Programme22March

Beyond speech: toward a northern sensory ecology of animals, plants, and humans; Alex Oehler and Victoria Peemot

• Interdisciplinary Prospects for the Study of Nonverbal Interspecies Communication. Alex Oehler, University of Regina
• Agreements with Bears: Evenki Reindeer Herders and Taiga Conviviality. Donatas Brandišauskas, Vilnius University
• Sensory Ecology in Arctic Beringia. Jaroslava Panáková, Slovak Academy of Science
  

Making “good relations” in more-than-human worlds; Anna Krzywoszynska and Agnese Bankovska

• Mining soils: political ontological foundations of soil extractivism in Europe. Saana Hokkanen, University of Helsinki
• Urban Kittiwakes in Tromsø – a challenge for multi-species co-existence in the Antropocene. Ingeborg Solvang, University of Tromsø
• Anxiety and enchantment: encountering soil life. Anna Krzywoszynska, University of Oulu
• “The relationship that you have with the things that you fish.”: The antagonism & shared survival of fish and fishermen in the Lofoten islands. Nafsika Papacharalampous, SOAS, University of London
  

Pig worlds: understanding porcine multiplicity in the Anthropocene; Kieran O’Mahony and Paul G. Keil and Virginie Vaté

• "Same Animal, Different Valuation: The Transformation of Human-Pigs’ Relations on Siberut Island, Indonesia". Darmanto, Czech Academy of Sciences
• “Adaptation to the Anthropocene: Changing Pig Breeds (but Preserving their Feed) in a Tibetan Village”. Dan Wu, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• “Feral practices: Wild boar hybrid breeding in rural Ukraine”. Laura Kuen, Czech Academy of Sciences
• “Experiencing Pigs as Persons: activist encounters with pigs at a UK abattoir”. Therese Kelly, University of Manchester
  

Ethical Selves and Spiritual Others: Relations with the Beyond; Igor Mikeshin

• “And then, the plant showed me…”: Ayahuasca Rituals and Relationality among Indigenous Peoples of Northeast Peru. Sidney Castillo, University of Helsinki
• (Re)construction of self in Kalevala-metric incantation registers. Tuukka Karlsson, University of Helsinki
• Becoming one with the other during Spiritual Festivals. Toomas Gross, University of Helsinki
• God in, Spirits out: (Un)welcome Encounters and the Mind/World Boundary among the Tijani Mbororo of Cameroon. Tea Virtanen, University of Helsinki
  

Naturecultural communities; Mikko Äijälä and Jarno Valkonen

• Garbography: Knowing with waste. Olli Pyyhtinen and Stylianos Zavos, Tampere University
• Shared visions of a culture of material restraint: A research plan to investigate the marginal voices in sustainable futures planning and visioning. Hanna Saari, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
• Entangled Lives in a High Arctic Valley: Microbes, Birds, Foxes, Humans, and Muskoxen, Kirsten Hastrup, University of Copenhagen
• PhD project: Co-design of Kiiminkijoki river basin management – Network building and translations of environmental knowledge. Olli Haanpää, University of Oulu
• Could the locals’ long-term mistrust of the authorities be conceptualised as local knowledge? A case study on Teno river salmon management. Mikko Äijälä and Jarno Valkonen, University of Lapland

The politics of infrastructural environments; Tuomas Tammisto and Mira Käkönen

• Taking the Trash out- Politics of Waste Management Infrastructure in Dharamshala, India. Pamela Das, University of Oslo
• Snowy relations of an Arctic city. Birgitta Vinkka, doctoral researcher, University of Lapland
• Green transition in the Sámi Homeland and Well-being of Sámi Indigenous People. Kukka Ranta, doctoral researcher, University of Lapland
• Building strong industry: Entangled infrastructures in Harjavalta, Finland. Jenni Viitala, doctoral researcher, University of Helsinki
• Entangled enclaves: Dams, volatile rivers and the Chinese infrastructural engagement in Cambodia. Mira Käkönen, postdoctoral researcher, Tampere University

Urban Corrosions: Why Matter Matters?; Soile Veijola, Teemu Loikkanen and Monica Tennberg

• Heritage futures for place-based sustainability transformation. Katriina Siivonen, University Lecturer and adjunct Professor, Finland Futures Research Centre
• Arctic garden as a heterotopia: between urban utopias and dystopias. Monica Tennberg, research professor, Arctic Centre, University of Lapland
• The political ecology of Arctic circular city. Teemu Loikkanen, junior researcher, University of Lapland
• Corrosive Instrumentality or Transgenerational Corroboration?  Encounters that demand response in built environments . Soile Veijola, Professor, University of Lapland  
• Experiencing the forgotten layers on the urban landscape . Riikka Vuorenmaa, artist and lighting designer, Piste ry and Miia Kettunen, visual artist, Piste ry

Beyond speech: toward a northern sensory ecology of animals, plants, and humans; Alex Oehler and Victoria Peemot

• Building (S)kinship in the Steam Bath – Sauna Becoming in Two Case Studies. Mari Keski-Korsu and Dalva Lamminmäki, Aalto University
• Beyond the Eye of the Angler: A More-than-human Communion Through the Sonar-o-graphy Technique. Vesa Markuksela, University of Lapland
• Glimpsing a Moment: The Use of Photography in the Study of Nonverbal Communication Across the Living World. Susan B. Vanek, University of Greenland
• A Plan and a Fair: Practices of Pomorian Wooden Boatbuilding and Seafaring. Nikita Karbasov, University of Oslo

Making “good relations” in more-than-human worlds; Anna Krzywoszynska and Agnese Bankovska

• Ecological grief as relationship, Marzia Varutti, University of Geneva
• The mosquito swarm: relating to monstrous abundance in the age of insect decline. Eemi Nordström, University of Helsinki
• Forgotten fish: A Swedish civic experiment in reconstructing “good” more-than-human relations. Maris Boyd Gillette, University of Gothenburg
• Handcrafting multispecies relations without proximity. Minna Santaoja, University of Eastern Finland
• Ethical striving with other-than-humans in two multicultural examples. Caroline Gatt, University of Graz

Pig worlds: understanding porcine multiplicity in the Anthropocene; Kieran O’Mahony and Paul G. Keil and Virginie Vaté

• “Precarious pig rearing practices at the intersection of an epidemic, bio-security and informality”. Sneha Gutgutia, National Institute of Advanced Studies, India
• “Made in Denmark: Understanding the Danish Production Pig”. Annika Pohl Harrisson, Aarhus University
• “Hog fevers: Bio(in)security and nationalism in Catalonia’s pig industry”. Guillem Rubio-Ramon, University of Edinburgh
• “Representing the 'Pathogenic Other' in Malaysian Porcine Worlds”. Kymberley Chu, Princeton University

Ethical Selves and Spiritual Others: Relations with the Beyond; Toomas Gross

• Russian Baptist relationships with God as ethical self-transformation, Igor Mikeshin, University of Helsinki
• “A Chaste Church of Christ in the North <...> Escaped from the Beast to the Desert”: Change of Place as a Spiritual Practice and an Ethical Challenge of Russian Old Believers in Siberia. Danila Rygovskiy, University of Tartu
• “Being seen”: Encountering saints and the self in a Bashkir Sufi circle in Russia’s Urals. Lili Di Puppo, University of Helsinki
• Coming-of-age narratives and patterns of formation in Indonesia’s Islamic universities. Timo Kaartinen, University of Helsinki

Naturecultural communities; Mikko Äijälä and Jarno Valkonen

• Dwelling in animate landscape, Sonja Laukkanen, University of Helsinki
• Sensing waste with dogs: Inter-species learning with canine companions. Niina Uusitalo, Tampere University
• “Almost wild”. Sled dogs in the making between Greenland, Switzerland and France. Aurélie Hendrick, Université de Lausanne
• To be or not to be: A Fungi Manifesto. Wenrui Li, KU Leuven
  

The politics of infrastructural environments; Tuomas Tammisto and Mira Käkönen

• Road encounters. Elva Björg Einarsdóttir, doctoral student, University of Iceland
• Navigating the edge of the welfare state: The private road ferries and the political campaign for their nationalisation in Finland. Erika Takahashi, associate professor, Chiba University
• Shipping infrastructures, maritime networks, and the glue that holds them together. Veronica Walker Vadillo, postdoctoral researcher, University of Helsinki
• “I spy with my little eye”: Using the NGO Space-Eye as a gateway to engage with the European socio-technological border assemblage. Andreas Stoiber, Phd researcher, University of Amsterdam
• Road-building and state-formation on the plantation zone of Pomio, Papua New Guinea. Tuomas Tammisto, postdoctoral researcher, University of Helsinki

