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Events

SAI events in the year 2009

Lecture and an opening of an exhibit in Honningsvåg, Norway
 On Thursday 24th September 2009 Dr Jón Haukur Ingimundarson, Stefansson Arctic Institute, will give a lecture on Iceland, Climate Change and the Friendly Arctic, during the Norwegian Science Week  in Honningsvåg, Norway.

This is also the day of the opening of an exhibit of photographs from Vilhjálmur Stefánsson's expeditions in the Arctic and texts from his diaries which the travelling exhibit The Friendly Arctic is based on. The photographs and diary texts are also available on the web.
 

SAI events in the year 2008

IASSA Secretariat to Iceland
At the IASSA General Assembly on August 25, 2008, Dr. Joan Nymand Larsen, Senior Scientist at the Stefansson Arctic Institute was elected president of IASSA (International Arctic Social Sciences Association) for the next three years. The IASSA secretariat will be moved from Nuuk, Greenland, to the Stefansson Arctic Institute in Akureyri where it will be situated for the next three years. The 7th International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences will be held in Akureyri in the summer of 2011.

Stefansson Memorial Lecture 2008
The Stefansson Memorial Lecture of this year is sponsored by the Stefansson Arctic Institute in collaboration with the University of Akureyri and the Centre of Gender Equality. This event is in celebration of the Stefansson Arctic Institute’s tenth anniversary. Dr Gunhild Hoogensen, associate professor of political science at the University of Tromsø, Norway, will give this year's lecture which she calls Drill baby, Drill: from Energy to Human Security in the Circumpolar North. See abstract. The lecture is open to the public. (29th October 2008).

The Friendly Arctic - Exhibition
To celebrate Stefansson Arctic Institute's 10th anniversary a web version of the Friendly Arctic Exhibition has been made in English, Danish and Icelandic.

Photographs from Vilhjalmur Stefansson's excursions and extracts from his diary are also to be seen at Borgir (first floor), Nordurslod, Akureyri. 

 

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