11.11.2022
 

On October 21, 2022, Gertraud Illmeier successfully defended her Master’s thesis on the topic “Oil infrastructures and their affordances for...
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27.09.2022
 

Olga Povoroznyuk successfully defended her PhD-thesis "Soviet Infrastructure in the Post-Soviet Era? Building a Railroad and Identity along the...
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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...
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08.12.2021
 

CoRe brochure is well received in Tynda
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25.08.2021
 

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

 
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20.06.2021
 

Concluding CoRe panel at ICASS X gathered the presentations of the project team members and collaborators
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06.05.2021
 

Since January 2021 EnMoTe-team member Ria-Maria Adams is a research associate at the international project "Enhancing liveability of small shrinking...
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11.01.2021
 

The ERC funded project "Infra North - Building Arctic Futures: Transport Infrastructure and Sustainable Northern Communities" led by Peter Schweitzer...
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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...
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30.11.2020
 

Peter Schweitzer and Olga Povoroznyuk gave online presentations about the role of transport infrastructures in northern communities at the...
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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...
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04.11.2020
 

Olga Povoroznyuk, Peter Schweitzer and Vladimir Davydov prepared the special theme “Social Life of Transport Infrastructures in the Russian North”...
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24.09.2020
 

Gertrude Saxinger and Roger Norum ( U of Oulu) hosted a panel on "Scaling the Map: Contemporary theoretical and methodological innovations in...
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24.09.2020
 

Alexis Sancho Reinoso and Gertrude Saxinger presented a paper on "Visualising Ethnography in Maps: Cartographic Storytelling in Siberia"
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21.07.2020
 

Peter Schweitzer talked about social implications of climate change in Siberia on the Austrian public broadcasting service Ö1
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04.05.2020
 

CoRe-team members talked about the development of infrastructure in Siberia for the Austrian public broadcasting service ORF
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31.03.2020
 

Peter Schweitzer's team received the grant from European Research Council for the project "INFRANORTH - Building Arctic Futures: Transport...
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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
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09.01.2020
 

Gunn-Britt Retter

16.01.2020, 17:00 Uhr, ÜR
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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,...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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29.10.2019
 

Olga Povoroznyuk presented her paper "Infrastructuring mobility, negotiating indigeneity along the Baykal-Amur Mainline", and Peter Schweitzer...
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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...
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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...
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16.08.2019
 

Peter Schweitzer gave presentation "Mobility and Communication in the Circumpolar North: Toward an Anthropology of Transportation Infrastructure" as...
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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...
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17.06.2019
 

17.06.2019, 17.00, HS A, IKSA

What Happened to the North Pole in Vienna 500 Years Ago, and Why this Still Matters Today

Michael Bravo
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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...
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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...
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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...
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13.06.2019
 

Peter Schweitzer, Olga Povoroznyuk, Gerti Saxinger, Natalia Krasnoshtanova and Alexis Sancho-Reinoso presented a CoRe-based paper on social science...
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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...
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27.05.2019
 

03.06.2019, 17:00 Uhr

Gang B, IKSA
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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...
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17.05.2019
 

Auf dem Medienportal der Universität Wien beantwortet Peter Schweitzer "Zehn Fragen", u.a.: Wofür setzen Sie sich ein? Und: Ihr Rat an heutige...
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21.03.2019
 

Peter Schweitzer: "The High North as Part of the Global South?

The Arctic Between Resource Frontier and Self-Determination", 15.05.2019, Global South...
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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...
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14.02.2019
 

Together with colleagues from the Nunataryuk project, Peter Schweitzer is currently on the west-coast of Greenland (Ilulissat and Qeqertarsuaq) to...
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09.02.2019
 

CoRe-Team members Peter Schweitzer and Olga Povoroznyuk will host a panel "Transport infrastructures in the system of communication and social...
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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...
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28.01.2019
 

Am Beispiel der Baikal-Amur-Eisenbahnlinie (BAM) erforscht ein interdisziplinäres Team um Peter Schweitzer die Errichtung neuer Infrastruktur als...
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28.11.2018
 

Peter Schweitzer, Olga Povoroznyuk in collaboration with Stephanie MacCallum convened the panel “Revisiting railroads: Sociality, Mobility and...
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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...
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09.10.2018
 

Olga Povoroznyuk presented a Core paper at the workshop "Siberia: Infrastructure and Environment” held at Indiana University Europe Gateway in Berlin.
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06.10.2018
 

Peter Schweitzer, Susana Gartler and Alexandra Meyer from the EnMoTe Team attended the first Nunataryuk General Assembly on the island of San Servolo...
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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...
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24.09.2018
 

CoRe-team organised panel "Human entanglements with infrastructures: mobility, sociality, and the built environment” at Vienna Anthropology Days on...
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22.08.2018
 

Olga Povoroznyuk, Stephanie MacCallum and Peter Schweitzer convened a panel on railroads at the conference of European Association of Social...
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13.08.2018
 

PI Peter Schweitzer has contributed a video lecture on "Moving to the Arctic" to the MOOC: Global Arctic.
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17.07.2018
 

CoRe-team member Olga Povoroznyuk presented her fieldwork at the symposium organized by Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University, Japan,...
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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.
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21.06.2018
 

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

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15.06.2018
 

Anthropological Field Practice „Identity, Remoteness and Infrastructure” in the BAM Region, May 20– June 7, 2018
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13.06.2018
 

