Univ.-Prof. Dr. J. Otto Habeck
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Wissenschaftlicher Werdegang
2020-2025 Mitglied des Nationalkomitees SCAR/IASC
2018 Gastprofessur, Tohoku-Universität in Sendai, Japan (1. April bis 30. Juni)
Seit 2014 Professor am Institut für Ethnologie, Universität Hamburg
2013-2014 Lehrtätigkeit als Privatdozent an der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
2003-2014 Koordinator des Sibirienzentrums am Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung
Sommer 2008 Gastdozent an der Stradina-Universität Riga
Sommer 2006 Gastdozent an der Universität Warschau
1998-2002 Forschungsassistent für Tim Ingold, Universität Aberdeen (EU-geförderte Projekte TUNDRA und SPICE)
1997-2004 Promotionsstudium am Scott Polar Research Institute, Universität Cambridge (wissenschaftlicher Betreuer: Piers Vitebsky, finanzielle Unterstützung der Daimler-Benz-Stiftung)
1993-1997 Studium der Mongolistik an der Humboldt-Universität Berlin (bis zur Zwischenprüfung)
1988-1996 Studium der Geographie, Ethnologie und Geschichte an der Freien Universität Berlin
Forschungsschwerpunkte
- Lebensstile, Distinktion, Exklusion
- Mobilität, Barrieren, Zäune, Zwischenräume
- Landnutzung in Nordeuropa und Innerasien
- Permafrost und Pastoralismus
- Geschichte der Ethnologie/Anthropologie
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Since 2014 Mobility, barriers, fences, interstitial spaces: short-term field research in different cities Photo (left): Repolainen (Mr. Fox) is the mascot of the Revontuli shopping mall in Rovaniemi. The mythical fox is shown on a stained-glass window illuminated from the back. Photo: J. Otto Habeck, 26 July 2024. Forthcoming 2027: "The brutalist beast: navigating Rovaniemi's transient architecture". Forthcoming 2026: "Farewell to non-places: towards an Anthropology of the Deutschland-Ticket". EthnoScripts: Contemporary Anthropology, 28 (1). The lecture series on "Ruins and Lost Places" at the University of Hamburg, organised by Frank Schmitz and J. O. Habeck, resulted in the edited volume Ruinen und vergessene Orte, published by transcript in 2023. https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-6222-1/ruinen-und-vergessene-orte/ In 2019, J. O. Habeck and Jonas Büchel published an essay about Kaunas: "Water Dragon and Cabbage Fields". In: Neugebauer, Carola & Tsypylma Darieva (eds): Urban Activism in Eastern Europe and Eurasia: strategies and practices, pp. 124-137. Berlin: DOM Publishers. J. O. Habeck and G. Belolyubskaya co-authored a paper on "Fences, private and public places, and traversability in a Siberian city" (Yakutsk), published in Cities (2016). Editorial on "Angst in the City", co-authored with Ph. Schröder, in Ethnoscripts, vol. 16, issue 1. |
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Since 2016 Transnational perceptions and practices, Poland and Germany 2026-2027 "The Image of Russia": a comparative study in different regions of Poland and Germany. Co-organised with A. Halemba (Warsaw). Supported by the Polish-German Science Foundation 2016-2018 "Transnational Practices in the Polish-German border region", co-organised with A. Halemba (Warsaw). Supported by the Polish-German Science Foundation Photo (left): Artists and activists at a trans-border event organized by "Nowa Amerika" in May 2016. |
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2020-2025 "CHARTER" (Drivers and Feedbacks of Changes in Arctic Terrestrial Biodiversity), funded by the European Commission under Horizon-2020. Principal investigator: Bruce C. Forbes (University of Lapland, Rovaniemi). J. Otto Habeck coordinates Work Package 3, "Socio-economic impacts of Arctic environmental changes on indigenous populations and local communities" with a specific focus on reindeer herding. |
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Left: Noémie Ross presents a cartoon that summarizes the insights of the below article on reindeer herding in the Northern Urals. © Noémie Ross at Frozen Ground Cartoons 2022-2023 "Permafrost AgroEcoSystems" Action Group of the International Permafrost Association Melissa Ward Jones and co-authors presented a synthesis of permafrost agrarian ecosystems in circumpolar perspective (2024). https://doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2024.2356067 2014-2019 "Permafrost and Culture" Action Group of the International Permafrost Association Susan Crate and co-authors published a paper in Anthropocene on permafrost dynamics and pastoralism in Central Yakutia, Republic of Sakha, Russia (2017). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ancene.2017.06.001 |
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2008-2014 Conditions and Limitations of Lifestyle Plurality in Siberia (Max-Planck-Institute for Social Anthropology) Habeck, Joachim Otto 2019 (ed.). Lifestyle in Siberia and the Russian North. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers (open access). |
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2006-2011 Social significance of the House of Culture (Max-Planck-Institute for Social Anthropology) Two books have ensued from this research: J. O. Habeck, Das Kulturhaus in Russland (published by transcript in 2014) B. Donahoe & J. O. Habeck (eds), Reconstructing the House of Culture (published by Berghahn in 2011) Table of content and introduction of the above volume can be accessed via ResearchGate. Photo: book cover, Reconstructing the House of Culture |
Publikationen
Habeck Joachim Otto (forthcoming). "Farewell to non-places: Towards an Anthropology of the Deutschland-Ticket". EthnoScripts: Contemporary Anthropology, 28 (1).
