News Archive 2010

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News Archive 2010

December 22, 2010

Issue number 34 of the IASSA newsletter Northern Notes (Fall/Winter 2010) has now been published and is available on the IASSA website.

December 17, 2010

CALL FOR PAPER AND POSTER ABSTRACTS The Seventh International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS VII), to take place in Akureyri, Iceland, June 22-26, 2011, calls for individual paper and poster proposals.

Extended deadline for submission of abstracts: January 17, 2011

For a special paper and poster abstract submittal form click here. A list of sessions and themes can be found here. Paper and poster proposals should contain: - Title - Name and full contact details of the author(s) - Abstract: A 250 words (max) summary - An indication of which session the paper should ideally be presented in (see list of themes and preliminary list of sessions here) . If the paper is already invited by a session leader, please indicate this. We strongly suggest that you provide more than one preferred placement for your presentation.

ICASS is held every three years and is a congress of the International Arctic Social Sciences put on by IASSA (International Arctic Social Sciences Association). The Congress will be hosted by the University of Akureyri, the town of Akureyri and the Stefansson Arctic Institute.

The 7^th ICASS Host Organizing Committee consists of members representing the University of Akureyri, Stefansson Arctic Institute, Town of Akureyri, Arctic Portal, Akureyri Travel, and the Icelandic Centre for Research.

For further information on IASSA or ICASS VII, please contact:

Lara Olafsdottir IASSA Secretary Stefansson Arctic Institute Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , tel.: 460 8980

Dr. Jon Haukur Ingimundarson ICASS VII Congress Convener Stefansson Arctic Institute & University of Akureyri Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , tel.: 460 8982, GSM: 862 0477

Dr. Joan Nymand Larsen IASSA President and ICASS VII co-convener Stefansson Arctic Institute & University of Akureyri Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , tel.: 460 8984, GSM: 893 0488

The IASSA Secretariat is located at the Stefansson Arctic Institute (Stofnun Vilhjálms Stefánssonar) www.svs.is, Borgir, Nordurslod, Akureyri.

November 25, 2010

IASSA celebrates its 20^th anniversary this year, and to mark this occasion we have published a special anniversary issue of the IASSA newsletter, Northern Notes. The anniversary newsletter, with photos and text from the twenty years of IASSA's existence is edited by Igor Krupnik and Ludger Müller-Wille and is now available here on the website.

November 5, 2010

Northern Notes is the newsletter of the International Arctic Social Sciences Association, IASSA. It is published on the web by the IASSA secretariat twice a year with a Spring/Summer and a Fall/Winter issue, and is available to all web users. See newsletters in the column to the left.

IASSA invites contributions for the next issue of the Northern Notes newsletter. Contributions are invited from both members and non-members of the Association on issues of interest to Arctic social scientists. Contributions should be submitted by December 6, 2010 at the latest to IASSA secretary, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Contributions to Northern Notes may include special features on issues and topics of interest to Arctic social scientists, information and announcements, announcements of meetings, workshops or conferences, news about upcoming activities, information about new publications, and announcements of new websites and links of interest.

Following are the standard categories of the Northern Notes newsletter:

FEATURES

- Contributions on issues and research activities of interest to the Arctic social science community, including new research, current and upcoming research activities and events, etc.

DEPARTMENTS

- Conferences, Workshops, and Meetings

- Announcements

- New Publications

- On the Web

- Exhibitons

- News from Members

- Funding Opportunities

Remember to send us the following details along with your contribution:

- Name and affiliation of the author

- Book announcements: Complete title, publishing details, distributor and ISBN/ISSN number

- Film: Distributor or link, all release details

- Photos, logos, etc., if applicable

October 29, 2010

Seventh International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS VII)

Call for Abstracts

October 29, 2010

ICASS VII: Circumpolar Perspectives in Global Dialogue: Social Sciences Beyond the IPY

JUNE 22-26, 2011, Akureyri, Iceland

CALL FOR PAPER AND POSTER ABSTRACTS

The Seventh International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS VII), to take place in Akureyri, Iceland, June 22-26, 2011, hereby calls for individual paper and poster proposals.

A special paper and poster abstract submittal form together with a more complete list of sessions and themes can be found here.

Submission Deadline: December 20, 2010

Paper and poster proposals should contain:

Title
Name and full contact details of the author(s)
Abstract: A 250 words (max) summary
An indication of which session the paper should ideally be presented in (see list of themes and preliminary list of sessions here ). If the paper is already invited by a session leader, please indicate this. We strongly suggest that you provide more than one preferred placement for your presentation.

