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Global dis:connect Academic Advisory Board announcement

We are pleased to announce that Heidi Grunebaum has been invited to join the Academic Advisory Board of the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect  based at Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich.

Heidi Grunebaum

Associate Professor

E: hgrunebaum@uwc.ac.za

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The Centre explores the interdependent, complex relationship between global interconnectedness, lack of interconnectedness and disentanglement in historical and contemporary globalisation processes. The term dis:connection emphasises the dynamic interrelationship between global integration, disintegration and (absent) connections. The concept highlights the role of delays and detours, of interruptions and resistances, of the active absence of connections in global contexts and explores their significance

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