March 30, 2023: Discussion with Peter Schweitzer on “Infrastructure, Remoteness & People”

The Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung will host a panel discussion with Peter Schweitzer & Gregor Sailer on “Infrastructure, Remoteness and People”. The discussion will be part of Gregor Saeiler’s photo exhibition “The Polar Silk Road”. Peter Schweitzer & Gregor Sailer will discuss the entanglements of geopolitics, economy, infrastructure, and humans in the polar areas.

The discussion takes place on March 30, 2023 at 7 PM. For more details and registration for the event check the Alfred Ehrardt Stiftung website.

Svalbard Airport, Photo by Alexandra Meyer.

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Mar 2026: Article by Alexandra Meyer in Polar Geography Special Issue

The quarterly peer-reviewed journal Polar Geography has published the article “Hyperconnected remoteness: the Svalbard airport and community transitions in Longyearbyen” by InfraNorth researcher Alexandra Meyer. The article examines the role of Svalbard Airport in shaping socio-economic transitions and everyday life in Longyearbyen, the largest settlement on the Svalbard archipelago. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, complemented […]

International conference "Russia and the 'appropriation' of the Arctic," organized by the Chair of Russian-Asian Studies at the Ludwig-Maximilan University of Munich (12-14 March, 2026).

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Mar 14, 2026: Presentation by Elena Davydova at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

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 […]

InfraNorth researcher Timothy Heleniak presented “Is infrastructure enough? The case of decline in the Faroe Islands” at the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) in Brussels.

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Mar 10, 2026: Presentation by Timothy Heleniak at the European Committee of the Regions

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 […]

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Feb 2026: Article by Susan Vanek in Polar Geography Special Issue

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 […]

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Feb 9, 2026: Talk by Philipp Budka at the University of Manchester’s Social Anthropology Seminar Series

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 […]

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Jan 2026: Chapter by Timothy Heleniak in The Palgrave Handbook of Arctic Policy and Politics

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 […]