On 12 October 2023 Mariana Sadovska (Cologne) gives a concert-lecture at the gd:c annual conference on the idea of knowledge transfer through culture and tradition. With her research-based collection of folk songs from Ukraine, Sadovska helps preserve and transmit oral culture. Recording at the global dis:connect annual conference 2023.
On 20 October 2022 Gabriele Klein (University of Hamburg, former fellow at global dis:connect) gave a talk about dance, digitalisation and globalisation, and how new technologies produce specific connections and disconnections in the experience of dance. Recording at the global dis:connect annual conference 2022.
On 20 October 2022 Parastou Forouhar and Cathrine Bublatzky talked about the ambivalent and multi-layered meanings of interruption, detour and absence in the Forouhar’s art, which in their entanglements are co-constitutive phenomena of globalisation processes and their inherent dis:connections. Recording at the global dis:connect annual conference 2022.
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