CfPs for InfraNorth Events at VANDA 2022 Conference

ERC project “InfraNorth” (“Building Arctic Futures: Transport Infrastructure and Sustainable Northern Communities”) https://www.infranorth.eu/ will hold two events at the conference Vienna Anthropology Days taking place in Vienna on September 26-30, 2022.

Please, feel free to submit your papers to the panel “Infrastructure and the Built Environment in the Anthropocene” and your expressions of interest to participate in the round table “What Is the Future of Anthropological Collaboration with Russia?” by June 1, 2022 https://vanda.univie.ac.at/call-for-papers/

If you have questions, please, contact the organizers Olga Povoroznyuk olga.povoroznyuk@univie.ac.at and Peter Schweitzer. peter.schweitzer@univie.ac.at.

Figure. Caption: Ship breaking yard in Tiksi, Northern Russia. Photocredit: Olga Povoroznyuk

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September 21, 2023: Future Scenario Workshop in Kirkenes, Norway

InfraNorth’s 2nd future scenario workshop is organized in partnership with the Barents Institute, Sør-Varanger Municipality Sør-Varanger Utvikling and Sør-Varanger Library Join us to discuss and co-create possible futures of infrastructure and community development in Kirkenes and Sør-Varanger! The KIRKENES SCENARIO WORKSHOP is a free and open event, hosted by the project InfraNorth in collaboration with […]

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August 16, 2023: Future Scenario Workshop in Churchill, Canada

InfraNorth’s 1st future scenario workshop is organized in partnership with the Town of Churchill. The workshop aims to bring local residents together to discuss possible future scenarios and their implications for the community of Churchill. In such scenarios, which are also visualized by local artist Nickia McIvor, Churchill could develop into a growing transportation hub […]

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September 6, 2023: Presentation by Peter Schweitzer & Katrin Schmid in Zurich

NONAM (Nordamerika Native Museum) in Zurich is hosting an event, where Peter Schweitzer and Katrin Schmid will present their research in the framework of the InfraNorth project. Peter Schweitzer and Katrin Schmid will talk about the impact of climate change and infrastructure development on the indigenous communities of North America. Their presentations will be forwarded […]

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June 7-10, 2023: Paper by Philipp Budka at SIEF2023

Philipp Budka will present a paper at the 16th Congress of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF2023) in Brno, Czech Republic. In his paper for the panel “Contested futures? Sustainability conflicts and local practices in the age of global uncertainty”, he explores how tourism and transport infrastructures are entangled in the town of […]

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May 24, 2023: Article by Olga Povoroznyuk & Peter Schweitzer Published

The Paper “Ignoring environmental change? On fishing quotas and collapsing coastlines in Bykovskiy, Northern Sakha (Yakutiya)” written by InfraNorth team members Olga Povoroznyuk and Peter Schweitzer was published by Ambio, a journal of environment and society issued by the Royal Swedish academy of Sciences. The paper is discussing the impact of climate change on the […]

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May 22, 2023: InfraNorth Workshop “Ethnographies of Infrastructure”

After a decade of rising popularity of treating infrastructure anthropologically, the time seems ripe to look at how we have been studying infrastructure. This workshop intends to address three critical questions in that respect: 1) What are the theoretical and methodological tools anthropology brings to the table when studying infrastructure? 2) How can the traditional […]