🌍 Meet global dis:connect at the #KiKS Festival in Munich, 12–14 June! Explore nineteenth-century global connections through a giant globe and interactive stories. 📍 Theresienhöhe, Munich 👧 For children aged 5–15 and their families www.globaldisconnect.org/01/02/storie...

Tapetenwechsel – Migration and Furniture since 1960 is now on view at the Museum Ephraim-Palais in Berlin. Co-curated by Burcu Dogramaci 📅 On view until 3 Jan 2027 | Berlin 💬 Featured in Tagesspiegel @tagesspiegel.de www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/migra...

Join us in Berlin for the opening of “Tapetenwechsel – Migration and Furniture since 1960” on 21 May, 6 pm at the Museum Ephraim-Palais ✨ Guest curator Burcu Dogramaci (global dis:connect) explores how migration reshapes homes, aesthetics and belonging. www.stadtmuseum.de/en/exhibitio...

📣 Out now: Cultural Infrastructures in Africa The new special issue in our bulletin static, edited by Andrea Kifyasi & Gideon Morrison, explores archives, restitution, festivals and cultural infrastructures in Africa through the lens of dis:connectivity. static.ub.uni-muenchen.de/index.php/st...

Join us tomorrow: PAUL BEN-HAIM — A Concert Biography 🎟️ May 5, 2026 | 20:00 📍 Münchner Kammerspiele Text & choreography by our fellow Martin Valdés-Stauber With Jewish Chamber Orchestra Munich 👉 www.muenchner-kammerspiele.de/de/programm/...

🚀 gd:c annual lecture 2026 - save the date! We are delighted to welcome @historyasif.bsky.social for this year’s annual lecture: Departure Gates: Histories of Space on Earth www.globaldisconnect.org/01/09/gdc-an...

🚚🎨 New publication by our Director Burcu Dogramaci on infrastructures of art production, transport, and logistics from a transnational perspective. Edited together with Ursula Ströbele, it is published by @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. 👉 More info & download: www.globaldisconnect.org/04/24/new-pu...

Missed last Wednesday’s talk by our alumna Änne Söll on “‘Powerful chest, bold neck, splendid masculinity!’ Nude photography of male bodies since 1930”? Watch it now on YouTube!

Fellowships 2027/28 at the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect (LMU Munich) 6–10 month fellowships for postdocs & senior scholars working on globalisation & dis:connections. 📅 Deadline: 26 July 2026 👉 www.globaldisconnect.org Please share with interested colleagues!

📚 Book Launch & Talk | April 23, 2026, 6–7 PM On World Book Day: Burcu Dogramaci & Helene Roth discuss exile authors and photo books for children, presented in the exhibition L IS FOR LOOK. www.museum-folkwang.de/en/event/kun... Free admission.

Nach sieben Jahren Forschung hat das DFG-Projekt "Krisengefüge der Künste" seinen Abschlussband vorgelegt. Ein Gespräch mit dem Leiter des Forschungsverbunds, dem Münchner Theaterwissenschaftler Christopher Balme. Eine der Erkenntnisse ist die Neu-Positionierung der Theater als soziale Institution.

📣 Today: Roland Wenzlhuemer speaks at the lecture series Global History at the @unisalzburg.bsky.social. Fellows @Kate Stevens & Carlo De Nuzzo will follow in the coming weeks. We ❤️ these moments of exchange across disciplines & borders! Programme: www.plus.ac.at/news/globalg...

CFP: In/tangible Connections – Material, Embodied and Sensory Stories of Global Dis:connection Workshop at the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect, Munich 18–19 June 2026 Apply by 25 March 2026. Conveners: Kate Stevens & Erika Zerwes. More info: www.globaldisconnect.org/research-cen...

🌊ICAS:MP Public Lecture Join us on 10.03.2026 at 6 PM at the IIC Annexe, Delhi for a public lecture by Roland Wenzlhuemer @globaldiscnct.bsky.social on “Beyond Shipwreck: Salvage and Global History in the Long Nineteenth Century”. Discussant: Radhika Singha (retd. JNU/@s-nu.bsky.social). 1/2

Starting tomorrow, Munich hosts the 38th German Congress for Art History at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. 900+ scholars discuss “knowledge” & visual worldmaking. Discover Munich’s 1960–2000 gallery scene with Burcu Doğramacı! Join us: kunstgeschichte-kongress.de/lecturetheme...

Maps rarely tell the whole story. On 19–20 March 2026, our workshop “Blank space in the perception and epistemology of maps” explores how gaps, silences & absences shape knowledge, power and politics — and how blank spaces actively structure how worlds are imagined.

📸 Fellows’ Colloquium Siddharth Pandey, the first Joint Fellow of the @globaldiscnct.bsky.social & ICAS:MP, presented his work on “Movement, Materiality and Weather-Worlds of Vitality: Towards an Affective Himalayan Humanities”. Thanks to Mihir Vatsa (IIT Delhi) for his valuable comments.

🎉 Welcome Erika Zerwes! We’re happy to welcome the Brazilian lecturer, curator & researcher as a gd:c fellow. Her project looks at how Latin American photography travelled between Latin America and Europe in the 1970s–80s and shaped its global recognition. 📸🌍 #globaldisconnect #PhotographyStudies

Global dis:connect has 3 research focusses and 3 postdocs. That's not a coincidence. Find out who they are, how they see temporality, laboratories, and cultural infrastructure, and how it all fits into to the globalization research at gd:c: www.globaldisconnect.org/01/20/gdc-vo...

🎭 Performance, Representation, and Display Workshop | 26–27 Feb 2026 | Munich How can dis:connected histories help rethink global, colonial, and decolonial narratives? www.globaldisconnect.org/12/02/26-27-...

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...

📘 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...

🌍🔬 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-...

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...

✨ 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.

🌍 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

✨ 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

✨ 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

🌟 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...

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! ✨

🎉 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...

🌟 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.

Our Fall 2025 Bulletin (issue #76) is now online! The full issue is available in #OpenAccess here: www.ghi-dc.org/publi...#76)#OpenAccessSome highlights of this issue include:

Just published in the new issue of Alternatives Humanitaires www.alternatives-humanitaires.org/fr/parution/...

🎉 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...

🌍 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

📣 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...

🎬 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, ...

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...

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

🆕 The new issue of static is out! 👉 static.ub.uni-muenchen.de/index.php/st...

🎬 Film Opening: “Dis:connection: Cinema and Globalization” 🌍 On Nov 19, we kick off our series with Plastic Fantastic by Isa Willinger at Werkstattkino Munich.

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!

🌏 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...

📢 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

We’re happy to welcome @susannequitmann.bsky.social to the global dis:connect team! 💫 Susanne is a historian and postdoc focusing on temporalities. Her research explores global histories of social structures and everyday life, as well as conceptual questions in historical research and writing.

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

✨ Beyond Binaries: Rethinking dis:connectivity and globalisation This week, our current fellows, alumni, and team members of the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect gathered in Munich for the conference Beyond Binaries. Rethinking dis:connectivity and globalisation.

🚲 New Fellow | Harald Fischer-Tiné How do mobility technologies change when they cross continents and cultures? At gd:c, Harald — Professor of Global History at ETH Zürich — explores the transregional history of the bicycle in South Asia (c. 1870–1990). #GlobalHistory #SouthAsia #Globalisation

Conference Announcement | 20–21 October 2025 Beyond Binaries: Rethinking dis:connectivity and globalisation We’re excited to kick off the second funding phase of global dis:connect with a two-day interdisciplinary conference exploring the promises and challenges of dis:connectivity ...