These were the introductory words of Alexandr Ivanov, the head of the Olenek district in Yakutia, in his discussion during our session on indigenous people's territorial governance under industrial development at the Northern Forum for sustainable development in Yakutsk, 25 - 26 September 2019 (full session programme). He thought it is useful to remind researchers …
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Arctic anthropology job in St Petersburg
Our colleagues from Arctic Anthropology at the European University in St Petersburg have a job vacancy at their department. I guess reading on from here is relevant only for Russian speakers, as you need to know Russian for applying Открыт конкурс на должность исследователя Центра социальных исследований Севера (ЦЕСИС ЕУСПб). Заработная плата – 75 тысяч …
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. It's just like Tornio / Haaparanta in Finland/Sweden, or Frankfurt/Oder with Slubice in Germany/Poland, or Narva / Ivangorod in Estonia/Russia, and probably tons more such places. The Amur river connects or divides Blagoveshensk on …
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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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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 countries. Their summer school announcement sounds very attractive, including possible travel grants to the school venue in Tyumen, Russia, plus free accomodation and meals. If you are interested, contact our friend Nikolay Ssorin …
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Does anthropology need to engage with well-being as a concept?
This is the topic of our next reading circle discussion, to which you are all welcome, 23 April 2019, 13-14.30. We first meet in Florian’s office on the top floor or Arktikum, Rovaniemi, and if we are more people than fit there, we go to a bigger room. The reading for the discussion is …
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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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