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In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Stefansson Arctic Institute, we have joined hands with the Institute of Arctic Studies at the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College in the US and the University of Akureyri in organizing and hosting the Arctic Days in Akureyri on November 15-17 and the 21st Vilhjálmur Stefánsson Memorial Lecture.

Chris Dunn is a Fulbright scholar with an NSF Arctic Research Grant focused on his project, "Applying the Environmental Humanities to Conservation Management and Policy in Iceland." A key aspect of this investigation is the ongoing conflict between conservation and renewable energy development in Iceland's Central Highland.

As always, members of SAI staff attended the Arctic Circle Assembly 2023.

Ambassador Carrin F. Patman and her entourage visited Borgir on October 2, 2023. She met with representatives of institutes that work on Arctic matters in Borgir who introduced their work to her.

On September 13 the Institute received several good guests.

A group of from Polar Raid came to learn about the Stefansson Institute and the Arctic.

Catherine Chambers and Elena Alessandra Lebedef published the article "Youth and Newcomers in Icelandic Fisheries: opportunities and Obstacles" in Maritime Studies.

Five Stefansson Institute staff members traveled to Madrid June 12-14 to attend the 2023 JUSTNORTH General Assembly. The Assembly was organized and hosted by JUSTNORTH partners at the Universidad Complutense Madrid.

The workshop was about Cetaceans with focus on killer whales, encounters and entanglements: human-wildlife interactions in the Arctic and the Iberian Atlantic coast. Organizers were Dr. Marianne Rasmussen, Univ. of Iceland Research Centre in Húsavík, and Dr. Níels Einarsson, Stefansson Arctic Institute. This workshop was an interdisciplinary event with presenters from various fields of research to highlight human-cetacean interactions and encounters seen from different perspectives within natural and human sciences including a discussion at the end of the workshop on policy options and problem solving.

Small Iceland: Reflections on independence and interdependence, nationalism, and globalization By Mr. Guðni Th. Jónsson, President of Iceland.