| Lecturers | Mr. Michael Koch Mr. Michael Koch, studied Oceanic Linguistics and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Hamburg. He wrote his dissertation about life and changes in the Marquesas between 1925 and 1985. Michael spent one and a half years on the islands between 1985 and 1987. He learnt the language and visited all the islands. In 1995, he visited the islands with a German painter, Bernd Zimmer and prepared together an illustrated re-edition of Melville's famous Typee. Michael works as an exhibition designer for various museums in Europe. He will tell about Polynesian European contact in the times since the Europeans coming to the islands as artists and scientists, colonials, missionaries, beachcombers, and other who visited the islands, livered there and created with their images, stories, letters and influence the myth of the islands |
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