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26 Feb 2021 | Cristián Moreno Pakarati
Rapanui people in historical photographs: The quest for complete identification
Over the last decade, I have been fascinated by old photographs from Rapa Nui (aka “Easter Island”) as historical documents. Not only...
29 Jan 2021 | Ida Yoshinaga
Making “niu” narratives: Oceania’s Indigenous mediamakers and the global coconut archive
As long as I can remember, I have helped narrators craft stories. It is a kind of magic: to embolden their machinery of narrative...
20 Dec 2020 | Gabriele Herzog-Schröder
Dando vida a las fotografías Yanomami
Para muchos pueblos amazónicos, los medios visuales como la fotografía se han convertido en los últimos años en un recurso clave....
27 Nov 2020 | Gesa Grimme
Netzwerk für nachhaltige Forschungsstrukturen im Bereich koloniale Kontexte gegründet
Am 23. November 2020 wurde eine Kooperation für den Aufbau nachhaltiger Forschungsstrukturen zur Bearbeitung von Sammlungs...
01 Oct 2020 | Noelle M.K.Y. Kahanu
E moe loa – To sleep the long sleep
In the midst of a pandemic, as a hurricane loomed days away, we met at the top of a mauna, under the rising Hoaka moon. A few dozen...
04 Sep 2020 | Vilsoni Hereniko
NIU – The tree of life: An island fable for today and tomorrow
Read or listen to affiliated researcher Vilsoni Hereniko's island fable.