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Northern Impressions photo show opens the new exhibition in Arktikum
9.5.2016 9:15
Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland organizes Barents Café on Thursday 12th May at 5 PM about impressionistic nature photography. Northern Impressions is the nature photo cooperation project by Irma Varrio and Ari-Matti Nikula, presenting the Nordic nature with an impressionistic twist.
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Antarctic Ice Sheet will play important role in sea level rise
1.4.2016 11:17
Research Professor John Moore from the Arctic Centre is leading a new project, where a computer model of the Antarctic Ice Sheet is used to simulate its behaviour in response to changing climate.
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Open lecture: China's policy development towards the Arctic governance
30.3.2016 15:57
Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law (NIEM) at the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, is organizing Study Circle lecture on China's policy development towards the Arctic governance in April 14th. The guest lecturer of the Study Circle is Dr. Baozhi Cheng from Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS), China.
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Indigeneity in Waiting: Elusive Rights and the Power of Hope
22.3.2016 10:37
The research project Indigeneity in Waiting: Elusive Rights and the Power of Hope views legal and institutional advances concerning indigenous peoples, and the promise of such advances, as an integral part of the ways in which political power is exercised today.
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What is happening with permafrost greenhouse gas releases?
17.3.2016 13:08
Arctic Centre research professor Bruce Forbes has taken part in an expert assessment, published in Environmental Research Letters on 7 March 2016. The results go to the core of Arctic related climate discussion: what is actually happening with permafrost greenhouse gas releases? Are we talking about a tipping point, a time bomb or what?
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Arctic Voices explore the realities of living close to extractive industries
11.3.2016 11:25
Professor Florian Stammler from the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, has co-edited the Arctic Voices issue of an international journal The Extractive Industries and Society. The issue explore the expectations, narratives and the realities of living with extractive industries in the far north.
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Nuccio Mazzullo awarded as Officer of The Order of the Star of Italy
23.2.2016 12:06
The President of Italy has awarded Nuccio Mazzullo, the researcher of the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland, the recognition of knighthood ”Officer of The Order of the Star of Italy”. The knighthood awarded in recognition of service to the Italian Republic and its Arctic affairs in foreign countries and in Finland.
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Open seminar on Human Security
18.2.2016 10:48
The Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland will organize open research seminar “Towards Arctic Security: Northern Aspects of Human Security” on Thursday 25th February 2016 at 10. The seminar will open the concept of human security for example from the dimensions of climate change and cyber security.
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Tackling questions of indigeneity and inclusion in international politics
8.2.2016 14:41
The University of Lapland and the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster, will organise a workshop in London on 12 February 2016 to address the current claim that political power is being redistributed and exercised in new ways in indigenous issues. The workshop is part of the international research project "Indigeneity in Waiting: Elusive Rights and the Power of Hope" funded by Kone Foundation.
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Arctic Film Night 9th February: Inuk
1.2.2016 13:57
The Arctic Centre at the University of Lapland will show a Greenlandic film Inuk at the Arctic Film Night on Tuesday 9th February 2016 at 18 in Arktikum building (Pohjoisranta 4, Rovaniemi). The audience can also meet film makers during the event.
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