UArctic's Social Work Thematic Network is organizing a conference, Supporting Healthy Communities through Social Work, August 14th -16th 2011, Reykjavík, Iceland. Registration and further information is available at the conference page.

Between tradition and modernity Community development in indigenous regions of the NorthFinnmark University College, Alta, Norway October 20-21,2010

Sovereign states, international governmental organizations and the maritime industry should help prepare a uniform policy to regulate shipping in the Arctic region and engage with native populations while doing so, according to a report released by the University of Alaska Fairbanks in collaboration with Dartmouth and the Uni...

The post of Professor of Social Work belongs to the Department of Social Work in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Lapland. In accordance with Section 37 of the Rules and Regulations of the University of Lapland, a person appointed to a professor’s position, filled on scientific grounds, is required to have...

The Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW) is the annual gathering of international organizations engaged in supporting and facilitating Arctic research. The purpose is to provide opportunities for international coordination, collaboration and cooperation in all fields of Arctic science and to combine science and management meetin...

Plesae go to www.arcticfrontiers.com to see the new site.

From the 5th of November to the 3d of December 2010 – exhibition of selected works at the National Art Museum in the Republic Sakha (Yakutia), at the Arctic State Institute of arts and culture and Art Gallery “Urgel”.

In conjunction with the Aspen Institute and the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, the International Polar Foundation will be hosting an Arctic Futures Symposium in Brussels on the 14th and 15th of October 2010.

Hanasaari – the Swedish-Finnish Cultural Centre, Hanasaarenranta 5, Espoo Monday, November 8, 2010,The residents of the circumpolar North are witnesses of rapid change in their surroundings. Climate change is transforming the Arctic environment and the social and cultural landscape of the North. As a result, the Arctic states...

Eight countries converge on the Arctic Circle — Canada, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Greenland (Denmark), Iceland and the United States. Edmonton is the northernmost North American city with a metro­politan population of over one million people — making it an ideal location for the University of Alberta-based Canadian Cir...

Both fictional and non-fictional accounts of the Arctic have long been a major source of powerful images of the region, and have thus had a crucial part to play in the history of human activities there. This volume provides a wide-reaching investigation into the discourses involved in such accounts, above all into the consoli...

Ph.d.- seminar and a small exhibiton in Copenhagen at the Department of Arts and Copenhagen and European Cultural Studies. Roskilde University. Arranged with the  Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen.

Saint Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance Crisis events in the world economy and politics have complicated the analysis of tendencies appeared in energy security of stable growth. The quality of tools applied to modeling of world energy is clearly insufficient. As a result, the political dialogue is frequentl...

Session proposals extended deadline: October 4, 2010 Abstract submission deadline: December 15, 2010 Conference registration opens in January 2011 Website: www.iassa.org; Newsletters: www.iassa.org/news-letter

The Department of Geosciences and Geography provides excellent working conditions and a friendly atmosphere. The research project is integrated in interdisciplinary national and international research projects (EU, Nordic networks, Academy of Finland). The University of Helsinki carries out research of an internationally high...