Research projects
Urban Vignettes: "Walking Hanoi" and "Walking Jakarta"
- The "Exhibiting Knowledge| Knowledge in Exhibitions" Doctoral Research Group"
- On the materiality of (forced) migration. From ‘bare necessities’ to ‘promising things’ (BMBF research project)
- PhD programme "Migrationsgesellschaftliche Grenzformationen: Wissensordnungen, Materialitäten, Subjektivierungen"
- GISCA - CeMIS Summer School 2016: "Beyond the City Limits: Rethinking New Religiosities in Asia"
- Seed Grant CETREN: "The New City in Asia, Africa and Europe between Utopia, Neotopia and Dystopia"
- DORISEA - CETREN Summer School 2014: "Cityscapes and New Religiosities in Asia"
- Workshop: Performing Identity: Ethnicity and Ethno-nationalism in the South-east Asian Borderland Region of North-east India
- DORISEA: Dynamics of Religion in Southeast Asia (coordination and speaker)
- Graduiertenkolleg: Dynamiken von Raum und Geschlecht
- 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
- Spirits in modern Southeast Asia
- Dynamics of Religion and Politics in Southeast Asia
- Ancestor Worship and Pilgrimage in Late Socialist Vietnam
- Migration and Religion
- Transnational subjects Between Germany and the Philippines. Anthropological Perspectives on Marriage Migration
- Field research in the Philippines among the Alangan-Mangyan in the mountains of Mindoro island (funded by german academic exchange service)
- PhD projects
2018-2022 PI in the Volkswagen funded doctoral research group "Exhibiting Knowledge| Knowledge in Exhibitions – An Epistemic History of Exhibitions in the Second Half of the 20th Century“. Supervision of the Lisa Ludwig's doctoral project: Knowledge Production Revisited: Knowledge Production of Ethnographic Displays about the Americas in the second half of the 20th century from a German-German Perspective.