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Käte Hamburger Research Centre in #Globalisation @LMU.Munich, combining #art, #history, #arthistory and #theatre
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The gd:c colloquium continues!

Join us on Mondays, 17:00–18:30 at the global dis:connect library for discussions on current research in globalisation, art, and dis:connectivity.
The first session kicks off on 27 October 2025.
#Humanities #GlobalHistory #ArtHistory #LMUMunich #BMFTR
How do artistic networks emerge across continents — and who makes them possible?

Our blog post explores the role of Godula Buchholz, who connected art worlds between Bogotá and Munich in the 1950s–70s.

👉 Read the full post by Claudia Cendales Paredes: www.globaldisconnect.org/12/16/betwee...
January 23, 2026 at 8:06 AM
📘 New Publication
Burcu Dogramaci, Director of global dis:connect, co-edited Fotogeschäfte. Globale Infrastrukturen der Fotografie (FOTOGESCHICHTE 178).
👉 www.globaldisconnect.org/01/16/new-pu...
New Publication: Photo Shops. Global Infrastructures of Photography (FOTOGESCHICHTE 178) - global dis:connect
Burcu Dogramaci, Director of global dis:connect, has co-edited the new special issue Fotogeschäfte. Globale Infrastrukturen der Fotografie together with Helene Roth, now published as FOTOGESCHICHTE 17...
www.globaldisconnect.org
January 21, 2026 at 9:44 AM
🌍🔬 Worlds in the Lab | gd:c Summer School

Join us in Munich for a funded, week-long summer school exploring experimental sites of dis:connectivity. Open to MA & PhD students in the humanities and creative practitioners at any career stage.

👉 www.globaldisconnect.org/01/09/20-24-...
20-24 July, Worlds in the lab, gd:c summer school - global dis:connect
We invite master’s students and doctoral candidates as well as creative professionals to participate in a week-long summer school in Munich.
www.globaldisconnect.org
January 16, 2026 at 9:04 AM
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How to tell global cultural history through clothing. 👗🌍
Students, researchers and other members of the @uni-freiburg.de are invited to join the Balzan-FRIAS Lecture on Global History.
📍 FRIAS seminar room, Albertstr. 19, 79104 Freiburg
🗓️ 22 Jan 2026, 16:15-18:00
uni-freiburg.de/frias/balzan...
January 13, 2026 at 3:50 PM
✨ Meet our fellow Ulinka Rublack
Professor of Early Modern History at Cambridge — and now a shared fellow at gd:c & @historischeskolleg.bsky.social.

Her research uses the history of fashion to rethink how global connections, inequalities, and cultural transformations took shape long before 1800.
January 14, 2026 at 1:19 PM
🌍 Meet our fellow @smithsarah.bsky.social

📣 Colloquium: Mon, 12 Jan 2026 · 5 pm
📍 Maria-Theresia-Str. 21, Munich
💻 Zoom: lmu-munich.zoom-x.de/j/6243450426...

📸 Pauline Loroy / Unsplash
January 9, 2026 at 8:15 AM
✨ New Year reading: One of our recent posts in Voices from gd:c looks at the films of Mati Diop exploring migration, memory, and haunting across Senegal and the Atlantic.

Fabienne Liptay, gd:c alumna, reflects on their beautiful spectrality and political aesthetics.

👉 Read more: shorturl.at/fkt3J
Atlantique:s — on global dis:connection in Mati Diop’s films - global dis:connect
Mati Diop’s films “Atlantiques” and “Atlantique” explore migration, memory and haunting across Senegal and the Atlantic, revealing a powerful political aesthetics.
www.globaldisconnect.org
January 7, 2026 at 9:11 AM
✨ Thank you for a year of inspiring exchange, collaboration, and shared curiosity.
We wish you restful days at the end of the year and a wunderful start into the year ahead.

Please note: we will be operating at reduced capacity until 6 January.
Warm wishes for the holiday season from the gd:c team
December 22, 2025 at 8:17 AM
🌟 Welcome to global dis:connect, Martin Valdés-Stauber!

Martin joins us for six months as Artist Fellow, working on theatre, remembrance, and displacement, with a focus on ruptures, absences, and transnational trajectories in theatre history.

👉 Learn more: www.globaldisconnect.org/07/18/martin...
December 18, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Today 🎬 1001 Nights Apart

Film screening + artist talk with Sarvnaz Alambeigi, moderated by Hadeel Abdelhameed.
📍 Werkstattkino, Munich | 🕔 5:00 pm
🌍 English & Farsi (EN subtitles)
www.globaldisconnect.org/11/27/film-s...

