The Université du Québec à Montréal, and the Association for Canadian Studies in the U.S. (ACSUS), would like to invite you to submit a paper proposal for the Arctic/North section for the 2011 Biennial Conference for ACSUS to be held in Ottawa 16-20 November 2011.

Call is open for Master’s students interested in health, security and wellbeing in the North. The number of students elected to the course is limited up to 15 students. Students are selected based on their previous studies and interest on Northern health and wellbeing. Course will run from January 24th until April 10th,...

An inernational scientific conference, "East meets West: oral tradition, epic text and representation in art" will be organized in Yakutsk, Russia June 15-17, 2011. The conference focuses on the questions of functioning of oral tradition on contemporary social and cultural context, problems, related to the study of fol...

AMAP – The Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme is a Working Group under the Arctic Council with the objective to”providing reliable and sufficient information on the status of, and threats to, the Arctic environment and its inhabitants, and providing scientific advice on actions to be taken in order to support A...

The United States is the last of the four countries that voted against the UN Declaration to reverse its position. President Obama announced last Thursday, "The aspirations [the Declaration] affirms -- including the respect for the institutions and rich cultures of Native peoples -- are one we must always seek to fulfill...B...

The Canadian Circumpolar Institute has spent 50 years helping this country become a global leader in northern researchBy Lisa Gregoire

Eye on the Arctic gives voice to the nations on the front lines of climate adaptation.Eye on the Arctic is a collaborative partnership between public, private, and independent circumpolar media organizations.

The fall 2010 issue (#65) of the Polar Libraries Bulletin is now available at http://arcticcentre.ulapland.fi/polarweb/plc/pubs.asp.

On behalf of Joël Plouffe, Université du Québec à Montréal, and the Association for Canadian Studies in the U.S. (ACSUS), I would like to invite you to submit a paper proposal for the Arctic/North section for the 2011 Biennial Conference for ACSUS to be held in Ottawa 16-20 November 2011.

Now accepting abstracts for the 13th International Arctic Ungulate Conference. The online submission form can be accessed at www.abstracts.auc2011.ca. Abstracts will be accepted until May 31st, 2011.

Extended abstract submission deadline for the Arctic Science Summit Week (27 March - 1 April, 2011 in Seoul, Korea):Saturday, 15 January 2011 For more information, please visit the http://www.assw2011.org or contact assw2011@kopri.re.kr.

The PhD training course "People in changing wolrd" was held at the University of Oulu, Finland in November 15-17, 2010. For more information see the Thematic Networks page.

Call for Applications at the University of Lapland: 1.12.2010 – 18.2.2011.

The fourth  PhD training course will be held in March 19-23, 2012 at Abisko Scientific Research Station, Sweden. The course is titled "Snowtalks" and will conclude the climate change effects on people and environment in the North where snow is a very important factor. Find out more from the Global Change Thematic Networks page.

Arctic Frontiers Conference, Tromsö, Norway, January 23-28, 2011