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11.11.2022

Master’s thesis on human-infrastructural relations in Eastern Siberia defended

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 has defended her PhD-thesis

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

17.12.2021

CoRe results presented at the department‘s early stage researchers week

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

“Life of BAM” brochure was sent to project partners

CoRe brochure is well received in Tynda

25.08.2021

Tokma brochure is published

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

20.06.2021

CoRe panel at ICASS X

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

11.01.2021

Infra North project launched

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

30.11.2020

Olga Povoroznyuk presented her CoRe research at the department's internal seminar

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

Olga Povoroznyuk and Peter Schweitzer on transportation infrastructures and northern indigenous communities

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

04.11.2020

“Life of BAM” brochure is published

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

CoRe papers in the journal of Historical Siberian Studies

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 hosted a panel at RAI conference

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

24.09.2020

CoRe at RAI conference

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

21.07.2020

Peter Schweitzer on Ö1 radio

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

04.05.2020

Olga Povoroznyuk and Peter Schweitzer on Ö1 radio

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

31.03.2020

Peter Schweitzer won an ERC Advanced Grant

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

11.02.2020

CoRe at Arctic Frontiers Conference in Tromsø

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

Call for papers for CoRe panel at 10th International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS X): Arctic Generations: Looking Back and Looking Forward, Arkhanglsk, June 15 - 20, 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,...

11.11.2019