Category: Announcements

Fieldnotes returning to the field: Tim Ingold and the Skolt Sámi

On By FstammleIn All, Announcements, Fieldwork, Fieldwork Stories, Indigenous Peoples, Sámi, Theoretical Issues

Those of our readers who read Finnish may have seen this already, but this event may be of some wider relevance: https://www.ulapland.fi/events/Antropologi-Tim-Ingoldin-kenttamuistiinpanojen-luovutustilaisuus-Sevettijarven-koululla-/1980/ce07e180-f03c-44f9-9533-c3ddfa59d2f1 Tim Ingold returns his fieldnotes from the early 1970s back to the archive of the Skolt Sámi, who were resettled from the Petsamo area in Murmansk Oblast in the 1940s to the Sevettijärvi …

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Circumpolar Arctic Anthropology? Seminar Series addressing the pasts and prospects of an again-divided field

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Half of the People and the Land in the Arctic are in Russia. Quo Vadis Arctic Anthropology? Many of us who have worked for years, decades or their entire professional life in the Russian Arctic started wondering in early 2022 what will happen of the circumpolarity in Arctic Anthropology if we exclude the Russian Arctic …

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Well-being of Migrants in the Arctic and Asia, online seminar 13 October

On By FstammleIn Announcements, conferences, Fennoscandia, youth wellbeing

As part of our long term partnership with Japanese Arctic anthropologists, we are part of the ARCSII - funded Research Exchange Programme, led by Hiroki Takakura of CNEAS, Tohoku University. In the upcoming Finnish-Japanese seminar in Kobe “Well-being of Migrants in the Arctic and Asia”, our team member Ria Adams is going to talk about …

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Making Good Luck in North Korea – online guest lecture by Heonik Kwon 12 October

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time: 13.30 Finnish, 11.30 UK, 18.30 Beijing time, 12 October 2023. Online at zoom, meeting id: 641 887 4740, password: 2023. For those in Rovaniemi: join us in the BOREALIS meeting room on the top floor of the Arctic Centre We define the Arctic broadly of course, but usually not as broad as reaching all …

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Khanty fishing in the Ob’ River system, West Siberia, 6 Sep 2023 Rovaniemi talk by Yuka Oishi

On By FstammleIn All, Announcements, Fieldwork, Guests, Human-animal relations, Indigenous Peoples, Russian North1 Comment

In the current situation we do not get any more new research evidence from our Siberian field sites, unfortunately. Nonetheless Siberia remains THE place in the Arctic where human cultural diversity, a multiplicity of livelihood, languages, subsistence strategies and mobilities remains best preserved. One very interesting case are the Khanty in West Siberia, who have …

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reindeer slaughter economy, human and animal welfare, 31 Aug 2023, Arktikum

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Welcome to join us for the opening of the reindeer slaughter season 2023 in Finnish Lapland! A group of scientists, reindeer herders, animal practitioners, managers and economists are going to meet at our premises in Arctic Centre, Arktikum building, Polarium room on the 31 August 2023 at 10:00. We will discuss current issues in reindeer …

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A Week of Exchange: ethics and methods in Arctic transformative research

On By Stephan DudeckIn All, Announcements, conferences, Indigenous Peoples, research ethics

03 - 06 October 2023, Oulu, Finland We are pleased to invite you to join us for a Week of Exchange in Oulu (Finland), to collectively engage with questions around ethics and methods in Arctic transformative research. Our gathering will take place from Tuesday, 3 October 2023 to Thursday, 5 October 2023. To enable broad and inclusive accessibility, parts of our Week of Exchange will be held …

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