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 […]
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 […]
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: […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Philipp Budka will present on ownership and control in transport infrastructure projects in Northern Manitoba, Canada, in the session “The Politics of Open Infrastructures” at the STS Austria Conference 2023. The conference will take place at the Austrian Academy of Sciences from Nov 27-29, 2023. Program
Olga Povoroznyuk and Peter Schweitzer will give a guest lecture on “The Social Lives of Transport Infrastructures in the Arctic” at the Technical University of Vienna. The lecture includes insights from their InfraNorth research and will be part of the module “Emerging Fields in Architecture”, which seeks to put design into a broader social context. […]
Giuseppe Amatulli (Carlton University) & Philipp Budka (InfraNorth, University of Vienna) organize the session “Narratives and Temporalities of Infrastructure: The Canadian Experience” at the meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) & the Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA). The conference will take place from November 15-19, 2023 in Toronto.
Peter Schweitzer and several other InfraNorth members will co-present their research at APRI’s Polar Talk N9 on November 8. Polar Talk Flyer Olga Povoroznyuk will give a presentation entitled “InfraNorth Future Scenarios for Arctic Communities” at the APRI Assembly Meeting on November 9. APRI Meeting Program Flyer
InfraNorth will have three paper presentations at the Meeting of the American Anthropological Association / Canadian Anthropology Society/Société canadienne d’anthropologie in Toronto, Canada, November 15-19, 2023: Olga Povoroznyuk & Peter Schweitzer with a paper entitled “Whose sovereignty? Promises and threats of a port expansion project in Nome, Alaska” Katrin Schmid with a paper titled “Gravel, […]
Philipp Budka wrote an article on transforming transport infrastructures in Canada for the booklet Arctic Sustainability Transformation: What Is It, What Can It Be, And What Does It Need To Be?, edited by J. Priebe, H. Lempinen & H. Vikström and published by Umeå University. Download Booklet