Oct 25, 2024: Presentation by Elena Davydova at the “Anthropology of Uncertainty” Conference in Yerevan
InfraNorth researcher Elena Davydova will be presenting at the 6th annual conference of the “Anthropologization of Humanities and Social Sciences” joint project of the New Literary Observer journal and the European University at St. Petersburg, which will be held at the Tufenkian Hotel in Yerevan, Armenia on October 24-26, 2024, in collaboration with the Yerevan Center for International Education, under the title “The Anthropology of Uncertainty: Living in Crucial Times.”
Davydova’s presentation, “Managing Uncertainties: The Work of Active Waiting while Moving in Chukotka,” will take place on Friday 25 October 2024 from 16:30 – 18:30 local time in the Vishap Room of the Tufenkian Hotel (as part of session 2.3.2, “Towards an Anthropological Understanding of Uncertainty: A View from the Arctic”). Her presentation will focus on the uncertainty of northern mobilities and explore practices of waiting while using transport infrastructures in Chukotka.
The conference aims to discuss how different social groups perceive uncertainty and how this category is utilized across various academic and scientific areas. It will bring together historians, sociologists, political scientists, cultural anthropologists, cultural historians, and representatives of other academic fields interested in the topic of uncertainty.
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