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Stefansson Memorial lecture will be held at The Autonomous University of Barcelona November 3rd.

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 ...