News Archive

29.10.2019
 

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

06.09.2019
 

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

16.08.2019
 

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

16.08.2019
 

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

20.06.2019
 

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

14.06.2019
 

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

14.06.2019
 

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

13.06.2019
 

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...

13.06.2019
 

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

13.06.2019
 

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

23.05.2019
 

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

13.03.2019
 

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

09.02.2019
 

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

30.01.2019
 

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

28.11.2018
 

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

09.11.2018
 

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

09.10.2018
 

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

25.09.2018
 

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

24.09.2018
 

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

22.08.2018
 

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

13.08.2018
 

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

17.07.2018
 

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

28.06.2018
 

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.

21.06.2018
 

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