Habeck Joachim Otto (forthcoming). "The Brutalist Beast: navigating Rovaniemi’s transient architecture". In: Veijola, Soile, Monica Tennberg & Teemu Loikkanen (eds): The Rovaniemi Experience: an Arctic city as the maker of its own landscape. London: Palgrave Macmillan (under review).
Habeck, Joachim Otto & Kirill V. Istomin 2026. "Introducing a special issue: What lessons to be learnt from reindeer-herding research in Russia?" Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice, 16: 15827. https://doi.org/10.3389/past.2026.15827
Istomin, Kirill V. & Joachim Otto Habeck 2026. "Reindeer-herding science in the Soviet Union and Russia: a short historical overview". Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice, 15: 15396. https://doi.org/10.3389/past.2025.15396
Sarkki, Simo, Sirpa Rasmus, Antti-Juhani Pekkarinen, Mikko Jokinen, Tuuli Parviainen, Laura Post, Taru Rikkonen, Jaana Sorvali, Tuulia Väärälä, Joachim Otto Habeck & Jussi T. Eronen 2026. "Adapting in polycrisis: Ensuring access to land as a polysolution for Arctic reindeer herding". AMBIO, 02379. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-026-02379-x
Sarkki, Simo, Sirpa Rasmus, Joachim Otto Habeck, Heidrun Matthes, Mia Pihlajamäki & Jussi & Eronen 2026. "A new scenario architecture to capture granularity of governance within and across Shared Socioeconomic Pathways". Land Use Policy, 164: 107926. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2026.107926
Habeck Joachim Otto 2025. "Nachruf auf Prof. Dr. Jürgen Jensen (1938-2025)". EthnoScripts: Contemporary Anthropology, 27 (1): 213-219. https://doi.org/10.15460/ethnoscripts.2025.27.1.2490
Rasmus, Sirpa, Simo Sarkki, Irina Wang, Philip Burgess, Joachim Otto Habeck, Tim Horstkotte, Mikko Jokinen, Heidrun Matthes, Ilona Mettiäinen, Tuuli Parviainen, Antti-Juhani Pekkarinen, Laura Post, Taru Rikkonen, Jaana Sorvali, Minna Turunen, Tuulia Väärälä & Jussi T. Eronen 2025. "Surprises and Dreams: workshop method to co-create community-based transformative knowledge". The Polar Journal, 15 (2): 1-26. DOI: 10.1080/2154896X.2025.2565959
Habeck, Joachim Otto & Virginie Vaté (eds) 2024 [in press]. Anthropology of Siberia in the Making: openings and closures from 1840 to the present. Berlin/Münster: LIT Verlag. xii, 529 pp. https://lit-verlag.de/isbn/978-3-643-91611-2/ (open access).
Vaté, Virginie & Joachim Otto Habeck 2024 [in press]. "The anthropology of Siberia through time: assessing a rich legacy while facing a clouded future". In: Habeck, Joachim Otto & Virginie Vaté (eds): Anthropology of Siberia in the Making: Anthropology of Siberia in the Making: openings and closures from 1840 to the present, pp. 1-47. Berlin/Münster: LIT Verlag.
