Research Priorities
Region:
Oceania (Melanesia and Micronesia); field research in Papua New Guinea, Fiji and Kiribati
Research specialisms:
climate change and forced migration, diaspora, space, biographic research, memory, religion, performance, colonialism, power and resistance.
Projects
- Assemblages of Historical Sound Recordings: Digitizing, Researching and Repatriating a Collection of Songs and Dance Chants from the Pacific State of Kiribati
- Climate change and forced migration in Oceania (with a focus on place and identity in Kiribati)
- Old Images Come Back to Kiribati – and New Ones Emerge: Film Documents Archived in Germany and Their Value as Cultural Heritage for a Pacific Atoll Country in an Age of Climate Change