Several members of our group have contributed to a new major interdisciplinary social science volume on the Arctic, published by the well-known German journal Osteuropa. Anthropologically oriented chapters are the ones by Anna Stammler-Gossmann, Florian Stammler, Elena Khlinovskaya-Rockhill, Tobias Holzlehner, and also Stephen Fortesque and Indra Overland. Unfortunately the volume is in German only, but …
Barents development, Kirovsk, Northwest Russia: workshop
Our colleagues from the sustainable development research group at the Arctic Centre jointly with the Institute for Economic Studies of the Kola Science Centre RAS organise a workshop on "Politics of Development in the Barents Region", May 17-18. The anthropology research team of the Arctic Centre will be represented there by Anna Stammler-Gossmann. Very wisely, …
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Spy or Kin? Stephan Dudeck’s lecture at Arctic Centre
Many of us who have worked in Russia, but also in many other places, have experienced how easy it is to get trapped in a role that we get ascribed by people in the field. What is the consequence of this perceived roles for our fieldwork, the participant aspect in the live of our friends …
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Arctic Science Summit week March/April 2011, Seoul
The 2011 Arctic Science Summit Week (www.ASSW2011.org) seems to be a real 'no brainer' for not only for us Arctic anthropologists, but for social sciences in general. There are many nice words among some science politicians about acknowledging that social sciences can importantly contribute to understanding Arctic change, but the hard sciences are still largely …
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ORHELIA message from the field in Yamal, April 2011
Florian (I) is currently with colleague Roza Laptander doing fieldwork in Yamal for a project called ORHELIA. The acronym ORHELIA stand for "Oral Histories of Elders in the Arctic" and is a project that looks at how remote northerners have experienced the historical and cultural changes of the 20th century in their own biographies. I was …
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Internship feedback by Natalia Bochkareva, 23.2-8.4.2011
The reason why I decided to write the feedback on my internship period is not just gratitude to all people who contributed to my successful work and research, but it is meant also so that other students could experience the great internship period as I did. During our studies at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, …
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Thursday, April 7, 2011 at 10pm in Thule room, presentation of Jodie Asselin, from University of Alberta
We would like to invite you to a presentation by Jodie Asselin (University of Alberta, Canada) that will take place on Thursday, April 7, 2011 at 10pm in Thule room. Jodie Asselin is an anthropologist who is working on perception and use of forest by different interest groups in the Yukon Territory, Canada. Talk Title: …
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