Eilola, Salla, Tim Horstkotte, Bruce C. Forbes, Joachim Otto Habeck, Teresa Komu, Sirpa Rasmus, and Nora Fagerholm 2024. "Perceptions on and impacts of environmental changes under multiple stressors: a case study from two subarctic communities in northern Fennoscandia". Regional Environmental Change, 24: 89 (19 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-024-02241-4
Istomin, Kirill, Roza Laptander & Joachim Otto Habeck 2024. "From a cut to a tag: formalization of reindeer marking practice by the state and its consequences in the north of European Russia and Western Siberia". Sibirica: Interdisciplinary Journal of Siberian Studies, 23 (3): 1-37. https://doi.org/10.3167/sib.2024.230301
Laptander, Roza, Tim Horstkotte, Joachim Otto Habeck, Sirpa, Rasmus, Teresa Komu, Heidrun Matthes, Hans Tømmervik, Kirill Istomin, Jussi T. Eronen & Bruce C. Forbes 2024. "Critical seasonal conditions in the reindeer-herding year: a synopsis of factors and events in Fennoscandia and northwestern Russia". Polar Science, 39: 101016. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polar.2023.101016
Rasmus, Sirpa, Johanna Yletyinen, Simo Sarkki, Mia Landauer, Maria Tuomi, Marit K. Arneberg, Jarle W. Bjerke, Dorothee Ehrich, Joachim Otto Habeck, Tim Horstkotte, Sonja Kivinen, Teresa Komu, Timo Kumpula, Leena Leppänen, Heidrun Matthes, Christian Rixen, Sari Stark, Ningning Sun, Hans Tømmervik, Bruce C. Forbes & Jussi T. Eronen 2024. "Policy documents considering biodiversity, land use, and climate in the European Arctic reveal visible, hidden, and imagined nexus approaches". One Earth, 3 January 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2023.12.010
Ward Jones, Melissa, Joachim Otto Habeck, Mathias Ulrich, Susan Crate, Glenna Gannon, Tobias Schwoerer, Benjamin Jones, Mikhail Kanevskiy, Prashant Baral, Amina Maharjan, Jakob Steiner, Andrew Spring, Mindy Jewell Price, David Bysouth, Bruce C. Forbes, Mariana Verdonen, Timo Kumpula, Jens Strauss, Torben Windirsch, Christopher Poeplau, Yuri Shur, Benjamin Gaglioti, Nicholas Parlato, Fulu Tao, Merritt Turetsky, Stephanie Grand, Adrian Unc & Nils Borchard 2024. "Socio-ecological dynamics of diverse global permafrost-agroecosystems under environmental change". Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 56 (1): 2356067. https://doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2024.2356067
Habeck, Joachim Otto 2025. "Arrivals and Departures: the shifting 'forefield' of anthropological research in Russia from a personal perspective". In: Kasten, Erich, Igor Krupnik & Gail Fondahl (eds): A Fractured North: Maintaining Connections, pp. 49-68. Fürstenberg/Havel: Kulturstiftung Sibirien.
Sarkki, Simo, Sirpa Rasmus, Joachim Otto Habeck, Heidrun Matthes, Mia Pihlajamäki & Jussi T. Eronen 2025. "Exploring the land-use futures related to reindeer herding in Finland through 'wild logic' scenarios". Journal of Land Use Science, 20 (1): 151-175. DOI: 10.1080/1747423X.2025.2504420
Habeck, Joachim Otto & Mathias Ulrich (2026). "What is it like to live with/without permafrost? Cattle, sheep, horses, reindeer and their herders in Sub-Polar and Inner-Asian regions". In: Wolfram, Sabine & Svend Hansen (eds): On Melting Ground (Kolloquien zur Vor- und Frühgeschichte, vol. 29), pp. 103-115. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
Laptander, Roza, Tim Horstkotte, Joachim Otto Habeck, Sirpa, Rasmus, Teresa Komu, Heidrun Matthes, Hans Tømmervik, Kirill Istomin, Jussi T. Eronen & Bruce C. Forbes 2023. "Critical seasonal conditions in the reindeer-herding year: A synopsis of factors and events in Fennoscandia and northwestern Russia". Polar Science, 101016. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polar.2023.101016
Rasmus, Sirpa, Johanna Yletyinen, Simo Sarkki, Mia Landauer, Maria Tuomi, Marit K. Arneberg, Jarle W. Bjerke, Dorothee Ehrich, Joachim Otto Habeck, Tim Horstkotte, Sonja Kivinen, Teresa Komu, Timo Kumpula, Leena Leppänen, Heidrun Matthes, Christian Rixen, Sari Stark, Ningning Sun, Hans Tømmervik, Bruce C. Forbes & Jussi T. Eronen 2024. "Policy documents considering biodiversity, land use, and climate in the European Arctic reveal visible, hidden, and imagined nexus approaches". One Earth, 3 January 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2023.12.010
Rasmus, Sirpa, Roza Laptander, Joachim Otto Habeck, Tim Horstkotte, Kirill Istomin, Teresa Komu, Heidrun Matthes, Simo Sarkki, Hans Tømmervik, Irina Wang, Bruce C. Forbes & Jussi T. Eronen (SUBMITTED). "Rethinking adaptation of traditional livelihoods in a rapidly changing Arctic". Submitted to Nature Sustainability (Analysis).
