Feb 21, 2025: Presentation by Peter Schweitzer and Olga Povoroznyuk at the 2025 Barents Spektakel
Peter Schweitzer and Olga Povoroznyuk will participate in the 2025 Barents Spektakel, an annual art and culture festival in Kirkenes, Norway. In its 21st edition, the festival explores the theme “Remote Control,” fostering a cross-disciplinary exchange on the center-periphery model and the dynamics between central areas and peripheral (or remote) regions.
On Friday, 21 February, from 14:00 to 16:00 CET, the InfraNorth researchers will participate in the event “Remoteness Reframed: Arctic Urban EcoScapes and Biocultural Heritage” at Terminal B Kunsthall Kirkenes. This session will introduce and discuss a new research project they are involved in, titled Biocultural Heritage in Arctic Cities as a Potential Resource for Climate Adaptation (ARCA). The project applies the holistic concept of biocultural heritage to explore the complex interactions between natural and social systems and the capacity of Arctic urban communities to adapt to climate change. By reframing Arctic remoteness as a space of innovation and interconnectedness, it aims to offer new perspectives on urban sustainability and the role of biocultural heritage in addressing climate challenges.
During this event, Schweitzer and Povoroznyuk will give a talk titled “From InfraNorth to ARCA: Anthropological Engagements with Kirkenes,” where they will share preliminary results from the research conducted in Kirkenes as part of the InfraNorth project (including the future scenario workshops held in 2023) and discuss its connection to the ARCA project.
This event will also feature the participation of art historians Hanne Hammer Stien and Elin Kristine Haugdal (UiT The Arctic University of Norway); artist-researcher Olga Kisseleva (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France / Art & Science International Institute), geographers Vera Kuklina (George Washington University, USA) and Victoria Miles (Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Norway); art critic Hilde Sørstrøm (Arctic University of Norway) and philosopher Olga Zaslavskaya (Art&Science International Institute).
The full agenda of the event can be found here and more details on the Barents Spektakel’s website.
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Apr 16, 2025: Presentation by Philipp Budka at the Manitoba Museum
InfraNorth team member Philipp Budka will deliver a public presentation of his research titled “Infrastructural Sovereignty and the Social Life of Transport: Ethnographic Insights from Northern Manitoba, Canada” on Wednesday, April 16, from 12:00 to 1:00 PM (GMT-5) at the Manitoba Museum Auditorium in Winnipeg, Canada. Churchill, Manitoba—a remote Subarctic town of approximately 870 residents—offers […]
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Call for Papers “Beyond Infrastructure? (Un-)built Environments in the Anthropocene”
International Conference, September 22 – 24, 2025, at the University of Vienna. Extended deadline for submissions: April 21, 2025. Infrastructure is often seen as solid, fixed, and inevitable while shaping the way we move, live, and connect. But what about the infrastructures that remain unfinished, abandoned, or merely imagined? How do built, un-built, or non-built […]
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Apr 9, 2025: Community Talk by Philipp Budka in Churchill, Manitoba
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Mar 2025: Chapter by Olga Povoroznyuk in “A Fractured North – Maintaining Connections”
The third volume of the Fractured North book series, edited by Erich Kasten, Igor Krupnik, and Gail Fondahl, has recently been released by SEC Publications, the publishing house of Kulturstiftung Sibirien. The volume includes a chapter by Olga Povoroznyuk, titled “Reconceptualizing Siberia: a personal account of a changing field.” In it, she reflects on her […]
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Mar 20–28, 2025: InfraNorth at the Arctic Science Summit Week 2025
InfraNorth researchers Peter Schweitzer, Olga Povoroznyuk, Alexandra Meyer, Ria-Maria Adams, and Susanna Gartler will participate in the Arctic Science Summit Week 2025 (ASSW) from 20 to 28 March 2025 at the University of Colorado Boulder, USA. This year’s summit, themed “Arctic Research Planning for the Next Decade,” will include the 4th International Conference on Arctic […]
