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The 10th Arctic Workshop of the University of Tartu, Estonia ANIMALS OF THE ARCTIC: FROM SYMBIOSIS TO SYMBOLS, 2

On February 10, 2020February 10, 2020 By Stephan DudeckIn All, Announcements, conferencesLeave a comment

12–13 June 2020

Khanty reindeer herder
Khanty reindeer herder

The Arctic is a region that is commonly associated with animals. It is typical for people in the south to imagine (sub)arctic inhabitants living together with polar bears and reindeer (if not with penguins). Indeed, for thousands of years, human life in the boreal regions has been dependent on animals, probably more than anywhere else in the world. As a result, human-animal relations vary from domestication to avoidance, from socialization to demonization, and from symbolization to ignoring.

Following the success of the last workshop, we plan to continue discussing these different qualities of human-animal relationship through the notions of symbiosis and symbolic value. In biology, symbiosis (from the Greek “living together”) refers to the interaction between two organisms that are in a mutualistic, commensalistic or parasitic relationship. We believe these different aspects deserve a closer look as heuristic conceptual tools for social scientists when discussing domestication, consumption, cohabitation, transportation, diseases, and pet ownership in the Arctic. How do people imagine their relationship with animals? In which situations are these seen as mutually beneficial or parasitic? How are these relationships represented through symbolic means?

Many Arctic regions have animals on their coat of arms. However, as most people now live in settlements, they have rarely seen these animals in person. This also increasingly applies to the descendants of indigenous pastoral nomads and hunters, as once mobile families have given up their traditional livelihoods in the Arctic regions. In these changing settings, what kind of relationships with animals exist in urban islands of the North? What is the animals’ economic or spiritual value (as transport animals, sources of fur, companionship, hunting game, means of sacrifice, tourist attractions, accumulation of wealth, etc.)? What is the symbolic value of animals which once were present and are now represented by folklore dance groups or artists as part of their indigenous culture? What is the role of familiar human companions such as dogs in the changing patterns of northern livelihoods? How is the food of indigenous communities (reindeer, whales, bears, birds, fish, etc.) valued and used in the transformed social, legal and environmental contexts? We wish to address these and related questions in the workshop in Tartu.

Our goal is to assemble a truly interdisciplinary collection of presentations that will focus on the cultural and social side of the topic, contributing to a better understanding of the economic, political or ecological aspects in general. Therefore, we encourage participation not only by anthropologists but also by economists, political scientists, historians, human geographers, biologists and others. The informal nature of the workshop is suited for senior scholars discussing their research results and also for PhD students who have fieldwork experience in the region.

As a keynote speaker, we are proud to announce Riina Kaljurand from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Estonia. She is one of the coordinators of the application of Estonia to join the Arctic Council as an observer and will deliver a speech about Estonia’s vision of the Arctic policy.

We kindly request you to send your abstract (up to 300 words) to Aimar.Ventsel@ut.ee by the 20th of March 2020.

 

 

 

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Call for Papers: Arctic Workshop of Tartu University “Gatekeepers”

On January 20, 2016January 20, 2016 By Stephan DudeckIn All, Announcements, conferences, Indigenous Peoples, Russian North, Theoretical Issues

Arctic Workshop of Tartu University: Gatekeepers
3rd-4th of June 2016

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Estonian hospitality in a Russian restaurant at a previous Arctic Workshop in Tartu (photo by Laura Siragusa)

