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gd:c annual lecture 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vortrag von Asif Siddiqui (Fordham University)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You are cordially invited to the annual lecture of the K\u00e4te Hamburger\u00a0Research Centre global dis:connect on 20 July 2026 at 6 pm at the\u00a0Historisches Kolleg (Kaulbachstra\u00dfe 15, Munich). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your attendance would honour us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please register by 7 July 2026 here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Through a reading of the considerable ground infrastructure built in the Global South to support space exploration, this talk offers some preliminary conceptual interventions into the forms in which techno-scientific infrastructures have produced human, natural, and epistemic displacements on a global scale. These \u2018departure gates\u2019\u2014places where humans have placed launch sites, tracking stations, communications dishes, radar installations, etc.\u2014are typically obscured from view once the space mission begins, but yet render an indelible imprint on local ecologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In looking at the history of this infrastructure in several locales, including Algeria, Kenya, South Africa, Kazakhstan, and India\u2014the talk offers insights along three threads. First it explores the ways in which the selection criteria for locating such technoscientific infrastructure derived from a certain kind of \u2018logic of location\u2019 which naturalized exclusionary practices as being \u2018rational\u2019 and opposition to them as being against the greater good. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Second, it restores \u2018history\u2019 to these sites by situating them outside of the space program, thus linking them to broader political economies, rendering visible the seams of a larger story of the (re)appropriation of colonial geographies for space exploration. Finally, the talk offers a methodological intervention, situating this kind of technoscientific \u2018passive\u2019 infrastructure (and often, their abandoned ruins) as part of a global (and postcolonial) history of technology, one legible at multiple and overlapping registers, including the social, the technological, and the environmental.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Einlass ist ab 17.30 Uhr bis maximal zum Veranstaltungsbeginn. Die Zahl der Sitzpl\u00e4tze ist begrenzt. Der Zugang zum Haus ist nicht barrierefrei.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die Veranstaltungen werden mit Foto und Video dokumentiert. Mit Ihrer Teilnahme erkl\u00e4ren Sie sich mit der Aufzeichnung und deren Nutzung im Rahmen der \u00d6ffentlichkeitsarbeit des Historischen Kollegs einverstanden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13569,"template":"","meta":[],"event_listing_category":[],"event_listing_type":[89],"class_list":["post-13568","event_listing","type-event_listing","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event_listing_type-gastveranstaltung"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nDeparture gates. 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