IASSA Secretariat
International Arctic Social Sciences Association

www.iassa.org
 

IASSA was founded in 1990 in Fairbanks, Alaska, at a meeting held in conjunction with the 7th Inuit Studies Conference. The creation of IASSA follows the suggestion, made at the Conference on Coordination of Research in the Arctic held in Leningrad in 1988, to establish an international association to represent Arctic social scientists.

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 for the next three years. The IASSA secretariat was relocated from Nuuk, Greenland, to the Stefansson Arctic Institute in Akureyri, Iceland, where it will be situated for the next three years. The 7^th International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences will be held in Akureyri 22-26 June 2011.
 

For a report on IPY 2007-2008, please read Igor Krupnik's contribution, IPY 2007–2008 and Social Sciences: A Challenge of Fifty Years.