We are teaching again, Rovaniemi

Advanced level studies: (ASPA2013) Identity on the Move: Sense of belonging to place and people January 15 – February 28, 2013 15.01.2013 - Introductory lecture (Dr. Anna Stammler-Gossmann, Dr. Nuccio Mazzullo, Dr. Stephan Dudeck) 24.01.- 29.01. 2013 – Anna Stammler-Gossmann Transboundary identity - Indigenous identity: Between transnational – national – local Spatial identity - Search …

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Siberia films online Finnish TV

Finnish State TV Yle has been sending a number of excellent documentaries on and / or by northern indigenous people recently. You can watch them usually for three weeks longer online. Today there will be the screening on YLE TEEMA TV of Lapsui/Lehmuskallio's famous "Seven Songs from the Tundra", the world's first fiction film in …

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Welcoming Simeon Buckley at the Anthropology Research Team

Hi my name is Simeon Buckley or (Sim) I am a new staff member here at the Arctic Centre. I am working as a research assistant to Anna Stammler-Gossmann. I am working on a research project which is a comparative study looking at Coastal communities of the Barents region and marine resources use: Seascape and …

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Our first talk in 2013: Joel Robbins: Beyond the Suffering Subject: Anthropology, Rights, and the Comparative Study of the Good

The Anthropological Research Team is happy to announce the visit of Joel Robbins, one of the world’s leading scholars in the anthropology of religion and cultural change and soon-to-be professor at Cambridge to the Arctic Center. On Thursday 17 Jan. 14:30-16:00, in the Borealis lecture room 313, Joel Robbins will talk about his subject of …

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Adventure Siberia, 90 minutes documentary

TV channel ZDF (second German state channel) screened over the holiday a two-part documentary on Siberia and the fascination that this huge land mass has had on researchers, business people and other adventurers. The programme can be watched online via the media library of the TV channel as PART ONE and PART TWO. The film …

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New intern at the Anthropology Research Team

My name is Berit Wahlers and this is the first day of my internship at the Arctic Center in Rovaniemi. I will be spending two month at the Anthropology research team and during this period I will assist the team in their daily work. Apart from that, I will try to find a topic for my Master …

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