Habeck, Joachim Otto 2020. "Private-in-the-collective: comparing the history and legacy of sovkhoism in Poland and Germany". REGION: Regional Studies of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia, 9 (1): 117-138.
Beloliubskaia, Galina & Joachim Otto Habeck [Khabek] 2020. "Zhilishchnaia mobil'nost', lichnoe prostranstvo i osobennosti gorodskogo razvitiia Yakutska" [Housing mobility, personal space, and peculiarities of the development of Yakutsk]. In: Shabaev, Yurii et al. (red.): Antropologiia goroda, vol. 2: Severnyi gorod: kul'turnoe prostranstvo i kul'turnye identichnosti v arkticheskikh i subarkticheskikh gorodakh, pp. 151-173. Moskva: RGGU; Syktyvkar: Institut yazyka, literatury i istorii Komi Nauchnogo Tsentra.
Habeck, Joachim Otto 2021. "Im Souterrain: das Seminar für Völkerkunde der Universität Hamburg in den 1970er Jahren" [In the basement: the institute of ethnology at the University of Hamburg in the 1970s]. In: Nicolaysen, Rainer, Eckart Krause und Gunnar B. Zimmermann (eds): 100 Jahre Universität Hamburg: Studien zur Hamburger Universitäts- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte in vier Bänden, vol. 3. Göttingen: Wallstein.
Habeck, Joachim Otto 2022. "Ulla Johansen (1927-2021)". Nachruf [Obituary]. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie: Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology, 147 (1-2): 211-214.
Habeck, Joachim Otto & Agnieszka Halemba 2022. "Direkte Nachbarschaft in der Grenzregion: Erwartungen und Herausforderungen". In: Dahl, Martin, Magdalena Lemańczyk, Peter Oliver Loew & Agnieszka Łada-Konefał (eds): Von der Versöhnung zur Alltäglichkeit? 30 Jahre deutsch-polnische Nachbarschaft, pp. 99-112. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
Habeck, Joachim Otto & Agnieszka Halemba 2022. "Bezpośrednie sąsiedztwo w regionie przygranicznym: oczekiwania i wyzwania" [Immediate neighbourhood in the border region: expectations and challenges]. In: Dahl, Martin, Magdalena Lemańczyk, Peter Oliver Loew & Agnieszka Łada-Konefał (eds): Od pojednania do codzienności? 30 lat polsko-niemieckiego sąsiedztwa. Warszawa: Instytut Studiów Politycznych Polskiej Akademii Nauk.
Istomin, Kirill, Joachim Otto Habeck & Roza Laptander 2022. "Reindeer Herding Statistics in Russia: issues of reliability, interpretation, and political effect". Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice, 12(1): 19. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13570-022-00233-9
Habeck, Joachim Otto & Frank Schmitz (eds) 2023. Ruinen und vergessene Orte: Materialität im Verfall – Nachnutzungen – Umdeutungen [Ruins and lost places: materiality in decay – after-use – re-interpretations]. Bielefeld: transcript.
