On 14th of February 2021 in her 94th year of life a great person, colleague in Arctic Anthropology and professor emerita of ethnology, Ulla Johansen passed away. Born in Estonia she grew up in a multicultural environment, moved with her parents to Germany, where she studied anthropology after the war in Hamburg. It was her …
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Nenets mothers’ education: another PhD defense
After recently having celebrated the world's first Nenets PhD defense, now we can witness another one, in three days time, 14 May 11.15 Norwegian time! Zoya Vylka Ravna shall defend her thesis with the very technical name "The Inter-Generational Transmission of Indigenous Knowledge By Nenets Women: Viewed in the context of the state educational system …
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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 job in Arctic Anthropology! Arctic Interactions (ArcI) is a programme designed to achieve global leadership in the area of “Understanding and mitigating global change in the Arctic through fundamental studies at the interface between …
Cities and Water in a Time of Climate Change
International PhD Academy June 1–5, 2020 in Venice last call for Applications until February 15, 2020 via VIU website! Join this unique opportunity for a broad global comparison of climate change results from the Arctic to the Global South, from Asia to Europe in one of the cities, that is much affected by climate change and …
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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 wars, atrocities. Here is their programme description, and they say there are still some places free: The Human Science Doctoral Student course: Monuments, visual representations, and spaces of dark heritage, 3 credits, in …
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Arctic Research: Co-production of Knowledge
The intensive Finnish-Russian PhD course “Arctic Research: Co-production of Knowledge” organised by the Arctic Centre (University of Lapland) will be taking place 20-24 April 2019, in Rovaniemi, Finland. Attention to the issue of knowledge co-production in research, policymaking, services and public debates is growing, but what counts as co-production and what interaction between science and …
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Cambridge Arctic teaching position open
Our colleagues from the Scott Polar Research Institute search for an Arctic human geography teacher for supervising their undergraduate and masters students. The funding is fixed term for 30 months. If someone is interested in working for one of the world's top universities - this is a rare chance in our field. See here the …
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