Published in May 2021

Speaker: Astrid Ogilvie, INSTAAR and Stefansson Arctic Institute. Rather than speak about one specific project or some particular aspect of her research, she talked about her own intellectual journey and how it has been shaped by the topic of ...

Tom Barry will defend his doctoral dissertation at the University of Iceland on January 27, 2021. The dissertation is entitled The Arctic Council An Agent of Change? Tom is a geographer with a B.A. in Geography and Archaeology; and a Masters in Geography from the University College Cork, Ireland. Tom is the Executive Secretary for the Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF), the biodiversity working ...

Dr. Edward Huijbens, a professor at the University of Wageningen and a researcher at the Stefansson Arctic Institute, gave a TED talk in October 2020 on how we need to rethink our ideas about travel in the light of ...

Dr Astrid Ogilvie gave the Hermann Pálsson Memorial Lecture on the occasion of the annual conference of the Scottish Society for Northern Studies on Saturday 21 November 2020. The event was titled On the Horizon: Scotland, the Sea, and the Northern World. Dr Ogilvie´s lecture titled Weather as Magic and Metaphor in the ...

The report Mapping Arctic Research in Iceland has been published in cooperation between The Icelandic Centre for Research, Stefansson Arctic Institute and the Icelandic ...

The Stefansson Memorial Lecture will be held on December 1, 2020. The annual Stefansson Memorial Lectures are delivered in commemoration of the explorer and anthropologist Vilhjálmur Stefansson - of his life, work and vision for the Arctic. These lectures are generally held around the time of Stefansson's birthday, November 3. This time the lecture is delivered by Dr Margaret Willson, the author ...

On November 3rd, 2020, Sveinbjörg Smáradóttir, an SVS staff member, defended her MA thesis at the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Akureyri. The thesis´s title is Social Media and Quality of Life among Young Adults in Northern Iceland and it is related to the Arctic Youth and Sustainable Futures project, which is on-going international research led by Dr. Joan Nymand Larsen at the Stefansson Arctic ...

Dr Astrid Ogilvie will give the Hermann Pálsson Memorial Lecture on the occasion of the annual conference of the Scottish Society for Northern Studies on Saturday 21 November 2020. The event, titled On the Horizon: Scotland, the Sea, and the Northern World, will take place virtually using Zoom. Consisting of four papers and a brief panel discussion, the conference will highlight current cross-disciplinary research on the ...