Please also see the comments to this post, interesting! Surely most of us have followed the terrible news about drowning refugees desperate to reach Europe - and many may have thought that "well all that's what the poor people have to cope with there in the South, Sicily, Turkey, Greece." But guess what: some refugees …
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Uarctic Extractive Industries PhD programme course, Fairbanks, 24-30 September 2015
The next course in our PhD programme with a focus on the social sciences of Arctic extractive industrial development will take place in conjunction with the Arctic Energy Summit in Alaska, Fairbanks. There seem to be some last slots for PhD students available. Students of the University of Lapland can get the course recognised for …
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New M.A. programme Arctic anthropology! / Магистерская программа Арктическая антропология
The European University in St Petersburg launches a new masters programme on northern Anthropology! The Programme is coordinated by Nikolay Vakhtin, with courses read by Elena Lyarskaya, Veronika Simonova, Alla Bolotova and Stephan Dudeck, all of whom are fluent in English and Russian. Courses taught include general anthropological courses on theory, methods and ideas in …
Arctic Anthropologist as Arctic Centre Director?
Dear all readers worldwide. The University of Lapland advertises internationally the position for a new director of the Arctic Centre in Rovaniemi. It is one of the leading research centres on Arctic Research with a fairly even composition of social and natural scientists. Our centre has been led for the last 15 years by Paula …
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Beyond perception conference
The previous blog topic by Anna on humans and animals is very prominent in the programme of the upcoming super-interesting "Beyond Perception" conference at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. The conference takes key topics of Tim Ingold's work as starting points and explores in five sessions how researchers - from anthropology and also other disciplines …
New Intern at Arctic Centre Rovaniemi
My name is Léon Fuchs and I will soon be 24 years old. I am a new intern at the Arctic Centre and I will stay in Rovaniemi until August 2015. I will work with Dr. Anna Stammler Gosmann in the Anthropology Team. I come from France, but I have also lived two years in …
Why do reindeer nomads migrate at night in spring?
Anybody who has moved on a sledge, or even snowmobile, in spring in the Arctic, knows the answer to that question. I just got reminded of that when I went on skis from home to work in the morning, and realised how it took only half of the time that it took in winter! And …
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