How dendrochronology — the science of reading tree rings — emerged in the early 20th-century American Southwest as a dating tool as well as an instrument of epistemic imperialism that imposed Western ...

Globale Geschichte zielt zunehmend darauf ab, Veränderungen von Einstellungen, Lebenstilen und Subjektivitäten zu erfassen. Sie befasst sich mit sozialen Praktiken und Erzählungen, die im Alltagsleben...

Rethabile Malibo reflects on how two contrasting festivals — the heritage-driven MACuFe and the entrepreneurial Maletsunyane Braai Festival — reveal the tensions between cultural preservation and crea...

Europe’s histories have long been shaped by perspectives that marginalise the experiences and agency of colonised peoples. Scholars and institutions across Europe are now re-examining them critically ...

Our director Roland Wenzlhuemer has published a new essay, Die Zeitdividende. Künstliche Intelligenz und Wissenschaft, in the September 2026 issue of Merkur (Heft 928).   Prompted by a panel discussio...

We invite master’s students and doctoral candidates as well as creative professionals to participate in a week-long summer school in Munich.

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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...

We invite master’s students and doctoral candidates as well as creative professionals to participate in a week-long summer school in Munich.

Mati Diop’s films “Atlantiques” and “Atlantique” explore migration, memory and haunting across Senegal and the Atlantic, revealing a powerful political aesthetics.

We are pleased to invite you to a special screening of the documentary 1001 Nights Apart on December 17th at 5:00 PM at Werkstattkino. The film explores the forgotten history of the National Ballet of...

This book, drawing heavily on archival and oral sources, many of which have not been accessible before, discusses major Chinese-funded projects in Tanzania’s health sector. It explores the contexts th...

Cambridge Core - Global History - The Colonial Way of War