For further information on IASSA or ICASS VII, please contact:

Lara Olafsdottir

IASSA Secretary

Stefansson Arctic Institute

Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Tel: 460 8980

Dr. Jon Haukur Ingimundarson

ICASS VII Congress Convener

Stefansson Arctic Institute & University of Akureyri

Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Tel: 460 8982; GSM: 862 0477

Dr. Joan Nymand Larsen

IASSA President and ICASS VII co-convener

Stefansson Arctic Institute & University of Akureyri

Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Tel: 460 8984; GSM: 893 0488

The IASSA Secretariat is located at the Stefansson Arctic Institute (Stofnun Vilhjálms Stefánssonar) www.svs.is, Borgir, Nordurslod, Akureyri.

October 21, 2010

FIRST CALL FOR PAPER AND POSTER ABSTRACTS

The Seventh International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS VII), to take place in Akureyri, Iceland, June 22-26, 2011, hereby calls for individual paper and poster proposals.

A special paper and poster abstract submittal form together with a more complete list of sessions and themes will be available by end of next week, October 29^th at this website. Please note that a draft list of proposed sessions has already been posted on the IASSA website.

Submission Deadline: December 20, 2010

Paper and poster proposals should contain:

Title
Name and full contact details of the author(s)
Abstract: A 250 words (max) summary
An indication of which session the paper should ideally be presented in (see preliminary list of sessions at http://www.iassa.org/programme - please note that the complete list, including all session descriptions, will be available by end of next week); if the paper is already invited by a session leader, please indicate this. We strongly suggest that you provide more than one preferred placement for your presentation.

Request for funding

Prospects for the funding of your participation in the Congress: We hope to be able to provide some full and partial travel funding to students, indigenous participants, as well as participants from Russia (and neighbouring countries).

Please indicate with your abstract submission if you want to be considered for travel funding and under which category. Also, provide a budget of your estimated travel expenses. We anticipate to be announcing the awards of travel funding in February/March.

For further information on IASSA or ICASS VII, please contact:  Lara Olafsdottir IASSA Secretary  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Tel: 460 8980

Dr. Jon Haukur Ingimundarson

Chair of 7^th ICASS Host Organizing Committee

This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Tel: 460 8982; GSM: 862 0477

Dr. Joan Nymand Larsen

IASSA President

This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Tel: 460 8984

September 20, 2010

The Seventh International Congress of the Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS VII)

Akureyri, June 22-26, 2011

Session proposals extended deadline: October 4, 2010

Abstract submission deadline: December 15, 2010

Conference registration opens in January 2011

We have received a significant number of session proposals by the initial submission deadline. Several IASSA members have indicated their plans to submit a session proposal – but have not done so yet – and therefore we announce this extended deadline. After the extended deadline of October 4, we will announce the list of accepted sessions and circulate the first call for abstracts.

Announcement of Congress:

The Seventh International Congress of the Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS VII) will be held in Akureyri, Iceland, on June 22-26, 2011. This conference, entitled Circumpolar Perspectives in Global Dialogue: Social Sciences beyond the International Polar Year, is being organized by the International Arctic Social Sciences Association (IASSA), and it will be hosted by the University of Akureyri, the Town of Akureyri and the Stefansson Arctic Institute.

An International Congress of the Arctic Social Sciences is held every three years. The congress will offer various venues to share Arctic social science research, and a special opportunity to feature and analyse outcomes of the International Polar Year (IPY 2007-2009) in social, human, and related fields. This will include special project sessions, discussion panels, plenary presentations, workshops, and invited talks. Participation by young researchers and students is encouraged. See more information about previous ICASS meetings in the column to the left.

Briefly about IASSA: The International Arctic Social Sciences Association was founded in 1990 in Fairbanks, Alaska, at a meeting held in conjunction with the 7th Inuit Studies Conference. The creation of IASSA follows the suggestion, made at the Conference on Coordination of Research in the Arctic held in Leningrad in 1988, to establish an international association to represent Arctic social scientists. IASSA is a professional association based on voluntary membership. For the purposes of the association, both the Arctic and the social sciences are defined in a broad and inclusive manner, encompassing all Arctic and subarctic regions, and all disciplines pertaining to the humanities and the social sciences. To become a member, see Membership in the column to the left.

Call for ICASS VII Session Proposals:

IASSA invites concrete proposals or ideas and thoughts about themes of special interest for sessions and workshops at ICASS VII.

Please submit your session proposal - including a title and a brief description - by October 4, 2010 (extended deadline) to IASSA secretary Lara Olafsdottir at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and IASSA president Joan Nymand Larsen at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

A list of proposed ICASS sessions will be announced in October 2010.

A call for ICASS VII abstracts will be circulated by October 11, with submission deadline by December 15, 2010.

IASSA Council & Secretariat, Contacts and Further Information:

You can stay updated on ICASS VII by visiting this website, by subscribing to the IASSA.Net Listserv and by reading the IASSA newsletter, Northern Notes. The latest issue is Spring/Summer 2010 and the next regular issue will be published in December 2010. A special 20^th Anniversary issue will be published this upcoming October.

