On 23 March 2017, The Anthropology Research Team is happy to invite Professor Tim Ingold to participate as a guest discussant to a workshop that will be held at the Arctic Centre, in the Thule Room, from 12:30-14:00. The workshop shall give the possibility to all those who have attended Professor Ingold’s lectures at the …
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resource development versus other community sustainability options’?
This is the general topic of the next course in our PhD programme by the Uarctic Thematic Network "Arctic Extractive Industries. It's going to take place this time again in the wonderful town of St John's Newfoundland, Canada. PhD students who have an interest in participating (this time self-funded, I hope you find funds to …
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New Forms of Law and Governance for and from the Arctic
This in an invitation to a seminar on adaptive law and governance in the Arctic. On August 17-18, 2016, Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland (http://www.arcticcentre.org/EN) will organize a seminar, which will look at research approaches to explore the role of law and other institutions in governance of natural resources in the Arctic. We …
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Paper call: Engaging with treasures of the subsurface between extractivism and spiritualism, 20-23 July 2016
Dear colleagues at this year's European Association for Social Anthropology congress in Milano, we got a session accepted on extractive industries where we want to go beyond the usual social impacts of industry evidence - as important as this is. Acceptance of our session proposal was already a success, because there were WAY MORE session …
Gatekeepers for fieldwork?
Our colleagues in Estonia will host a really interesting workshop this year - focusing on the role of gatekeepers. I think they are very right that these people are so important for any anthropologist (not only in the Arctic), but we know very little about them, yet we all have our own very diverse experiences …
Call for Papers: Arctic Workshop of Tartu University “Gatekeepers”
Arctic Workshop of Tartu University: Gatekeepers 3rd-4th of June 2016 It is well known that ethnographic fieldwork and participant observation are central to anthropological research. In practice, this means that the scholar lives in a particular community, participates, makes observations, and documents their findings. Therefore, the published research is usually associated with the scholar and …
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X SIBERIAN STUDIES CONFERENCE – PASSION FOR LIFE, Emotions, Feelings and Perception in the North and Siberia
A really early announcement for a great conference on Arctic Anthropology! I hope to meet many of the readers of our blog in a years time in St. Petersburg in order to discuss an important theme in our field. As some of you might have guessed I would like to distract the participants' attention a …
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