Jan 25, 2024: Alexandra Meyer Successfully Defends Her Doctoral Dissertation
Alexandra Meyer has successfully defended her doctoral dissertation.
Alexandra Meyer has successfully defended her PhD thesis “Arctic Change: An Ethnography of Entangled Climatic and Societal Transformations in Longyearbyen, Svalbard” at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna.
Her thesis addresses how people in Longyearbyen, Svalbard perceive, live with, and adapt to entangled socio-economic and climatic change change. The research was supported by the EU’s Horizon 2020 project Nunataryuk [Grant Agreement ID: 773421] and the ERC Advanced Grant project InfraNorth [Grant Agreement ID: 885646].
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 […]
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