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2018 Stefansson Memorial Lecture will be held at the University of Washington, Seattle, December 5, 2018 (CMU 120, 15.30-17.00). Professor Leslie King at Royal Roads University in Canada presents the lecture. Title: Learning from Northern Peoples. The lecture is open to the public. The Stefansson Arctic Institute and the Institute of Arctic Studies at Dartmouth College , supported by the Evelyn Nef Stefansson Endowment, sponsor the annual lecture. The lecture is commemoration of the explorer and anthropologist Vilhjálmur Stefansson - his life, work and vision for the Arctic.

Meeting of Project Förändringens reflektioner: Naturen i litterära och historiska källor från Island ca. 800 till 1800/Reflections of Change: The Natural World in Literary and Historical Sources from Iceland ca. AD 800 to 1800 (ICECHANGE) On 1 September 2018 a meeting took place of the ICECHANGE project http://www.svs.is/is/verkefni/icechange at Hannesarholt in Reykjavík. All five ICECHANGE members took part ...

Twenty-six team members and invitees from the Nordic Centre of Excellence project Arctic Climate Predictions - Pathways to Resilient, Sustainable Societies (ARCPATH) met at the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre (NERSC) in Bergen, Norway during 6-7 September 2018 for the annual project meeting. The meeting was organised by: Yongqi Gao (ARCPATH leader, NERSC); Astrid Ogilvie (ARCPATH co-leader, SAI); and Kjetil Lygre, Project Manager at NERSC. The meeting was also ...

In September of 1871, 32 whaling ships were caught in the ice along the shore of the Arctic Ocean in Alaska. More than 1200 people were stranded. The raging winds and grinding ice surrounding them made survival only a remote possibility. An event of historical significance, leading to the end of Yankee Whaling in the early 20th Century. More...

Seminar and Roundtable discussion, Nordic House, Reykjavík, 14:00 – 16:45. Open to the public. Date: 15 May 2018 Time: 14:00 – 15:00 More...

The University Centre of the Westfjords is searching for an energetic individual to fill the demanding role of director of the new master’s program in Coastal Communities and Regional Development. The University Centre of the Westfjords is home to an international, multidisciplinary master’s program in Coastal and Marine Management, with around 40-50 active master’s students each year, and ...

University of Cambridge is looking for four three-year Postdoctoral Research Associates (PDRAs) to work on the European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant project (2017-22), ARCTIC CULT, Arctic Cultures: Sites of ...

A unique graduate course in Integrated Environmental Humanities and Social Sciences will be in Bárðardalur, northern Iceland, 20-30 August 2018. The Svartárkot Culture-Nature Project offers an intensive graduate summer course: Human Ecology and Culture at Lake Mývatn 1700-2000: Dimensions of Environmental and Cultural Change …

A conference about marine sanctuaries will be held in Whales of Iceland Exhibition (Fiskislóð 23), Thursday the 22nd of February. Experts from USA and Europe will talk about the experiences of such sanctuaries and guests will learn about latest whale research in Iceland and latest ideas regarding marine ...

An international group of academics has nominated the Arctic Council for the Nobel Peace Prize. The Arctic Human Development Report (2004) is among the Arctic Council projects listed in the nomination letter to the Norwegian Nobel Committee. The report was a priorty project during the Icelandic chairmanship of the Arctic Council 2002-2004 and co-lead and published by the Stefansson Arctic Institute.