Digital Humanities North

The University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ) is a founding member of the excellence cluster “University Paris-Saclay” within the framework of which it has been operating its interdisciplinary Masters 2 program “Arctic Studies” (taught in English) since 2015. UVSQ’s Arctic specialists in the Humanities focus on Siberian and Greenlandic anthropology, the history of Christian missions in the Arctic and their reception, as well as cultural representations of the North. They are members of the research laboratory CEARC at UVSQ’s Faculty for Environmental Science and Climatology UVSQ.

The Hokkaido Museum of Northern Peoples (in Abashiri, Japan) is a unique museum that is dedicated to introducing the cultures of Northern peoples of the world, including Siberia, North America, Greenland and Northern Europe, as well as the Ainu and Okhotsk cultures around Japan.

IHRISN is the successor of the Institute of language and culture of the Yakut Autonomous Soviet Republic, was founded in 1935, the first in Yakutia research institution. Today IHRISN included in the system of Russian Academy of Sciences, in its Siberian branch. The Institute conducts fundamental and applied research in the field of Philology, Archeology, History, Ethnology and Sociology, conducted a great work on preservation of the culture and history of the peoples of the North-East of Russia.

The State Public Scientific Technological Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPSTL SB RAS) is one of the largest libraries in Russia and the world. The impressive size of its collections – 10 million printed items. Status of scientific library as well information resources (self-generated and collected), spacious building and convenient location are the reasons for establishment of unique Scientific Research Center. The SPSTL SB RAS is a center of international cooperation. Scientific interests and business pursuits connect the Library with countries of the world, among them Germany, Great Britain, China, Korea, USA and others. The SPSTL SB RAS carries out scientific research, among others connected to Indigenous peoples of Siberia. (http://www.spsl.nsc.ru/en/)

Within the framework of the Specialised Information Service (FID) ‘Central Asia and Siberia –­ Autochthonous Cultures and Languages’, the Göttingen State and University Library provides literature on the autochthonous peoples of Central Asia and Siberia on a supra-regional level. We acquire printed and digital literature in the fields of linguistics and literature (Altaic and Palaeoasiatic languages); social anthropology of Central Asia and Siberia; literature and literary studies in and on the autochthonous languages of Central Asian Republics (Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan), Sinkiang (Xinjiang), Siberia, and all Mongolian peoples.