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 their ability to collect data and analyse it objectively. In reality, the success or failure of the fieldwork often depends on a great number of people, who consult, help, support, or translate for the scholar. It is not unique to the Arctic, but extremely important for the Arctic, that a foreign (and even domestic) scholar has these people who usually receive their acknowledgement in a modest footnote of the publication. Notwithstanding the modest presence of such helpers in academic publications, their role in shaping the fieldwork is often impossible to underestimate. Local scholars, friends, or even relatives, are essential for the success of a research in the Russian Arctic, and probably in other Arctic countries as well. They help to organise transport, prepare the necessary documentation, find key informants, or advise what supplies one needs to take on a trip. Moreover, it is not unusual for students researching for their PhD thesis in another country, to be in a situation where they have to rely on local experts.
In anthropological vocabulary, such local helpers are usually called ‘gatekeepers’, and this year we would like to discuss in the Arctic Workshop the role of the gatekeepers in academic research. We ask participants to consider and conceptualise various aspects of the phenomenon called the ‘gatekeeper’. How much do/can gatekeepers shape the content of a research? What is your experience, why are gatekeepers essential, and where can their role be negative? How altruistic are gatekeepers? What are the motives of gatekeepers to engage with foreign scholars; apart from money?
The Arctic Workshop of Tartu University is an annual academic event where the results and methods of Arctic research are discussed in an informal and intimate setting. Therefore, the organisers of the workshop also welcome PhD-students who want to discuss their ideas prior to their fieldwork, or who are at the beginning of their careers.
Please send an abstract of 300 words carrying the title of the presentation, the name and affiliation of the presenter, by 20th of February 2016 to Aimar Ventsel, Aimar.Ventsel(at)ut.ee.

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The FENOR school is over – next edition to come

On September 1, 2015September 5, 2015 By lukasallemannIn All, Announcements, Fieldwork, Russian North, teaching

The “nomadic” Ph.D. Summer School “Field Experiences in Northwest Russia” (FENOR) has been a full success

After two weeks of extensive travelling and working together on different aspects of Northern Anthropology, our very diverse group has grown into a tight-knit team. At the end of our school it was hard to believe that most of us had known each other for only two weeks and it was sad to leave. The programme was tough, but thanks to the perfect organisation of the trip and the amazing discipline and punctuality of all members of the school, everything went fine.

The school consisted of a well-balanced mix of lectures, fieldwork tasks and guided tours in very heterogeneous locations, from villages of five inhabitants to cities of five million! We started in St. Petersburg, where people got acquainted with each other and where Professors Peter Schweitzer (University of Vienna) and Nikolai Vakhtin (European University of St. Petersburg) held first introductory lectures. The other professors and lecturers of the school were Florian Stammler (University of Lapland), Alla Bolotova (European University of St. Petersburg), Julia Lajus (National Research University Higher School of Economics), Lera Vasilyeva (European University St. Petersburg) and Ksenia Gavrilova (European University St. Petersburg).

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The Karelian viallage dweller Nadezhda (left) during her autobiographical presentation

After one night in Petrozavodsk we headed to Kinerma, a tiny village with a permanent population of five plus a considerable share of only summer-time dwellers from cities. This village successfully sells itself as a “true” Karelian village with “typical” Karelian architecture, mainly thanks to the decades-long efforts of Nadezhda, who came from the city some twenty-five years ago and now runs the tourism business and in fact the whole village. Continue reading “The FENOR school is over – next edition to come” →

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Call for papers: Moving memories

On April 27, 2015April 27, 2015 By lukasallemannIn Announcements, conferences, Indigenous Peoples, oral history, Russian North, Sámi, Theoretical Issues

22-23 OCTOBER 2015

The Arcticanthropology members are proud to host a session at the 12th Annual ETMU Days Conference, which takes place this year at the University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland, on 22-23 October 2015.

Dear scholars and arcticanthropology followers,

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The call for papers for the 12th Annual ETMU Days Conference is now open. This year’s overarching theme will be “Mobile Roots – Rethinking Indigenous and Transnational ties”.

The ETMU Days bring together researchers from the fields of indigenous studies, ethnicity and migration and create an arena for a fruitful interdisciplinary dialogue.

Conference Organisers are the Society for the Study of Ethnic Relations and International Migration (ETMU) and the University of Lapland.

We especially invite you to submit your paper to the session “Moving memories: Oral histories about people’s movements across social, temporal/spatial and ideological borders”, which will be chaired by arcticanthropology authors Lukas Allemann and Stephan Dudeck.

Session abstract:

Oral history research among indigenous people in different parts of the circumpolar world revealed certain commonalities when it comes to movement. Storytelling addresses the movement of people in multiple ways. Firstly, people remember physical and social movements (as well as social mobility); secondly, stories and recollections themselves can move among people and places, e.g. between generations, social groups or geographical regions. Lastly, remembrance can as well trigger movement, e.g. move people in an emotional, political or even physical way. Just to name one example, the stories about resettlements of Sami people on the Kola Peninsula in Russia’s North-West move people emotionally but as well literally in the form of a roots tourism to their places of origin, which mobilizes a sense of shared identity and is part of a revitalization movement.