Urban Corrosions: Why Matter Matters?; Soile Veijola, Teemu Loikkanen and Monica Tennberg

• Crumbling materiality and unintended afterlives: transdisciplinary approaches to the study of ruins and lost places. Joachim Otto Habeck, professor, Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Universität Hamburg
• Urban Corrosions as a political tool and political effect. Agnieszka Halemba, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Zigzag clover, sand, and moth: Embedding endangered nature into living urban infrastructure. Helena Leino, Tampere University

Beyond speech: toward a northern sensory ecology of animals, plants, and humans; Alex Oehler and Victoria Peemot

• “Seeing” Plant Rhizosphere Through Moving Images: Changing Visions of Soil. Virginia Vargolskaia and Biplabi Bhattarai, University of Vienna
• Human-tree Collaboration in the Framework of Affordances. Kaisa Vainio, University of Eastern Finland
• Spiraea Söösken: Its Status, Use, and Place in Land-based Human-nonhuman Kinship. Victoria Soyan Peemot, University of Helsinki
• Subsensorial Wefts. Pia Lindman, Independent researcher

Making “good relations” in more-than-human worlds; Anna Krzywoszynska and Agnese Bankovska

• Re-making relations with corn in pandemic era Mexico. Owen McNamara, Université Libre de Bruxelles
• Mutualism on Australian Heritage Breed Farms. Catie Gressier, University of Western Australia
• Relationship of care in native, endangered and rare breed poultry farming. Domenico Volpicella
• Making good relations with symbiotic ontology . Veera Kinnunen, University of Oulu and Emily Höckert, University of Lapland and Outi Rantala, University of Lapland
• Human bean: More-or-less-than-human relations. Joonas Vola, University of Lapland
  

Pig worlds: understanding porcine multiplicity in the Anthropocene; Kieran O’Mahony and Paul G. Keil and Virginie Vaté

• “Crafting waterworlds with pigs”. Hélène Le Deunff
• “A triangle of pigs, oaks, and men: The emergence of the Iberian pig in modern Spain”. Jan Ketil Simonsen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
• “Becoming pet pig: navigating love, care, and radical multispecies kinship”. Kate Goldie, University of Southampton
• “Relating ‘wild’ (and not so ‘wild’) pig worlds in tumultuous times”. Kieran O'Mahony and Paul G. Keil, Czech Academy of Sciences and Virginie Vaté, Centre national de la recherche scientifique and Czech Academy of Sciences 

Naturecultural communities; Sanna Valkonen and Anne-Maria Magga

• Rewilding, restoring or creating new naturecultures? Revisiting Techno Garden -scenarios and current engineering practices with nature. Hannu I. Heikkinen and Olli Haanpää and Élise Lépy, University of Oulu
• Natureculture and health: Living with mosquitoes and the risk of vector-borne disease in Mauritius. Karine Aasgaard Jansen, Christian Michelsen Institute
• Nature/culture of household food/waste. Ulla-Maija Sutinen, Tampere University
• Implications of Reversing Nature and Culture: A Critique of Viveiros de Castro’s Gesture of Ontologization in Perspectivism and his Decolonial Claims. Ana Abril, Central European University

Affects in relations; Tiina Suopajärvi and Pia Olsson

• Generating hope in academia with affects. Tiina Suopajärvi, University of Turku
• Affective recast of relations in late 2010s Hungary. Annastiina Kallius, University of Helsinki
• Love, Knowledge, and the Ontologization of the Self-in-Relation among Youth in Taiwan. Weining Cheng
• Efficiency and affection in migratory beekeeping. Aline von Atzigen, University of Zurich
• Pathways of Affect: Mapping Transcultural Emotional Journeys of Visitors in a Museum Space. Ranjamrittika Bhowmik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Histories of and from the Circumpolar North; Jaanika Vider

• What Did They Actually See: The Role of Real Contact in Early Ethnographic Accounts of the Indigenous North. Art Leete, Tartu University
• From Collecting to Ordering to the Making of Anthropology. Object Lessons from the North. Jaanika Vider, University of Vienna
• Keeping field relations alive in an era of a new Iron Curtain. Lukas Allemann, University of Lapland
• The Terrain of Anthropology. Reflections from High Arctic Greenland. Kirsten Hastrup, University of Copenhagen
• Roundtable discussion. Peter Schweitzer, University of Vienna
  