See you there! ✨
17 december, Film Screening Announcement – 1001 Nights Apart - global dis:connect
We are pleased to invite you to a special screening of the documentary 1001 Nights Apart on December 17th at 5:00 PM at Werkstattkino. The film explores the forgotten history of the National Ballet of...
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December 17, 2025 at 8:22 AM
🎉 New Publication by Former Fellow Andrea Azizi Kifyasi

We’re excited to share that Andrea Azizi Kifyasi (UDSM, Tanzania) has published a new book — completed during his fellowship at global dis:connect.

Read it with @degruyterbrill.bsky.social : www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
“Angels of God”?
This book, drawing heavily on archival and oral sources, many of which have not been accessible before, discusses major Chinese-funded projects in Tanzania’s health sector. It explores the contexts th...
www.degruyterbrill.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:30 AM
🌟 Welcome, Azadeh Sharifi!
We’re excited to have theatre and performance scholar Azadeh Sharifi join us as a fellow at global dis:connect. Her work spans postcolonial and postmigrant theatre, contemporary performance art, and decolonial/activist practices.
December 8, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Our Fall 2025 Bulletin (issue #76) is now online! The full issue is available in #OpenAccess here: www.ghi-dc.org/publi.... Some highlights of this issue include:
December 1, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Just published in the new issue of Alternatives Humanitaires
www.alternatives-humanitaires.org/fr/parution/...
November 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM
🎉 Book Launch: The Colonial Way of War
📅 9 Dec, 11:30
📍 Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect, Munich

We’re excited to welcome former gd:c postdoc Tom Menger back for the launch of his new book with @universitypress.cambridge.org

👉 Publisher link: www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
The Colonial Way of War
Cambridge Core - Global History - The Colonial Way of War
www.cambridge.org
December 3, 2025 at 9:29 AM
🌍 New fellow at global dis:connect: Filipe dos Reis

We're excited to welcome Filipe dos Reis, assistant professor at the @rug.nl - University of Groningen - and scholar of international law, imperial Germany, and cartography.

📸 © World Map, Justus Perthes Press, 1865
#Cartography #GlobalHistory
November 26, 2025 at 9:42 AM
📣 Call for Papers

Workshop: Theatre in Iraq & the Arab Gulf States – History, Governance & the Post-Oil Vision
🗓️ 21–22 May 2026 | 📍 global dis:connect, Munich
🕒 Deadline: 15 Jan 2026
👉 More info: www.globaldisconnect.org/research-cen...
November 24, 2025 at 10:59 AM
🎬 On 4 December 2025, we dive into restitution & audiovisual media at global dis:connect!

While restitution debates often focus on objects and archives, the specific challenges of moving images are still overlooked. Together with Nikolaus Perneczky (London) and our current fellows, ...
November 20, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Nimmt die Gleichgültigkeit zu? Eine Million Euro für humanitäre Studien in Deutschland. Gerda Henkel Stiftung bewilligt 9,3 Millionen Euro für neue Forschungsprojekte.
Zur Meldung: www.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/pressemittei...
November 19, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Excited to welcome Katy Deepwell! 🎉
London-based art critic and founder of KT press & n.paradoxa.
Her work explores transnational feminisms, contemporary art, and world-systems theories—rethinking how feminisms travel and operate beyond borders.
#FeministArt #ContemporaryArt #GlobalFeminism
November 17, 2025 at 12:31 PM
🆕 The new issue of static is out!
👉 static.ub.uni-muenchen.de/index.php/st...
November 13, 2025 at 7:59 AM
🎬 Film Opening: “Dis:connection: Cinema and Globalization” 🌍

On Nov 19, we kick off our series with Plastic Fantastic by Isa Willinger at Werkstattkino Munich.
November 12, 2025 at 11:59 AM
We’re excited to welcome Clemens Finkelstein as research coordinator for global dis:connect’s new focus area “laboratories.” Join his talk "Planetary analogs" on 10 Nov, 17:00, in the gd:c library (Maria-Theresia-Str. 21, Munich) — or message us for the Zoom link!
November 10, 2025 at 8:47 AM
🌏 Meet Siddharth Pandey — writer, artist, and cultural critic from Himachal Pradesh, and current fellow at global dis:connect (LMU Munich).

His project “Movement, materiality and weather-worlds of vitality” reimagines the Himalayas through the lens of new materialism...
October 30, 2025 at 12:37 PM
📢 Call for Papers
“Empire and (Im-)Mobility in South and South-East Asia (19th–20th C.)”
Workshop in New Delhi, 6–7 Feb 2026
Deadline: 9 Nov 2025

Hosted by @icasmp.bsky.social, MWF Delhi & gd:c
Conveners: Harald Fischer-Tiné & Siddharth Pandey

#CallForPapers #GlobalHistory #MobilityStudies
October 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM