We are honoured and pleased to have Julie Cruikshank for the better part of the first week of April with us here in Rovaniemi. It won't pay enough respect to her fame to introduce her here briefly. There is enough good praise for her work in the net, most recently through the 2012 Clio award …
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The Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland will organize an international conference on indigenous sacred sites in the Arctic. The conference “Protecting the sacred: Recognition of Sacred Sites of Indigenous Peoples for Sustaining Nature and Culture in Northern and Arctic Regions” will be held in Rovaniemi and Pyhätunturi, Finland, on September 11–13. The conference …
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Some of our team were recently at the Jokkmokk winter conference, which is held in connection to the famous Jokkmokk winter market, an important event in the Sámi yearly cycle for the last 400 years. The Jokkmokk winter market has been held already more than 400 years. Now mining comes closer to this place too, …
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 …
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 …
Continue reading Lectures and events, autumn 2012, anthropology research team, Rovaniemi
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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What is a potlatch? Barbara Miller, author of Cultural Anthropology (2007), describes it as "a feast in which the host lavishes the guests with abundant quantities of the best food and many gifts." That's what I felt reminded of at a recent conference on "science and education in the 21st century" [couldn't have been broader, …
Continue reading Notes on hospitality, performance and potlatch: University of Yakutsk, Russia
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