Ongoing Projects

Dissertation Projects

  • Thomas Batchelor (University of Cologne). Language Contact and Change in Kununurra Kriol. With: Mirima Dawang Woorlab-gerring Language and Culture Centre, Kununurra. Doctoral Project.
  • David Kern (University of Cologne). A Critical Study of Literary Environmental Activism in Indigenous Australian and Canadian Writing. Doctoral Project.
  • Alice Ramneantu (University of Cologne). Ethics and the Construction of Otherness in Postcolonial Australian Fiction. Doctoral Project.

Long-term Research Projects

  • Prof. Dany Adone (University of Cologne) and Dr. Bentley James. Bimodal Bilingualism in Arnhem Land. With: Yalu’ Marŋgithinyaraw Centre, Charles Darwin University and NAILSMA.
  • Prof. Dany Adone (University of Cologne). Miriwoong Sign Language. With: Mirima Dawang Woorlab-gerring Language and Culture Centre, Kununurra.
  • Prof. Dany Adone (University of Cologne). Sign Languages of Arnhem Land. With: Yalu’ Marŋgithinyaraw Centre, Charles Darwin University, NAILSMA and Ranger Programmes in several communities.
  • Prof. Dany Adone, Dr. Melanie Brück (University of Cologne). Kununurra Kriol Grammar. With: Mirima Dawang Woorlab-gerring Language and Culture Centre, Kununurra.
  • Prof. Boris Braun (University of Cologne). Global typology of hub airports landside development. With: Prof. Douglas Baker (QUT). Funding: DAAD/ATN.
  • Dr. Victoria Herche (University of Cologne). Mediating Migration in Australia. Habilitation Project.
  • Dr. Bentley James (University of Cologne). Learning on Country for Galiwinku students. Social media: Twitter, Instagram, YouTube.
  • Dr. Bentley James. Laurie Baymarrwangga – Voice of the Land. (Australia: the Vatican Ethnological Museum collection). With: K. Aigner, (editor), CittaÌ del Vaticano : Edizioni Musei Vaticani, A.N.U Canberra.
  • Dr. Bentley James. The Yan-nhaŋu Grammar. With: Yan-nhaŋu Dictionary Team (Milingimbi, Crocodile Islands, N.T., Australia)
  • Dr. Simon May (University of Cologne). Cyclone-generated washover sediments and landforms of Western Australia. With: A. Scheffers (Lismore, Australia), D. Kelletat (Cologne), M. Leopold, N. Callow (Perth, Australia). Participating scientists in working group: M. Engel, D. Brill, H. Brückner, A. Pint. Funding: DFG. More information: http://www.geographie.uni-koeln.de/14291.html
  • Prof. Beate Neumeier (University of Cologne) Pacific Literatures and Performance Cultures: Ecocritical Perspectives.
  • Prof. Beate Neumeier (University of Cologne), Prof. Paul Arthur (Edith Cowan University), and team. Migrant and transnational identity-formation: German and Australian responses to migration and asylum seekers in the media and public discourse. DAAD collaboration 2018/2019.
  • Prof. Beate Neumeier (University of Cologne). World Literatures in Australia: Kim Scott and Alexis Wright. In preparation. World Literatures Series. Palgrave.
  • Prof. Beate Neumeier, Dr. Victoria Herche, David Kern (University of Cologne) & Prof. Noah Riseman, Dr. Margaret Hutchison (Australian Catholic University). Whom do we Remember? Exploring Cultural Narratives of War and Migration. DAAD collaboration 2020/2021.
  • Dr. Carsten Wergin, Research Group “The Transcultural Heritage of Northwestaustralia”, Heidelberg University. http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/transculturality/australia.html