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