Practices linked with memory and storytelling have the capacity to act (agency) and the ability to change things, a quality which is often used deliberately in order to mobilize people and resources. Social mobility, the movements of memories and the traveling of discourses are closely interconnected. We invite scholars as well as activists who have been collecting oral histories (not only from indigenous people) to contribute to the development of new insights about the interplay of these different aspects of how movements are remembered and remembrance is moving.

The call for papers is open until 31 may 2015.

Please submit your paper proposal up to 300 words through the online form.

CONTACT: Lukas Allemann, PhD Cand., researcher at ORHELIA Project, Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, lukas.allemann@ulapland.fi, +358 40 48 444 18.

 

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Transience and immigration in the Svalbard Archipelago

On March 16, 2015March 17, 2015 By Stephan DudeckIn All, Extractive Industries, Fennoscandia, Fieldwork, Guests

ArcticAnthropology is proud to present a guest blog  from Ben Corwin on life, migration and relation to the environment on one of the Arctic’s northernmost human settlements: Svalbard.

Ben Corwin is a Senior at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA. He is majoring in mathematics and biology with concentration in environmental studies. Though Williams College offers no classes specific to the Arctic, he has taken courses in geology and environment policy and conducted independent work and travel in numerous Arctic and high alpine regions. The first trip Corwin took to Svalbard was at the end of middle school when his grandfather was lecturing at UNIS. In 2013, he came back to study patterns of recreation and immigration on the archipelago under a grant from the Williams College Center for Environmental Studies. Some of his insights from this trip are below.

Please check out http://vimeo.com/78549423 for a short companion video to the project, and read on hereafter Continue reading “Transience and immigration in the Svalbard Archipelago” →

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Post Doc positions, Arctic Social Studies, EU St Petersburg

On March 20, 2014 By fstammleIn All, Announcements, Russian North

Dear readers and friends,

The EUSP announces post-doctoral positions in Arctic Social Studies.

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Here is an excellent job opportunity for recent post doc scholars in a fascinating research environment with really nice people in the team in a wonderful city. Many of our anthropology team had the honour of giving lectures and attending seminars organised by Nikolay Vakhtin and his team, and these were among the most pleasant and fruitful we had.  The original announcement is here below: Go ahead and apply!

“Eligibility

  • A Ph.D. in anthropology or adjacent fields (Human Geography; Linguistic Anthropology; Urban Anthropology; Regional Studies etc.) from a foreign university with special focus on the Arctic (Siberia, North, Far East). Holders of the Russian equivalent of Ph.D. degree – kandidat of sciences – can also apply but in this case an important asset is professional education or professional work in one of the foreign centers;
  • Fluent knowledge of Russian and English; knowledge of other languages (Finnish, Norwegian) is an asset;
  • Not more than 36 months between the date of awarding of the degree (Ph.D. or kandidat) and the date of the application to the position.

Winners of the post-doc position will sign a four-year contract with the EUSP as post-doctoral researchers. The starting date of the contract is September 1st, 2014.

The contract can be terminated by the EUSP if the post-doctoral researcher violates its terms.

Conditions of the contract

Throughout the term of the contract post-doctoral researchers are expected to live in St. Petersburg, except for periods of fieldwork and visits home.

During the first year, post-doctoral researcher must complete and submit to the publisher a book based on their Ph.D. (kandidat) dissertation. It is preferable, although not compulsory, that the manuscript is submitted in English, to a leading international publisher. Throughout the first year of the contract the post-doctoral researcher has the right to decline any other work at EUSP.

During the second, third, and fourth years of the contract post-doctoral researcher will

  • take part in the research projects of the Arctic Studies Program; the project can be joint or individual; the topic of the project must be coordinated with the head of the Program.
  • if asked by the head of the program, prepare and teach courses on Arctic Social Studies (but not more than 28 classroom hours per semester);
  • take park in the Program’s regular Summer Schools as instructors;
  • publish not less than three academic papers in international peer-reviewed journals (preferably SCOPUS and/or Web of Science);
  • if need arises, supervise MA dissertations of EUSP students in Arctic social studies.

