News Archive

11.11.2022
 

On October 21, 2022, Gertraud Illmeier successfully defended her Master’s thesis on the topic “Oil infrastructures and their affordances for...

27.09.2022
 

Olga Povoroznyuk successfully defended her PhD-thesis "Soviet Infrastructure in the Post-Soviet Era? Building a Railroad and Identity along the...

17.12.2021
 

Olga Povoroznyuk presented a poster featuring results of her research on CoRe at the meeting of the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology of...

08.12.2021
 

CoRe brochure is well received in Tynda

25.08.2021
 

Comprehensive booklet on the village of Tokma has been published and presented to the public

 

20.06.2021
 

Concluding CoRe panel at ICASS X gathered the presentations of the project team members and collaborators

11.01.2021
 

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

30.11.2020
 

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

30.11.2020
 

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

04.11.2020
 

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...

04.11.2020
 

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

24.09.2020
 

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

24.09.2020
 

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

21.07.2020
 

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

04.05.2020
 

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

31.03.2020
 

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

11.02.2020
 

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

02.12.2019
 

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

11.11.2019
 

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

11.11.2019
 

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

07.11.2019
 

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

06.11.2019
 

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

05.11.2019
 

Sigrid Irene Wentzel supported the national museum of the Sakha Republic to document ethnographic objects at Weltmuseum Wien.

04.11.2019
 

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