the colonial soldiers who fought in Europe’s armies; the history of anti-colonial movements during the war, from the Viet Minh to the Quit India movement; and the war’s impact on the end of empire and twentieth-century world order. Drawing on multilingual literature and sources from five continents, the book provides a truly global view of the most cataclysmic conflict in human history.
Sabrina Moura
Sabrina Moura is a researcher and curator from Brazil. She holds a Ph.D. in art history from the University of Campinas. She authored Arqueologia da Criação [Archeology of Creation, 2022] — a book on the work of Brazilian artist Rossini Perez — and edited Southern Panoramas: Perspectives for other geographies of thought (2015), which presents historical and artistic perspectives on the Global South. Her work has featured in Mousse Magazine, Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften, Stedelijk Studies Journal, African Art, Critical Internventions, 3rd Text Africa, among others.
At global dis:connect, Sabrina is developing Travelling Back: reframing a Munich expedition to Brazil in the 19th century, a project that deals with contemporary visual and performative strategies focused on the restitution of absent agencies in the history of the natural sciences. This research analyses museological and display policies around collections that were gathered during 19th-century expeditions of exploration and are held in Munich institutions, integrating decolonial theories, exhibition histories and museum studies.
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Sabrina Moura
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Sabrina Moura is a researcher and curator from Brazil. She holds a Ph.D. in art history from the University of Campinas. She authored Arqueologia da Criação [Archeology of Creation, 2022] — a book on the work of Brazilian artist Rossini Perez — and edited Southern Panoramas: Perspectives for other geographies of thought (2015), which presents historical and artistic perspectives on the Global South. Her work has featured in Mousse Magazine, Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften, Stedelijk Studies Journal, African Art, Critical Internventions, 3rd Text Africa, among others.
At global dis:connect, Sabrina is developing Travelling Back: reframing a Munich expedition to Brazil in the 19th century, a project that deals with contemporary visual and performative strategies focused on the restitution of absent agencies in the history of the natural sciences. This research analyses museological and display policies around collections that were gathered during 19th-century expeditions of exploration and are held in Munich institutions, integrating decolonial theories, exhibition histories and museum studies.
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Günther Sandner
Günther Sandner is a political scientist and historian. He works as a research fellow at the Institute Vienna Circle (University of Vienna) and teaches civic education extramurally. His research includes the history of logical empiricism and Isotype. His recent publications include Weltsprache ohne Worte. Rudolf Modley, Margaret Mead und das Glyphs-Projekt (2022); Logical Empiricism, Life Reform and the German Youth Movement (ed. with Christian Damböck and Meike Werner. 2022); and History and Legacy of Isotype (with Christopher Burke, forthcoming 2023).
Günther’s project, Following Isotype: visual languages and universal symbols in the decades after 1945, deals with projects that aimed to overcome the active absence of a universal language and to establish one with the help of pictures, graphics, symbols and pictograms. Its focus is on the 1950s and 1960s. Three visual language models that interacted with each other to varying degrees are examined as examples: Marie Neurath’s Isotype (after Otto Neurath’s death), Margaret Mead’s and Rudolf Modley’s Glyphs and Charles Bliss’ Semantography.
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Günther Sandner
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Günther Sandner is a political scientist and historian. He works as a research fellow at the Institute Vienna Circle (University of Vienna) and teaches civic education extramurally. His research includes the history of logical empiricism and Isotype. His recent publications include Weltsprache ohne Worte. Rudolf Modley, Margaret Mead und das Glyphs-Projekt (2022); Logical Empiricism, Life Reform and the German Youth Movement (ed. with Christian Damböck and Meike Werner. 2022); and History and Legacy of Isotype (with Christopher Burke, forthcoming 2023).
Günther’s project, Following Isotype: visual languages and universal symbols in the decades after 1945, deals with projects that aimed to overcome the active absence of a universal language and to establish one with the help of pictures, graphics, symbols and pictograms. Its focus is on the 1950s and 1960s. Three visual language models that interacted with each other to varying degrees are examined as examples: Marie Neurath’s Isotype (after Otto Neurath’s death), Margaret Mead’s and Rudolf Modley’s Glyphs and Charles Bliss’ Semantography.
