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We would like to invite you to submit your abstract of max. 250 words to our panel "The Promise of Arctic Infrastructural Development: Connectivity,...

Peter Schweitzer and Olga Povoroznyuk will present their papers on promises of infrastructure at the annual convention of the Association for Slavic,...

Olga Povoroznyuk will chair a panel "Indigenous Political Imaginaries" and present a paper based on CoRe research at the annual meeting of American...

CoRe-team member Sigrid Wentzel shares her experinece of ethnographic work in the republic of Skaha in Eastern Siberia on University of Vienna's...

Olga Povoroznyuk and Peter Schweitzer presented CoRe and co-chaired a panel on infrastructures and industrial development at the XI Siberian Studies...

CoRe team member Gertrude Saxinger co-organised together with J.Otto Habeck and Andreas Womelsdorf the workshop “Sustainabilities’, Or The Politics of...

Olga Povoroznyuk presented her paper "Infrastructuring mobility, negotiating indigeneity along the Baykal-Amur Mainline", and Peter Schweitzer...

Olga Povoroznyuk conducted comparative field study in the BAM city of Neryungri and indigenous village Iengra in south Yakutiya in July 2019. More...

Olga Povoroznyuk and Peter Schweitzer hosted panel "Transport Infrastructures in the System of Communication and Social Relations in the North" at the...

Peter Schweitzer gave presentation "Mobility and Communication in the Circumpolar North: Toward an Anthropology of Transportation Infrastructure" as...

CoRe-team members Olga Povoroznyuk and Ilya Krylov contributed to the on-line course "Discovering Russia: Baikal-Amur Mainline" by the popular...

On June 13 Olga Povoroznyuk gave invited talk “(Post)Soviet Infrastructure: Identity Building and the Politics of Emotion in the Region of Baykal-Amur...

The photo exhibition “Picturing the BAM” curated by Olga Povoroznyuk and Peter Schweitzer was opened at the University of Vienna's department for...

CoRe-team member Sigrid Schiesser presenats her study of built environment in Sakha Republic in the University of Vienna's on-line magazine uni:view...

Peter Schweitzer, Olga Povoroznyuk, Gerti Saxinger, Natalia Krasnoshtanova and Alexis Sancho-Reinoso presented a CoRe-based paper on social science...

Olga Povoroznyuk gave a presentation of the joint paper (with Peter Schweitzer) "A Right to Remoteness? A Missing Bridge and Articulations of...

In April 2019, Sigrid Irene Schiesser gave three lectures in Russian language at the North-Eastern Federal University (SVFU) in Yakutsk, Russian...

Olga Povoroznyuk presented a paper "Infrastructure of Post-Socialism: memory, identity and the politics of emotions in the region of Baikal-Amur...

CoRe-Team members Peter Schweitzer and Olga Povoroznyuk will host a panel "Transport infrastructures in the system of communication and social...

'ROADWORK: An Anthropology of Infrastructure at China’s Inner Asian Borders' has invited CoRe to join its network of projects on transportation...

Peter Schweitzer, Olga Povoroznyuk in collaboration with Stephanie MacCallum convened the panel “Revisiting railroads: Sociality, Mobility and...

In summer semester 2018, Peter Schweitzer and Olga Povoroznyuk taught a CoRe-related MA course “Social Life of Roads and Railroads” at the Institute...

Olga Povoroznyuk presented a Core paper at the workshop "Siberia: Infrastructure and Environment” held at Indiana University Europe Gateway in Berlin.