30 Oct, 14:00, Rovaniemi, Arktikum, 2nd floor, coffee room. In this Wednesday Afternoon Coffee Chat (WACC) Florian Stammler will have a dialogue session with Aytalina Ivanova from Yakutsk reflecting on Arctic research agendas. What was supposed to be the first trip in a new multi-party consortium on scenarios of a changing Arctic became an example …
Continue reading Future Arctic Ecosystems revisited or reindeer herding at the verge of extinction?
This month’s reading and discussion circle of our Arctic Anthropology team is open to all interested participants! Given the relevance of the topic for the entire academia, we explicitly welcome scholars and students also from other research groups and academic fields than ours. We will discuss the pros and cons of research cooperation between academia …
Being here in Blagoveshensk (for a conference on a different topic), I realise how cool this place is for border studies. It's just like Tornio / Haaparanta in Finland/Sweden, or Frankfurt/Oder with Slubice in Germany/Poland, or Narva / Ivangorod in Estonia/Russia, and probably tons more such places. The Amur river connects or divides Blagoveshensk on …
Continue reading The perfect place for comparative border studies?
Colleagues from Oulu also put together an interesting programme for their doctoral course, with a focus on studying 'dark heritage', i.e. civil wars, atrocities. Here is their programme description, and they say there are still some places free: The Human Science Doctoral Student course: Monuments, visual representations, and spaces of dark heritage, 3 credits, in …
Continue reading Another Summer school: Oulu 12-16 August 2019
Colleagues from Russia put together a really interesting programme to revisit the relation of anthropology and history, particularly in Russia and post-socialist countries. Their summer school announcement sounds very attractive, including possible travel grants to the school venue in Tyumen, Russia, plus free accomodation and meals. If you are interested, contact our friend Nikolay Ssorin …
Continue reading Anthropology and History: summer school 5-11 August
Domestication is by most used as a term for the biologically traceable subordination of animals under human control. But anthropologists have for long argued that there are also social definitions of domestication. Very influential was the one by Tim Ingold (2000), who classified domestication as either characterise between a relation of trust or a relation …
The Arctic Ark team has presented their work of the last four years in human-animal relations in the Arctic at the Finnish Academy's final Arktiko Seminar. Studying people's relations to their domestic pastoral animals in the Arctic using approaches from anthropology and genetics has resulted in some surprising results: Our work with reindeer, horse and …
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