Roadsides 15 :: Cryosphere is out This collection conceptualizes the changing cryosphere as infrastructure. It foregrounds snow and ice as more-than-physical assemblages utilized and co-created by humans and non-human worlds. #infrastructures #sts #anthropology www.roadsides.net/collections/...

CFP for "Disaster and Vulnerability in Asia’s Highest Borderlands: Understanding Geological, Cosmological, Human and Multispecies Agency" Deadline 1 June, workshop March 2027, Bhutan www.iias.asia/events/disas...

Call for Papers. Doing research on how the railway has been experienced and imagined? Join our conference on "Imagining the Railway from 1900 to the Present: People, Infrastructres, Texts"! (Åbo Akademi University, Finland, 1-3 April 2027) #railway #transportation #train #mobility #publictransport

CFP for workshop at Tallinn University on Unsettling Borderlands, for scholars who work on multispecies/border issues borderlab.eu/events/works...

Reposting, deadline for abstracts is on 15 March

I'm excited to announce a cfa for Roadsides' fall issue on 'Markets as Infrastructures.' Together with Hasan H. Karrar we edit this issue and we look forward to receiving abstracts from far and wide, incl. #economicanthropology #politicaleconomy #decolonialstudies www.roadsides.net/collections/...

"Are you a visual ethnographer exploring questions in medical anthropology through film? Do you want to join one of the largest anthropology departments in Europe with a vibrant visual and medical anthropology community?" We're hiring... werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

The Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology is hiring a new editorial team www.linkedin.com/posts/felix-...

New Mobility Humanities special issue on "Aspirations of Flight", edited by Weiqiang Lin and Benjamin Londer. Some excellent articles here journal-mobilityhumanities.com

And one postdoc position in Amsterdam on "Activist Infrastructures in Asian Diaspora" werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Three PhD positions in Amsterdam for the project, "AlterTech - Activist Infrastructures in Asia" werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

If you're interested in where I've been, where I'm heading, and my thoughts about anthropology these days, here's a recent video interview for the Amsterdam Anthropologies Series www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfZH...

The new @roadsides.bsky.social collection is out, on Foodways! An excellent issue, edited by the fab @dollykikon.bsky.social and @mattrest.bsky.social www.roadsides.net/collections/...

CFP for the new @roadsides.bsky.social issue, CRYOSPHERE. roadsides.net/call-for-pap... "Snow and ice have long served as vital resources for human and non-human inhabitants of this planet. Today the world is experiencing immense changes to the cryosphere."

Tourism + Aeromobilities abstract deadline extended to 30 Sept

CFP for a workshop on Arboreal Nationalism: when Trees become Instruments of Politics, 1-2 Dec in Amsterdam. Abstracts due 1 Sept. www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-j...

We've got a call for papers out for a special issue on Aeromobilities in Tourism Geographies! Abstract deadline 1 Sept. www.tgjournal.com/aeromobiliti...

👩‍🎓 Tomorrow at 11:00, PhD candidate Shivani Kaul (Anthropology) defends the thesis 'A Tendrel Logic. Growing Humans Otherwise During the Golden 1000 Days in Bhutan'. Supervised by @tinahonjo.bsky.social & @eyatesd.bsky.social. 🍀 Good luck, Shivani! 🎥 Watch live here: www.uva.nl/en/content/e...

Furious with the emails I just received informing us that AUP - and the Asian Borderlands book series that I've co-edited for years with Willem van Schendel - has been acquired by Taylor & Francis. None of us knew that this was in the works. But maybe after AUP privatisation in 2019, no surprise.

ABRN Asian Borderlands conference abstract deadline extended to 20 May www.iias.asia/programmes/a...

Essay contest on bordering! borderlab.eu/news/call-fo...

Roadsides 013: Toxic Infrastructures is done! Congratulations to all contributors and guest editors Janine Hauer and Nikolaos Olma. We will publish all articles over the next few days: roadsides.net/collection-n...

Postdoc position for someone with expertise in cultural anthropology, critical urban studies, and/or STS as part of The Cultures of the Cryosphere project www.kulturwissenschaften.de/wp-content/u...

