Representation of Military History in Museums / Visitor Studies
Sommer, Christopher: The Gargantuan and the Diminutive – War at the Museum. In: Public History Weekly 10 (2022) Issue, DOI: dx.doi.org/10.1515/phw-2022-20329.
Sommer, Christopher: ‚Rüstkammern' – Präsentation von Waffen und Rüstungen der Frühen Neuzeit im Museum. 2. Auflage. Studien zur Materiellen Kultur Band 5. Institut für Materielle Kultur Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg 2022.
Sommer, Christopher: Kriegsgespinste — Textile Inszenierungen von Todesnähe und Verletzlichkeitsnarrativen in Kriegsausstellungen. Das militärgeschichtliche Museum als Diskussionsforum. In: Haller, Melanie, Helmers, Traute, Mallon, Stefanie (Hg.): Der Tod und das Ding. Textile Materialien im Umfeld von Vergänglichkeit. Münster: Waxmann 2020, 249-268.
Representation of Migration in Museums / Visitor Studies
Sommer, Christopher: Centre Stage to Display Case – Exhibiting Chinese Immigration in New Zealand. In: Arrocha, Williams, Xeni, Eleni (Hg.): Migrations and Diasporas. Struggling Between Inclusion and Exclusion. Emerald 2023, 201-219. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83797-146-620231013
Sommer, Christopher: Of Phrenology, Reconciliation and Veneration – Exhibiting the Repatriated Life Cast of Māori Chief Takatahara at the Akaroa Museum. In: Bodenstein, Felicity, Oţoiu, Damiana, Troelenberg, Eva-Maria (Hg.): Contested Holdings: Public and Private Collections in Political, Epistemic and Artistic Processes of Return. Berghahn 2022, 96-116. https://doi.org/10.3167/9781800734234
Sommer, Christopher: Mapping Museums in New Zealand – the Representation of Place Identity in the Permanent Exhibition at the Puhoi Bohemian Museum. In: Linhard Tabea, Parson, Timothy (Hg.): Mapping Migration, Identity, and Space.Cham: Palgrave Macmillan 2019, 85-116.
Digital Literacy and Extended Reality
Sommer, Christopher; Barbagiovanni Bugiacca, Vanessa, Cheyenne Lauterbach, Christoph Wollesen, Sabrina Alber und Karen Ellwanger: „Wat mutt, dat mutt“ – Lehrendenperspektiven auf die ad hoc Digitalisierung im Zuge der Covid-19 Pandemie am Kleinen Fach Materielle Kultur der Universität Oldenburg. In: Bolten-Bühler, Ricarda, Dertinger, Andreas, Ellinger, Dorothea, Thielsch, Angelika, Vanvinkenroye, Jan, Zender, Raphael (Hg.): „Schöne neue (digitale) Welt?!“ Tagungsband des Jungen Forums Medien und Hochschulentwicklung. Zenodo 2021, 48-60. 10.5281/zenodo.5736488
Sommer, Christopher, Barbagiovanni Bugiacca, Vanessa, Alber, Sabrina, Wollesen, Christoph, Ellwanger, Karen: Game on! Enhancing Tertiary Student Engagement Through Co-development of Interactive Treasure Hunts. In: Fotaris, Panagiotis (Hg.), Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Game Based Learning ECGBL 2020. Supported by University of Brighton, UK, 24-25 September 2020. Reading: Academic Conferences International Limited 2020, 824-827.
Sommer, Christopher, Barbagiovanni Bugiacca, Vanessa, Ellwanger, Karen: X Marks the Spot: A Student-Developed Treasure-Hunt on the Digitization of Knowledge Production. In: Elbæk, Lars, Majgaard, Gunver, Valente, Andrea, Khalid, Md. Saifuddin (Hg.): The Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Game Based Learning ECGBL 2019. Hosted by University of Southern Denmark Odense, Denmark 3-4 October 2019. Reading: Academic Conferences International Limited 2019, 1038-1041.
Reviews
Sommer, Christopher: Stephan Jaeger, The Second World War in the Twenty-First-Century Museum: From Narrative, Memory, and Experience to Experientiality (Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2020), pp. 354, ISBN: 978-3110661064. In: Global Military Studies Review, Ausgabe 3, Nr. 1, 2021, 13-16.
Sommer, Christopher: Svenja Goltermann, The War in Their Minds: German Soldiers and Their Violent Pasts in West Germany, translated by Philip Schmitz (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017), pp. 428, ISBN: 978-0472118977. In: Global Military Studies Review, Ausgabe 1, Nr. 2, 2018, 34-37.
