✨ 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 ...

Welcome to our new Fellows! We’re excited to host a new international group of scholars and artists exploring dis:connectivity in globalisation — from feminist art to far-right networks and Himalayan humanities. Meet them here 👉 www.globaldisconnect.org/current-fell... #Fellowship #LMUMunich

Angekommen @globaldiscnct.bsky.social! Ich freue mich auf die kommenden 3,5 Jahre

🎉 We’re thrilled to announce our first book is out! 🎉 "Dis:connectivity and Globalisation" is now published Open Access and free to download: 🔗 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... Sincere thanks 🙏 to all contributors and to the publisher, De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

Dis:connectivity and Globalisation: Concepts, Terms, Practices - The panel Series is a virtual pre book launch for global dis:connect’s first publication. The first of four sessions will take place on 1 July. 🗓 4 events – every Tuesday in July, 4–6 PM (CET) 📍 Live on Zoom #BookLaunch #PanelSeries

Your are welcome to join us at "Making memories visible: photographs, archives and migration histories in the West and East Germany" – a collaboration with @zikg.eu. 📍 global dis:connect (Maria-Theresia-Str. 21, Munich) 📅 26/06/2025 🕡 6:30 pm 💬 German #Archives #Photography #Migration #VisualHistory

📣 Open Call for Fellowships & Artist in Residence📣 🎓 for academic year 2026/27 ⏰ Apply until Sunday, 27 July 2025 Fellowships: www.globaldisconnect.org/wp-content/u... Artist in Residence: www.globaldisconnect.org/wp-content/u... 😊 We look forward to receiving your applications

Die Bewerbungsfrist läuft noch bis zum21. April!

In case you‘re missing us during the semester break: learn more about global dis:connect! What is gd:c? What is our goal? How do we work? Discover the Käte Hamburger Research Centre ⭐️global dis:connect⭐️ #global #globaldisconnect #research #artandscience #culturalexperience #munich

@core-rwth.bsky.social and @rwth.bsky.social invite researchers and interested people to actively participate in their symposium on November 6. You are invited to present your research and to exchange ideas with other experts from all over Europe. More info: for-summit.eu Deadline: March31,2025.

@inherit invites applications on the topic of Addressing Heritage Loss for its 2026-7 fellowship programme. The deadline for submission is 14 April 2025. For more information, see inherit.hu-berlin.de/open-call

CfP: New Global Histories of Language, organized by Valeska Huber @globaldiscnct.bsky.social. Deadline for proposals 28 Feb: www.globaldisconnect.org/wp-content/u...

📣 We are looking for your ideas and projects. Shape the Summit with us! ➡️ for-summit.eu/wp-content/u...

CFP: Language and power. Exploring New Global Histories of Language (Deadline: 28 February 2025) www.globaldisconnect.org/wp-content/u...

#Brechtfestival is coming up and so is this conference organised by #JulianWarner and #MoritzEge from ISEK at the University of Zurich - join us from 21-22. February 2024 at Cafe Tür an Tür, Augsburg

Read this article about our fellow Julian Warner and be also part of this years issue of Brechtfestival 🎉

It was our pleasure to co-host the 2025 RHS / GHIL Lecture in Global History last night, delivered this year by Roland Wenzlhuemer (@globaldiscnct.bsky.social)! 1/3

We just received the December issue of the magazine ‘Zwischenwelten’ and got remembered about our workshop on Lili Körber which was taking place in November in Vienna. So nice to read Sophie Eisenried’s article reflecting on the workshop: theodorkramer.at/zwischenwelt...

Don’t miss out on applying for one of our call for papers if you are working on archives, the arts and/or migration www.globaldisconnect.org/research-cen... #opencall #humanties #research #art #global

Don’t miss out on applying for one of our call for papers if you are working on archives, the arts and/or migration www.globaldisconnect.org/research-cen... #opencall #humanties #research #art #global

Throwback to last weeks poster launch. 🍾 The idea of the posters is to allow visitors of the centre to get to know our research more easily on site through interaction. The posters will be placed all over the building, making the place a venue of strolling physically through research. ✨✨

Congratulations 💛💛

Fresh off the press📖👀 Static #3.2 special issue: Mediterranean Absences Get your copy of the new released special issue of our in house publication static or read it online via static.ub.uni-muenchen.de/index.php/st...

New blogpost👀 Some borders are walls; others are empty spaces. In the latest gd:c blogpost, Samira Yildirim looks at how photography reveals the internal Cypriot border void. Read the entire text here: tinyurl.com/j2huazfh

Come by today at 11:30 for Arnika Fuhrmanns talk on digital futures👀

Join us today for the first session of the LTC👀 we are starting at 11:30