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In December 2023, the PORTS research group and the Container ships team gathered in Gdańsk for an international workshop and a closing conference.

In May 2023, the PORTS group, together with colleagues working on similar issues, held a workshop at the Norwegian Institute at Athens.

Dr. Elizabeth A. Sibilia’s reflection during a recent visit with her Rotterdam based colleague Dr. Vinzenz Baumer Escobar, and Dr. Hege Høyer Leivestad’s report on her visit to Hamburg, where Dr. Elisabeth Schober is currently doing fieldwork.

EASA Belfast 2022 Commons, Hope and the Commons. 17^th Biannual conference of the European Anthropological Association

Submit an abstract to the panel: "Logistical Transformations: Supply Chains and the Politics of Circulation" at this year's EASA conference in Belfast 26-29 July.

Social anthropology master's student Simon Roy is writing his thesis on the Port of Rotterdam in participation with the PORTS project. His focus is on the negotiation of a proposed energy transition and the related socio-material dynamics between the port industry and villages that surround the port. What are the obstacles for change and how de we overcome them in the transition away from fossil-fuel industries? 

UIO recently published an article about the collaboration (in Norwegian). Read more here.

After many months of Covid-related travel disruptions, the core group of researchers of PORTS managed to assemble in one location for the first time. 

"Nature"-Interview with Elisabeth Schober about how Covid-19 has affected the ongoing research project "Ports".

Container ships are getting ever bigger. Social anthropologists show in a new article that such growth is not financially, ecologically or socially sustainable.

«In this current time of crisis, it is arguably more important than ever to look at how supply chains function, and what role maritime trade plays in keeping our world spinning,» says Elisabeth Schober. The anthropologist is doing research on shipping and maritime logistics.