Past Activities

  • High Altitudes Meet High Latitudes: Globalizing Polar Issues conference (September 11–12, Valais, Switzerland) with four Round-table discussions on Security and Risk management (by Lassi Heininen), Arctic Resources (by Matthias Finger), Infrastructures (by Ksenia Tatarchenko), and Awareness (by Marina Kalinina), organized by Swiss Polar Institute in cooperation with several organizations including the GlobalArctic Project and UArctic;
  • 5th Arctic Circle Assembly (October 13–15, Reykjavík), the Thematic Network will propose a panel on Arctic Security with 2-3 sessions and that on the GlobalArctic with 2-3 sessions;
  • Rovaniemi Arctic Spirit conference (October 14–16, Rovaniemi, Finland) in conjunction with the Polar Law Symposium;
  • Model Arctic Council, an international simulation of the meetings of the AC (October 24-26, Oulu):
  • International workshop on the Global Arctic (early December, Lisbon, Portugal) organized by University of Lisbon, and Mario Pontes and Sandra Balao (tbc).
  • ISAR-5 The changing Arctic and its regional to global impact: From information to knowledge and action (January 15-18, Tokyo) organized by Japan Consortium for Arctic Environmental Research and National Institute of Polar Research, incl. the regular sessions of Policies and economy; and Social and cultural dimensions.
  • The Calotte Academy 2018: Discourses on the Arctic - (inter)disciplinary theories and methods of Arctic research