Vollständige Publikationsliste
Vorträge
2026 Joachim Otto Habeck & Virginie Vaté: "The anthropology of Siberia as a polarized field: from the Soviet period to today". European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Conference, Poznań (24 July)
2026 Joachim Otto Habeck, Avirmed Dashtseren and Gansukh Tsogt-Erdene: "Prospects for land-management strategies and transdisciplinary research in a permafrost region of northern Mongolia". Third Asian Conference on Permafrost (ACOP3), Ulaanbaatar (30 June)
2025 "Indigene Perspektiven auf Gender im Kontext patriotischer Diskurse in Russland" [Indigenous perspectives on gender in the context of patriotic discourse in Russia]. Lecture as part of the lecture series on Gender and Sexuality in East Europe, Central East Europe and the Caucasus, Universität Hamburg (10 December)
2024 Ferienakademie "Tauzone: Polargebiete im Wandel" [Summer School: "Thawing Zone: Polar regions under changing conditions]. Workshop lectures, invited by Cusanuswerk e.V. Bischöfliche Studienförderung. Haus Werdenfels, Nittendorf (21-23 August)
2024 "Eight Answers to the question if ethnographic research in Asian Russia has fared well or got shipwrecked with colonial/decolonial ambitions (1724-2024)". Lecture as part of the DGSKA Lecture Series on Decolonizing Anthropology (16 May)
2024 "What happens if permafrost is going to vanish? Interactions of pastoralism and environmental change in Russia and Mongolia". Invited lecture, The Cambridge Russian-Speaking Society's Lectures on Geography of Russia. Cambridge (9 February)
2024 "Arrivals and Departures: The shifting 'pre-field' of anthropological research in Russia – an outsider’s perspective". Invited lecture, Siberian Studies Seminar, organised by Dmitriy Oparin (Passages) & Virginie Vaté (GSRL). École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Campus Condorcet, Aubervilliers/Paris (7 February)
2023 "Insights from other regions: shifting seasons, artificial feeding, and prospects for the next generation of reindeer herders". CHARTER and Fæmund Project Workshop, Røros (15 August)
2023 Joachim Otto Habeck, Avirmed Dashtseren & Gansukh Tsogterdene: “Drivers of dryness? Exploring the interaction of permafrost and land use in northern Mongolia”. Sixth European Conference on Permafrost (EUCOP6), Puigcerdà (19 June)
2023 "The time of the operator: a missing piece in the social study of telecommunication and infrastructure". Conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society, Rovaniemi (23 March)
2023 “Crumbling materiality and unintended afterlives: transdisciplinary approaches to the study of ruins and lost places". Conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society, Rovaniemi (22 March)
2022 "How many colours of camouflage? Norms and ideals of masculinity and hyper-masculinity in Russia’s resourceful frontier". Invited lecture, 36th International Abashiri Symposium: Northern Indigenous Cultures and Gender, Hokkaido Museum of Northern Peoples, Abashiri (15 October)
2022 Joachim Otto Habeck & Galina Belolyubskaya: "Gorodskie ograzhdeniia, dostupnost' i osobennosti chastno-publichnykh prostranstv Yakutska" [Urban fences, accessibility, and particularities of public-prviate spaces of Yakutsk]. International Scientific and Practical Conference "Antropologiia cheloveka v Arktike: sovremennye vyzovy, North-Eastern Federal University, Yakutsk (9 February)
2022 "Klimawandel im hohen Norden Russlands: Wie Rentierhirten die Veränderungen in der Tundra beschreiben" [Cimate change in the Far North of Russia: how reindeer herders describe the changes in the tundra]. Lecture series, East European Studies, University of Hamburg (12 January)
2021 "Legacies of the Cold War: Symbolic and subcultural re-appropriations of former Soviet barracks in East Germany". Invited lecture, Forschungskolloquium Ethnologie, Universität Luzern (23 November)
2021 "What is it like to live with/without permafrost? Cattle, sheep, horses, reindeer and their herders in sub-polar and inner-Asian regions". Conference "On Melting Ground: Arctic Archaeology". Sächsisches Museum für Archäologie Chemnitz (20 October)
2021 Stephan Dudeck & Joachim Otto Habeck: "'Life is peaceful there': the many unforeseen afterlives of former Soviet army barracks around Berlin, Germany". GAA (German Association of Anthropologists Conference 2021, Bremen (30 September)