The ICASS VII academic program will be organized by the nine-member IASSA Council and the IASSA Secretariat, which is located at the Stefansson Arctic Institute, Akureyri, Iceland. The 7^th ICASS Host Organizing Committee consists of members representing the University of Akureyri, Stefansson Arctic Institute, Town of Akureyri, Arctic Portal, Akureyri Travel, and The Icelandic Centre for Research.

For further information on IASSA or ICASS VII, please contact:  Lara Olafsdottir IASSA Secretary  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Tel: 460 8980

Dr. Jon Haukur Ingimundarson

Chair of 7^th ICASS Host Organizing Committee

This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Tel: 460 8982; GSM: 862 0477

Dr. Joan Nymand Larsen

IASSA President

This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Tel: 460 8984

September 7, 2010

IASSA celebrates its 20^th Anniversary this year, and we want to mark this occasion with a special anniversary issue of Northern Notes.

The plan is to make an informative and colourful issue with photos and text from the twenty years of IASSA's existence. There will be contributions from past and current IASSA councillors and presidents, but we need more material and hereby call for contributions, big or small, focussing on the history and achievements of IASSA, any material that helps describe the past 20 years of IASSA.

Please send material, ideas, photos before September 30, 2010 to IASSA secretary Lára This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

The regular fall/winter issue of Northern Notes will be published as usual, independent of the anniversary issue.

September 7, 2010

The Seventh Congress of the International Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS VII) will be held in Akureyri, Iceland, on June 22-26, 2011.   The working title for ICASS VII in Akureyri is: Circumpolar Perspectives in Global Dialogue: Social Sciences Beyond the IPY. The congress will offer various venues to share Arctic social science research and to analyse the outcome of IPY in social, human, and related fields. This includes special project sessions, discussion panels, plenary presentations, and invited talks.

IASSA invites concrete proposals or ideas and thoughts about themes of special interest for sessions and workshops at ICASS VII. Please submit your session proposals, including title and brief description by September 15, 2010 to IASSA secretary Lara Olafsdottir at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and IASSA president Joan Nymand Larsen at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . List of proposed ICASS sessions will be announced in October 2010.

IASSA looks forward to receiving your session proposals for ICASS VII.

For further information, please contact:

Lara Olafsdottir

IASSA secretary

This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

June 24, 2010

Call for ICASS VII session proposals The Seventh Congress of the International Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS VII) will be held in Akureyri, Iceland, on June 22-26, 2011. For earlier announcements see also the website of the International Arctic Social Sciences Association (IASSA) www.iassa.org and list announcements, or latest issues of Northern Notes, the IASSA newsletter.

The working title for ICASS VII in Akureyri is the following: Circumpolar Perspectives in Global Dialogue: Social Sciences Beyond the IPY

Call for ICASS VII session proposals IASSA invites concrete proposals or ideas and thoughts about themes of special interest for sessions and workshops at ICASS VII.

Please submit your session proposals by September 15, 2010 to IASSA secretary Lara Olafsdottir at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and IASSA president Joan Nymand Larsen at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

The congress will offer various venues to share Arctic social science research and to analyse the outcome of IPY in social, human, and related fields. This includes special project sessions, discussion panels, plenary presentations, and invited talks.

List of proposed ICASS sessions will be announced in October 2010.

Call for ICASS VII abstracts will be circulated by October 1, 2010, with submission deadline by December 15, 2010.

Please visit this webpage to stay updated on ICASS VII. Under ICASS Meetings you will find a special page on ICASS VII which will provide you with updates on ICASS VII as they become available.  You can also stay updated on the ICASS preparations by reading the IASSA newsletter, Northern Notes, which is published twice a year and available on this website.   ICASS, the International Congress of the Arctic Social Sciences, is held every three years.   IASSA looks forward to receiving your session proposals for ICASS VII.  For further information, please contact:

Lara Olafsdottir

IASSA secretary

This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

May 28, 2010

An IASSA Council meeting is scheduled for June 3-4 in Denmark.

May 25, 2010

Issue number 32 of the IASSA newsletter Northern Notes (Spring/Summer 2010) has now been published and is available on the IASSA website.

May 7, 2010

The Seventh Congress of the International Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS VII) will be held June 22-26, 2011 in Akureyri, Iceland.

Calls for ICASS session proposals will be made shortly on this website and via the IASSA.Net list server . Please visit this website often to stay updated on ICASS VII.

You can also stay updated on the ICASS preparations by reading the IASSA newsletter, Northern Notes, which gets published twice a year. The next issue of Northern Notes will be published mid of May.

ICASS, the International Congress of the Arctic Social Sciences, is held every three years. For more information about previous ICASS meetings see here .

April 21, 2010

IASSA invites contributions for the next issue of the Northern Notes newsletter (Spring/Summer 2010). Contributions are invited from both members and non-members of the Association on issues of interest to Arctic social scientists. Contributions should be submitted by April 26, 2010 at the latest to IASSA secretary, Lára Ólafsdóttir, at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .