News Archive

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.

CoRe team hosted an internal workshop with their partner project from European University (St. Petersburg) “Northern Sea Route Meets the BAM, or How...

CoRe-team organised panel "Human entanglements with infrastructures: mobility, sociality, and the built environment” at Vienna Anthropology Days on...

Olga Povoroznyuk, Stephanie MacCallum and Peter Schweitzer convened a panel on railroads at the conference of European Association of Social...

PI Peter Schweitzer has contributed a video lecture on "Moving to the Arctic" to the MOOC: Global Arctic.

CoRe-team member Olga Povoroznyuk presented her fieldwork at the symposium organized by Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University, Japan,...

Newspaper "BAM" reports about the visit of University of Vienna students to the city and the relevance of local BAM museum for the CoRe project.

Presentation of preliminary results of CoRe to the Administration of the Ust-Kut Rajon and Verkhnemarkovo.

Anthropological Field Practice „Identity, Remoteness and Infrastructure” in the BAM Region, May 20– June 7, 2018

Olga Povoroznyuk, Gertrude Saxinger & Peter Schweitzer are looking forward to presentations for the panel "Human entanglements with infrastructures:...

CoRe-team members Peter Schweitzer and Olga Povoroznyuk present the field practice for University of Vienna social and cultural anthropology students...

Olga Povoroznyuk, Stephanie McCallum and Peter Schweitzer are looking forward to presentations for the panel “Revisiting Railways: Sociality,...

Olga Povoroznyuk, Stephanie McCallum and Peter Schweitzer invite presentations for the panel focused on the relations between railroad infrastructures...

CoRe-Team member Gertrude Saxinger was interviewed on the influence of resource industries on the populations and economies of northern regions as...

Peter Schweitzer, Olga Povoroznyuk and Mia Bennett presented the paper “Uneven Development: Infrastructure, Population Change and Modernisation Along...

Peter Schweitzer and Olga Povoroznyuk presented a paper on "The Baikal-Amur Mainline: Constructing a Railroad and Identities as a Socialist...

Olga Povoroznyuk: "Overcoming remoteness? Technosocial networks, mobility and modernization along the Baykal-Amur Mainline” and Mia Bennett:...

Peter Schweitzer participated in a round table on infrastructures at the conference "High altitudes meet high latitudes: Globalizing Polar Issues",...

Olga Povoroznyuk held presentation on "Baikal-Amur Mainline: Remembering Socialist Construction" at the bi-annual conference of the German...

Fieldwork for CoRe Component A was conducted by Olga Povoroznyuk in August 2017. The report is now online.

Olga Povoroznyuk presented a CoRe paper at the Congress of Anthropologists and Ethnologists of Russia, the largest biannual national forum for the...

On July 10, 2017 Olga Povoroznyuk gave the public CoRe lecture “Социальная динамика и политика идентичности в регионе БАМа” [“Social dynamics and...