2021 Joachim Ottoo Habeck & Agnieszka Halemba: "Bezpośrednie sąsiedztwo w regionie przygranicznym: oczekiwania i wyzwania" [Immediate neighbourhood in the border area: expectations and challenges]. Presentation at the conference "Od pojednania do codzienności? 30 lat polsko-niemieckiego sąsiedztwa", Instytut Studiów Politycznych PAN; Deutsches Polen-Institut Darmstadt; Uczelnia Łazarskiego Warszawa (18 June)
2021 Stephan Dudeck, Joachim Otto Habeck & Christian Habeck: "Whatever happened to the poligon? Intended and unintended uses of military infrastructure". International Conference on Arctic Social Sciences, Arkhangel'sk (19 June)
2021 Hjalti Ómar Ágústsson, Takeshi Benjamín Kaji, Stephan Dudeck, Joachim Otto Habeck, Gudbjörg Ríkey Th. Hauksdóttir, Embla Eir Oddsdóttir, Gertrude Saxinger, Federica Scarpa, Kyle Shaughnessy & Alex Wilson: "Arctic Queer Communities". International Conference on Arctic Social Sciences, Arkhangel'sk (16 June)
2021 "Issledovanie mnogoobraziia stilei zhizni v gorodakh i perifereinykh arealakh Rossii" [Studying the diversity of lifestyles in cities and remote areas of Russia]. Presentation at the conference "Vostokovedcheskie issledovaniia 2021", Ufa State Petroleum Technological University, Ufa (18 March)
2020 With Stephan Dudeck: "Prolegomeny k programme gendernykh antropologicheskikh issledovanii na rossiiskom Severe" [Prolegomena for an anthropological gender research programme in the Russian North]. Presentation at the conference on Legal Anthropology, North-Western Federal University (SVFU), Yakutsk (19 November)
2020 "Queer Rights in the Arctic". Panelist for the Icelandic Arctic Talks, "Current Challenges and Future Perspectives of Arctic Youth – Rural Areas and LGBTI Communities" co-organised by the Arctic Council, Reykjavík (20 October)
2020 "Stakeholder involvement and participatory research: how do they work in practice?" Presentation at the workshop "Methods and Ethics in Transformative Arctic Research" organised by the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Potsdam (25 September)
2020 "Future prospects of post-industrial towns". Presentation for students at the University of Petroșani, Department of Sociology and Social Work, Petroșani (10 March)
2019 Halemba, Agnieszka, J. Otto Habeck & Isabel Cellati: "Życie na granicy - transnarodowe praktyki mieszkańców polsko-niemieckiego pogranicza" [Life at the border: transnational practices of inhabitants of the Polish-German border region]. Workshop of perspektywa, "Vom Grenzraum zum Begegnungsraum. Engagement und Bürgerbeteiligung auf dem Dorf" [From a border space towards a meeting space: social commitment and citizens’ participation in the countryside], Groß Pinnow (29 November)
2019 "Aufs Rentier gekommen: Rentierhaltung im Hohen Norden Russlands in sowjetischer und heutiger Zeit" [Reindeer herding in the Far North of Russia in Soviet times and at present]. Interessengemeinschaft Tunneltal, Public Library of Ahrensburg (10 October)
2019 "Recollecting 'sustainable development' in research and regional politics of northern Russia". Biannual Conference of the German Anthropological Association (DGSKA-Tagung), Konstanz (30 September)
2019 "Engagement with land use conflicts in the North of Russia: lessons from Anthropology". Inter-Congress of IUAES (International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences) on “World Solidarities”, Poznań, (28 September)
2019 Dudeck, Stephan & J. Otto Habeck: “Gender in Arctic Communities”. Presentation at the workshop “Gateway to the Arctic Workshop VI. Perceiving Arctic Change: Climate, Society and Sustainability”, Bremerhaven (27. März)
2019 Habeck, J. Otto & Mathias Ulrich: “Permafrost and pastoral land use: environmental and social-economic dynamics under conditions of past and current climate change”. Arctic Science Summit Week, Arkhangelsk (22 March)
2018 Habeck, J. Otto & Joseph Long: “Travel Biography Interviews and Photo Elicitation as Methods for Studying Lifestyle in Russia”. Presentation at the workshop “Translocal Ethnographies of Mobilities and Boundaries”, Humboldt-Universität Berlin (7. Dezember)
2018 “Plurality of research methods: empirical studies on urban youth and social change and below”. Presentation at the workshop “Overcoming the distance – urban pioneers in Eastern Europe”, ZOIS (Centre for East European International Studies) Berlin (23. Oktober)
