The 2011 Arctic Science Summit Week (www.ASSW2011.org) seems to be a real 'no brainer' for not only for us Arctic anthropologists, but for social sciences in general. There are many nice words among some science politicians about acknowledging that social sciences can importantly contribute to understanding Arctic change, but the hard sciences are still largely …
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Florian (I) is currently with colleague Roza Laptander doing fieldwork in Yamal for a project called ORHELIA. The acronym ORHELIA stand for "Oral Histories of Elders in the Arctic" and is a project that looks at how remote northerners have experienced the historical and cultural changes of the 20th century in their own biographies. I was …
Continue reading ORHELIA message from the field in Yamal, April 2011
The reason why I decided to write the feedback on my internship period is not just gratitude to all people who contributed to my successful work and research, but it is meant also so that other students could experience the great internship period as I did. During our studies at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, …
Continue reading Internship feedback by Natalia Bochkareva, 23.2-8.4.2011
We would like to invite you to a presentation by Jodie Asselin (University of Alberta, Canada) that will take place on Thursday, April 7, 2011 at 10pm in Thule room. Jodie Asselin is an anthropologist who is working on perception and use of forest by different interest groups in the Yukon Territory, Canada. Talk Title: …
If we think about the impacts of extractive industries in the Arctic, for us anthropologists this means first and foremost looking at what industry does on the ground with people for whom the places on top of the deposits are their homeland. As anthropologists, we don't need to be told that cultural, social effects and …
Continue reading Notes from the Arctic Dialogue conference 2011, Bodo, Norway
From the 11th until the 30th of March we have enjoyed the visit of Professor Hiroshi Maruyama and of Associate Professor Takashi Matsuna from the College of Liberal Arts at the Muroran Institute of Technology in Hokkaido, Japan. The purpose of their visit was to have meetings with Dr Elina Helander-Renvall and with members of …
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Anna Stammler-Gossmann has attended the kick-off meeting for the “ACCESS” project at the Sorbonne Universités, in Paris on the 8-10 of March 2011. ACCESS (Arctic Climate Change, Economy and Society) is an European project of the 7th Framework Programme Research and Development started on March 1st, 2011. 27 partners from 8 European countries and from …
Continue reading ACCESS kick-off meeting (Sorbonne Universités, Paris), March 8-10.2011
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