🌍 Research meets Mini-München! Susanne Quitmann, Clemens Finkelstein & Aliena Guggenberger bring research from gd:c to the Hochschule of Mini-München — exploring children on the move, global fashion history and even life on Mars. 🚀 Discover the programme: www.globaldisconnect.org/07/28/3-21-a...

3-21 August, global dis:connect at Mini-München - 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.

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🎉 We’re delighted to share that sculptures by Luísa Telles, artist fellow at global dis:connect, have entered the permanent collection of the Museum Fünf Kontinente in Munich! 👉 www.globaldisconnect.org/07/27/works-... Congratulations, Luísa! 👏 @museum5kontinente.bsky.social

Works by artist fellow Luísa Telles enter the permanent collection of Museum Fünf Kontinente - global dis:connect

We are delighted to announce that sculptures by Luísa Telles, artist fellow at the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect, have entered the permanent collection of the Museum Fünf Kontinent...

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📷 Was verraten Fotografien über #Migration – und was nicht? 🎨 LMU-Kunsthistorikerin Burcu Dogramaci erklärt, warum Bilder von Flucht, Vertreibung und Exil mehr sind als Dokumentation – und wie Perspektiven, Kontexte und Verbreitungswege unseren Blick prägen. #LMU #Fotografie

Migration: Was Fotos (nicht) verraten

Wie Fotografie den Blick auf Flucht und Migration prägt: Ein Interview mit Kunsthistorikerin Burcu Dogramaci

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📢 Call for papers: Subcultures of exile Abstracts (approx. 300 words) and a short CV can be submitted until 15 july 2026. 👉 www.globaldisconnect.org/07/01/call-f... #cfp #exilestudies #migrationstudies #subculture #arthistory

Call For Paper: Subcultures of Exile - global dis:connect

International Yearbook of the Society for Exile Studies, 2027 Edited by Burcu Dogramaci, Anna Sophia Messner, Helene Roth   The term subculture was introduced by the American sociologist Milton Gordon...

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Join our Artist Fellow Luísa Telles for a hands-on image weaving workshop exploring the circulation of tropical plants and colonial histories through artistic practice. 📅 11 July, 4–7 pm 📍 Harthof Plaza, Munich 👉 bit.ly/4aS0en2

11 july, Image Weaving Workshop with Artist Fellow Luísa Telles - global dis:connect

In this hands-on workshop, Artist Fellow Luísa Telles introduces participants to the technique of weaving images through paper strips. Drawing from her artistic research on the circulation of tropical...

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Can a festival unite a continent? Nearly 50 years after FESTAC ’77, questions of memory, belonging, and cultural heritage remain. In a new blog post, former gd:c postdoctoral researcher Gideon Morison explores the festival’s complex legacy. 📖 Read more: www.globaldisconnect.org/06/09/festac...

Festac '77: navigating dis:connections in postcolonial pan-African festivals, legacy, and memory - global dis:connect

How ideological rivalries, organisational crises and contested memories shaped FESTAC '77 — Nigeria's landmark 1977 pan-African festival and its enduring legacy for Black and African arts, culture and...

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🌍 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...

12-14 june, KiKS Festival with gd:c - global dis:connect

As part of the KiKS – Kinder-Kultur-Sommer München, the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect invites young visitors and families to explore global connections across time from 12–14 June ...

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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...

Ausstellung über migrantisches Wohnen: Der Hirsch überm Sofa ist so deutsch wie türkisch

Das Berliner Stadtmuseum beleuchtet in der Ausstellung „Tapetenwechsel“, wie sich Einwanderer in Deutschland einrichteten. Und zeigt die eigenen vier Wände als Provisorium, Politikum, Zuhause.

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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...

Tapetenwechsel | Stadtmuseum Berlin

This exhibition is dedicated to living in a migrant environment, what sociologists call an “arrival city.”

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📣 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/...

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Paul Ben-Haim // Orchesterkonzert des Jewish Chamber Orchestra Munich mit Werken von Paul Ben-Haim und Danielle Lurie (UA) // Schauspielhaus // JÜDISCH // Eine jüdische Biographie: der junge Münchner ...

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🚀 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...

20 july, gd:c annual lecture 2026 - global dis:connect

Asif Siddiqi (Fordham University), Departure gates: histories of space on Earth   Venue: Historisches Kolleg, Kaulbachstr. 15, 80539 Munich   Please register by 7 July HERE.   Through a reading of the...

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🚚🎨 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...

New Publication: Infrastructures of Art Production and Circulation - global dis:connect

Anchored in the research agenda of the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect, a new publication explores the transnational art history of production, transport, and logistics, focusing on ...

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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!

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Letzten Mittwoch den Vortrag von Änne Söll zum Thema "'Kraftvolle Brust, kühner Nacken, prachtvolle Männlichkeit!' Aktfotografie männlicher Körper seit 1930" verpasst? Jetzt auf YouTube ansehen: youtu.be/9tb4IKPjtj8

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.

Kunstbuch im Gespräch – Book Launch mit Burcu Dogramaci und Helene Roth

Wessen Auge bin ich? Kinder- und Jugendmedien im ExilBook Launch und Gespräch zu Exilautor:innen und ihren Foto- und Bilderbüchern mit Burcu Dogramaci & Helene Roth

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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.

Interview: Christopher Balme zur Krisenlage der Theater

26. März 2026. Im Februar ist der Abschlussband des Projekts erschienen: Theater: Zwischen Krisen. Ein Gespräch mit Christopher Balme, dem Leiter der For

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📣 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...

38. Deutscher Kongress für Kunstgeschichte - Ortstermin: Münchner Soho am Rive Gauche

Der Deutsche Verband für Kunstgeschichte veranstaltet gemeinsam mit dem Zentral­institut für Kunst­ges­chich­te und dem Institut für Kunstgeschichte der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München den 38. ...

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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-...

26-27 February, dis:connected histories - global dis:connect

In this workshop, we aim to attend to dis:connected histories as they take formation in diverse historic and contemporary arts practices.

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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...

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...

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🌍🔬 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.

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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...