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camille serchuk
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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camille serchuk
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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.
Wojciech Szymański
Wojciech Szymański is an art historian and critic, independent curator and assistant professor at the University of Warsaw. He has authored The Argonauts: Postminimalism and Art After Modernism: Eva Hesse – Felix Gonzalez-Torres – Roni Horn – Derek Jarman (2015; in Polish) and several dozen articles and edited numerous exhibition catalogues along with the journal Ikonotheka. Wojciech has led a number of Polish and international research projects and Małgorzata Mirga-Tas’s exhibition Re-enchanting the World in the Polish Pavilion at the 59th Biennale Arte in Venice (2022).
Edouard Manet’s lost painting Les Bohemiens (1862) provides an insight into the relationship between non-Roma artists or bohemians and members of Roma communities in the second half of the 19th century. The first aim of the project is to investigate the relationships between Roma subjects and non-Roma artists in Paris, to restore the visibility and identity of the Roma in relation to contemporary Munich-based art. The second issue is the Roma and Sinti Holocaust. The overarching goal is to look at Roma–non-Roma relations in Munich in the first half of the 20th century, when anti-Roma politics and discrimination grew, ultimately leading to their extermination.
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Wojciech Szymański
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Wojciech Szymański is an art historian and critic, independent curator and assistant professor at the University of Warsaw. He has authored The Argonauts: Postminimalism and Art After Modernism: Eva Hesse – Felix Gonzalez-Torres – Roni Horn – Derek Jarman (2015; in Polish) and several dozen articles and edited numerous exhibition catalogues along with the journal Ikonotheka. Wojciech has led a number of Polish and international research projects and Małgorzata Mirga-Tas’s exhibition Re-enchanting the World in the Polish Pavilion at the 59th Biennale Arte in Venice (2022).
Edouard Manet’s lost painting Les Bohemiens (1862) provides an insight into the relationship between non-Roma artists or bohemians and members of Roma communities in the second half of the 19th century. The first aim of the project is to investigate the relationships between Roma subjects and non-Roma artists in Paris, to restore the visibility and identity of the Roma in relation to contemporary Munich-based art. The second issue is the Roma and Sinti Holocaust. The overarching goal is to look at Roma–non-Roma relations in Munich in the first half of the 20th century, when anti-Roma politics and discrimination grew, ultimately leading to their extermination.
Julian Warner
artist fellow
Julian Warner is an artist and curator. He is the current artistic director of the Brechtfestival Augsburg and a performer and musician going by the stage name of Fehler Kuti. He is the editor of an anthology on questions regarding decolonial critique in Germany After Europe. Beiträge zur dekolonialen Kritik (Verbrecher Verlag, 2021) and was a visiting professor for dramaturgy at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design in 2022-23.
During his fellowship at global dis:connect, Julian will critically reflect on his curatorial practice, which positions itself at the intersection of globally circulating symbolic goods and locally specific contexts. Which contradictions and conflicts arise when international artists and projects engage with local institutions, audiences, and struggles? How may we further our understanding of such overdetermined constellations?
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Julian Warner
artist fellow
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Julian Warner is an artist and curator. He is the current artistic director of the Brechtfestival Augsburg and a performer and musician going by the stage name of Fehler Kuti. He is the editor of an anthology on questions regarding decolonial critique in Germany After Europe. Beiträge zur dekolonialen Kritik (Verbrecher Verlag, 2021) and was a visiting professor for dramaturgy at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design in 2022-23.
During his fellowship at global dis:connect, Julian will critically reflect on his curatorial practice, which positions itself at the intersection of globally circulating symbolic goods and locally specific contexts. Which contradictions and conflicts arise when international artists and projects engage with local institutions, audiences, and struggles? How may we further our understanding of such overdetermined constellations?
Associated Fellows
peter becker
munich centre for global history
Peter Becker is a professor of Austrian History in Vienna. Before joining the University of Vienna, he was a professor in European History at the EUI in Florence. His research covers criminology as discourse and institutional practice, state building, governance and public administration, with a focus on the interplay between regional and national actor networks, global policy formation and international organisations: Remaking Central Europe (2020), edited with N. Wheatly in 2020 and A World of Contradictions: Globalization and Deglobalization in Interwar Europe (2023), ed. with T. Zahra.
