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…
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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…
East Finnmark – interethnic borderland now and then
A Russian vessel named “Saami” in a Norwegian wharf in Kirkenes in June 2023: the borderland reality on the ground continues as a lived experience even at times…
Danger Muskox and Danger of Muskoxen wool prices
My first personal meeting with muskoxen (Оvibos moschatus, in Latin “musky sheep-ox”) happened in Alaska in one of the Wildlife Conservation Centres there. That time I was surprised…
Relations and beyond – keynotes by Vitebsky, Strathern and Ingold to be streamed
At the Arctic Circle in Finland, Rovaniemi, we are frantically putting the finishing touches to the programme of the biennial conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society, from 21-23…
Three guest lectures
This semester we are proud to host two cutting-edge anthropology scholars as visiting professors here at the Arctic Centre in Rovaniemi, Lapland: Hiroki Takakura, Center for Northeast Asian…
China – do we care?
Some of us Arctic anthropologists may not have China on the immediate radar of their interest. However, China has become an increasingly important player in the Arctic, through…
Relations and beyond: call for panels and papers
For the first time, an Arctic Anthropology team hosts the conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society, to be held from 21-23 March 2023 in Rovaniemi. Many still imagine…
Film screening: in the name of the wild
On October 3rd our colleagues from the University from the “Sustainable Naturecultures” research group at the Faculty of Social Sciences host an interesting film screening including discu…
Arctic Midsummer – party time with pagan roots
In the European Arctic Midsummer nowadays marks mostly the start of the summer holidays. But at the roots of this big holiday, celebrated on or close to the…