People, Places and Change
Exhibition – Research in the Arctic Dr. Anna Stammler-Gossmann, Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Finland October 3 –19, 2017. Kopio Gallery, Faculty of Art and Design, University of…
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Women as guardians of Human Security in the Arctic?
11 September, talking about Human Security. Is that by coincidence or a slight hint at the terrible events in New York in 2001? It was not quite a…
Siberia Geography Postdoc wanted
Our colleagues in Vienna have this interesting job opening in a project that combines anthropology and GIS in the area of the East Siberian railway region (BAM, AYAM).…
Language contacts in the Arctic
August 31 is the deadline for paper submissions to a congress in Moscow. Judging from the keynote speakers, this should be also very interesting for us anthropologists, because…
Job offer: sustainability Professor
Hope everybody is enjoying the summer. For those who prefer to read announcements at this time, here is an interesting one. Hopefully many of ‘our people’ apply, so…
Researching along in the Arctic: from lecture rooms to research fieldwork sites. A workshop on research issues with Tim Ingold
On 23 March 2017, The Anthropology Research Team is happy to invite Professor Tim Ingold to participate as a guest discussant to a workshop that will be held…
CASS/ЦЕСИС
В Европейском университете в Петербурге появился новый исследовательский центр – Центр социальных исследования Сибири и Севера, aka Center for Arctic Social Studies. Для тех, кто читает по-русск…
Imagining Northern Sea Route: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives on Supporting Coastal System
This is a new joint project by Tyumen State University and European University at Saint-Petersburg planned for 2017–2019 and funded by the Russian Ministry of Education and Science. Background…
Турбулентные периоды истории ямальского оленеводства в рассказах тундровиков /Turbulent periods in the history of Yamal reindeer husbandry in stories of tundra dwellers
This speech was given in November, 10, 2016 in Salekhard (Yamal, Western Siberia) during International Symposium “Preventing the dissemination of infectious animal diseases on climate changeR…
Problems of gigantic reindeer slaughter plan for Yamal-Nenets nomads
The recent announcement by the Yamal government to artificially reduce the number of reindeer in the Yamal-Nenets Okrug by a quarter of a million animals has caused a…
Khanty activists Agrafena Sopochina travelled to Lapland
Together with with my friend and colleague Agrafena Semjonovna Sopochina and her daughter Marija Launonen travelled recently through northern Finland and Norway, to Tallinn and to St. Petersburg…
Arctic Abstractive Industry
Colleague Arthur Mason sent around a link to the collection of popular short essays that many anthropologists contributed to a theme around extractive industries in the Arctic, but…
Anthrax outbreak on Yamal PENINSULA, not Tarko Sale PUROVSKI Yamal Okrug!
The Siberian Times and other english language sites report about the recent anthrax outbreak among reindeer in West Siberia in a slight geographical confusion . Ignore the maps…
Who closed the border between Finland and Russia? A reply to The Independent Barents Observer
The saga about the Northern migrant route for asylum seekers wishing to reach a European country recently got a new turn: Since April 2016 the Russian-Finnish border in…
Arctic Professorship, Finland, for an anthropologist?
Dear readers, belown seems to be a really promising job opening. For our community of Arctic Anthropologists, of course we would be most interested in getting as many…
resource development versus other community sustainability options’?
This is the general topic of the next course in our PhD programme by the Uarctic Thematic Network “Arctic Extractive Industries. It’s going to take place this time…
Historical Decision as to Mining in Sweden
A – what I would like to call a historical – decision was taken by the Supreme Administrative Court in Sweden at the end of February this year (source:…
New Forms of Law and Governance for and from the Arctic
This in an invitation to a seminar on adaptive law and governance in the Arctic. Researcher Ivanova (left) studying native fisheries governance with the Lariny family in the…
The Khanty Bear Feast revisited
The honored bear’s head (Photo Antti Tenetz) I have visited the Western Siberian Khanty in the vicinity of the oil towns in the Surgut region for twenty years…
Uarctic in pure diamonds: report from PhD / Masters course “Arctic Extractive Industries”, in Mirny
The Uarctic Logo made by a local employee of the sorting centre of pure diamonds is worth 7 million USD From 15-22 February a group of roughly 20…
Arctic Voices: Expectations, Narratives and the Realities of Living with Extractive industries: new publication
Arctic Voices: Expectations, Narratives and the Realities of Living with Extractive industries in the Far North (Edited by Emma Wilson and Florian Stammler ) is the name of…
Post Doc ad, Rovaniemi, Arctic Indigenous Anthropology?
Dear friends, The unversty of Lapland advertises a 2 year postdoc in Arctic Indigenous studies. It would be great to get as many as possible good applications from…
Paper call: Engaging with treasures of the subsurface between extractivism and spiritualism, 20-23 July 2016
Dear colleagues at this year’s European Association for Social Anthropology congress in Milano, we got a session accepted on extractive industries where we want to go beyond the…
Extractive Industries – mining anthropology positions
Colleagues from Belgium advertise the following posts. The orientation is not Arctic but African – and not less fascinating for sure! Five new positions opening at the Faculty…