Category Archives: conferences

Gender in the Arctic at ASSW 2020

Posted on February 21, 2020 by

Our colleagues organise an interesting workshop during the Arctic Science Summit Week in Akureyri. If you go there anyway, this is surely worth checking out: We would like to invite you to the 2-days gender-workshop during ASSW 2020 where natural … Continue reading →

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Arctic Security and Anthropology

Posted on January 29, 2020 by

Our colleagues Gunhild Hoogensen Gjorv with Marc Lanteigne  launched the Routledge Handbook of Arctic Security, of which they are the main editors, and where there are some chapters relevant for  (and co-authored by) us. Gunhild said that the starting point … Continue reading →

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Sharing Polar Cultures and Knowledge: Perspectives from Libraries and Archives

Posted on December 11, 2019 by

Our colleagues from the library have alerted us to their colloquium, which is this year about the participation of knowledge-holders in the sharing and archiving practices that have transformed the role of libraries. Please see this announcement. The meeting is … Continue reading →

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Is there something “Arctic” to youth well-being in northern settlements?

Posted on November 21, 2019 by

This was one of the guiding topics discussed at the session hosted by our WOLLIE project during the Rovaniemi Arctic Spirit conference 2019. On the one hand, the session served as a meeting spot for all the project members, to … Continue reading →

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We don’t survive – we live here!

Posted on September 27, 2019 by

These were the introductory words of Alexandr Ivanov, the head of the Olenek district in Yakutia, in his discussion during our session on indigenous people’s territorial governance under industrial development at the Northern Forum for sustainable development in Yakutsk, 25 … Continue reading →

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Call for Workshop contributions “Gender in Polar Research: Gendered field work conditions, epistemologies and legacies”

Posted on September 20, 2019 by

A two-day workshop in the framework of Arctic Science Summit Week 2020, Akureyri, Iceland, 29-30(TBC) March 2020 funded by IASC – the International Arctic Science Committee The IASC Social Sciences and Humanities Working Group (WG), together with IASC’s Cryosphere, Marine, … Continue reading →

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