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The ERC funded project "Infra North - Building Arctic Futures: Transport Infrastructure and Sustainable Northern Communities" led by Peter Schweitzer...

Olga Povoroznyuk gave a talk “(Post)Soviet Infrastructure: Politics of Identity, Memory and Emotions along the Baikal-Amur Mainline, East Siberia” at...

Peter Schweitzer and Olga Povoroznyuk gave online presentations about the role of transport infrastructures in northern communities at the...

CoRe brochure “Life of BAM” edited by Olga Povoroznyuk and Ilya Krylov was published. It includes popular science essays based on the results of the...

Olga Povoroznyuk, Peter Schweitzer and Vladimir Davydov prepared the special theme “Social Life of Transport Infrastructures in the Russian North”...

Gertrude Saxinger and Roger Norum ( U of Oulu) hosted a panel on "Scaling the Map: Contemporary theoretical and methodological innovations in...

Alexis Sancho Reinoso and Gertrude Saxinger presented a paper on "Visualising Ethnography in Maps: Cartographic Storytelling in Siberia"

Peter Schweitzer talked about social implications of climate change in Siberia on the Austrian public broadcasting service Ö1

CoRe-team members talked about the development of infrastructure in Siberia for the Austrian public broadcasting service ORF

Peter Schweitzer's team received the grant from European Research Council for the project "INFRANORTH - Building Arctic Futures: Transport...

CoRe team members Olga Povoroznyuk and Peter Schweitzer took part in the Arctic Frontiers conference in Tromsø, Norway on 26-29 January 2020

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...