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Job for Arctic Anthropologists in Europe? Oulu

Posted on December 20, 2018 by

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 … Continue reading →

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Job: Arctic Sustainability, resilience and climate change

Posted on December 20, 2018 by

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 … Continue reading →

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Keeping Arctic animals makes sense!

Posted on November 21, 2018 by

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 … Continue reading →

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Arctic Youth well-being project participating in circumpolar comparison

Posted on November 17, 2018 by

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 … Continue reading →

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

Posted on October 5, 2018 by

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 … Continue reading →

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extractivism conference, November 2018

Posted on September 28, 2018 by

Our colleagues from the peace studies institute in Tromso share the announcement to this conference, which sounds interesting. https://uit.no/tavla/artikkel/564387/resisting_extractivism_in_border_zones  

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

Posted on June 29, 2018 by

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 … Continue reading →

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