Jan 31, 2024: Timothy Heleniak on the “Borders & Belonging” Podcast
Timothy Heleniak has been featured on the “Borders & Belonging” podcast (Episode 6, Season 2), hosted by Maggie Perzyna, a researcher with the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration, Toronto Metropolitan University. During the podcast, he highlighted the InfraNorth project and talked about his fieldwork in the Faroe Islands, when asked about the interactions between (transport) infrastructure and demographic changes in the Arctic.
The “Borders & Belonging” podcast shares stories from around the world, spotlighting regional issues and uncovering the global forces that shape them. In this episode, titled “The Arctic: Climate, Resources, and Migration in Times of Change,” Heleniak and other experts discuss how global market forces and climate change are shaping migration to the Arctic in new and complex ways.
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October 2026: Interview with Peter Schweitzer on Deutschlandfunk Kultur
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, […]
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Sep 2026: Article by Elena Davydova in Food and Foodways
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 […]
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Call for Papers on “Infrastructuring Green Transitions” for VANDA Conference 2027
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 […]