Paper to be 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 Kemp
Author: Webworker
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...
Adaptation and the Question of Migration: Directions in Dealing with Climate Change in Kiribati
In this chapter, we look at the central Pacific atoll state of Kiribati, which is con-sidered particularly vulnerable to the consequences of climate change but ...
Tsunami Warnings:
Cultural Conceptualizations of Climate Change Impacts in Kiribati
The inhabitants of Kiribati, an atoll state in the Central Pacific, have long been confronted with scientific scenarios of sea-level rise, inundation and displa...
Final Symposium
The director of the Kiribati Campus of the University of the South Pacific on Tarawa, Dr. Ueantabo Mackenzie, had kindly agreed to provide the venue and the nec...