It's a high profile conference taking place in St Petersburg, with support by the Arctic Council, RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs, RF Ministry of Culture and the Russian Geographical Society. For us arctic anthropologists, it's nice to see that this conference has cultural communication in its name. The organisers understand under cultural communication all activities …
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Lectures and events, autumn 2012, anthropology research team, Rovaniemi
Open invitation to all, academic and practitioner participants – no RSVP required. Additional posters and announcements for the different events will be posted at the door of the venue. Please see also separate programmes and announcements on the "lectures and events" page of this blog Unless otherwise announced, all events to be held in the …
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Reflections on a Visit to the ‘Tree of Memory’: Gail Fondahl, 13 Nov 2012, Arctic Centre
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Arctic Crossings at AAA Annual Meeting, San Francisco
In case any of you will be at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in San Francisco, please consider attending our panel: "Arctic Crossings: Labour, Capital, and Locality in the Circumpolar North" Saturday, November 17, 4-5:45pm, Continental 9 (Hilton San Francisco) Trans-Beringian Crossings: Informal Meshworks and Evasive Space In North Pacific Borderlands - Tobias S …
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Making a film from field materials with zero experience and zero budget
Is it possible to turn your field data into a film with very moderate technical skills and no budget? We do not expect our first effort at a documentary to be award winning. But we started in October with a workshop with editing of Anna’s fieldwork video records in Windows Movie Maker. Now we will …
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How do we see the sea: multiple meanings of seawater
Series of lectures and documentary films, November 16 – 29, 2012 by Arctic Anthropology Team (ACCESS project Arctic Climate Change, Economy and Society, Dr. Anna Stammler-Gossmann) Dr. Anna Stammler-Gossmann (Arctic Centre, Finland). Lecture: ‘Domesticated’ fish: what is behind our salmon steak? Presentation of the fieldwork documentary ‘Fresh Norwegian Salmon: Farmed and monitored’, 9 min. November …
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We are teaching again (September – December)
Arctic Studies Program ASPB1104 Peoples, Culture and Identities of the Arctic http://www.uarctic.org/members.aspx?m=790 Anna Stammler-Gossmann (September – October) The concept of indigeneity: From definitions to norms and to identity (object of international law; between transnational and local; who is indigenous?) North as space (geographical, economic, legal and mental space; homeland and frontier) Human-nature relations and environmental …
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