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.

Sep 30, 2024: Article by Alexis Sancho-Reinoso and Tim Heleniak in “Island Studies Journal”

Island Studies Journal has recently published several early-access papers prior to assignment to an issue, including the article “Turning the Faroes into One City. Demographic and Spatial Impacts of 60 Years of Transport Infrastructure Expansion,” by Alexis Sancho-Reinoso and Timothy Heleniak. Over the last six decades, the Faroe Islands, an 18-island archipelago in the North […]

Photo by Alexandra Meyer.

Sep 30, 2024: Call for Abstracts on “The Challenges of Arctic Infrastructure” for the ICARP IV Summit

The call for abstracts for the 4th International Conference on Arctic Research Planning (ICARP IV) taking place on 25-28 March 2025 in Boulder, Colorado (USA) as part of the Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW) is now open until 30 September 2024. InfraNorth team members Peter Schweitzer, Olga Povoroznyuk, and Alexandra Meyer, together with Vera Kuklina (George Washington University) […]

Sep 2024: Article in “Études Inuit Studies” by Sophie Elixhauser

The latest issue of Études Inuit Studies (Vol. 47, No. 1-2, September 2024) features the article “Making and Unmaking Airports in Tunu (East Greenland): The Socio-Material Dynamics of Hope and Connectivity” by Sophie Elixhauser. Like many airports throughout the Arctic, Kulusuk Airport, the entrance to the sparsely populated East Coast of Greenland, is built on […]

Sep 16, 2024: Presentations by Peter Schweitzer and Ria-Maria Adams at the 29th International Polar Conference

InfraNorth members Peter Schweitzer and Ria-Maria Adams will be presenting at the 29th International Polar Conference, co-organized by the Austrian Polar Research Institute (APRI) and the German Society of Polar Research (DGP). This year’s conference will be held in Rauris, Austria, from September 16 – 20, under the motto “Dynamic Poles and High Mountain Environments.” […]

Announcement of the InfraNorth Workshop “Ethnography Beyond the Case Study: Possibilities and Limitations of Comparison”

Sep 10, 2024: InfraNorth Workshop “Ethnography Beyond the Case Study: Possibilities and Limitations of Comparison”

Date and time: September 10, 2024, from 09:30 to 18:00 CEST. Venue: Nordregio. Holmamiralens Väg 10, Skeppsholmen, 111 49 Stockholm, Sweden (See: Map). Register here for in-person attendance. Register here for online participation. The ERC Advanced Grant project InfraNorth, in collaboration with Nordregio, will host the workshop “Ethnography Beyond the Case Study: Possibilities and Limitations […]