Jan 22, 2024: Call for Papers for Panel at EASA 2024
InfraNorth’s team members Philipp Budka and Katrin Schmid, along with Jolynna Sinanan from the University of Manchester, and Raphael Deberdt from the Colorado School of Mines / University of British Columbia, will convene a panel at the 18th Biennial Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA). The conference, with the theme Doing and Undoing with Anthropology, will take place at the University of Barcelona from July 23rd to July 26th, 2024.
The panel, titled “Infrastructural Residues: Reproduction and Destruction of Infrastructures Across Space and Time,” will explore the reproduction and destruction of infrastructures across space and time. If you are interested in submitting a paper for this panel, you can do so until 22 January 2024 at 23:59 CET through this link.
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October 2026: Interview with Peter Schweitzer on Deutschlandfunk Kultur
On 20 October 2026, the European Commission and the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaja Kallas, presented a new EU Strategy for the Arctic, at a time when accelerating climate change, rising geopolitical tensions and growing strategic competition are reshaping the region. Against this backdrop, journalist Vladimir Balzer interviewed Peter Schweitzer, […]
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Sep 2026: Article by Elena Davydova in Food and Foodways
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 […]
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Call for Papers on “Infrastructuring Green Transitions” for VANDA Conference 2027
We invite paper proposals for our panel “Infrastructuring Green Transitions” at the Vienna Anthropology Days (VANDA) 2027, hosted by the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna, 16-19 February 2027. The green transition marks a shift away from fossil fuel-based, high-carbon economic activity toward more sustainable systems of production, consumption, and […]
