Peter Schweitzer and the InfraNorth team gave an online presentation about the InfraNorth project at an internal seminar of the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Vienna.
InfraNorth researcher Elena Davydova was recently featured on the podcast А теперь по-русски (in English, “And now in Russian”), produced by the Yerevan Center for International Education (YCIE). The podcast highlights scientists who share their work in Russian, discussing topics they often write or talk about in other languages, as well as their big dreams […]
Peter Schweitzer and Olga Povoroznyuk will be presenting at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November 20 – 23, 2024, in Tampa, USA. This year’s conference is centered around the theme Praxis, considering the present and future praxis of anthropology, the application of praxis in our communities, and praxis as collaborative work. […]
InfraNorth researcher Ria-Maria Adams will present at the seminar “Spirit of Inari 2024: The Future of Regenerative Tourism” at the Sajos Sámi Cultural Center in Inari, Finland, on Thursday, October 31, at 13:10 EET. Her presentation, titled “For Whom Do the Sleigh Bells Toll? Social Media’s Role in Shaping Expectations of Arctic Tourism Destinations” will […]
InfraNorth researcher Elena Davydova will be presenting at the 6th annual conference of the “Anthropologization of Humanities and Social Sciences” joint project of the New Literary Observer journal and the European University at St. Petersburg, which will be held at the Tufenkian Hotel in Yerevan, Armenia on October 24-26, 2024, in collaboration with the Yerevan […]
In a recent article published by the online information platform Polar Journal, titled “In shrinking Soviet towns, Northern Sea Route is keeping hope alive,” journalist Ole Ellekrog talked with Olga Povoroznyuk, InfraNorth’s research coordinator and lead of the Russian Arctic study region, about the difficulty of conducting anthropological research on Russia today and how InfraNorth […]
Island Studies Journal has recently published several early-access papers prior to assignment to an issue, including the article “Turning the Faroes into One City. Demographic and Spatial Impacts of 60 Years of Transport Infrastructure Expansion,” by Alexis Sancho-Reinoso and Timothy Heleniak. Over the last six decades, the Faroe Islands, an 18-island archipelago in the North […]