Projects
Past activities
1998
16.01.1998 Guided tour with Dr. Verena Traeger (University of Vienna) through the exhibition "Eskimos, On the northern margin of the World", which was co-arranged by her in the museum of Ethnology, Vienna
22.04.1998 Anthropological Film: Institute for Social- and Cultural Anthropology (Ethnology) at the University of Vienna, with the film "Nanook of the North" of Robert Flaherty
29.04.1998 Lecture with slides and music by Franz Mayer with the topic "The Saami, Indigenous people in Northern Europe"
06.05.1998 Lecture with slide show by Stefan Krist with the topic "Sports competitions in Buryatia, Indigenous sports in Siberia"
04.06.1998 Inauguration of a photo exhibition with slide show by Jan Oelker (photographer) with the topic "Sea mammal hunting on Chukchi peninsula" at the Institute for Social- and Cultural Anthropology (Ethnology) at the University of Vienna
10.06.1998 Lecture by Dr. Peter Schweitzer (University of Alaska Fairbanks) with the topic "Arctic Anthropology, latest developements in North American Arctic studies" at the Institute for Social- and Cultural Anthropology (Ethnology) at the University of Vienna
25.06.1998 Lecture by Dr. Peter Schweitzer (University of Alaska Fairbanks) with the topic "Traveling between continents, indigenous contacts in the Bering Sea region" at the Institute for Social- and Cultural Anthropology (Ethnology) at the University of Vienna
09.12.1998 Anthropological Film: "Alcoholism in the Arctic" with films about northern Siberia and Greenland at the Institute for Social- and Cultural Anthropology (Ethnology) at the University of Vienna
1999
12.01.1999 Discussion with the yakut psychologist N. I. Semenova about the current situation in Yakutia (Respublika Sakha) at the Institute for Social- and Cultural Anthropology (Ethnology) at the University of Vienna
24.03.1999 Anthropological Film: "Current Situation in the Arctic" with films on northern Siberia, Skandinavia and Nunavut at the Institute for Social- and Cultural Anthropology (Ethnology) at the University of Vienna
09.06.1999 Anatoli Donkan (Nanai, Artist from the Russian Far East) presents his work of fish-skin processing at the Institue for Social- and Cutural Anthropology (Ethnology), University of Vienna
07.07.1999 Eastern Siberia, Chukchi physician talks about the current situation in medical care in north-eastern Russia, Film and Lecture by Larisa Abrjutina
2000
2.- 4.06.2000 Conference: Siberia and the Circumpolar North, Contributions by Anthropologists and NGOs Download conference booklet (pdf-file)
28.-30.11.2000 ETHNOCINECA - 2000 (Annual Ethnological Filmfestival)
2001
03.04.2001 Lecture by Molly Lee (University of Alaska Museum) "The Cooler Ring, Urban Alaska Native Women and the Struggle for Subsistence Rights"
2003–2004
Translating and editing of the contributions for the anthology "Bruchlinien im Eis".
2005
14.03.2005 Book presentation "Bruchlinien im Eis - Ethnologie des zrikumpolaren Nordens" by S. Bauer, S. Donecker, A. Ehrenfried, M. Hirnsperger (Hg.), Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie, Universitätsstraße 7, A - 1010 Wien
2007
Website-relaunch and 10 anniversary
At
our 10th anniversary and after being online with an own website for several
years we decided to give the A.A.S homepage a new appearance. For a short
history of the Working Group's webpage see about
us>online history.
The relaunch of www.sub-arctic.ac.at took place on March 1st, 2007 to mark the start of the International Polar Year.
2007 autumn/ winter
Joint Lecture: "Between Dynamics and Stagnation. Indigenous Minorities, Citizens and the State in Northern Europe and the Russian Federation"
at the University of Vienna, Department of Social- and Cultural Anthropology.
The AAS is going to present a number of lectures, which will introduce the audience in the North European-Russian region as well as into the “new” field of Siberia, which has reopened to the western scholars after the fall of the iron curtain. With this joint lecture the AAS extends the range of lectures on the arctic at the University of Vienna such as the introduction lectures on North America (Dr. Verena Traeger) and Siberia (Dr. Peter Schweitzer).
The
main issues will centre around two topics: First, the relations between
indigenous peoples, citizens and state, which in Siberia is also characterized
by the concepts of “centre-periphery” and the colonial idea of a “frontier”;
second, the social dynamics, which in Siberia today are determined by
the socio-cultural mobility and the economic migration of its inhabitants.
The members of the AAS and guests lecturers will provide theoretical and historical analyses besides detailed descriptions of the peoples’ life situation in urban and rural Russia, Siberia, Buriatia, the Far East, Finland and the Baltic countries. Details here.
Contribution of the Working Group Arctic Subarctic to the International Polar Year 2007—2009
After the scientific lecture series in Fall 2007 (see details here) in Spring 2008 a series of events gives "Northern peoples" a chance to speak about their own lives and show us the part of the world they live in.
2008
"365 days in the open air" — photo exhibition and various other events
In March 2008 a photo exhibition about the life in the North with pictures of the Nenets artist Habecha Yaungad will be showed in Vienna. Besides the photo exhibition various other events showing the life of the Nenets people will be held. Read details here
2009
The Working Group Arctic and Subarctic at the 3rdPolar Symposium
From March 26-28, 2009 the 3rd Polar Symposium was held at the Museum of Natural History in Vienna. The Working Group Arctic and Subarctic presented its proceedings and research. Details here
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