The North is innovative!
our university r&d department just shared an EU report, where Finland and Sweden lead their EU-internal rating for innovativeness. Nice to see …
Rain on snow – how do people and reindeer learn to survive?
This winter and spring we hear again disastrous news from sudden temperature rises and falls, leading to thick ice-crusts on reindeer pastures …
Trust Versus Paranoia: Can the Siberian fire spirit explain the spectacular failure of the UK Covid track and trace app?
Piers Vitebsky (pv100(at)cam.ac.uk) and Roza Laptander (roza.laptander(at)mail.ru) are going to give an interesting example on how to de-provincialise Arctic social sciences. This …
Society 5.0 – new evolutionism towards more inclusive well-being?
Listening to the presentation of Ms Kanae from the Japanese cabinet office at the Japan-Finland Joint Committee meeting on Cooperation in Science …
The Experience of Displacement and Social Engineering in Kola Saami Oral Histories
Public defence of the doctoral dissertation by blog contributor Lukas Allemann on 15 Oct 2020 Our team member and periodic blog contributor …
Tenure Track Position in Oulu, Finland: Cultural Histories and Traditional Knowledge of Resource Use
Our anthropology colleague Prof Hannu Heikkinen from Oulu just sent this around. Seems to be a rather rare opportunity for a permanent …
Arctic Security and Anthropology
Our colleagues Gunhild Hoogensen Gjorv with Marc Lanteigne launched the Routledge Handbook of Arctic Security, of which they are the main editors, …
Future Arctic Ecosystems revisited or reindeer herding at the verge of extinction?
30 Oct, 14:00, Rovaniemi, Arktikum, 2nd floor, coffee room. The world’s northernmost herding horses? at work in herding reindeer, Kharaulakh, Laptev Sea …
Discussion: pros and cons of research cooperation between academia and military/security organisations
This month’s reading and discussion circle of our Arctic Anthropology team is open to all interested participants! Given the relevance of the …
The perfect place for comparative border studies?
Being here in Blagoveshensk (for a conference on a different topic), I realise how cool this place is for border studies. On …
Another Summer school: Oulu 12-16 August 2019
Colleagues from Oulu also put together an interesting programme for their doctoral course, with a focus on studying ‘dark heritage’, i.e. civil …
Anthropology and History: summer school 5-11 August
Colleagues from Russia put together a really interesting programme to revisit the relation of anthropology and history, particularly in Russia and post-socialist …
Domestication revisited?
Domestication is by most used as a term for the biologically traceable subordination of animals under human control. But anthropologists have for …
Keeping Arctic animals makes sense!
The Arctic Ark team has presented their work of the last four years in human-animal relations in the Arctic at the Finnish …
International conference on “Local horse breeding in Russia in the past, present and future”, June 22-24, 2018
It is worth travelling north in mid June to experience one of the wonders of the Arctic. It is polar day when …
Assessing damage to indigenous cultures by industrial development with maths?
I just read an interesting post by the Russian news agency TASS (in Russian) announcing proudly the launch of a new method …
How do non-Arctic actors’ interests matter the Arctic? – debates around Arctic Circle assembly
From October 13 to October 19, 2017, the Uarctic Thematic network “Arctic Extractive Industries” held a masters/Phd course on the topic of …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Gatekeepers for fieldwork?
Our colleagues in Estonia will host a really interesting workshop this year – focusing on the role of gatekeepers. I think they …
Call for Papers: Arctic Workshop of Tartu University “Gatekeepers”
Arctic Workshop of Tartu University: Gatekeepers 3rd-4th of June 2016 Estonian hospitality in a Russian restaurant at a previous Arctic Workshop in …