Olga Povoroznyuk, Gertrude Saxinger & Peter Schweitzer are looking forward to presentations for the panel "Human entanglements with infrastructures:...
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13.06.2018
 

CoRe-team members Peter Schweitzer and Olga Povoroznyuk present the field practice for University of Vienna social and cultural anthropology students...
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16.04.2018
 

Peter Schweitzer and Alexandra Meyer are heading up to 78° North to Longyearbyen, Svalbard, for community consultation and information meetings in the...
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02.04.2018
 

The Vienna Nunataryuk Team is hosting the project's first spring meeting on April 5th-6th at the Department for Cultural and Social Anthropology. The...
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30.03.2018
 

Olga Povoroznyuk, Stephanie McCallum and Peter Schweitzer are looking forward to presentations for the panel “Revisiting Railways: Sociality,...
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30.03.2018
 

Olga Povoroznyuk, Stephanie McCallum and Peter Schweitzer invite presentations for the panel focused on the relations between railroad infrastructures...
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09.01.2018
 

CoRe-Team member Gertrude Saxinger was interviewed on the influence of resource industries on the populations and economies of northern regions as...
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13.12.2017
 

Peter Schweitzer, Olga Povoroznyuk and Mia Bennett presented the paper “Uneven Development: Infrastructure, Population Change and Modernisation Along...
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30.11.2017
 

Peter Schweitzer and Olga Povoroznyuk presented a paper on "The Baikal-Amur Mainline: Constructing a Railroad and Identities as a Socialist...
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09.11.2017
 

Olga Povoroznyuk: "Overcoming remoteness? Technosocial networks, mobility and modernization along the Baykal-Amur Mainline” and Mia Bennett:...
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18.10.2017
 

Peter Schweitzer participated in a round table on infrastructures at the conference "High altitudes meet high latitudes: Globalizing Polar Issues",...
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06.10.2017
 

Olga Povoroznyuk held presentation on "Baikal-Amur Mainline: Remembering Socialist Construction" at the bi-annual conference of the German...
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10.08.2017
 

Fieldwork for CoRe Component A was conducted by Olga Povoroznyuk in August 2017. The report is now online.

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31.07.2017
 

Olga Povoroznyuk presented a CoRe paper at the Congress of Anthropologists and Ethnologists of Russia, the largest biannual national forum for the...
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10.07.2017
 

On July 10, 2017 Olga Povoroznyuk gave the public CoRe lecture “Социальная динамика и политика идентичности в регионе БАМа” [“Social dynamics and...
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07.07.2017
 

Sigrid Schiesser's field work for the CoRe Project featured online in Yakutia Info on 03.07.2017.

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09.06.2017
 

CoRe-Team members hosted a panel on "The Social Life of Transportation Infrastructures in the Circumpolar North and Other Remote Areas"
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08.06.2017
 

CoRe-Team member Gertude Saxinger hosted a panel on "Mobile Working Arrangements in the Arctic and elsewhere: social and regional cumulative effects"...
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12.05.2017
 

The first episode of "Life of BAM", our cartographic storytelling outreach website, is online.

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04.05.2017
 

Mobility and Remoteness: What is the connection?
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31.03.2017
 

Peter Schweitzer and Olga Povoroznyuk participated in the Arctic Science Summit Week with several talks on CoRe-related subjects.

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09.03.2017
 
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16.11.2016
 

Gertrude Saxinger on: "Simultaneity and Separation: Understanding the Extractive Industries` Fifo Workers through the Multilocality-Lens"

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14.11.2016
 

Olga Povoroznyuk on: “Human Entanglements with Infrastructure: Social Dynamics and Mobility Along the Baikal-Amur Mainline”
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24.10.2016
 

Olga Povoroznyuk and Peter Schweitzer on "BAM Construction: Living Memory of the Happiest Time?"
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31.08.2016
 

Olga Povoroznyuk on: "Infrastructure and Social Dynamics along the Baikal-Amur Mainline, East Siberia"
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28.07.2016
 

Project presenation at the "Institute for Geography, Russian Academy of Science", Irkutsk, Russia

Peter Schweitzer and Olga Povoroznyuk on: "Человек и транспортная инфраструктура в условиях отдаленности: мобильность и техносоциальный сети в регионе...
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27.07.2016
 

Fieldwork by CoRe Researchers Peter Schweitzer and Olga Povoroznyuk is featured in the "Severnaya Pravda"

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30.06.2016
 

In July 2016 CoRe-Members Peter Schweitzer and Olga Povoroznyuk do reasearch on field sites North of Lake Baikal.
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27.05.2016
 

Olga Povoroznyuk on: "Tradition and Change in Local Communities along the Railroad (mobility, resources and identity politics in the BAM Region)"
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11.05.2016
 

The CoRe-Team at the "Qualitatives Conference", St. Cathrines, Canada

Gertrude Saxinger with Christoph Fink and Sigrid Schiesser: "GIS Mapping & Anthropology towards visual based analysis and Dissemination"
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29.04.2016
 

Gertrude Saxinger on "Living in a worker´s camp: gated communities in the (Sub-)Arctic´s extractive industries – Yukon and Siberia"
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26.01.2016
 

CoRe related talk at the IASC Workshop: “Gender Asymmetry In Northern Communities (Perspectives from the Margins)”, Lychen, Germany

Olga Povoroznyuk on: "Indigeneity and Marginality: Gendered Migrations and Contacts in the BAM Region"
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