Past team members
david grillenberger
Student assistant
Hayati Kasli
Student assistant
Alexander Kern
Student assistant
annalena labrenz
Student assistant
raphaela loosen
Office manager
Raphaela Loosen was the office manager at global dis:connect. She was responsible for a variety of concerns and supports all staff members and fellows in administrative matters. Together with her dachshund Perseus, she guarded the coffee machine.
raphaela loosen
Office manager
Raphaela Loosen was the office manager at global dis:connect. She was responsible for a variety of concerns and supports all staff members and fellows in administrative matters. Together with her dachshund Perseus, she guarded the coffee machine.
Anna Sophia Nübling
Postdoctoral alumna
Anna Nübling was a postdoctoral researcher at global dis:connect. She studied history and art history at the University of Heidelberg and pursued her PhD as a member of the DFG research training group Globalization and Literature at LMU Munich. In 2022, she defended her doctoral thesis, which treated time capsules in high modernity and examined what philosophy of history such capsules imply. In addition to philosophy of history (especially notions of evolution and progress), her research interests include the history of preservation and the idea of transmission and legacy, the history of notions of the global as well as pseudoscience and conspiracy theories.
Dis:connecting Space and Time. The Search for Extraterrestrials and its Global Imaginary
The research-project studies the search for extraterrestrial beings in science and pop culture from the late 1950s until about 1980. It contributes to the history of ideas and imaginary of globalisation, conceptualizing the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence as a meta-theory of globalisation that combines aspects of spacial as well as temporal connectivity and disconnectivity.
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Anna Sophia Nübling
Postdoctoral Researcher
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Anna Nübling is a postdoctoral researcher at global dis:connect. She studied History and Art History at the University of Heidelberg and pursued her PhD as a member of the DFG research training group Globalization and Literature at Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich. In 2022, she defended her doctoral thesis, which treated time capsules in high modernity and examined what philosophy of history such capsules imply. In addition to philosophy of history (especially notions of evolution and progress), her research interests include the history of preservation and the idea of transmission and legacy, the history of notions of the global as well as pseudoscience and conspiracy theories. They all merge in her current research project about the search for extraterrestrials.
Dis:connecting Space and Time. The Search for Extraterrestrials and its Global Imaginary
The research-project studies the search for extraterrestrial beings in science and pop culture from the late 1950s until about 1980. It contributes to the history of ideas and imaginary of globalisation, conceptualizing the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence as a meta-theory of globalisation that combines aspects of spacial as well as temporal connectivity and disconnectivity.
Christoph Völker
Student assistant
Aglaja Weindl
Event coordinator
Aglaja Weindl was the event coordinator at global dis:connect. She studied history, German and Swedish literature and art history in Munich and Paris. Before joining global dis:connect, she was a researcher at the Chair for Modern History at the LMU Munich, and a member of the project Lives in Transit in cooperation with the University of Zurich.
Her doctoral dissertation, submitted in June 2022, dealt with the world tour of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este in 1892/93 and combines global, maritime and royal history.
Aglaja Weindl
Event coordinator
Aglaja Weindl is the event coordinator at global dis:connect. She has studied history, German and Swedish literature and art history in Munich and Paris. Before joining the Centre, she was a researcher at the Chair for Modern History at the Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, and a member of the project Lives in Transit in cooperation with the University of Zurich.
Her doctoral dissertation, submitted in June 2022, deals with the world tour of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este in 1892/93 and combines global, maritime and royal history.