Kevin Ostoyich is a professor of History at Valparaiso University and an associated fellow at the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect. Kevin discusses his career and the relation between dis:connectivity and his current projects at the research centre.
Video by Felix Ehlers.
Arnab Dey is an associate professor at the Department of History, State University of New York at Binghamton, a visiting scholar at the South Asia Program, Cornell University and an alumnus fellow at the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect. Arnab discusses his career and the relation between dis:connectivity and the ‘invisible’ costs and consequences of mining in the British Empire, especially in India, between 1820-1940.
Video by Felix Ehlers.
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
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.