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Blog 2023

12 December 2023
‘Not only cast steel or chiselled stone; people can be monuments too’: an exploration of the Memory Person
cathrine bublatzky and franziska windolf When we think of monuments, we think of statues, memories a...
28 November 2023
Alumna but not forgotten: an interview with Christina Brauner
christina brauner What were you working on during your time at global dis:connect? I was at global d...
14 November 2023
The Singer of Shanghai – a play about the Jewish diaspora (with introduction)
[Scroll down for the complete script and an audio recording of the play as performed by the playwrig...
31 October 2023
Tanizaki in Maputo. Japanese cultural theory and the decolonisation of architectural education in Mozambique
nikolai brandes[1] I first heard about Tanizaki last autumn in Rome, on a rainy day under the...
17 October 2023
Finding aesthetics everywhere: recalling a workshop on ecology, aesthetics and everyday cultures of modernity
felix ehlers Slow time can lead to more meaningful work – Ananya Mishra, workshop attendee ...
2 October 2023
Global Munich – a transfer project by global dis:connect
christian steinau Making globalisation processes visible on the ground Globalisation affects ...
19 September 2023
Nomadic Camera: revisiting a workshop on photography and displacement at gd:c
sophie eisenried From 13 June to 15 June 2023, a hybrid international workshop bearing the ti...
25 July 2023
Religion, African socialism and pan-African dis:connections in the Cold War era
katharina wilkens Richard Wright, the African American journalist, former communist, strict s...
11 July 2023
Field surveys, Western modernity and restituted global disconnections
andrea e. frohne Surveying a wheat field The setting for figure 1 is a wheat field in Osborne, Ka...
27 June 2023
Atis Rezistans at documenta 15: St. Kunigundis meets Haitian Voodoo
peter seeland A human skull opens its jaw. Maybe in an obscene laugh? Metal, cables and wire form it...
13 June 2023
Dear Tutu: a letter by Palestinian artist Vladimir Tamari on exile, friendship and globalisation
nadia von maltzahn Dear Tutu, Hello! How are you. At home your letter is hidden under a pile ...
30 May 2023
Eine Frau erlebt den roten Alltag written by Lili Körber and designed by John Heartfield (cover): burnt books, exiled authors and dis:connective memories
burcu dogramaci In her work Die Bücher (2019/20, fig. 1 + 2), the artist Annette Kelm compil...
16 May 2023
Yvonne Hackenbroch’s birdcage: the experience of Jewish exile and the return as object
änne söll Two years after receiving her doctorate from the University of Munich in 1936, th...
2 May 2023
Hanna Charag-Zuntz’s Levantine ceramics: dis:connecting objects through narratives
hanni geiger [Editor's note: The adjective 'Islamic' was changed to 'Arab' for greater accuracy in a...
18 April 2023
Haeckel’s corals: on the extraction, collection and circulation of scientific objects
[Editor's note: this essay is the first in a series on the topic of dis:connected objects, curated b...
4 April 2023
‘The question is whether there are even two modes of working?’ A conversation about cooperation between the arts and humanities with Ayşe Güngör and Enis Maci
(an interview conducted by Nikolai Brandes and Anna Sophia Nübling of gd:c) Encouraging dial...
21 March 2023
Looking back on global dis:connect’s first annual conference: Dis:connectivity in processes of globalisation: theories, methodologies, explorations
peter seeland The global:disconnect annual conference took place from 20 to 21 October 2022, ...
7 March 2023
A conversation with Tom Menger about colonial warfare: ‘There were great similarities between the empires’
This interview originally appeared in Einsichten, a journal about research being conducted at the LM...
21 February 2023
Seemingly built, suddenly ruined: decolonisation and dis:connectivity in post-colonial Guinea-Bissau 1973-1983
lucas rehnman[1] Here everything seems that was still under construction and it is suddenly r...
7 February 2023
covid and the theatre: a constant state of disruption?
christopher balme Looking back upon the last couple of years, I am reminded of the famous adv...
24 January 2023
Infrastructures of musical globalisation, 1850–2000
23 to 25 June 2022, Historisches Kolleg, Munich friedemann pestel & martin rempe Infrastructures...
10 January 2023
global dis:connect summer school 2022 – a connected view
david grillenberger From 2 to 5 of August 2022, 20 scholars – PhD students, organisers Anna...