2018 “Land improvement under conditions of permafrost: melioratsiia and intended forms of environmental change in Soviet Yakutia”. Presentation at Mie University, Tsu, Japan (17. Juni)
2017 Habeck, J. Otto & Mathias Ulrich: “How to Study an Exemplary Social-Ecological System: Pastoralism in a Permafrost Landscape”. Arctic Science Summit Week, Prague (4. April)
2017 Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv, May-Britt Öhman, Brenda Parlee, Olga Ulturgasheva, J. Otto Habeck & Virginie Vaté: "Roundtable: Gender, Gender Studies, and gendered science in the Far North and the Arctic", Ninth International Conference on Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS IX), Umeå (9. Juni)
2017 Agnieszka Halemba & J. Otto Habeck: " Life at the border: insights from a Polish-German anthropological field research co-laboratory", Ethnologisches Kolloquium, Hamburg (18. April)
2017 "Nomadenlager und Eigentumswohnung: Veränderungen der Umweltwahrnehmung beim Übergang von mobilen zu festen Wohnformen" [Nomadic camp and individually owned flat: changes in the perception of the environment in the transition from mobile to sedentary forms of dwelling], Archäologisches Museum Hamburg (9. März)
2017 "Remoteness as an asset", International Conference on "Gender Shifts and Resource Politics in the Arctic", Uppsala (21.-23. Februar)
2016 Agnieszka Halemba & J. Otto Habeck: "New Directions in the Polish-German borderland – Towards a Pomeranian or Some Different Identification?", First Tomsk Forum on Anthropology (Antropologiia v poiskakh novogo yazyka opisaniia), Tomsk (15. September)
2016 Keynote Speech, “Livelihoods on Frozen Ground: Why Permafrost Matters to Indigenous Communities in Siberia and Elsewhere”, XI International Conference on Permafrost (ICOP), Potsdam (24. Juni)
2016 Presentation, Young Researchers’ Workshop at the XI International Conference on Permafrost (ICOP), Potsdam (18. Juni)
2016 "Feldforschung in Sibirien (Jakutsk) 2015: Forschungsergebnisse und Eindrücke aus dem heutigen Russland" [Fied research in Siberia, Yakutsk 2015: research results and impressions from contemporary Russia]". Vortrag für den Verein der Freunde des Museums für Völkerkunde Hamburg (27. April)
2016 Presentation at the Symposium "Do we speak the same language of science?", Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW), Fairbanks, Alaska (13. März)
2016 "The Anthropology of Waiting: A Siberian perspective". Internationale Tagung "Infrastructure in the Arctic (and Elsewhere) as a Social and Ecological Challenge", Wien (15.-16. Januar)
2015 "Wohnkultur in Sibirien: Mobilität – Territorialität – Abgrenzung" [Cultivating homes in Siberia: mobility – territoriality – distinction]. Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte, Berlin (7. Dezember)
2015 J. Otto Habeck & Galina Belolyubskaya: "Fences and private/public spaces in a Siberian city". Tagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde, Marburg (Germany) (2. Oktober)
2015 "Zwischen Eiswüste und Gemüsegarten: Rentierhirten im Hohen Norden Russlands" [Between ice desert and vegetable plot: reindeer herders in the Far North of Russia]. Evangelische Studentengemeinde, Rostock (13. Mai)
2015 Kirill Istomin & J. Otto Habeck: "Permafrost and indigenous land use in the Northern Urals: Komi and Nenets reindeer husbandry". Poster presentation, Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW), Toyama (28.-29. April)
2014 “Hangover: eine kulturvergleichende Betrachtung des Umgangs mit den Folgen exzessiven Alkoholkonsums” [Hangover: a cross-cultural perspective on how to tackle the consequences of excessive alcohol consumption]. Jüdisches Krankenhaus Berlin (25. September)
2014 “Make Love Fake War: playgrounds for adults in post-Soviet space“. Survival Kit 6 – Symposium: “Urban Utopia: art and culture as a tool for exploring and researching a city”, Riga (13. September)
2014 “The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Herdsman: mobility, management and herding techniques in Russian reindeer husbandry since the 1920s”. Internationale Tagung “On the Road: bioarchaeological and cultural scientific aspects of non-sedentary communities”, Berlin (16. Mai)