📣 excited to announce a 2-year post-doc at the University of Amsterdam @rpa-cs-uva.bsky.social on government responses to displacement project w/ me, @stephrschwartz.bsky.social & Adam Lichtenheld. - Closing date 30 April, starts fall 2025. - More info & to apply: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Food folks! Here is a new Roadsides call for papers on food and infrastructure, edited by the wonderful duo of Matthäus Rest and Dolly Kikon. Deadline for abstracts is 13 April, issue out in Nov 2025 roadsides.net/call-for-pap...

Join us this year in #Amsterdam to explore: 🚲 Creative approaches to promoting #cycling 🧐 Using cycling to rethink #assumptions about mobility 🔬 Critical approaches to transport technology and #innovation Call 4 Abstracts: pretalx.com/cycling-rese... (b4 March 24) More at cyclingresearchboard.com

roadsides.net is now on Bluesky :) bsky.app/profile/road...

PhD in Iranian Secular Visual Culture www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

Call for Contributions, Symposium: "Foraging Futures: Human-Environment Relations in a Changing World" October 3–7, 2025 | Triglav National Park, Slovenia foraging.work/symposium/

🎯 Join the Eur-Asian Border Lab’s One-Day Workshop on April 16, 2025, at Tallinn University! Why should you attend?

Call for Applications: Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Modern Tibetan Studies weai.columbia.edu/news/call-ap...

Asian Borderlands conference announcement (relocated and postponed) 13-15 January, 2026 - still open for submissions! www.iias.asia/events/negot...

Two PhD Positions in Cultural Anthropology in the project, "Diversity Outdoors" www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...

Two PhD positions at Leiden University: “Climate Citizenship: Infrastructures, Environments, and Democracy in the Era of Climate Change" (Tokyo and Louisiana) www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...

Infrastructure folks! CFP: “Beyond Infrastructure? (Un-)built Environments in the Anthropocene” @infranortherc.bsky.social infranorth.eu/news/call-fo...

Call for postdoctoral researchers in border studies at Tallinn University borderlab.eu/news/call-fo...

PhD position in Artistic Research - looks interesting indeed merianmaastricht.nl/2025/01/16/p...

Call for Abstracts, "Exploring Movement in (Ethnographic) Method: Space, Time and Theory" (due 1 March) 1-day symposium on 28 May 2025 at the University of Cambridge, UK docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Positions in Geography at the UvA: 1 Postdoc position on “Methodological and Ethical Aspects of Research on Digital Geographies of Urban Illicit Economies” werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Positions in the Geography Dept. at the UvA: 2 PhD positions on "Digital Geographies of Urban Drug Markets in Amsterdam and Rio de Janeiro" werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

No, this is neither an electrocardiogram nor a pilot trying to sign a document. This is an airplane flying in GPS jamming. The number of areas with GPS jamming has increased in the past year, which can affect the data that the airplane's transponder sends out.

📢📢📢Exciting news! James W Scott and I have assumed a new role as Section Editors for the Oxford Intersection on #BORDERS. Our section focuses on Theory and Practice. If interested in contributing to this new interdisciplinary resource, please get in touch: academic.oup.com/intersection...

Three postdoc positions on illicit labour in solar panel production qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/...

Call for applications: B-Shapes Summer School on borders and Europe www.eurac.edu/en/institute... application deadline 31 Jan

A brilliant debunking for all transport + border studies nerds

Susan Vanek of @infranortherc.bsky.social on the promises and concerns of the new international airport in Nuuk, Greenland infranorth.eu/blog/connect...

Three (!) PhD positions in Border Studies at the Karelian Institute at the University of Eastern Finland uef.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Summer School opportunity for early career researchers working on border issues: "Testing Border Theories and Concepts Across Regions," Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, 2-6 June, 2025 borderlab.eu/activities/b...

The South Asia Institute at the University of Heidelberg is looking to appoint an anthropologist, and the search is open rank. Please share: www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/en/newsroom/...

First post on here: check out "Infrastructural Anxieties," the newest issue of Roadsides, edited by Mikel Venhovens and Mona Chettri. Articles (open access) will be posted throughout the week. roadsides.net/collection-n...