Jul 23, 2024: InfraNorth at EASA 2024 Conference in Barcelona

InfraNorth team members will participate in the 18th EASA Biennial Conference in Barcelona. With the theme “Doing and Undoing with Anthropology,” the event will take place at the University of Barcelona (July 23 – 26, 2024).

On Tuesday, July 23, Katrin Schmid will present her paper “Devolution of Desires, or How Food and Transportation Determine Inuit Futures as part of panel 226, “Theorising Futurity from the Fringes.” In her presentation, she will examine the role of infrastructure, especially transportation, in Nunavut residents’ desires on the path to territorial food sovereignty and asks how development can better align with Inuit needs. This session will take place from 13:45 to 15:30 CEST in room 212 of the Faculty of Geography and History of the University of Barcelona (c/ Montalegre, 6).

On Friday, July 26, Philipp Budka and Katrin Schmid, along with Jolynna Sinanan (University of Manchester) and Raphael Deberdt (Colorado School of Mines), will co-convene panel 075, titled “Infrastructural Residues: Reproduction and Destruction of Infrastructures Across Space and Time.” This session will cover a range of perspectives and contexts, acknowledging that infrastructures play a crucial role in social transformations, sociopolitical developments, and innovation processes. The panel will take place in room 307 of the Faculty of Geography and History and is structured in two parts, the first from 9:00 to 10:45 CEST and the second from 11:15 to 13:00 CEST.

Additionally, Philipp Budka will present a paper titled “Planes, Trains, Ships and Rockets: Infrastructural Temporalities and Entanglements in Northern Manitoba, Canada” in the second part of panel 075. The paper explores the temporalities and entanglements of transport infrastructures through concrete moments of change.

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SS Ithaka, a wrecked freighter on the Hudson Bay coast near Churchill, Manitoba. Photo by Philipp Budka.
Presentation by Philipp Budka at the IKSA Wednesday Seminars

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 […]

The skyline of Anchorage, Alaska, as seen from the airport. Photo by Peter Schweitzer.

Oct 2025: Presentation by Olga Povoroznyuk and Peter Schweitzer in Anchorage, Alaska

Olga Povoroznyuk and Peter Schweitzer presented findings from the InfraNorth project at the ARCA co-creative community workshop “Biocultural Heritage and Climate Adaptation in Arctic Cities,” held on October 7–8, 2025, at The Nave in Anchorage, Alaska. Their presentation drew connections between their recent research conducted in Anchorage and other field sites in Alaska: on the […]

Oct 1, 2025: InfraNorth Presentations at the 2025 GASCA Conference “Un/Commoning Anthropology”

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10th EUGEO Congress Vienna 2025

Sep 10, 2025: Presentation by Alexis Sancho Reinoso at the EUGEO Congress 2025

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Jul 2025: Presentation by Philipp Budka at EASA Workshop “Past Tense, Future Imperfect”

InfraNorth researcher Philipp Budka presented the paper “Navigating Temporalities, Infrastructure, and Uncertain Futures: Scenario Workshops in Churchill, Canada” at the workshop “Past Tense, Future Imperfect: Temporalities as Mobilising Force.” The two-day event, held in hybrid format from July 23 to 24, 2025, was organized by the EASA networks NAoHH (Anthropology of History and Heritage) and […]