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...
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📝 Register by 11 March 2026: www.globaldisconnect.org/12/05/19-20-...
Join us to rethink how absences articulate the world.
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
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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...
04.02.2026 08:05 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Programme coming soon! @smithsarah.bsky.social
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This workshop explores how histories are performed, represented, and displayed across art, museums, diaspora initiatives, and digital spaces — foregrounding ruptures, power asymmetries, and marginalised voices.
Register by 18 Feb 2026: www.globaldisconnect.org/registration
🎭 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...
The issue explores photo shops as hubs of innovation, exchange, and social interaction, highlighting transnational and (post-)colonial perspectives.
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📘 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...
How are worlds disassembled, tested, imagined, and remade in laboratories — from archives and observatories to art studios and exhibition spaces?
Curious? The lab is open — apply now.
🗓️ 20–24 July 2026
✈️ Travel & accommodation covered
📝 Apply by 1 March 2026
🌍🔬 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.
Sarah explores how diaspora communities in North America are founding new museums to shape debates on identity, heritage & migration — and how these institutions engage with cultural diplomacy and global dis:connection.
Looking forward to the conversation!
📸 Pauline Loroy / Unsplash
🌍 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...
Azadeh explores the artistic genealogies and aesthetics of the Türkisches Ensemble am Berliner Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer (1979–84) and Teatro Lautaro at Volksbühne Rostock (1974–81), tracing their transnational dialogues with Brecht’s legacy.
Thrilled to have her with us!
🌟 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.
Cover of the GHI Fall 2025 bulletin, featuring a photograph of Sigmund Freud behind his desk, photo by Edmund Engelman from "Berggasse 19: Sigmund Freud’s Home and Offices" (New York: Basic Books, 1976).
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:
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Just published in the new issue of Alternatives Humanitaires
www.alternatives-humanitaires.org/fr/parution/...
The book uncovers how extreme colonial violence around 1890–1914 wasn’t empire-specific but shaped by transimperial exchanges, shared tactics, and mobile actors — revealing a broader Colonial Way of War.
Join us for the presentation and discussion!
🎉 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...
