by Anna Stammler-Gossmann The second community meeting ‘Norwegian fjord: Living with Changes’, organized by the Arctic Centre (Anna Stammler-Gossmann) took place in the remote coastal fishing village of Bugøynes (Finnmark, Norway) on June 7-8, 2019. How is seawater perceived and used due to experienced changes, and how do coastal communities accommodate these changes? These questions …
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Climate, Fish and Fisheries: Local and Indigenous Perspectives (Rovaniemi, Finland, April 16-17, 2019)
by Anna Stammler-Gossmann The first meeting ’Climate, Fish and Fisheries: Local and Indigenous Perspectives’ (organizer Anna Stammler-Gossmann) took place in April 16-17 in Lapland, at the Arctic Centre (Rovaniemi, Finland). Thematic issues of the community meeting were focused on different frameworks for valuing and experiencing changes around the waterscape from the perspective of the fisheries …
Community meetings: ICE LAW subproject ‘Local and Indigenous Perspectives’
by Anna Stammler-Gossmann The Indigenous and Local Perspectives subproject (ICE LAW: Indeterminate and Changing Environments) documents perspectives informed by understandings of land, water, and ice, and explores responses to changed geophysical and political environments (https://icelawproject.org/about/). Shifting water-ice-scape was discussed from local, indigenous and academic perspectives during three community meetings in Finland (Lapland), Norway (Finnmark) and Russia …
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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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