Philipp Budka was interviewed by the Austrian Polar Research Institute (APRI) about his fieldwork in Northern Manitoba, Canada: Interview in German Interview in English (translated by APRI)
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May 5-7, 2022: Talks by Olga Povoroznyuk & Peter Schweitzer at Symposium “Experiencing Climate & 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 symposium “Experiencing Climate and Environmental Changes in and beyond Europe” on May 5-7, 2022 in Ljubljana. Symposium Program
CfPs for 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 by Skip Walker, Peter Schweitzer & Olga Povoroznyuk at ASSW 2022
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: Webinar with Peter Schweitzer “Crossroads, Ice Curtain & 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: Article by Peter Schweitzer & Olga Povoroznyuk in “Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning”
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 […]
Feb 26, 2022: Panel by Mia Bennett, Peter Schweitzer & Olga Povoroznyuk at AAG 2022
The paper panel “Undermining the Earth? Infrastructural challenges to sustainability”, co-organized by Mia Bennett, Peter Schweitzer and Olga Povoroznyuk at the American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, three sessions starting from 8:00 – 12:40 Eastern Time, online. Session 1 https://aag-annualmeeting.secure-platform.com/a/solicitations/19/sessiongallery/2922 Session 2 https://aag-annualmeeting.secure-platform.com/a/solicitations/19/sessiongallery/3105 Session 3 https://aag-annualmeeting.secure-platform.com/a/solicitations/19/sessiongallery/3144 Call for Papers: Sessions Abstract PDF
Nov 20, 2021: Talks by Olga Povoroznyuk & Peter Schweitzer at ASEEES 2021
Olga Povoroznyuk and Peter Schweitzer will be talking about the anthropology of transport infrastructures in the North at the 2021 Convention of the American Society of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) in New Orleans, USA. The roundtable discussion “Searching for Siberia: Interdisciplinary Approaches and Transnational Perspectives” will take place on Saturday, November 20, […]
Nov 8, 2021: Article by Peter Schweitzer et al. in “Environmental Research Letters”
PI Peter Schweitzer is co-author of a recently published article in Environmental Research Letters about “Expanding infrastructure and growing anthropogenic impacts along Arctic coasts”. The article was prominently featured by the European Space Agency. The article is available for open acess at this link. (Copyright Picture: Bartsch et al. (2021), permafrost in background (light grey area) – year […]
Nov 4, 2021: Paper by Philipp Budka at Anthropology of Technology Conference
Philipp Budka, InfraNorth’s North American study region lead, is giving a talk on digital and transport infrastructures in remote communities in Canada at the Anthropology of Technology Conference in Aarhus, Denmark (Nov. 4-5, 2021). His paper discusses aspects of the similarities and differences of digital and transport infrastructures by building on fieldwork on digital infrastructures […]
Sept 23, 2021: InfraNorth Workshop “The Global Economics & Geopolitics of Arctic Transport Infrastructures”
InfraNorth will organize the workshop “The Global Economics and Geopolitics of Arctic Transport Infrastructures” at the University of Vienna, September 23, 2021. Program and registration details to be found here.
July 1, 2021: InfraNorth Officially Launched
The launch event included presentations by project lead Peter Schweitzer and InfraNorth team members, as well as the introduction of project affiliates and partners. The event started with an opening address by the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Vienna, Hajo Boomgaarden, at the premises of the new project office […]