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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Nov 2025: Special Issue of “Anthropologica” Co-edited by Giuseppe Amatulli and Philipp Budka
A new special issue of Anthropologica (Vol. 67, No. 1, 2025), the journal of the Canadian Anthropology Society, has just been published. Titled “Narratives and Temporalities of Infrastructure: The Canadian Experience,” the issue was co-edited by Giuseppe Amatulli (Carleton University) and InfraNorth researcher Philipp Budka and presents anthropological perspectives on water, energy and transport infrastructures […]
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Nov 2025: Article by Julia Olsen, Alexandra Meyer, et al. in The Polar Journal
The Polar Journal, which publishes policy-relevant research on polar affairs from across the social sciences and humanities, has recently released the article ‘Building transdisciplinary bridges and learning from the Svalbard context’ by Julia Olsen, Alexandra Meyer, and Lisbeth Iversen, Ulrich Schildberg, Ragnhild Holmen Bjørnsen, Grete K. Hovelsrud, James Badu, Dina Brode-Roger, Adriana Craciun, Hanne H. […]
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Nov 5, 2025: Presentation by Philipp Budka at the University of Vienna
On November 5, 2025, at 5:00 pm CET, InfraNorth researcher Philipp Budka will deliver a lecture titled “Sovereignty by Design: Community Infrastructures and Relational Futures in Remote Canada,” as part of the Wednesday Seminars, the lecture series of the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna. Budka’s talk examines infrastructural sovereignty—the […]
