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NPE symposium 2017 Political Arctic/Arctic Political, 26-27 September 2017

The 7th Northern Political Economy symposium will address political aspects of life in the Arctic as well as the Arctic life as an object of politics, even i...

Thu, Aug 17, 2017

Summer school report: A change of perspective, ICTs at 78 degrees north

David Palma participated in an interdisciplinary PhD and post-doc summer school in Longyearbyen, Svalbard in early August 2017 to learn about the challenges...

Thu, Aug 17, 2017

Call for Abstracts and Registration: 5th International Symposium on Arctic Research

Organizers invite abstracts and registration for the Fifth International Symposium on Arctic Research (ISAR-5) entitled "The Changing Arctic and its Regional...

Thu, Aug 17, 2017

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DTU opens new facilities in Greenland to increase its Arctic educational activities

The Technical University of Denmark (DTU) is moving its Arctic educational activities in Sisimiut, Greenland to new facilities. The move creates new potentia...

Wed, Aug 16, 2017

Jeffrey Welker at the bridge of the US Coast Guard Icebreaker Healy

Press Release: Inaugural UArctic Chair

University of the Arctic (UArctic) introduces the first UArctic Chair, Professor Jeffrey Welker, as a collaborative appointment between UArctic, the Universi...

Wed, Aug 16, 2017

Call for papers: Language Contact in the Circumpolar World

The ‘Language Contact in the Circumpolar World’ conference (Moscow, Russia, 27-29 October 2017) will bring together researchers studying language contact in...

Tue, Aug 15, 2017

The International Arctic Observations Assessment Framework released

At the 2016 Arctic Science Ministerial meeting, the ministers committed to the “shared development of a science-driven, integrated Arctic-observing system” a...

Tue, Aug 15, 2017

Shared Voices Magazine 2017 published

The latest issue of our annual magazine, Shared Voices, is now available online. As 2017 marks twenty years since the birth of the idea of UArctic, the 2017...

Mon, Aug 14, 2017

20th Council meeting of UArctic begins in Greenland

A series of pre-meetings and public discussion in Nuuk, Greenland will take place today, before the full meeting of the Council of the University of the Arct...

Mon, Aug 14, 2017

Fifth Arctic Circle Assembly on the rapidly changing Arctic

The Arctic Circle Assembly is the largest international gathering on Arctic matters. The fifth annual assembly takes place 13-15 October 2017 in Reykjavík, I...

Fri, Aug 11, 2017

Danish intern joins the UArctic Research Liaison and Thematic Networks Office in Oulu

The UArctic Research Liaison and Thematic Networks Office (University of Oulu) welcomes a new Danish intern this fall.

Fri, Aug 11, 2017

UArctic Congress 2018 science section call for proposals

The science section of the UArctic Congress will start in Oulu Sept 5 and conclude in Helsinki on Sept 7, 2018. The call for session proposals is now open, d...

Thu, Aug 10, 2017

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