Workshop for Early-Career Researchers in Aarhus, Denmark

From left: Lydia Risi (Institut national de la recherche scientifique - INRS), Emilie Jensen (Aarhus University), Tór Marni Weihe (University of the Faroe Islands), Olivia Trude Struve (Aarhus University), Marie Evaldsen Christensen (Aarhus University), Sigrid Wibe (Aarhus University), Manumina Lund Jensen (Ilisimatusarfik/University of Greenland), Rithma Kreie Engelbreth Larsen (Aarhus University), Helga Númadóttir (Stefansson Arctic Institute), Gry Lind Merrild Hansen (Aarhus University), and Paninnguaq Boassen (Ilisimatusarfik/University of Greenland). Photo: Lydia Risi, 29 April 2026

From the 28th to the 29th of April, Helga Númadóttir at the Stefansson Arctic Institute participated in a two-day workshop for early-career researchers at the Moesgaard Museum, outside Aarhus, Denmark.

The event was organised by Emilie Jensen, Ph.D. student at Aarhus University, and funded by The Danish Agency for Higher Education and Science. The workshop brought together a diverse group of early-career researchers working across the North Atlantic and Arctic, from Greenland, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Denmark, and Canada, with the aim of exploring, based on each participant’s own research, how research is conducted and how different ways of knowing can be accommodated, challenged, and fostered collaboratively across knowledge systems. Within this setting, Helga’s contribution centered on epistemic dependency on colonial ideologies in Iceland and the influence of coloniality on Icelandic perspectives, extending from Greenland to Palestine.

Many thanks to Emilie for organising and bringing together such a great group of early-career researchers for a thoughtful and highly constructive workshop.