The Calotte Academy 2017 "Perceptions of the Arctic: Rich or Scarce, Mass-scale or Traditional, Conflict or Cooperation?" will be organized between June 1 and 11, 2017 in the European Arctic, starting in May 31 in Rovaniemi, Finland and finishing in June 11 Umeå, Sweden. Abstract submission and PhD candidate funding applicati...






This symposium will promote discussion and action in innovation in community based research and management for sustainable Indigenous tourism development in Canada. The 2 day event will take place April 12th - 13th 2017 at Vancouver Island University.



In 2017 a new research team for the Arctic Centre (University of Lapland) and a new UArctic Thematic Network in the field of Arctic migration might be established. Nafisa Yeasmin, researcher of the Arctic Centre and initiator of the network, explains why there is a need to create a cross-national group of scientists researchi...

The two-day conference (January 19-20, 2017, University of Helsinki, Finland) examines the concept of indigenous people as an international and global phenomenon, and the unique processes through which this concept is applied to, lived and translated for each local situation. Register by January 10.