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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 ...

Stefansson Arctic Institute researchers Dr. Catherine Chambers and Dr. Níels Einarsson will discuss “The Humans – Reflections on Icelanders and Arctic Research in the Anthropocene”, at the online conference on Thursday, November 5, 2020 at 2 PM UTC+01. The Centre for Arctic Studies at the University of Iceland, the Icelandic Arctic Cooperation Network and the West Nordic Council in collaboration with the Nordic House, the Icelandic Chairmanship of the Arctic Council and the Arctic Circle have organized a series of online discussions, taking place in the fall of 2020, on key Arctic issues highlighted by ...