Job for Arctic Anthropologists in Europe? Oulu

The University of Oulu is strengthening their Arctic profile and have announced several jobs. Let's hope they will hire anthropologists eagerly! It depends on how many good anthropologists will apply, so, dear colleagues - go for it! Tenure Track Positions in Arctic Interactions Research, University of Oulu, Finland Are you the new generation of premier …

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Job: Arctic Sustainability, resilience and climate change

Fancy a career in Canada? If your are suitably qualified, you can try this one. They claim they want a special focus on indigenous knowledge too: SSHRC CANADA RESEARCH CHAIR TIER 2 ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN ARCTIC SUSTAINABILITY, RESILIENCE AND CLIMATE CHANGE Department of Environment and Geography, University of Manitoba The University of Manitoba invites applications …

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Keeping Arctic animals makes sense!

The Arctic Ark team has presented their work of the last four years in human-animal relations in the Arctic at the Finnish Academy's final Arktiko Seminar. Studying people's relations to their domestic pastoral animals in the Arctic using approaches from anthropology and genetics has resulted in some surprising results: Our work with reindeer, horse and …

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Arctic Youth well-being project participating in circumpolar comparison

The team of the joint Finnish-Russian project studying well-being among youth in Arctic industrial cities (WOLLIE) was invited to participate in the circumpolar study on Arctic Youth and sustainable futures, headed Joan Nymard Larsen, and the Arctic Human Development Report and Arctic Social Indicators editors team. At a meeting in Stockholm in the beautiful building …

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Oktoberfest Munich – is it all about human-horse relations?

Why would we write about the Oktoberfest on this blog? It turns out that there is an aspect of it that is closely related to the interest in one of our current projects - Arctic Ark - where we are interested in the genetic diversity of agricultural animals and the ways in which people make …

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International conference on “Local horse breeding in Russia in the past, present and future”, June 22-24, 2018

It is worth travelling north in mid June to experience one of the wonders of the Arctic. It is polar day when the sun disappears only for a very short time under the horizon and the sunset is fading into a sunrise for hours during the night colouring the horizon in a million different shades …

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