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!

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

📚 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.

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

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.

@historykate.bsky.social

📣 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...

@historykate.bsky.social

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).
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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. ...

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...

19-20 March, Blank space in the perception and epistemology of maps - global dis:connect This workshop exlores how silences and absences in historic maps articulate experiences and perspectives that have otherwise gotten lost.

📝 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

@susannequitmann.bsky.social
@clemensfinkelstein.bsky.social

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...

Programme coming soon! @smithsarah.bsky.social

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

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.

🎭 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.

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...

📘 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

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.

🌍🔬 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

Atlantique:s — on global dis:connection in Mati Diop’s films - global dis:connect Mati Diop’s films “Atlantiques” and “Atlantique” explore migration, memory and haunting across Senegal and the Atlantic, revealing a powerful political aesthetics.

✨ 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