Recent crises have brought the role of states into focus. The state’s scope of action has expanded, even though states are less sovereign than reliant on engagement with international organizations and collaboration with national and regional interest groups in these crises. My project uses these observations for a history of crisis management by modern states in a complex multi-level system, in which international state and non-state actors act together with governments of individual states, their expert committees, and local and regional networks of actors. I begin looking at the transformation crisis after the Great War and how the League responded to it.
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peter becker
munich centre for global history
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Peter Becker is a professor of Austrian History in Vienna. Before joining the University of Vienna, he was a professor in European History at the EUI in Florence. His research covers criminology as discourse and institutional practice, state building, governance and public administration, with a focus on the interplay between regional and national actor networks, global policy formation and international organisations: Remaking Central Europe (2020), edited with N. Wheatly in 2020 and A World of Contradictions: Globalization and Deglobalization in Interwar Europe (2023), ed. with T. Zahra.
Recent crises have brought the role of states into focus. The state’s scope of action has expanded, even though states are less sovereign than reliant on engagement with international organizations and collaboration with national and regional interest groups in these crises. My project uses these observations for a history of crisis management by modern states in a complex multi-level system, in which international state and non-state actors act together with governments of individual states, their expert committees, and local and regional networks of actors. I begin looking at the transformation crisis after the Great War and how the League responded to it.
Lachlan Fleetwood
msca fellow
Lachlan Fleetwood is historian of science, empire, geography and the environment. He completed a PhD at Cambridge and subsequently held fellowships at University College Dublin and Yale. He comes to LMU as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow. His work focuses on the uneven imposition of ostensibly global environmental categories by empires in the long nineteenth century. His research also investigates how geographical features like mountains and deserts can serve as scales for new global histories of science, empire and labour. His first book, Science on the Roof of the World: Empire and the Remaking of the Himalaya, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2022.
At global dis:connect, Lachlan is completing a project titled Imperial science and the habitability of Central Asia and Mesopotamia, 1815-1914: a history of the societal consequences of changing limits. This history of environmental sciences examines ideas of habitability, uninhabitability and climatic determinism in relation to empire, and it traces their postcolonial legacies in the age of climate crisis.
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Lachlan Fleetwood
msca fellow
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Lachlan Fleetwood is historian of science, empire, geography and the environment. He completed a PhD at Cambridge and subsequently held fellowships at University College Dublin and Yale. He comes to LMU as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow. His work focuses on the uneven imposition of ostensibly global environmental categories by empires in the long nineteenth century. His research also investigates how geographical features like mountains and deserts can serve as scales for new global histories of science, empire and labour. His first book, Science on the Roof of the World: Empire and the Remaking of the Himalaya, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2022.
At global dis:connect, Lachlan is completing a project titled Imperial science and the habitability of Central Asia and Mesopotamia, 1815-1914: a history of the societal consequences of changing limits. This history of environmental sciences examines ideas of habitability, uninhabitability and climatic determinism in relation to empire, and it traces their postcolonial legacies in the age of climate crisis.
Catherine Gidney
munich centre for global history
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 20th-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.
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Catherine Gidney
munich centre for global history
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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 20th-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.
Elisabeth Leake
munich centre for global history
Elisabeth Leake is the Lee E. Dirks Chair in Diplomatic History at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. She works on decolonisation, the global Cold War and histories of South Asia. Her books include Afghan Crucible: The Soviet Invasion and the Making of Modern Afghanistan (OUP, 2022) and The Defiant Border: The Afghan-Pakistan Borderlands in the Era of Decolonization, 1936-65 (CUP, 2017). She is also chief editor of the Journal of Global History.
Elisabeth is currently undertaking two interconnected research projects. The first, Decolonisation’s discontents, explores the development of different modes of opposition in the aftermath of political independence. The second is a global history of decolonisation, beginning in the late 18th century and ending with the close of the 20th. It interrogates how our understanding of decolonisation, as both idea and practice, shifts by taking a longer, broader historical perspective.