2014 “Lifestyle in Siberia: how social theory of Western Europe plays out in post-Soviet Asia”. Invited lecture, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Durham (30. Januar
Tagungen und Workshops
2027 (geplant) Organisation der Tagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie (DGSKA), 27 September-1 October, Hamburg, Germany (mit Can Akin, Jonas Bens, Julia Pauli, Michael Schnegg)
2025 Organisation des Panels "Changing practices of commoning and egalitarian relations in the Arctic region and Siberia: new forms of governance and social activism". Biannual DGSKA Conference, 1 October, Cologne, Germany (mit Sophie Elixhauser and Gertrude Saxinger)
2025 Organisation des Panels "Gender, diversity, equity, and inclusion in Polar research: where do we stand, and what's next in the ICARP IV and IPY 5 planning process?" Arctic Science Summit Week/International Conference on Arctic Research Planning, 26 March, Boulder CO, United States of America (mit Tahnee Prior and Malgorzata Smieszek-Rice)
2024 Organisation des Panels "Toward equitable Arctic Observing Systems – tracking human wellbeing and advancing environmental observations through societal and intersectional lenses", Arctic Observing Summit, 27 March, Edinburgh, United Kingdom (mit Tahnee Prior, Malgorzata Smieszek, Renuka Badhe, Michael Karcher and Gertrude Saxinger)
2023 Organisation des Panels "Fences and walls: materializing and contesting borders". Biannual DGSKA Conference, 27 July, Munich, Germany (mit Julia Pauli)
2023 Organisation des Panels "Permafrost and society: how do changes in permafrost systems interact with social and cultural dynamics, economies, industries, and food systems". Sixth European Conference on Permafrost, 18-22 June, Puigcerdà, Spain (mit Melissa Ward Jones and Justine Ramage)
2023 Organisation des Workshops, IASC cross-cutting funded project "Representations of Gender in Northern Arts and Sciences" (workshop and exhibition), Arctic Science Summit Week 2023, Vienna, 23 February (mit Gertrude Saxinger)
2021 Organisation des Workshops "Anthropology of Siberia in the late 19th and 20th centuries: re-assessing the contribution of a ‘marginal’ field". Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, 10-12 March (mit Dmitriy A. Funk and Virginie Vaté)
2020 Organisation des Workshops "Gender in Polar Research: gendered fieldwork conditions, epistemologies and legacies". Online workshop at the Arctic Science Summit Week 2020, Akureyri, 30 March (mit Gertrude Saxinger, Stephan Dudeck und Katariina Kyrölä).
2019 Organisation des Workshops “Permafrost and pastoral land use in Mongolia: environmental and social-economic dynamics under conditions of past and current climate change”, Ulaanbaatar, 20-24 March 2019 (mit A. Dashtseren)
2019 “De//kolonisiert? Indigenität, Subjektivität, Souveränität”, Hamburg, 8-10 February 2019 (mit Andreas Womelsdorf und Gertrude Saxinger)
2018 “Queering Indigeneity: Indigenous Queer Intersections in the Arctic”, Oulu, 6 September 2018, workshop as side meeting of the UArctic Congress (mit Gertrude Saxinger, Rauna Kuokkanen und Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv)
2017 Organisation des Workshops " Permafrost dynamics and indigenous land use in the Northern Urals: Combining insights of local land users, environmental and social scientists", Vorkuta, 24.-27. September (mit Kirill Istomin, Vladimir Yelsakov und Mathias Ulrich)
2017 Organisation der Tagung "Gender Shifts and Resource Politics in the Arctic", Uppsala, 21.-23. Februar (mit Vladislava Vladimirova und Yulian Konstantinov)
2016 Organisation des Workshops "Gender Asymmetry in Northern Communities (Perspectives from the Margins)", Küstrinchen bei Lychen, 25.-28. Januar (mit Stephan Dudeck)
2015 Organisation des Workshops "Yakutsk PaC 2015" – Field Workshop der Arbeitsgruppe "Permafrost and Culture" der IPA (International Permafrost Association), Jakutsk, 20.-24. Juli (mit Roman Desyatkin, Aleksandr Fedorov und Mathias Ulrich)
2014 Organisation des Workshops "Permafrost Dynamics and Indigenous Land Use", Helsinki, 6.-7. April (mit Hiroki Takakura)
2012 Organisation der Tagung "Deutsch-Russische Begegnungen 2012: Vom Sammeln zum Systematisieren" (Aufbau von Klassifizierungs- und Taxonomiesystemen für verschiedene Wissenschaftszweige in Russland im 18. Jahrhundert). Franckesche Stiftungen zu Halle, 17.-21. Oktober (mit Wieland Hintzsche, Halle, und anderen)