Outputs


Publications

Forthcoming

Olga Povoroznyuk, Peter Schweitzer

Beyond the Promises and Fears of Infrastructure: an Alaskan Port Expansion, Geopolitics and Local Disinterest.

In: Arctic Silk Road. N. Magnani and M. Magnani, eds. Berghahn: Berghahn.

2025 | Book Chapter

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Olga Povoroznyuk

Reconceptualizing Siberia: A Personal Account of a Changing Field.

In: A Fractured North – Maintaining Connections E. Kasten, I. Krupnik, and G. Fondahl, eds. Pp. 89-105, Vol. 3. Fürstenberg/Havel: Kulturstiftung Sibirien.

Link to the publication


Talks and Presentations

Invited Talks

Research Seminar Talk @ University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks

  • Olga Povoroznyuk, Peter Schweitzer | August 20th, 2024
    From Infrastructure to Green Spaces: Vienna Arctic Anthropology Projects.


Alliance for Research on Cultural Heritage in Europe Conference

  • Olga Povoroznyuk | March 4th, 2024
    Biocultural Heritage and Climate Adaptation in Arctic Cities.

Organized Workshops and Panels

Arctic Science Summit Week @ Boulder, Colorado, USA

  • O. Povoroznyuk, V. Kuklina and H. Epstein | March 24th, 2025
    Interdisciplinary community workshop: Planning for the Next Decade in Arctic Infrastructure Research: a contribution to ICARP IV.


Vienna Anthropology Days @ Vienna, Austria

  • O. Povoroznyuk and M. Landauer | September 25th, 2024
    Arctic Sustainability Revisited: Mixing Methods to Study Communities in Transition

Conference Presentations

Arctic Science Summit Week @ Boulder, Colorado, USA

  • O. Povoroznyuk | March 26th, 2025
    Reconfiguring Infrastructures, Revisioning Futures: The InfraNorth Scenario Workshops in Kirkenes.
  • V. Miles, V. Kuklina, O. Povoroznyuk, O. Kisseleva | March 26th, 2025
    GIS Inventory of Green Spaces for Climate Adaptation in the Urban Arctic: Engaging Science, Community, and Arts.
  • O. Povoroznyuk and P. Schweitzer | March 24th, 2025
    Social Science and Anthropology Perspectives on Infrastructure.


AAA Annual Meeting @ Tampa, Florida, USA

  • O. Povoroznyuk | March 23rd, 2024
    Maritime Infrastructure: Global Climate Change and Connectivity in a Divided Arctic.


Vienna Anthropology Days @ Vienna, Austria

  • O. Povoroznyuk, Alexandra Meyer, Peter Schweitzer | September 25th, 2024
    Reconfiguring Infrastructures, Revisioning Futures: The InfraNorth Scenario Workshops in Kirkenes.
  • O. Povoroznyuk | September 25th, 2024
    Temporality and Sociality of Infrastructure: sea ports in Alaska, Norway, and Russia.
  • O. Povoroznyuk | September 23rd, 2024
    Revisiting Post-Soviet Anthropological Research in the Russian North.


InfraNorth workshop “Ethnography Beyond the Case Study: Possibilities and Limitations of Comparison“ @ Stockholm, Sweden

  • O. Povoroznyuk | September 10th, 2024
    Infrastructuring Arctic Coastal Communities: A Comparative Ethnography of Seaport Projects in Alaska, Norway, and Russia.


Arctic Congress @ Bodø, Norway

  • O. Povoroznyuk | May 30th, 2024
    Reconfiguring Connectivity, Transport Infrastructure and Sustainable Futures in a Divided Arctic (the case of Kirkenes).
  • O. Povoroznyuk, P. Schweitzer | May 30th, 2024
    Arctic Futures: Between Global Challenges and Local Needs.

Outreach Activities

Arts and culture festival “Barents Spectacle” @ Kirkenes, Norway

  • O. Povoroznyuk [with O. Kisseleva, V. Miles, V. Kiklina, P. Schweitzer and local partners] | February 21st, 2025
    Art and Science installation and science workshop: Remoteness Reframed: Arctic Urban Ecoscapes and Biocultural Heritage. co-organizer, facilitator and contributor.
    Abstract
  • P. Schweitzer and O. Povoroznyuk | February 21st, 2025
    Popular Science Talk: From InfraNorth to ARCA: Anthropological Engagements with Kirkenes