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Elisabeth Leake
munich centre for global history
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Elisabeth Leake is the Lee E. Dirks Chair in Diplomatic History at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. She works on decolonisation, the global Cold War and histories of South Asia. Her books include Afghan Crucible: The Soviet Invasion and the Making of Modern Afghanistan (OUP, 2022) and The Defiant Border: The Afghan-Pakistan Borderlands in the Era of Decolonization, 1936-65 (CUP, 2017). She is also chief editor of the Journal of Global History.
Elisabeth is currently undertaking two interconnected research projects. The first, Decolonisation’s discontents, explores the development of different modes of opposition in the aftermath of political independence. The second is a global history of decolonisation, beginning in the late 18th century and ending with the close of the 20th. It interrogates how our understanding of decolonisation, as both idea and practice, shifts by taking a longer, broader historical perspective.
jie-hyun lim
munich centre for global history
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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jie-hyun lim
munich centre for global history
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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.
Silke Reeploeg
munich centre for global history
Silke Reeploeg is an Associate Professor at Ilisimatusarfik (University of Greenland) where she teaches in the Department of Cultural and Social history. Her research focuses on memory cultures and hidden histories (including gender history). Other research interests are: critical arctic studies, heritage cultures, micro-historical approaches, and anti-/decolonial perspectives. Before coming to Greenland in 2018 Silke worked at the University of Karlstad, Sweden and the University of the Highlands and Islands in Scotland (based in the Shetland Islands).
Arctic memory cultures are often seen as subject to, rather than active participants in imperial and colonial historical processes and narratives, yet are sites of multiple voices, significant geo-political domains, and concurrent national and colonial identities. Building on recent approaches to anti-/and decolonial perspectives in Arctic memory studies Silke‘s research at global:disconnect explores the relationships that shape cultural memory as an aspect of the coloniality of knowledge. Using both archival and published material, Silke studies the making and remaking of Artic Memory Cultures as both global and transnational memory spaces (Transnationale Erinnerungsorte) – but also shaped by the coloniality of global processes.
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Silke Reeploeg
munich centre for global history
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Silke Reeploeg is an Associate Professor at Ilisimatusarfik (University of Greenland) where she teaches in the Department of Cultural and Social history. Her research focuses on memory cultures and hidden histories (including gender history). Other research interests are: critical arctic studies, heritage cultures, micro-historical approaches, and anti-/decolonial perspectives. Before coming to Greenland in 2018 Silke worked at the University of Karlstad, Sweden and the University of the Highlands and Islands in Scotland (based in the Shetland Islands).
Arctic memory cultures are often seen as subject to, rather than active participants in imperial and colonial historical processes and narratives, yet are sites of multiple voices, significant geo-political domains, and concurrent national and colonial identities. Building on recent approaches to anti-/and decolonial perspectives in Arctic memory studies Silke‘s research at global:disconnect explores the relationships that shape cultural memory as an aspect of the coloniality of knowledge. Using both archival and published material, Silke studies the making and remaking of Artic Memory Cultures as both global and transnational memory spaces (Transnationale Erinnerungsorte) – but also shaped by the coloniality of global processes.
Benjamin Schmidt
munich centre for global history
Ben is the Bridgman Professor of History at the University of Washington. His work sits at the crossroads of cultural history, visual and material studies, and the history of science. He focuses chiefly on Europe’s engagement with the world in the first age of globalism. His books include Innocence Abroad: The Dutch Imagination and the New World, winner of the RSA Gordan Prize, and Inventing Exoticism: Geography, Globalism, and Europe’s Early Modern World, finalist for the Kenshur Prize. His most recent book, The Globalization of Netherlandish Art (with T. Weststeijn), is forthcoming this year.
Ben’s gd:c project focuses on global ‘things’ — material artifacts that can be literally grasped — and ways they dis:connect early modern global cultures. It analyses materials and material technologies that served as critical intermediaries in an earlier age of global entanglement — media that mediated, as it were, transcultural transactions. In Munich, he’ll be working on a set of carved coconut cups, enlisted to probe the possibilities of ‘decorative colonialism’: a heuristic device to understand how empire was materially consumed by early modern Europeans.
