Apr 24, 2024: Presentation by Olga Povoroznyuk and Peter Schweitzer at Nome Coordinated Research Consortium Workshop

Port of Nome. Photo by Olga Povoroznyuk.

On April 24, Olga Povoroznyuk and Peter Schweitzer presented online the preliminary results of their InfraNorth fieldwork in Nome, Alaska at a workshop hosted by the Nome Coordinated Research Consortium (NCRC). The workshop aimed to discuss the present and future of Nome, considering transport infrastructure (such as the projected deep-draft port), mining, tourism, and climate change.

The NCRC, led by Jim Powell from the University of Alaska Southeast, comprises social and natural scientists from various universities and projects conducting research in Northwest Alaska and the Bering Strait region. The event also featured presentations by Bella Block (University of Alaska Anchorage), Michele Remer (Michigan State University), Laura Landrum (US National Center for Atmospheric Research), Julio Postigo (Indiana University), Jim Powell (University of Alaska Southeast), and Bob Orttung (George Washington University).

International conference "Russia and the 'appropriation' of the Arctic," organized by the Chair of Russian-Asian Studies at the Ludwig-Maximilan University of Munich (12-14 March, 2026).

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Mar 14, 2026: Presentation by Elena Davydova at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

InfraNorth researcher Elena Davydova will be presenting at the international conference Russia and the “appropriation” of the Arctic organized by the Chair of Russian-Asian Studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. With the subtitle “Interests, instruments and identities from the late Tsarist period to the present day,” the conference will take place from March […]

InfraNorth researcher Timothy Heleniak presented “Is infrastructure enough? The case of decline in the Faroe Islands” at the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) in Brussels.

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Mar 10, 2026: Presentation by Timothy Heleniak at the European Committee of the Regions

On March 10, 2026, InfraNorth researcher Timothy Heleniak presented “Is infrastructure enough? The case of decline in the Faroe Islands” at the concluding conference of the Horizon Europe-funded project PREMIUM_EU. The event was organized by Nordregio and hosted by the European Committee of the Regions in Brussels and live-streamed online. In this talk, Heleniak presented […]

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Feb 2026: Article by Susan Vanek in Polar Geography Special Issue

The quarterly peer-reviewed journal Polar Geography has published the article “2200 meters: infrastructure, the future, and the politics of belonging in Greenland and the Arctic” by InfraNorth associate researcher Susan Vanek. The article examines Greenland’s airport expansion project, following its approval in 2015 by Naalakkersuisut (the Government of Greenland) as the largest investment in transportation […]

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Feb 9, 2026: Talk by Philipp Budka at the University of Manchester’s Social Anthropology Seminar Series

On Monday, February 9, 2026, from 3:00 to 5:00 pm (GMT), InfraNorth researcher Philipp Budka will deliver a guest talk as part of the seminar series of the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. The event will take place in room G20-21 of the Arthur Lewis Building. The departmental seminar series is […]

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Jan 2026: Chapter by Timothy Heleniak in The Palgrave Handbook of Arctic Policy and Politics

The second edition of The Palgrave Handbook of Arctic Policy and Politics, edited by Carin Holroyd and Ken Coates, has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan. The book brings together a diverse group of international scholars and practitioners from North America and Northern Europe, spanning multiple academic disciplines, to contextualize the Arctic across fields of […]

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Jan 2026: InfraNorth Chapters Featured in “Arctic Silk Roads: An Anthropology of the Unbuilt” (Berghahn Books)

InfraNorth researchers have contributed two chapters to the book Arctic Silk Roads: An Anthropology of the Unbuilt, edited by Natalia Magnani and Matthew Magnani, and published by Berghahn Books as part of its Studies in the Circumpolar North series. As climate change accelerates, the melting of sea ice is fueling the global imagination and geopolitical […]