InfraNorth’s 1st future scenario workshop is organized in partnership with the Town of Churchill. The workshop aims to bring local residents together to discuss possible future scenarios and their implications for the community of Churchill. In such scenarios, which are also visualized by local artist Nickia McIvor, Churchill could develop into a growing transportation hub […]
Philipp Budka will present a paper at the 16th Congress of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF2023) in Brno, Czech Republic. In his paper for the panel “Contested futures? Sustainability conflicts and local practices in the age of global uncertainty”, he explores how tourism and transport infrastructures are entangled in the town of […]
The Paper “Ignoring environmental change? On fishing quotas and collapsing coastlines in Bykovskiy, Northern Sakha (Yakutiya)” written by Olga Povoroznyuk and Peter Schweitzer was published by Ambio, a journal of environment and society issued by the Royal Swedish academy of Sciences. The paper is discussing the impact of climate change on the local community of […]
After a decade of rising popularity of treating infrastructure anthropologically, the time seems ripe to look at how we have been studying infrastructure. This workshop intends to address three critical questions in that respect: 1) What are the theoretical and methodological tools anthropology brings to the table when studying infrastructure? 2) How can the traditional […]
The chapter “What difference does a railroad make?” by Olga Povoroznyuk and Peter Schweitzer is focusing on the impact of the construction of the Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM) in Eastern Siberia in the 1970s-1980s. Special attention is paid to the role of the cities of Tynda and Severobaikalsk which were founded along the BAM at that […]
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 […]
Ria-Maria Adams & Philipp Budka organize the panel “Infrastructures as Relations” at the conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society “Relations and Beyond“. The conference will take place from 21-23 March 2023 at the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland in Rovaniemi.
Peter Schweitzer will give the opening keynote at the Science Symposium of the ASSW 2023. The title of his presentation is “One, Two or Many? Conceptualizing the Arctic in 2023” and it will take place on February 21 from 11:00 to 12:30 (GMT+1) in the Audimax of the University of Vienna. The lecture is part […]
InfraNorth invites to an in-person Community Meeting to share information about the project and to talk about Arctic transport infrastructures in general in a relaxed atmosphere with drinks and snacks. The meeting is convened by Philipp Budka & Peter Schweitzer and will take place on February 20 from 18:15 to 20:00 (GMT+1) at Seminarraum 2.
Several team members will represent InfraNorth at the Arctic Science Summit Week 2023, which is organized by the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC), Austrian Polar Research Institute (APRI), and the University of Vienna from February 17 to 23, 2023 in Vienna, Austria (in chronological order). Olga Povoroznyuk, Nikita Strelkovskii and Peter Schweitzer present a paper […]
The art exhibition “Arctic InfraScapes” co-organized by Vera Kuklina, Olga Zaslavskaya and Olga Povoroznyuk displays interim results of several ongoing research projects with the main focus on Arctic infrastructures and features forms of collaboration between artists and scientists. The exhibition will also include a scientific session and a round table on February 21, 8:30-10:00 and […]
Olga Povoroznyuk and Howie Epstein will organize a community meeting “Towards Sustainable Infrastructure: Environmental, Technological, and Societal Impacts of Development in the Arctic” as part of IASC interdisciplinary Research Initiative “Rapid Arctic Transitions due to Infrastructure and Climate” (RATIC). The meeting will take place on February 20, 14:00 – 18:00 (GMT+1), in-person (Hörsaal 3) and […]