Making “good relations” in more-than-human worlds; Anna Krzywoszynska and Agnese Bankovska

• Sustaining life through human and more-than-human work: The case of litter-raking forests in Bela Krajina, Slovenia. Barbara Turk Niskač
• Knowing landscapes: Tracing more-than-human relations in practices of regenerative agriculture. Galina Kallio and Will LaFleur, University of Helsinki
• A new bird in town. Place transformations and shifting more-than-human alliances in times of planetary emergency. Anniken Førde, The Arctic University of Norway
• The Forest in and as the archive: more-than-human relations in the Nordic Museum Collections. Lotten Gustafson and Flora Mary Bartlett
• Building good relations out of stone: dry stone walls as multispecies habitats. Geoffrey Gowlland, University of Geneva

Anthropologies of failure; Tiina Järvi

• “If I would not give a birth to a son, my husband would leave me”: Son preference and reproductive failure in Montenegro. Diāna Kiščenko, Rīga Stradiņš University, PhD student
• Weaving Pashmina in Kashmir: weavers entangling threads of their dreams and failed aspirations. Mir Zeeshan Hyder, MA, Central European University
• Fear of failure in the indigenous animistic context of the coastal Chukotka as a forming factor of the ritual everyday life. Dmitriy Oparin, University of Bordeaux – CNRS
• Uninscribed Heritage: Reflections on the Unaccomplished Nomination of the Local Weaving Tradition of the Hancavičy District (Belarus) on the National Intangible Cultural Heritage Inventory. Siarhiej Makarevich, University of Tartu, PhD Student / Junior Research Fellow
• Failure in the ethnographic research of homelessness. Matija Krizmanić, Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar

Mixed Papers; Ria-Maria Adams

• The Myth of Social Death: Aging, Memory, and Narratives on Dementia Personhood. Jingxuan Xu, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh
• Ageing as a factor in good relations: Tapping into experiential knowledge of older people for shaping future more-than-human relations. Inkeri Aula, PhD, postdoctoral researcher, Aalto University
• Becoming-with plastics: How to deal with inorganic waste materialities in more-than-human research practices. Alma Onali, WasteMatters-project, Tampere University
• Technologies for Maintaining Food Autonomy in the Arctic: Experience of Chukotka Vegetable Growers. Vladimir Davydov
• More-than-human escapes with Plantacionocene's others – exploring what Capoeira Angola might teach us about decolonising human-soil relations in Dutch agriculture. Dienke Stomph, Wageningen University & Research (WUR)

Naturecultural communities; Sanna Valkonen and Anne-Maria Magga

• Ski tourism and relational materiality. Outi Rantala, University of Lapland and Peter Varley, Northumbria University
• André Leroi-Gourhan on the domestication of reindeer: human-non-human environment interaction. Lufeng Xu, École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
• Human-Microbial Relations: The Naturecultures of Vegan Cheeses. Sarah Czerny, University of Rijeka
• Beaver and Human Relations of Prehistoric Hunters of Eastern Finland. Emilia Jääskeläinen, University of Oulu
• Cultivating love in a post-Soviet landscape: an ethnography of human-plant relations in the Belarusian countryside. Aliaksandra Shrubok, Uppsala University

Affects in relations; Tiina Suopajärvi and Pia Olsson

• Researching on race and whiteness in Switzerland. Methodological and epistemological reflections on discomfort. Céline Heini, University of Fribourg
• Coloniality as an Affect of Feeling Not Enough, Ugnė Barbora Starkutė, Vilnius University
• Sensing Remoteness: ethnographic encounters with the post-human in Hornstrandir, Iceland. Justin Armstrong, Wellesley College
• Embracing water, healing pine. Trans-species tactile encounters. Piritta Nätynki and Taina Kinnunen, University of Oulu

Minority Rights, Culture, and Anthropology; Livia Holden and Reetta Toivanen

• Cultural Expertise and Indigenous People. Livia Holden
• The practice of the right to heritage in the Izhemsky district of the Komi Republic (Russia). Karolina Sikora
• Being Komi in the city: identities and belonging . Maria Fedina, Doctoral student/researcher, University of Helsinki
• Correct evidence? A problem with the United Nations Human Rights Committee . Reetta Toivanen