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Face of the Month: Helsinki-born researcher is now studying everyday urban life in the Arctic region
26.11.2018 8:00
When we refer to Rovaniemi as an Arctic city, we tend to forget two essential things: in Rovaniemi, the link between arcticity and the history and locality is weak, and the city does not take advantage of the Arctic urban nature as part of its identity in the best possible way.
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Doctoral defense: The governance of immigration manifests itself in those who are being governed: Economic integration of immigrants in Arctic perspectives
13.11.2018 14:59
LL.M Nafisa Yeasmin’s doctoral thesis point out that there are different factors that negatively influence immigration in the north. Immigrants feel that they are socially excluded from mainstream northern society: research results suggest that immigrants from particular region are more vulnerable to being excluded than other immigrants. Local people’s attitudes towards immigrants vary based on the situations in which they encounter immigrants, the immigrants’ country of origin and educational background, the views of the respective groups, and so forth.
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Staging Sámi in the City exhibition in Gallery Kopio
19.10.2018 10:00
”Staging Sámi in the City” is the exhibition of Tanja Joona and Joonas Vola and it is open in Gallery Kopio in the University of Lapland in Rovaniemi on 23.10.–29.11.2018.
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Face of the Month: Melting ice sheets can raise sea levels, but we still have time to act!
18.10.2018 8:00
Rupert Gladstone hopes that our generation have will to make right decisions in order to secure favorable living environment also for the future generations.
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Rupert Gladstone appointed Adjunct Professor of Computer Modelling in Glaciology
15.10.2018 13:59
Based on the decision of the Rector of the University of Lapland, PhD Rupert Gladstone has been appointed for the position of Adjunct Professor of Computer Modelling in Glaciology in the Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland. Gladstone is part of the Global change research group of the Arctic Centre.
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The new Barents Studies bring economic, social and political margins on focus
10.10.2018 13:22
The new issue of the international peer-reviewed journal Barents Studies covers topics around marginal phenomena. The issue 1/2018 features three peer-reviewed scientific articles, two research communications, a book review of the Encyclopedia of the Barents Region, and introductions of young scholars of the region.
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New plants on the block: Taller species are taking over in a warming Arctic
26.9.2018 20:00
Until now, the Arctic tundra has been the domain of low-growing grasses and dwarf shrubs. Defying the harsh conditions, these plants huddle close to the ground and often grow only a few centimeters high. But new, taller plant species have been slowly taking over this chilly neighborhood, report an international group of nearly 130 biologists in Nature. This has led to an overall increase in the height of tundra plant communities over the past three decades.
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Glacial engineering could limit sea-level rise, if we get our emissions under control
20.9.2018 15:00
Targeted engineering projects to hold off glacier melting could slow down the collapse of ice sheets and limit sea-level rise, according to a new study published in the European Geosciences Union journal The Cryosphere.
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Honorary Consulate of Italy opens in Arktikum
18.9.2018 8:00
The Honorary Consulate of Italy in Finnish Lapland opens in Arktikum house in Rovaniemi in September 2018. Senior Researcher Nuccio Mazzullo from the Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland has been working as Honorary Vice Consul of Italy since August 2016.
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Face of the Month: A researcher from Sicily who lost his heart to Sámi shaman stories
17.9.2018 11:23
Nuccio Mazzullo left Sicily for Lapland to meet the opposite of his own culture, but ended up meeting his mirror image. An anthropologist specialising in Lapland and in Sámi reindeer herding wants to remind people that humans are a part of nature, and nature is a part of us.
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