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Benjamin Schmidt
munich centre for global history
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Ben is the Bridgman Professor of History at the University of Washington. His work sits at the crossroads of cultural history, visual and material studies, and the history of science. He focuses chiefly on Europe’s engagement with the world in the first age of globalism. His books include Innocence Abroad: The Dutch Imagination and the New World, winner of the RSA Gordan Prize, and Inventing Exoticism: Geography, Globalism, and Europe’s Early Modern World, finalist for the Kenshur Prize. His most recent book, The Globalization of Netherlandish Art (with T. Weststeijn), is forthcoming this year.
Ben’s gd:c project focuses on global ‘things’ — material artifacts that can be literally grasped — and ways they dis:connect early modern global cultures. It analyses materials and material technologies that served as critical intermediaries in an earlier age of global entanglement — media that mediated, as it were, transcultural transactions. In Munich, he’ll be working on a set of carved coconut cups, enlisted to probe the possibilities of ‘decorative colonialism’: a heuristic device to understand how empire was materially consumed by early modern Europeans.
Philipp W. Stockhammer
LMU
Philipp W. Stockhammer is a professor of prehistoric archaeology focussing on the Eastern Mediterranean at the LMU Munich and co-director of the Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. He has received an ERC Starting Grant (2015), an ERC Consolidator Grant (2020) and is a PI of collaborative research projects on the Bronze and early Iron Ages from Central Europe to the Eastern Mediterranean. His research focuses on transculturality, social practices and the integration of archaeological and scientific data concerning social belonging, mobility, food and health.
In my research, I focus on the dis:connectivities I confront as a (pre-) historian: the transformative power of dis:connectivity in the past and the challenge of narrating the past between othering and nostrification. I link ground-breaking new datasets in our narratives with postmodern lines of thinking in archaeology. In my research, I reflect upon dis:connectivity in the Bronze Age, i.e. the first globalised period in world history. While analysing the role of those actors in the past, I aim to find a way to narrate their history – despite neither knowing their names nor their feelings and emotions, aware that those aspects are crucial for enabling present actors to dis:connect with the past.
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Philipp W. Stockhammer
LMU
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Philipp W. Stockhammer is a professor of prehistoric archaeology focussing on the Eastern Mediterranean at the LMU Munich and co-director of the Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. He has received an ERC Starting Grant (2015), an ERC Consolidator Grant (2020) and is a PI of collaborative research projects on the Bronze and early Iron Ages from Central Europe to the Eastern Mediterranean. His research focuses on transculturality, social practices and the integration of archaeological and scientific data concerning social belonging, mobility, food and health.
In my research, I focus on the dis:connectivities I confront as a (pre-) historian: the transformative power of dis:connectivity in the past and the challenge of narrating the past between othering and nostrification. I link ground-breaking new datasets in our narratives with postmodern lines of thinking in archaeology. In my research, I reflect upon dis:connectivity in the Bronze Age, i.e. the first globalised period in world history. While analysing the role of those actors in the past, I aim to find a way to narrate their history – despite neither knowing their names nor their feelings and emotions, aware that those aspects are crucial for enabling present actors to dis:connect with the past.
Callie Wilkinson
msca fellow
Callie Wilkinson studies the dramatic expansion of the British Empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and its sociocultural impact at home and abroad. In previous research projects conducted at Cambridge and the University of Warwick, she has examined how the idea of indirect rule was contested within the British East India Company as well as the contemporary debates on the extent to which information about the Company should be disseminated to the public.
At global dis:connect, Callie is investigating how Company soldiers’ testimony affected broader discourses about the Company’s military operations in an age before professional war correspondents.
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Callie Wilkinson
msca fellow
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Callie Wilkinson studies the dramatic expansion of the British Empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and its sociocultural impact at home and abroad. In previous research projects conducted at Cambridge and the University of Warwick, she has examined how the idea of indirect rule was contested within the British East India Company as well as the contemporary debates on the extent to which information about the Company should be disseminated to the public.
At global dis:connect, Callie is investigating how Company soldiers’ testimony affected broader discourses about the Company’s military operations in an age before professional war correspondents.
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