We invite paper proposals for our panel “Infrastructures: Questions, Debates, and Directions” at the Vienna Anthropology Days (VANDA) 2027, hosted by the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology...

We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for VANDA 2027, open until 12 October 2026.

Less Arctic sea ice could mean more ship traffic at the Port of Churchill. But climate-related disruptions are making the railway that serves the port vulnerable to disruptions.

Paper: Philipp Budka (University of Vienna) Comments: Alexander Knorr (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich)

Tanja Ahlin*When I first introduced the notion of "field events" with my co-author Fangfang Li (Ahlin and Li 2019), digital technologies were becoming more common in ethnographic fieldwork, b

People in Nigeria and India are strapping iPhones onto their heads and recording themselves doing chores.

Digital Commons: Infrastructures, Design, and the Ethics of Autonomy Call for Papers and PanelsCo-organized by the Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University & the Institute of Infor...

I found a way to make AI tell you lies – and I'm not the only one.

13 February

On Monday, February 9, 2026, from 3:00 to 5:00 pm (GMT), InfraNorth researcher Philipp Budka will deliver a guest talk as part of the seminar series of the Department of Social Anthropology at the Uni...

The Journal of Contemporary Ethnography has recently published the article “Scenarios and Ethnography: Infrastructural Futures as Windows into the Present” by Peter Schweitzer, Olga Povoroznyuk, Phili...

The claim that AI can’t make meaning contradicts what researchers are finding when they put these tools to careful, critical use, says James Goh

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Yannick Nézet-Séguin's journey to conducting the Vienna Philharmonic's New Year’s Day concert began when he stepped in for a banned Russian conductor at Carnegie Hall in 2022.

The forthcoming special issue “Ethnographies of Infrastructure” of the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, guest edited by Philipp Budka, Peter Schweitzer, and Olga Povoroznyuk, is progressively bein...

With the world’s soccer fans watching, Gianni Infantino, the great toady to the globe’s oligarchs, handed a made-up award to the increasingly violent US president.