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).
Food and Foodways, a refereed, interdisciplinary and international journal devoted to the history and culture of human nourishment, has recently published the article “Between food and refuse: Enacting (in)edibility in the Russian Arctic” by InfraNorth researcher Elena Davydova. In this article, Davydova interrogates the contingent boundaries between food and waste in the Russian Arctic, analyzing […]
The book chapter “Remote connections: Human entanglements with built and natural environments in the Arctic and elsewhere,” written by InfraNorth principal investigator Peter Schweitzer and published as part of Anthropology in Motion, edited by Andre Gingrich and published by Sean Kingston Publishing in 2021, is now available open access. In the chapter, Schweitzer revisits the […]
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