Olga Povoroznyuk, Alexandra Meyer, and Peter Schweitzer will represent InfraNorth at the Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW) 2024 in Edinburgh, participating as part of the IASC Social and Human Working Group (SHWG). Their presentations are scheduled to take place during the SHWG open session on March 22, 2024, from 10:30 to 15:30 GMT at St […]
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Mar 19, 2024: Social Scientist with a Focus on GIS, Cartography, and Mixed Methods (Pre-/Post-Doctoral)
The InfraNorth project, funded by the European Research Council, is seeking a social scientist with expertise in GIS, cartography, and mixed methods for a pre-doctoral or post-doctoral position (20 hours per week, starting as soon as possible, limited until March 31, 2025), based in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna. The […]
Feb 27, 2024: Ria-Maria Adams Successfully Defends Her Doctoral Dissertation
Ria-Maria Adams has successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis “The Quest for Good Life: Well-Being of Young People in Finnish Lapland” at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna under the supervision of Peter Schweitzer (University of Vienna) and Florian Stammler (University of Lapland). Janina Kehr (University of Vienna) and Joachim Otto Habeck […]
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 […]
Jan 31, 2024: Presentation by Ria-Maria Adams at the Arctic Frontiers 2024 Conference
Ria-Maria Adams will participate in the Arctic Frontiers 2024: Action & Reactions conference in Tromsø, Norway (Jan 29 – Feb 01, 2024). Her presentation “Young, Rural Stayers in Finnish Lapland: Decision-Making, Infrastructures & Wellbeing” will be part of the panel Empowering Arctic Citizens for Involvement in Decision-Making. Part 3, on Wednesday Jan 31, 2024 (11:30 […]
Jan 25, 2024: The Doctoral School Approves Elena Davydova’s Dissertation Project
Elena Davydova’s doctoral dissertation project has been approved by the advisory board of the Vienna Doctoral School of Social Sciences (ViDSS), University of Vienna, after a successful Fakultätsöffentliche Präsentation. In this public presentation of PhD thesis projects, candidates present their research proposals and their related ethical considerations to the faculty staff. It is an important […]
Jan 25, 2024: Alexandra Meyer Successfully Defends Her Doctoral Dissertation
Alexandra Meyer has successfully defended her PhD thesis “Arctic Change: An Ethnography of Entangled Climatic and Societal Transformations in Longyearbyen, Svalbard” at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna. Her thesis addresses how people in Longyearbyen, Svalbard perceive, live with, and adapt to entangled socio-economic and climatic change change. The research was […]
Jan 22, 2024: Call for Papers for Panel at EASA 2024
InfraNorth’s team members Philipp Budka and Katrin Schmid, along with Jolynna Sinanan from the University of Manchester, and Raphael Deberdt from the Colorado School of Mines / University of British Columbia, will convene a panel at the 18th Biennial Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA). The conference, with the theme Doing and […]
Jan 19, 2024: InfraNorth Panels at the Arctic Congress 2024
The extended deadline to submit abstracts for the Arctic Congress Bodø 2024 (May 29 – June 3, 2024) is January 19, 2024 at 17:00 CET. We welcome abstracts for three panels convened by InfraNorth team members: For more information on sessions, go to: Sessions List. You can submit your abstract through the Arctic Congress website: […]
Jan 10, 2024: Article in the 2023 Lychnos Special Issue on “Arctic Dreams”
The 2023 edition of the yearbook Lychnos: Annual of the Swedish History of Science Society, published by The Swedish Society for the History of Science and Ideas, has just been released in print and online. This thematic issue on “Arctic Dreams,” co-edited by Janina Priebe and Nina Wormbs, includes an article co-authored by Julie Michelle […]
Dec 13, 2023: Olga Povoroznyuk Receives sowi:doc Award 2023
Dr. Olga Povoroznyuk, the research coordinator and study region lead for the Russian Arctic in InfraNorth, has received the sowi:doc Award 2023 for her outstanding dissertation project “Soviet infrastructure in the post-Soviet era? Building a railroad and identity along the Baikal–Amur Mainline in East Siberia.” Dr. Povoroznyuk defended her dissertation at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University […]
Dec 9, 2023: Interview in the Finnish Newspaper Lapin Kansa
The Finnish regional newspaper Lapin Kansa recently featured an interview with our team member Ria-Maria Adams, in its weekend edition. The interview focused on her work with young people in Lapland, which is part of her forthcoming doctoral thesis. Ria-Maria’s dissertation includes the case of young rural “stayers,” who are bucking the prevailing culture of […]