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A Fractured North – Facing Dilemmas

A Fractured North – Facing Dilemmas featured The remarkable opening of Siberia and the Russian Arctic to international social science research, starting in the early 1990s, gave rise to the spirit of cooperation, innovative partnerships, and the co-production of knowledge across boundaries and …

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Written by Erich Kasten on Tuesday April 9, 2024

Academia across the borders

Academia across the borders featured This book documents the voices of scholars working in, with, or about Russia in the context of historical collapse. The brief answers, commentaries, and essays collected here were written in response to the four questions asking how academic lives and practices …

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Written by Erich Kasten on Saturday January 6, 2024

Call for papers

Call for papers A FRACTURED NORTH (A new book series for our ‘troubled times’) The ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, now in its twentieth month, has had a chilling impact on our common field of research, publications, museum work, and interactions with Indigenous partners and …

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Written by Erich Kasten on Saturday October 28, 2023

Mit den Weißen Bussen in die Freiheit

Mit den Weißen Bussen in die Freiheit featured Frühjahr 1945 in Deutschland. Die alliierten Truppen stehen an Rhein und Oder. Ab Ende März fahren Busse des Schwedischen Roten Kreuzes, auffällig weiß überstrichen, durch das umkämpfte Deutschland. Sie bringen etwa 15000 Häftlinge, darunter …

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Written by Erich Kasten on Thursday September 14, 2023

Bogoras's 1901 Itelmen Notebooks

Bogoras's 1901 Itelmen Notebooks featured This volume is the first in a planned series presenting the previously unpublished Itelmen material in Waldemar Bogoras’s Itelmen notebooks from January and February 1901. The original notebooks are held in the Archives of the Russian Academy of Sciences, …

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Written by Erich Kasten on Friday July 7, 2023

Evenki narratives (nimŋakar and ulguril) in the Ilimpii dialect

Evenki narratives (nimŋakar and ulguril) in the Ilimpii dialect featured The book consists of oral narratives in the Evenki language, compiled on the basis of the linguistic material collected by Nadezhda Mamontova during several expeditions to the Evenki Municipal District of the Krasnoyarsk …

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Written by Erich Kasten on Saturday May 6, 2023