Curriculum Vitae
Name: Anna Loppacher
Current affiliation: PhD student, UiT the Arctic University of Norway; member of CASE FCTAS RAS
Nationality: Swiss
Born: 7thof April 1990
Address: Holmboeveien 11, 9010 Tromsø (Norway)
E-mail: anna.loppacher@uit.no; anna.l.hd@gmail.com
Mobile phone: (+47) 468 08 603
Research interests: Migration, Majority-minority group relations, Refugees, Indigenous peoples, political and institutional processes, language, identity, contextualisation, the pre-entified.
Academic achievements
Presentations
14th-17thof August 2018: European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) biennial conference, Stockholm University, Stockholm. Presentation of paper at a panel entitled ‘Pedagogies on the move: parenting interventions in transcultural and minoritarian contexts’, title of the paper: Parenting in the gaze of institutions – and what individuals do about it. Insights and reflections from fieldwork in Northern Norway. (The presentation was held in English).
4th-6thof May 2018: Norwegian Anthropological Association (NAF) annual conference, UiT, the Arctic University of Norway,Tromsø. Presentation of paper at a panel entitled ‘Ethical guidelines and exploration of “the untold”’, title of the paper: Gatekeepers, informed consent, and “the untold”. Reflections around the analytical value of problems getting access to the field and ethical challenges when recording such instances as data.(The presentation was held in Norwegian).
22ndof November 2017: International seminar ‘Migration Processes of the Barents Region and Migration Policy’, Kirkenes, co-organised by the Barents Institute (UiT the Arctic University of Norway) and Murmansk Arctic State University. Presentation of paper entitled: Parenthood and Integration. Refugees in urban and rural contexts in Northern Norway and their interaction with public institutions. Project outline and reflections on methodological as well as theoretical challenges. (The presentation was held in English).
13thof October 2017: Research seminar, Department of Social Sciences, UiT, the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø. Presentation of PhD project, title of the presentation: Parenthood and integration. A study about refugees in urban and rural places in Northern Norway in the context of interaction with public institutions. (The presentation was held in Norwegian).
24th– 25thof October 2016: Workshop ‘New Minorities, Novel Obligations: Our Responsibility Towards Displaced Persons’, UiT, the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø. Presentation in the role of discussant of Yusuf Yuksekdags paper (title: The Right to Exit: How to Treat its Limitations on Brain Drain Grounds and Lessons for the Compulsory Health Service Programs). (The presentation was held in English).
1st– 2ndof June 2016: Active Citizenship Today conference, UiT, the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø. Presentation of paper at a panel entitled ‘Political Agency and Participation of Asylum Seekers and Refugees’, title of the paper: The support group for Faiza (Pseudonym) as an example of active citizenship: practice, ideals, and their relation to public discourses.(The presentation was held in English).
20thof May 2016: Workshop ‘Language diversity in private life and in the workplace’, UiT, the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø. Presentation of paper together with project leader Florian Hiss, title of the paper: Telephone interviewing among company representatives – seen through an ethnographic lens. (The presentation was held in English).
6th– 8thof May 2016: Annual Conference of the Norwegian Anthropological Association,University of Oslo, Oslo. Presentation of paper at a panel entitled ‘Publicly engaged anthropology – for a better world?’, title of the paper: Participating informants and participation in public debate. Reflections on opportunities and restraints in anthropologists’ roles as civic actors.(The presentation was held in Norwegian)
27thof November 2015: Research seminar, Department for Archaeology and Social Anthropology, UiT, the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø. Project presentation entitled:Between two cultures. The meaning of multilingualism in identity negotiations on a micro- and median level. A dialogical study of Norwegian-Russian families in Tromsø.(The presentation was held in Norwegian).
8th– 10thof May 2015: Annual Conference of the Norwegian Anthropological Association,The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim. Presentation of paper at a panel entitled ‘In touch with what is not there yet’, title of the paper: The “glow” that ceases to exist as soon as it is no more than a word. Reflections on methodological and theoretical implications of pre-entified phenomena.(The paper was presented in Norwegian).
Education
August 2016 – June 2017: UiT, the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, beginners’ course in North Sámi.
August 2013 – June 2015: UiT, the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, MA in social anthropology. The degree consists of theory courses and a thesis based on a research project designed by the student, including up to 1 year of fieldwork. Title of the thesis: “We will never give up!”. A study of a support group for asylum seeking children in Norway. (The thesis is in Norwegian).
10th– 12thof September 2014: UiT, the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø,participation in workshop in Engaged Anthropology with prof. Charles Hale at the Department of Archaeology and Social Anthropology.
August 2010 – June 2013: UiT, the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, BA in social anthropology. The degree consists of courses in social anthropological theory and methodology, and elective courses (social anthropology (language and identity, communication and meaning), Russian (grammar, text translation), Spanish (Spanish and Latin American history and religion), psychology (prejudice and stereotypes), and philosophy (hermeneutics).
Work
September 2017 – today: UiT, the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø. PhD student, affiliated to the research group Space and Time in Education. Project: Parenthood and integration. A study about refugees in urban and rural places in Northern Norway in the context of interaction with public institutions.
May 2016 – today: Centre for Arctic and Siberian Exploration at the Federal Centre of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. Affiliated scientific employee.
November 2013 – July 2017: UiT, the Arctic University of Norway and Regional Centre for Child and Youth Mental Health and Child Welfare – North (RKBU Nord), Tromsø. Research assistant. Course teacher.