Financial conditions of the position

  • salary: between 1000 and 1500 USD per month, after social taxes, in ruble equivalent, depending on the post-doctoral researcher’s qualification and the year of contract (during the first year salary is less than in the following years)
  • medical insurance (standard EUSP policy)
  • if not a resident of St. Petersburg, funds to cover accommodation in the city (not to exceed 700 USD per month)
  • if not a resident of St. Petersburg, funds to cover the costs of short visits home (not to exceed 600 USD)
  • funds for short periods of fieldwork (not to exceed 2000 USD per year, in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th years of the contract)

In case the post-doctoral researcher wins an external grant for research project, the salary, fieldwork funds etc. of the grant are paid on top of the amount of the present contract.

Applicants should send their applications, CVs, and lists of publications to: nvakhtin@gmail.com before April 30, 2014.”

 

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Celebrating the Sámi National Day in Murmansk

On February 11, 2014February 13, 2014 By lukasallemannIn Announcements, Fieldwork, Indigenous Peoples, Russian North, Sámi

About the intrigues around this year’s celebration and why they reminded me of one of the darkest chapters of Sámi history.

Celebrating the Sami Day in Murmansk 6 February 2014. Photo by V. Sovkina.
Walking by the “forbidden zone” of the Murmansk Regional Administration building during the Sami Day celebrations on 6 February 2014. All photos with courtesy of Kola Sami Radio.

For this year’s Sámi National Day I happened to be in Murmansk and I witnessed the celebrations, which were preceded by some red hot intrigues.

The day traditionally starts with the raising of the Sámi flag. In Murmansk this year this happened at three different places. First at the Norwegian Consulate, then at the Centre for Indigenous Peoples, and finally near the Seamen’s house. Though the official flying of the flag was, for this purpose, sanctioned by the Russian authorities even in two places, both locations were in side streets with almost no people around. How come? Well, the vacant flag pole near the Russian flag pole at the so-called White House, the Murmansk Region’s Government building (which in fact is yellow) and the most representative place downtown, had to be urgently removed shortly before the celebrations. Why? Because it happened to be unstable and thus  represented a threat to the security of  passers-by. So the administration  kindly offered to the Sámi community the two alternative settings, both located in far less busy places where public attention (and therefore the risk of injury by falling flag poles, too) would be minimal.

Among the organisers of the Sámi Day celebrations nobody believes the story of the unstable flag pole, although they acclaim the officials for their creativity. And many argue: Isn’t it rather another “threat” which seems to motivate the Region’s administration? A nation of 1599 people (according to the 2010 census) raising their flag near a symbol of Russian state power seems to be something very frightening to some. The question of where to raise the flag  had been in fact an issue in the regional parliament even before they noticed the shaky flag pole. In a discussion one member of the dominating Edinaia Rossiia party said that one should not allow such things because once one minority has been granted the right to make the colours, all the other minorities might follow and claim their right to raise their flags too. This seems to be an inacceptable scenario to the ruling power of the multi-ethnic state of Russia.

It is definitely realistic that fears of separatism, although not (yet) explicitly uttered, can be exploited in the politics of local government members. The case of alleged Pomor separatism isn’t closed yet, and to incriminate the Russian Sámi for having strong ties to their co-brothers and allies abroad might be even easier than in the case of the Pomors. Moreover, the eager search for hints of separatism, even the most inconspicuous ones, has a long-lasting tradition. If we go further back in history, the situation with the flag pole reminds me of the ridiculously irrational “Sámi complot” during the Stalin Era. In 1938 the NKVD fabricated the so-called Sámi nationalist counterrevolutionary conspiracy. In the setting of the orchestrated class struggle, which had to take place even in the remotest corners of the country, a group of people had been “uncovered” while allegedly preparing an uprising in order to create a “Lappish Republic” which should become a part of Finland. Its leader became Vasilii Kondrat’evich Alymov, who was not a Sámi. He was a scholar from Leningrad who, in earlier years, had been living among the Sámi and in Murmansk collecting materials for a Sámi dictionary. Being an intellectual with strong ties to the local indigenous population and yet an outsider, and having served for the Mensheviks, he proved to be the ideal figure of an inciter. The whole inquiries of case No. 46197 lasted for a very short period: from 27 February till 7 April 1938. As a result, 34 people, mostly Sámi, were arrested. Among these, 15 were shot and 13 sentenced to long labour camp terms. All of the convicts had compromised themselves by totally picayune deeds or life events which dated far back, like serving  in the tsarist army. A detailed account of these events has been written by Aleksei Kiselev, one of the most famous local historians.

