We have the pleasure to host at the anthropology team Annikki Herranen-Tabibi, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University. She is doing research on kin-based forms of care, and the ecological and political context thereof, in Deanoleahki, Sápmi, and going to talk about her anthropological fieldwork plan, as well as answering any possible questions someone might …
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From October 13 to October 19, 2017, the Uarctic Thematic network "Arctic Extractive Industries" held a masters/Phd course on the topic of Security, Governance and Geopolitics in relation to Arctic Extractive Industries. This time the organizers invited participants to Iceland. The course brought together students and faculty from Arctic universities and research centers from 10 …
If many of our colleagues send their application to this job offer, we may be able to get another Arctic anthropologist to our team. Please consider, it's a great and rare opportunity. https://rekry.saima.fi/certiahome/open_job_view.html?did=5600&jc=1&id=00004362&lang=en The Faculty of Humanities of the University of Oulu publishes an open position of university lecturer in cultural anthropology as of 1 …
Exhibition - Research in the Arctic Dr. Anna Stammler-Gossmann, Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Finland October 3 –19, 2017. Kopio Gallery, Faculty of Art and Design, University of Lapland Exhibition Launch: Monday, October 2, 2017, 18:00 This poster exhibition is based on the materials collected during the anthropological fieldwork in the coastal areas of the …
11 September, talking about Human Security. Is that by coincidence or a slight hint at the terrible events in New York in 2001? It was not quite a usual group of people for a scholarly conference who had gathered in Helsinki in the Foreign Affairs Institute to explore security beyond armies, military and sovereignty questions. …
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Our colleagues in Vienna have this interesting job opening in a project that combines anthropology and GIS in the area of the East Siberian railway region (BAM, AYAM). Interested? then read on The University of Vienna seeks to fill the position of a Project Team Member (post-doc) at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, …
August 31 is the deadline for paper submissions to a congress in Moscow. Judging from the keynote speakers, this should be also very interesting for us anthropologists, because it's not only about hard core linguistic studies, but very much about the cultural context in which speakers of different languages get into contact. Have a look …
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