the centre
- The Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect, funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space, investigates globalisation as a dynamic process shaped by the interplay of integration, disconnection, and disintegration. Our work focuses on understanding how connections emerge, fail, or remain absent, in both historical and contemporary contexts.
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research
- global dis:connect approaches globalisation through the lens of dis:connectivity, focusing on absences, detours and interruptions that shape historical and contemporary global processes. Rather than assuming linear integration, we examine the gaps, delays and disruptions that make globalisation uneven and socially significant.
  
  Our research is structured around six key areas – absences, detours, interruptions, laboratories, cultural infrastructures and temporalities – which foster interdisciplinary dialogue without normative assumptions or claims of completeness.
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fellows
- The cornerstone of global dis:connect is the fellowship programme, in which approximately ten scholars come to Munich each year. They research dis:connectivity on site and in close contact with the directors and their peers. Fellows also have the opportunity to host workshops on the topics of their research.
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- Here is where to find out about coming events, new publications, press releases and other news from global dis:connect.
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- At global dis:connect, research is meant to circulate. Through publications, media formats and artist events, we connect academic research with public debate and artistic perspectives.
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- global dis:connect publishes innovative interventions on dis:connectivity across a range of media, from the blog, which covers the latest news, research and art at gd:c, to static, a periodical containing the best work from within and beyond global dis:connect, in addition to traditional scholarly formats.

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CULTURAL INFRASTRUCTURES

Cultural infrastructures encompass the tangible, intangible, and institutional frameworks that support artistic and cultural activity. They include exhibition and performance spaces, archives, libraries, educational institutions, digital platforms, festivals, and heritage sites, as well as funding programmes. Cultural infrastructures shape who can participate in cultural life and which narratives of globalisation are visible. By studying them, we uncover disparities in access, representation, and investment, and analyse how cultural networks mediate global connections. These infrastructures reveal both the opportunities and limitations of cultural participation in a globalised world.

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