InfraNorth invites to an in-person Community Meeting to share information about the project and to talk about Arctic transport infrastructures in general in a relaxed atmosphere with drinks and snacks.
The meeting is convened by Philipp Budka & Peter Schweitzer and will take place on February 20 from 18:15 to 20:00 (GMT+1) at Seminarraum 2.
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, […]
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 […]
The book chapter “Remote connections: Human entanglements with built and natural environments in the Arctic and elsewhere,” written by InfraNorth principal investigator Peter Schweitzer and published as part of Anthropology in Motion, edited by Andre Gingrich and published by Sean Kingston Publishing in 2021, is now available open access. In the chapter, Schweitzer revisits the […]
We invite paper proposals for our panel “High Altitudes, High Latitudes: Engaging with Cryospheric Livelihoods” 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 cryosphere, defined by frozen water in all its forms, has attracted considerable attention of late […]
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 […]
We invite paper proposals for our panel “Whose Arctic Futures? Unsettling Northern Transport Infrastructures” 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 Arctic, which during the post-Cold War period at the turn of the last century seemed to […]