The Arktis graduate school, Arctic Centre NIEM and Anthropology Research Team are organizing a seminar "Anthropological and legal aspects of industrial development impact assessment" at the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland (Rovaniemi, Finland) on December 19, 2011. Deadline for abstracts is Dec 7, 2011.

Why did the governance of the life of populations become a central concern for modern states and what have the consequences been for life? Beginning in 2012, the University of Lapland will enable students to answer these questions by offering the first ever master’s degree programme in Global Biopolitics (120 ECTS).