June 14-15, 2022: Arctic Infrastructures: Histories of Exploration, Colonization and Industrial Development
The Arctic, which often has been recognized by residents of temperate climate zones for its supposed unspoiled nature, has a long history of colonization, urbanization and industrial exploitation. From the days of Arctic whaling to gold rushes and oil booms, the Arctic has a rich legacy of built environment serving as infrastructure mainly for non-arctic […]
May 5-7, 2022: Experiencing Climate and Environmental Changes in and beyond Europe
Olga Povoroznyuk and Peter Schweitzer talked about transport infrastructures, climate change impacts and sustainable communities along the Arctic coast at a two day workshop “Experiencing climate and environmental changes in and beyond Europe Symposium” on the 5-7th of May in Ljubljana. Symposium Program
CfPs at InfraNorth events at VANDA 2022
ERC project “InfraNorth” (“Building Arctic Futures: Transport Infrastructure and Sustainable Northern Communities”) https://www.infranorth.eu/ will hold two events at the conference Vienna Anthropology Days taking place in Vienna on September 26-30, 2022. Please, feel free to submit your papers to the panel “Infrastructure and the Built Environment in the Anthropocene” and your expressions of interest to […]
March 26, 2022: Workshop on Arctic infrastructure and climate change
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 Meeting Announcement PDF Please, join us – online participation is free!
March 22, 2022: Crossroads, Ice Curtain, and Chokepoint: Bering Strait over time
Webinar with Peter Schweitzer The Bering Strait, the body of water that both separates and binds together the USA and the Russian Federation, has been an area of heightened world historical significance ever since it formed a land bridge between Northeast Asia and Northwest North America at the end of the last Ice Age that […]
March 16, 2022: Infrastructural legacies and post-Soviet transformations in Northern Sakha (Yakutiya), Russia
The town of Tiksi came into being in the 1930s, when the Soviet Union intensified its efforts to industrialize the Arctic. A critical element of that policy was to make the Northern Sea Route a viable Arctic shipping lane and Tiksi, located where the Lena River meets the Arctic Ocean, became an important transportation hub […]