Dear CAS friends & colleagues, As part of the 2025 CAS autumn symposium, we would like to compile a special issue on Caring for Life in the Arctic. You are cordially invited to submit a manuscript that explores how care is enacted, disrupted, or mobilised across scales—from local infrastructures and Indigenous knowledge systems to globalContinueContinue reading “Call for papers- SI on Caring for Life in the Arctic”
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Reflections on the first CAS webinar: Creativity and critical thinking in artistic and academic practices
At first glance, art and science appear to belong to entirely separate spheres. Visual, performative, applied, literary, media, or conceptual arts typically operate within aesthetic, intuitive, and creative domains, whereas academic and applied sciences are grounded in replicable research methods, empirical evidence, and theoretical frameworks. The division between these realms, along with the compartmentalisation ofContinueContinue reading “Reflections on the first CAS webinar: Creativity and critical thinking in artistic and academic practices”
Art/Place – A Critical Arctic Studies Webinar Series
Art/Place is a three-part webinar series exploring how artists and/or arts-based practitioners engage with Arctic places through diverse creative practices and perspectives. Hosted by the UArctic Thematic Network on Critical Arctic Studies (CAS), each one-hour session will bring together three artists/practitioners whose work is in, with, or about, a specific Arctic location. The series will beginContinueContinue reading “Art/Place – A Critical Arctic Studies Webinar Series”
Call for Arctic Circle panels
The CAS team has organized a panel at the Arctic Circle conference twice. Our CAS partner, Page Wilson from the University of Iceland, has prepared two panel proposals for the Arctic Circle Assembly 2025, which is held in mid-October. Please take a look at the two proposals below and contact Page (plw@hi.is) if you areContinueContinue reading “Call for Arctic Circle panels”
Fresh off the press: Understanding Human-Nature Practices for Environmental Management
This volume, edited by Professor Carina Keskitalo (Umeå University, Sweden), critically examines how the nature-culture binary permeates land-use and nature management practices in Northern Europe and how such dichotomist approaches can be transcended to respond to current sustainability challenges. The open-access chapters are available here.
Call for papers: Water as an object and participant in politics (Finnish Political Science Days April 14–16th 2025, Rovaniemi)
Hannah Strauss-Mazzullo, Sohvi Kangasluoma, and Monica Tennberg (POST-BOTHNIA project) are organizing this panel on water-society relations. Water as an object and participant in politics The world of politics does not only consist of land and air, water covers the majority of the planet. In its different forms and places, water is a part of societal activitiesContinueContinue reading “Call for papers: Water as an object and participant in politics (Finnish Political Science Days April 14–16th 2025, Rovaniemi)”
Fresh off the press: Greenland is getting greener – helped by a mining company and a group of tree enthusiasts
CAS associate Adriana Craciun tells about the convergence of two kinds of Arctic Greening – one due to climate change and the other due to human desires – in Greenland. Read the article published in The Conversation here.
Registration open for CAS research clinic 2025
The third CAS research clinic will be held online on Tuesday 11 March 2025 at 17.00-20.00 Finnish time, EET (Eastern European Time, UTC + 2) The event is an opportunity for master’s and doctoral students to discuss and present questions on the potential of critical approaches to benefit their research. Participation is limited to fiveContinueContinue reading “Registration open for CAS research clinic 2025”
CAS panel “Arctic Military (In)Securities: Critical Reflections” at the Arctic Circle Assembly in Reykjavik, Iceland
Page Wilson (CAS partner, University of Iceland) reports: On 19 October, the UArctic Thematic Network on Critical Arctic Studies held its panel entitled “Arctic Military (In)Securities: Critical Reflections” at the Arctic Circle Assembly in Reykjavik, Iceland. It was standing room only as Gunhild Hoogensen Gjorv (University of Tromsø), Judy Boyd (US Dept of Homeland Security/Coastguard), and ÖzlemContinueContinue reading “CAS panel “Arctic Military (In)Securities: Critical Reflections” at the Arctic Circle Assembly in Reykjavik, Iceland”
Fresh off the press: Svalbard Global Seed Vault evokes epic imagery and controversy because of the symbolic value of seeds
CAS member Professor Adriana Craciun recently wrote about her research on the Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, Norway. Read the full article published in The Conversation here. Photo attribution: Entrance to the Seed Vault by Subiet, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Entrance_to_the_Seed_Vault_(cropped).jpg
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