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New Blogpost 🎉 Ignorance breeds hostility, but does familiarity breed contempt? Chiara Di Carlo says no. Looking at late-medieval...

New Blogpost 🎉 Ignorance breeds hostility, but does familiarity breed contempt? Chiara Di Carlo says no. Looking at late-medieval pilgrims‘ encounters with and travelogues about Muslims and the Ottoman Empire, she finds that actual contact helped to overcome pejudice: https://www.globaldisconnect.org/02/06/pilgrimage-to-the-holy-land-in-the-16th-17th-centuries/

New Blogpost 🎉 Our alumna Andrea Frohne looks at an Eritrean artist‘s flight and exile from Eritrea through her art. A beautiful image...

New Blogpost 🎉 Our alumna Andrea Frohne looks at an Eritrean artist‘s flight and exile from Eritrea through her art. A beautiful image and story, if not a happy one: https://www.globaldisconnect.org/01/23/tears-through-the-red-sea/

Cfp: Constitutional History on Trial - Status Quo, Combined Methods and New Sources. Apply until 31 January.Workshop by Yvonne Kleinmann and...

Cfp: Constitutional History on Trial - Status Quo, Combined Methods and New Sources.
Apply until 31 January.
Workshop by Yvonne Kleinmann and Franziska Nicolay-Fischbach. More Information: https://www.globaldisconnect.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/CfP_Constitutional-history-on-trial.pdf

We are back from our winter break and hope to see you all tomorrow at this years’ first LTC - Joel Glasmann is going to talk about ‘the...

We are back from our winter break and hope to see you all tomorrow at this years’ first LTC - Joel Glasmann is going to talk about ‘the colonial production of indifference. Essay on humanitarian dis:connectivity’. See you at 11:30 at gd:c🔍

CFP: Agriculture and the production of the Global South, 1900s-1960s.Please send your proposal and CV by 22 December 2023. You find more...

CFP: Agriculture and the production of the Global South, 1900s-1960s.

Please send your proposal and CV by 22 December 2023.
You find more information and the entire call here: https://www.globaldisconnect.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Agriculture-and-the-Production-of-the-Global-South.pdf

Our new blogpost is online:...

Our new blogpost is online: https://www.globaldisconnect.org/12/12/not-only-cast-steel-or-chiselled-stone-people-can-be-monuments-too-an-exploration-of-the-memory-person/

Monuments commemorate, but do they have to be structures of concrete and steel? What about a person, mobile and alive, bearing our mementoes? Meet the Memory Person: a fleeting Munich monument born at global dis:connect
Image: Leonid Hrytsak

In todays lunchtime colloquium Sabrina Moura talks on ‘images from the past, questions of the present’ - we are exited and hope to see...

In todays lunchtime colloquium Sabrina Moura talks on ‘images from the past, questions of the present’ - we are exited and hope to see you all at 11:30 🕦🎉

Our former fellow Anna Grasskamp has been awarded a 2023 ERC Consolidator Grant to jump start her project entitled ECOART – An Ecological...

Our former fellow Anna Grasskamp has been awarded a 2023 ERC Consolidator Grant to jump start her project entitled ECOART – An Ecological History of Eurasian Art: Natural Resources, Aesthetic Practices, and Early Modern Globalization. Congratulations Anna🎉 https://www.globaldisconnect.org/11/28/alumna-fellow-anna-grasskamp-awarded-erc-consolidator-grant/

Today our guest researcher Andreas Greiner from the German historical Institute Washington is talking about ‘Global aviation networks in...

Today our guest researcher Andreas Greiner from the German historical Institute Washington is talking about ‘Global aviation networks in the interwar period: a smaller world… or just faster?’ Come by at 11:30 🎉

Come by today as our fellow Judd Kinzley is talking about Global Agriculture, Synthetic Ruptures and the Making of an Oil-Based...

Come by today as our fellow Judd Kinzley is talking about Global Agriculture, Synthetic Ruptures and the Making of an Oil-Based Postwar-World between 1943-1961 🎉 we are starting as per usual at 11:30

Our latest blog is online. It’s a play - The Singer of Shanghai - with an introduction and audio performance. It’s about a Jewish...

Our latest blog is online. It’s a play - The Singer of Shanghai - with an introduction and audio performance. It’s about a Jewish family fleeing the Nazis who end up in Shanghai. The play was written by our fellow Kevin Ostoyich together with colleagues and students of his

STATIC OUT NOW - The November Progrom happened 85 years ago today. The latest issue of static, out today, remembers with a play by our...

STATIC OUT NOW - The November Progrom happened 85 years ago today. The latest issue of static, out today, remembers with a play by our fellow Kevin Ostoyich about a Jewish family whose flight spanned the globe. Read full issue here: https://static.ub.uni-muenchen.de/index.php/static/issue/view/7/6

A new blogpost is out! Our PostDoc Nikolai Brandes traces a Japanese book on architecture to post-colonial Mozambique, where it began a new...

A new blogpost is out! Our PostDoc Nikolai Brandes traces a Japanese book on architecture to post-colonial Mozambique, where it began a new career as an inspirational text - a very connected dis:connected object. Read the article here: https://www.globaldisconnect.org/10/31/tanizaki-in-maputo-japanese-cultural-theory-and-the-decolonisation-of-architectural-education-in-mozambique/

Another Call for papers is out. Hand in your papers by Friday, 8 December 2023 for the workshop „Climate Change, Empire and the Legacies...

Another Call for papers is out. Hand in your papers by Friday, 8 December 2023 for the workshop „Climate Change, Empire and the Legacies of Environmental Determinism“ . Find the entire call here: https://www.globaldisconnect.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Environmental-Determinism-Empire-Workshop_Call-For-Papers.pdf

Short reminder to hand in your papers for this upcoming workshop by 30 November...

Short reminder to hand in your papers for this upcoming workshop by 30 November https://www.globaldisconnect.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Disconnections-in-Wartime.pdf , organised by @tommenger and Callie Wilkinson

Michael Goebel speaks on moveable people and immovable assets in 19th century Buenos Aires as our first speaker at the lunch Time Colloquium

Michael Goebel speaks on moveable people and immovable assets in 19th century Buenos Aires as our first speaker at the lunch Time Colloquium

Today is the first day of our lunchtime colloquia. Come by and dis:connect with us every Tuesday at 11:30 am. See you there.

Today is the first day of our lunchtime colloquia. Come by and dis:connect with us every Tuesday at 11:30 am. See you there.

Siddarth Pandey, an alumnus fellow, organised a workshop on aesthetics, the environment, the globe and our place in them. Felix Ehlers...

Siddarth Pandey, an alumnus fellow, organised a workshop on aesthetics, the environment, the globe and our place in them. Felix Ehlers reflects on the workshop and the insights it generated - aesthetically, of course. Read here: https://tinyurl.com/5djxnan3

#Science is #art is #history is art history. In our latest blog post, Petra Löffler traces the journey of corals🪸, their...

#Science is #art is #history is art history. In our latest blog post, Petra Löffler traces the journey of corals🪸, their representations, and Ernst Haeckel, the founder of modern ecology who sought them and exported them to Germany:
https://bit.ly/3on222b

Are art and humanities research rivals, friends, or perhaps even the same thing? Our own Nikolai Brandes and Anna Nüblingasked Enis Maci...

Are art and humanities research rivals, friends, or perhaps even the same thing? Our own Nikolai Brandes and Anna Nübling
asked Enis Maci and Ayşe Güngör, two alumna fellows, how they see it from the academy and the gallery.
https://bit.ly/3zuBA8Z
#art #Research #interview