Welcome to the new VisitANTS Fellows

Dear ANTS members and followers,

Please join me in congratulating the new VisitANTS Research Fellows, who will come to Oulu to work within the Biodiverse Anthropocenes programme either from January 2023 or from April 2023 until June 2023. Here they are:

• Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Małgorzata Kowalska (from 1.1.2023 to 30.6.2023). Project title: Nature conservation as more-than-human sociality. Shifting responsibilities and care
• History, Jan Kunnas (from 1.1.2023 to 30.6.2023). Project title: Transfer of agricultural technology and resilience
• Education, And Pasley (from 1.4.2023 to 30.6.2023). Project title: Children’s Entanglements with Biodiverse Temporalities: Reconfiguring Chrononormativities, One Step at a Time
• Ecology, Valentina Todisco (from 1.1.2023 to 30.6.2023). Project title: Evolution under climate change
• Anthropology, Stephan Dudeck, and artist Antti Tenetz (from 1.1.2023 to 31.3.2023). Joint project title: Representation of The Khanty Bear Feast - A transdisciplinary Project with the Surgut Khanty Community Reflecting Multispecies Relations in the Subarctic Environment
• Cultural Studies, Megan Resler (from 1.1.2023 to 30.6.2023). Project title: Mitigating urban biodiversity loss via community-led agroecology: Co-creation at the intersection of domains of transformation
• Cultural Studies, John Ryan (from 1.4.2023 to 30.6.2023). Project title: Illuminating the Lives of Flora: Prospects for the Plant Humanities
• Env Hum, Marcio Da Silva and Claudio De Majo (from 1.4.2023 to 30.6.2023). Joint project title: The Forgotten Green Revolution: The Influence of Nelson Rockefeller’s IRI Research Institute on the Global South During the Great Acceleration
• Visual Culture / Art, Zimu Zhang (from 1.4.2023 to 30.6.2023). Project title: Anthropocene Visuality and Countervisuality in Contemporary Chinese Visual Culture
• Cultural Heritage, Viktoria Peemot (from 1.1.2023 to 30.6.2023). Project title: Sensory Learning with Homelands: Decolonizing Approaches to Human-Nonhuman (Hi)Stories
• History, Viktor Pál (from 1.1.2023 to 31.3.2023). Project title: Ecological-Political Crises and the Rise of Racist Environmental Science in Hungary, 1870s-1940s

Congratulations again and welcome to ANTS!!!