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The Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect, which is sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), examines the dynamic, co-constitutive relationship of global integration, absent connections and disintegration in current and historical processes of globalisation.

 

Video by Felix Ehlers

Callie Wilkinson, a historian and fellow at the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect, discusses her career and the relation between dis:connectivity and her current research project “Bearing Witness in Wartime”.

 

Video by Toby Mulherrin

Sujit Sivasundaram, a historian and fellow at the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect, discusses his career and the relation between dis:connectivity and his current research project “History of Colombo”.

 

Video by Toby Mulherrin

On 12 May 2022, the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect was officially inaugurated. The directors opened the event by introducing the research centre, followed by a captivating keynote lecture entitled Awkward, unstable, creative: dis:connection as world-making by Heidelberg art historian Monica Juneja. The event concluded with a relaxed reception, where we enjoyed the warm May air in Munich together.

 

Video by Toby Mulherrin

On 12 May 2022, the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect was officially inaugurated. At the grand opening, Monica Juneja, Professor of Global Art History at the University of Heidelberg, delivered the keynote lecture entitled Awkward, unstable, creative: dis:connection as world-making.

 

Video by Toby Mulherrin

Lachlan Fleetwood, a historian and fellow at the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect, discusses the relation between dis:connectivity and his current research project “Imperial science and the habitability of Central Asia and Mesopotamia, 1815-1914: a history of the societal consequences of changing limits”.

 

Video by Felix Ehlers

Sabine Sörgel, a theatre scholar and fellow at the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect, discusses her career and the relation between dis:connectivity and her current research project “Bearing Witness in Wartime”.

 

Video by Toby Mulherrin

From 3 to 5 August 2022, the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect held its first annual interdisciplinary summer school. In this video, we share a few scenes from this memorable event.

 

Video by David Grillenberger

Ayşe Güngör, an art historian scholar and fellow at the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect, discusses her career and the relation between dis:connectivity and her current research project “Istanbul on Display: The Disengagements in the Globalization of Art within the Context of Exhibiting Istanbul in Germany”.

 

Video by Toby Mulherrin

Siddharth Pandey is a literature scholar, cultural historian, visual practitioner and fellow at the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect. Here he talks about his project, ”This fissured land’: ecological aesthetics, dwelling perspective, and modernity’s entanglements in the Western Himalayas’, and discusses its relation to dis:connectivity.

 

Video by Felix Ehlers

Katharina Wilkens, a scholar of religion and fellow at the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect, discusses the relationship between dis:connectivity and her current research project. In her project, she explores the formation of religion as both a discursive category and a social practice during the era of African socialism from the 1950s to the 1980s.

 

Video by Felix Ehlers.