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2007
The Friendly Arctic
– A Travelling Exhibition
The exhibition will
open in
Bryggen,
The North Atlantic House in Copenhagen on 1 March 2007.
It will be open to the public from 2 March to 15 May.The
exhibition is a part of a programme where Denmark,
Greenland, the Faroe Islands and Iceland will jointly
launch the International Polar Year
(see
www.arcticportal.is).
The Friendly Arctic focuses on
Vilhjálmur Stefansson’s life, legacy and vision for the
Arctic, featuring a selection of his photographs,
recordings, publications, diaries, maps and other items.
The exhibit opened in Akureyri Art Museum in November
2000 and has after that visited Reykjavík, Gimli,
Winnipeg, Iqaluit in Nunavut, Norwich in Vermont and New
York. The plan is to take it to Cambridge, England,
Rovaniemi, Finland, and Ottawa and Yellowknife in Canada.
Memorial Lecture
The
2007 Stefansson Memorial Lecture was delivered at the
University of Akureyri on November 7th 2007
by climate historian Astrid Ogilvie. Dr Ogilvie is
Research Fellow, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
(INSTAAR) University of Colorado (further information
here). The title of the lecture was
“Interdisciplinary Explorations in the Climate, History
and Human Ecology of Northern Iceland.” Co-sponsors with
the Stefansson Arctic Institute of this year’s lecture
were the
University of Akureyri
and
Rannís – The Icelandic
Centre for Research. The event is a joint contribution
to the International Polar Year. Lecture abstract
here.
2006
The 2006 Stefansson Memorial
Lecture
The Stefansson Memorial Lecture was held at Dartmouth
College on 1st November 2006.
Andrew C. Revkin from
the New York Times called his lecture The North Pole
Was Here: On The Front Lines Of Climate Change, From The
Arctic To The Beltway, .
Andrew Revkin is one of America's most honored science
writers and has spent nearly a quarter century covering
subjects ranging from Hurricane Katrina and the Asian
tsunami to the assault on the Amazon, from the troubled
relationship of science and politics to climate change
in the North Pole. He has been reporting on the
environment for The New York Times since 1995, a job
that has taken him to the Arctic three times in three
years. In 2003, he became the first Times reporter to
file stories and photos from the sea ice around the pole.
He spearheaded a three-part Times series and one-hour
documentary in 2005 on the transforming Arctic. In 2003,
his climate coverage won the first National Academies
Communication Award for print journalism, presented by
the nation's eminent scientific body
2005
The sixth Stefansson Memorial
Lecture will be organized by the Stefansson
Arctic Institute in association with the
Scott Polar Research Institute
on Tuesday, 1 November 2005, at the Scott Polar Research
Institute, Lensfield Road, Cambridge at 6:00 pm.
Dr Gísli Pálsson, Professor of Anthropology at
University of Iceland gives a lecture called Travelling
Passions: The Life and Legacy of Vilhjalmur Stefansson,
the Arctic Explorer.
2004
The Friendly Arctic
The travelling exhibit on Vilhjalmur Stefansson's legacy
and vision will be in Scandinavia House, New York from
January 30th to March 31st 2004.
The fifth Memorial Lecture
was on Thursday, September 9th 2004 in
Oddfellow House in Akureyri. This time there were two
Swedish lecturers: Laila Freivalds, the Swedish Minister
for Foreign Affairs: "Swedish
Arctic Policy" and professor Sverker
Sörlin: "The
Human Arctic: Stefansson, Ahlmann, and the Quest for an
Arctic within History".
2003
Stefansson Memorial Lecture
On Monday,
October 13th 2003, the Governor General of Canada, Her
Excellency the Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson, gave
the fourth Stefansson Memorial Lecture. The lecture's
title was:
A Threshold of the Mind: The
Modern North. The Stefansson Memorial Lecture
was delivered in the University of Akureyri Auditorium
in the Oddfellow House at Sjafnarstigur.
2002
The Friendly Arctic
A travelling exhibit on Vilhjalmur Stefansson's legacy
and vision will this year be visiting:
-Nunatta Sunakkutaangit Museum in Iqaluit, Nunavut,
Canada, 16 February - 31 March
-McNamara Alumni Center, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis. The Icelandic National League Convention,
19 - 21 April
-Montshire Museum of Science, Norwich, Vermont, USA, 1
November - 8 December
NARP Symposium in Akureyri, 23 - 24 May
The second symposium of the Nordic Arctic Research
Programme will be held in Akureyri.
NRF in Veliky Novgorod, 19 - 22
September
The second open meeting of the Northern Research Forum
will be held in Veliky Novgorod, Russia.
Stefansson Memorial Lecture, 1 November
The president of Iceland, Dr. Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson
gave a
lecture in
memory of Vilhjálmur
Stefansson at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA on
November 1.
2001
The Friendly Arctic
- A Travelling Exhibit: Vilhjalmur Stefansson's Legacy
and Vision
Scheduled openings in 2001:
10 March - 4 June: Reykjavik Art Museum
1 July - August: New Iceland Heritage Center, gimli,
Manitoba
20 September - October: Icelandic Library, University of
Manitoba, Winnipeg.
West Nordic Hunting
Culture
11-14 June, Akureyri
A conference on traditional hunting hosted by the West
Nordic Council, the joint parliamentary organization of
Greenland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands.
Legacy and Vision
in Northern Agriculture
27-29 August, Akureyri
The fourth conference of Circumpolar Agricultural
Association attended by farmers, extension worker,
scientists, industrialists and policy makers.
21st
Nordic Archaeology Conference
6-9 September, Akureyri
The conference is organized by the Association of
Icelandic Archaeologists, the Institute of Archaeology
in Reykjavik, the National Museum of Iceland and the
Icelandic Archaeological Society, with support from the
University of Akureyri and the Stefansson Arctic
Institute.
2000
Arctic Day, February 19,
Reykjavík
A day devoted to Icelandic-Arctic co-operation in the
international arena with a special focus on human-environment relations.
Forestry Beyond the Timberline, June 27 - 30, Akureyri
A workshop addressing ecological and socio-economic factors
affecting forestry in the context of rural development in the northern
North-Atlantic region. The workshop was held in co-operation with the Iceland
Forest Service and a number of Nordic institutes.
Social Science and Sustainable Development in the
Arctic, August 29 – September 1, Inari
This workshop in Inari
Finland was the second in a series of informal meetings organized at irregular
intervals and designed to provide opportunities for off-the-record exchanges
among members of the research and policy communities about matters of common
interest and especially about issues suitable for consideration by the Arctic
Council. The aim of the Inari workshop was to focus on the role, relevance and
input of social science for sustainable development, arctic science and policy
in the Arctic regions. See
more
Stefansson Memorial Lecture, November 3, Akureyri
An annual public lecture by a prominent arctic scientist.
The first
Memorial Lecture was given by Dr. Oran Young, professor at Dartmouth College
and was titled Creating
an Arctic Sustainable Development Strategy. This year's lecture was given by Dr.
Mark Nuttall professor at the University of Aberdeen.
North meets North, November 4 – 6, Akureyri
The first Congress of the Northern Research Forum, where
people of various professions in the North met to share ideas,
perspectives and findings of arctic research. See
more
The Friendly Arctic – An Exhibition, November 5,
Akureyri
The exhibition was opened at the Akureyri Art Museum. It focuses on
Stefansson’s life and legacy, with further links to contemporary issues of
sustainable use and social viability in the circumpolar north. See
more
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