The community workshop on Arctic infrastructure and climate change “RATIC meets T-MOSAiC”, co-organized by Skip Walker, Peter Schweitzer and Olga Povoroznyuk at the Arctic Science Summit Week, from 14:00 – 18:00 CEST in Tromsø, Norway and online:
https://www.assw.info/sessions/ratic-meets-t-mosaic
Please, join us – online participation is free!
InfraNorth researcher Elena Davydova will be presenting at the international conference Russia and the “appropriation” of the Arctic organized by the Chair of Russian-Asian Studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. With the subtitle “Interests, instruments and identities from the late Tsarist period to the present day,” the conference will take place from March […]
On March 10, 2026, InfraNorth researcher Timothy Heleniak presented “Is infrastructure enough? The case of decline in the Faroe Islands” at the concluding conference of the Horizon Europe-funded project PREMIUM_EU. The event was organized by Nordregio and hosted by the European Committee of the Regions in Brussels and live-streamed online. In this talk, Heleniak presented […]
The quarterly peer-reviewed journal Polar Geography has published the article “2200 meters: infrastructure, the future, and the politics of belonging in Greenland and the Arctic” by InfraNorth associate researcher Susan Vanek. The article examines Greenland’s airport expansion project, following its approval in 2015 by Naalakkersuisut (the Government of Greenland) as the largest investment in transportation […]
On Monday, February 9, 2026, from 3:00 to 5:00 pm (GMT), InfraNorth researcher Philipp Budka will deliver a guest talk as part of the seminar series of the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. The event will take place in room G20-21 of the Arthur Lewis Building. The departmental seminar series is […]
The second edition of The Palgrave Handbook of Arctic Policy and Politics, edited by Carin Holroyd and Ken Coates, has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan. The book brings together a diverse group of international scholars and practitioners from North America and Northern Europe, spanning multiple academic disciplines, to contextualize the Arctic across fields of […]
InfraNorth researchers have contributed two chapters to the book Arctic Silk Roads: An Anthropology of the Unbuilt, edited by Natalia Magnani and Matthew Magnani, and published by Berghahn Books as part of its Studies in the Circumpolar North series. As climate change accelerates, the melting of sea ice is fueling the global imagination and geopolitical […]