Paper presented @ DGSKA Conference, 25–28 July 2023, Munich, Germany
»„Tell me Tolly“: Indigenous Appropriation, Ethnographic Knowledge Production, and Sound Heritage in Kiribati« by Wolfgang Kempf
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Die Tonbandsammlung Koch aus Kiribati: Entstehungszusammenhänge, Wirkmächte und Repräsentationen
The focus of this study is the historical exploration of a collection of audio documents with songs and dance chants from the Gilbert Archipelago in the Central...
“The Koch Tape Collection from Kiribati: Emergence, Efficacies and Representations” (published in German in Baessler Archiv 68, 2022)
The focus of this study is the historical exploration of a collection of audio documents with songs and dance chants from the Gilbert Archipelago in the Central...
Paper presented @ 13th ESfO Conference, 2–5 June 2022, Ajaccio, Corsica, France
»Im/Material Dimensions of Historicity: Linking Sound Documents and Historical Representations of a Religious Movement in Kiribat« by Wolfgang Kempf
Paper presented @ ASAO 2022 Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon, USA
»Sounds from the Past: Reassembling Songs and Memory« by Wolfgang Kempf (University of Göttingen) & Lisa Lawson Burke (Framingham State University).
Climate Change Songs and Emotions: Articulating Agency in the Central Pacific
Articulations of vulnerability, of the will to address the challenges posed by climate change, and of criticism of the international community’s inadequate effo...
Paper presented at Online-Workshop »Re-activating old film reels – Debating methodologies of collaborative restitution of archival film« @ Frobenius-Institute, Frankfurt
»Reassembling Image and Sound: On the Post-Synchronization of Film Doc« by Wolfgang Kempf (University of Göttingen)
Higher Powers: Negotiating Climate Change, Religion and Future in Oceania
Social science research on Pacific Islanders’ receptions of and dealings with climate change has recently gained considerable momentum. Yet, despite the well-do...
Between Land and Horizon: Assemblages of Beings, Places and Things in Kiribati
An entire range of divine beings and spirits have existed in Kiribati from time immemorial. My focus is on a mythic landscape of invisible sites located between...