Online Recording of an International Seminar on Forest Sentience.
Here is a link to an online seminar held on October 15th by the Nulungu Research Institute at the University of Notre Dame, Australia, which is titled: From…
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Paths to a Sustainable Arctic: research avenues
In Rejkjavik, the well-known Finnish architect Alvar Aalto designed a beautiful house that is all about Nordic countries cooperation, the “Nordic House”. We had the honour to be…
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Online seminar on October 15th, 2025 at 7am Finnish time. From the Arctic toAustralia: Four Perspectiveson Forest Sentience
Gifts from the Sentient Forest Project online seminar/webinar recordings in human-plant studies.
Professor John Charles Ryan and post-doctoral researcher Dr. Francis Joy are both members of the Arctic Anthropology research team based at the Arctic Centre, Rovaniemi. During 2024 and…
The benefits of the cold: open-access book 2025
Finally the time has come for a separate blog post advertising and celebrating the publication of a book volume, for which more a dozen Arctic scholars have been…
Arctic Studies in Japan, opportunity
For those who are interested in exploring Arctic anthropological scholarship in Japan, and also make contact with the Japanese anthropologists in general, the Center for Northeast Asian Studies…
Multimodal Anthropology in the Arctic: history & future
“Multimodal anthropology gives a name to something that many of us have actually been doing for long, but maybe as side projects”, says Christine Moderbacher, soon new Professor…
The Fence That Doesn’t Hold: Reindeer, Urbanisation, and Everyday Tensions in Hammerfest
Across the Arctic, reindeer are more than just animals—they are powerful symbols of the region. Whether domesticated, semi-tame, or wild, they roam throughout Fennoscandia, the Russian North, and…
Vacancies for PhD candidates, working in Kazakhstan
Our colleague Peter Finke will launch a new project on the production, processing and trade of food in Kazakhstan. The project offers a really generous 4 full years…
new Finnish Sámi research ethics: a reading circle & discussion 19 Sep 2024
Within Finland the new ethical guidelines for research involving the Sámi people in Finland have been widely announced, starting with their launch in June 2024. The guidelines also…
Throw Away or Find a Way to CIRCULARITY
Exhibition by Anna Stammler-Gossmann As humans, we have adopted a linear “take, make and throw away” approach, in contrast to the circular processes observed in nature. In the…
The impact of mobility for people and food in the Arctic, 5-6 September 2024, Rovaniemi
A seminar in the Japanese – Finnish researcher exchange programme funded by ArCSII, Human movement between the Arctic and East Asia due to tourism and business is increasing.…
Inuit Innovation: grassroots hydropower green transition among sheep farmers
by Florian Stammler, Asiarpa Paviasen and Tupaarnaq Kreutzmann-Kleist What connects dams, hydropower, green energy, agriculture, sheep farming and Inuit in Greenland? Inuit are better known in the pop…
Fieldwork literally: the stony path of working in the field
Some may remember our entry here with Erik Kielsen about the disastrous early snowfall and freezing event in South Greenland in late 2023. This summer fieldwork in the…
‘Lud’ – midsummer celebration of Izhma Komi from the Russian North
The tradition of midsummer celebrations is widespread across many cultures, yet it is particularly strong among people of the northern and eastern Europe. Not an exception are Izhma…
Fieldnotes returning to the field: Tim Ingold and the Skolt Sámi
Those of our readers who read Finnish may have seen this already, but this event may be of some wider relevance: https://www.ulapland.fi/events/Antropologi-Tim-Ingoldin-kenttamuistiinpanojen-luovutust…
Extreme Arctic weather impacts for animal husbandry
Florian Stammler and Erik Kielsen Much has been written already about the losses of reindeer due to icing-over, or rain on snow events, among reindeer herders in Siberia…
Indigenous ways of knowing in auditing practice
Currently the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI) has one of their worldwide working group meetings in Rovaniemi, the working group of environmental auditing (WGEA). At …
Circumpolar Arctic Anthropology? Seminar Series addressing the pasts and prospects of an again-divided field
Half of the People and the Land in the Arctic are in Russia. Quo Vadis Arctic Anthropology? Many of us who have worked for years, decades or their…
Generation & gender change in reindeer herding – opportunities in Lapland
Congratulations to our research partners from the Sattasniemi Paliskunta in Lapland for their young empowering activism, which is now increasingly noticed also by journalists (see below). Great …
Making Good Luck in North Korea – online guest lecture by Heonik Kwon 12 October
time: 13.30 Finnish, 11.30 UK, 18.30 Beijing time, 12 October 2023. Online at zoom, meeting id: 641 887 4740, password: 2023. For those in Rovaniemi: join us in…
Khanty fishing in the Ob’ River system, West Siberia, 6 Sep 2023 Rovaniemi talk by Yuka Oishi
In the current situation we do not get any more new research evidence from our Siberian field sites, unfortunately. Nonetheless Siberia remains THE place in the Arctic where…
reindeer slaughter economy, human and animal welfare, 31 Aug 2023, Arktikum
Welcome to join us for the opening of the reindeer slaughter season 2023 in Finnish Lapland! A group of scientists, reindeer herders, animal practitioners, managers and economists are…
A Week of Exchange: ethics and methods in Arctic transformative research
03 – 06 October 2023, Oulu, Finland We are pleased to invite you to join us for a Week of Exchange in Oulu (Finland), to collectively engage with questions around ethi…