Allowing to raise the Sámi flag near a main symbol of state power (as it happened on the territory of the Norwegian consulate) would have been a nice sign of respect and reconciliation towards the local indigenous population, which had to suffer a great loss of ethnic identity as well as life and material losses during Soviet times. The chance has been missed.

Preparing for the flashmob near the Seamen's House.

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Preparing for the flashmob near the Seamen’s House.

The “retaliation measures” by the Sámi activists have been astonishingly peaceful and colourful: The flashmob, which had been organised using the social media, had the aim to create a “living” Sámi flag. They preferred not to act illegally and stay at the officially sanctioned place near the Seamen’s house, and therefore the location and the attention by passers-by were not really great. The circle in the flag, unfortunately, didn’t work out too, but the idea was positive and beautiful. It was in the (at least Eastern) Sámi-like spirit of a soft and peaceful resistance.

The living Sami flag of Murmansk. Photo by V. Sovkina.
The living Sami flag of Murmansk.

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An Unexpected Encounter at the Flight Training Unit

On December 9, 2013February 27, 2014 By lukasallemannIn All, Fieldwork, Indigenous Peoples, oral history, Russian North, Sámi1 Comment

Some Testimonies About Forced Anti-Alcoholism Measures Among Saami People in the Soviet Union

In one of my first encounters with an elder Saami on the Kola Peninsula (Russia) about five years ago I was told about an institution with the weird name Prophylactic Medical Labour Camp (russ. lechebno-trudovoi profilaktorii, or just LTP). What I was told about it was short but impressive, and can be summarised as follows: Heavy drinkers could be sent to an LTP for up to one and a half years where they would undergo a compulsory therapy which consisted of mysterious tablets and heavy physical work. In fact, this was an imprisonment without a criminal lawsuit. In terms of law, it was a purely administrative measure. The system of the LTPs was created in the end of the 1960s, and very soon all of the Soviet Union was covered with a network of such institutions. In Russia it was abolished in 1994 due to unconstitutionality, and nowadays the only post-soviet countries which have kept the system of the LTPs are – how symptomatic! – Belarus and Turkmenistan.

The former Prophylactic Medical Labour Camp (Russ. “lechebno-trudovoi profilaktorii”, or just LTP) in Apatity, Murmansk Region, Russia. Photo: Lukas Allemann

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Gateway to the Arctic – multidisciplinary Franco-German seminar at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven

On October 24, 2012October 25, 2012 By Stephan DudeckIn All, Announcements, Fieldwork, Indigenous Peoples, oral history, Russian North, Theoretical Issues1 Comment

Roza Laptander and Stephan Dudeck from the Anthropology Research Team in Rovaniemi participated in the Franco-German seminar “Gateway to the Arctic” from 17th -19th September in Bremerhaven. It aimed at enabling the dialogue of natural and social scientists in Arctic research.

Roza Laptander presented a poster about the snow terminology in Nenets language and the traditional environmental knowledge of tundra nomads in the Arctic. The poster of Stephan Dudeck presented the planned project of the Anthropological Research Team “Nomadic Memories” – Implementing public access to Arctic peoples’ oral history – bringing endangered knowledge back to Finno-Ugric and Uralic minority cultures.

Poster – “Nomadic Memories” by Stephan Dudeck

The seminar took place at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and was organised in collaboration with the French Polar Institute (Institute Polaire Francais – IPEV) and the European Centre for the Arctic (CEARC) at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines.

