the centre
- The global dis:connect research centre, which is sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, examines the dynamic, co-constitutive relationship of global integration, absent connections and disintegration in current and historical processes of globalisation.
- the centre
research
- By investigating global dis:connections, we are inaugurating a new field of research. It emphasises the role of delays and detours, of interruptions and resistances, of the active absence of connections in global contexts and investigates their social significance.
- research
  - Dis:connectivity
  - Approaches
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.
- fellows
events
- Here is where to find out about coming events, new publications, press releases and other news from global dis:connect.
- events
  - Upcoming events
  - Past events
transferlab
- Continuous dissemination of our research to the public and academia is a priority at global dis:connect. Our in-house TransferLab, where new forms of disseminating knowledge and scholarship are developed and tested, is where we share.
- transferlab
Publications
- 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.
- publications

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Fellow Close Up 2024

Günther Sandner, a political scientist, historian and fellow at the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect, discusses his project, Following Isotype: visual languages and universal symbols in the decades after 1945.

Video by Felix Ehlers.

Sabrina Moura, an Art historian, Curator and fellow at the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect, discusses “Travelling Back: reframing a Munich expedition to Brazil in the 19th century, a project that deals with contemporary visual and performative strategies focused on the restitution of absent agencies in the history of the natural sciences”.

Video by Felix Ehlers.

Joël Glasman, a historian and fellow at the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect, discusses his current project “Empire of waste, looks at imperialism as a regime of waste”.

Video by Felix Ehlers.

Michael Goebel, a historian and fellow at the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect, discusses his current project “Property and Dis:Connectivity in Global Urban History”.

Video by Felix Ehlers.

Fellow Close Up 2022

Fellow Close Up 2023

Fellow Close Up 2024