Guided tour in the Alfred Wegener Institute – This Arctic rock links all the AWI insitutes and research stations. Foto by Roza Laptander

Natural science and social science research in the Arctic is carried out together at these French institutions but real multidisciplinary and joint research agendas are still rare. For the Alfred Wegener Institute the social sciences are a new territory even if natural scientists are well aware of the consequences of their research for the life of Arctic inhabitants and especially indigenous people, as Prof. Hans-Wolfgang Hubberten the Head of AWI Research Unit Potsdam stated. Particularly in the so much important research on climate change in the Arctic the importance of juridical and economical circumstances as well as the consequences for human inhabitants are more than obvious for natural scientists, who search to understand the natural processes in the Arctic environment, as was stressed by Renate Treffeisen, the main organiser of the seminar from the AWI Bremerhaven.

At the moment there are only a few and quite dispersed social scientists in Germany, most of them in the Siberian Studies Centre of the Max-Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale, who do research in the Arctic. Collaboration with natural scientists, who have much bigger resources and an impressive infrastructure at hand, could be very beneficial for social science researchers but also for local communities and indigenous partners, social scientists are working with. Precondition for a fruitful multidisciplinary research is of course that social scientists don’t feel reduced to a pure attachment of environmental studies as the “human dimension” or worse if they feel together with indigenous informants to be used just as guides, door openers and interpreters for researchers who are interested in the live of Arctic inhabitants only so far as it concerns their scientific research.

Another serious obstacle is of course the difference in research methodologies and different epistemologies used in the research. As we learned during the discussion, natural researchers are much more self-reflexive and aware of the pitfalls of positivistic approaches than social scientists suspect. A more holistic view on the interplay of political, economical and natural phenomena is necessary especially in the Arctic, where human live is so dependent on nature and nature so vulnerable.

As anthropologists we know that often we lack an adequate understanding of the highly specialised knowledge of our informants in the Arctic. We are missing environmental knowledge about weather phenomena or the biology of animals and plants in the Arctic. We are unable to grasp how much the Arctic inhabitants know about the ecosystems and cultural landscapes they are part of, because we can’t translate their knowledge in our own languages. Collaboration with natural scientists could provide us with instruments to become seeing in that blind spot. We as anthropologist at the opposite could provide the instruments to understand the different forms of environmental knowledge and how they and the epistemologies they are based on are embedded in social and political contexts. Indigenous people are often quite aware of the fact that the abilities, instruments and perspectives to look at and understand the world of different groups of people (and in general all beings) differ a lot but have to be respected and judged on their own merits. It was refreshing to see that natural scientists start to recognise the highly developed forms of empirical knowledge inhabitants of the Arctic have and their farewell to the hierarchical epistemologies that place insights derived by western science on top of the development of knowledge.

But I should not hide the fact that there is not yet so much interdisciplinary research at least in Germany and France. The only exception was probably Alexandra Lavrilliers research from the CEARC about the way Evenk and Even people in Siberia observe changes in the climate and how these knowledge is embedded in the social and religious universe of the reindeer herders, hunters, and fishermen.

The rest of the talks and posters presented served at least the purpose of getting to know better each other’s research agendas in arctic research. This is all the more astonishing as the strong division between the humanities and the natural sciences in Arctic research is something quite new in the history of science, as was mentioned several times during the seminar. Prof. Günther Lottes from the University of Potsdam for instance spoke in his talk about Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, the French mathematician and Lapland traveller who became the first president of the Prussian Academy of Sciences in the 18th century.

Participants of the seminar – in the background Jan Borm and Alexandra Lavrillier. In the foreground Stephan Dudeck. Foto by Roza Laptander

Concrete suggestions about joint research in the Arctic were rare. Before this background it was all the more surprising when a colleague from the geochemistry asked Roza Laptanders who did research on Nenets knowledge about the phenomenology and terminology of snow if she could imagine a joint field-research about the different manifestations of snow.

The need to continue the discussion for the search of possible multidisciplinary research themes and a further understanding of scientific methods used in research was stressed by Jan Borm, the director of the CEARC. A seminar organised by the French Polar Institute (IPEV) will therefore follow next year in the French city of Brest to continue the initiated dialogue. The talks of the director of the AWI  Prof. Karin Lochte and the Head of the AWI Research Unit Potsdam Prof. Hans-Wolfgang Hubberten who took very active part in the discussions gives reason to hope that the institute will foster the dialogue and multidisciplinary projects between social and natural sciences in the future.

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