Multiple Calls for Papers
Arctic Creative: Building Arctic Futures Through Culture,
Innovation, and Creativity
Seventh International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences
22-26 June 2011
Akureyri, IcelandImagining the Supernatural North
Seventh International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences
22-26 June 2011
Akureyri, IcelandChanges in Arctic Sea Ice and Ocean: Observations, Models, and
Perspectives
European Geoscience Union
3-8 April 2011
Vienna, Austria
- Arctic Creative: Building Arctic Futures Through Culture,
Innovation, and Creativity
Seventh International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences
22-26 June 2011
Akureyri, Iceland
Organizers of a session entitled "Arctic Creative: Building Arctic
futures through culture, innovation, and creativity" announce a call for
abstracts. The session will be convened at the Seventh International
Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS VII), to take place in
Akureyri, Iceland, 22-26 June 2011.
In the 21st century, the Arctic faces tough choices in respect to
balancing economic development and cultural vitality and reconciling
traditional activities and lifestyles with the realities of modern
capitalism. In the past, the Arctic has been a scene for unprecedented
colonial efforts that scarred natural, economic, political, and cultural
landscapes. With the growing interest in the Arctic as the "last
frontier" abundant with resources and opportunities, we expect (and
already witness) the return of 'mega-projects' on a new wave of a
resource boom. However, this path of development has already proven to
be problematic. Instead, there is an increasing attention to
'alternative' economic prosperity strategies focused on endogenous
capacities, such as human capital, local creativity, and Indigenous
culture as new economic engines in the Arctic. Mobilizing local
modernities to serve the economic needs of arctic people appears to be a
more realistic, and, perhaps, the only possible way to reconcile the
uniqueness of the arctic locale with the re-energized capitalist regime
in the region.
The papers in this session will consider emerging 'alternative
strategies' of regional development in the 21st century Arctic, where
culture, innovation, and knowledge become the drivers of future
socio-economic prosperity.
Submission Deadline: Monday, 20 December 2010.
If you are interested in submitting a session, please contact Andrey
Petrov prior to the deadline, at: andrey.petrov [at] uni.edu.
- Imagining the Supernatural North
Seventh International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences
22-26 June 2011
Akureyri, Iceland
Organizers of a session entitled "Imagining the Supernatural North"
announce a call for abstracts. The session will be convened at the
Seventh International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS VII), to
take place in Akureyri, Iceland, 22-26 June 2011.
"Imagining the Supernatural North" intends to contribute to the ongoing
discussion on 'perceptions of Northernness' in the humanities and social
sciences. In the course of the oft-quoted 'spatial turn,' the increased
awareness of spatiality and its implications, scholars have devoted
considerable attention to the cultural meaning of Northernness. Which
stereotypes, symbolisms, and ideological connotations have been ascribed
to the North in different historical periods, by different actors, and
in different discourse genres? How have the North and its inhabitants
been imagined, constructed, and described?
As a contribution to this debate, the panel will explore the notion of
the North as a realm of the supernatural. From antiquity to the present,
the North has been associated with sorcerous inhabitants, mythical
tribes, metaphysical forces of good and evil and all kinds of
supernatural qualities and occurrences. Such an approach, however, needs
to bear in mind that the border between the natural and the supernatural
has been viewed differently in different discursive traditions, and that
a sharp delineation is often impossible.
For a list of possible topics, please see the full session description
under Theme 7 at: http://www.iassa.org/programme.
Proposals must be submitted online (http://www.iassa.org/abstracts) and
should indicate that you intend to contribute to the session on
"Imagining the Supernatural North." Organizers request that all
submissions also be emailed to: stefan.donecker [at] eui.eu.
Submission Deadline: Monday, 20 December 2010.
For further information, please contact:
Stefan Donecker
Email: stefan.donecker [at] eui.eu
- Changes in Arctic Sea Ice and Ocean: Observations, Models, and
Perspectives
European Geoscience Union
3-8 April 2011
Vienna, Austria
Organizers of session OS1.3, entitled "Changes in Arctic sea ice and
ocean: observations, models, and perspectives," announce a call for
abstracts. The session will be convened at the European Geoscience Union
meeting, in Vienna, 3-8 April 2011.
The arctic summer sea ice continues declining, with the third-lowest
extent in satellite record reached in September 2010. This sustained
reduction evokes predictions and speculations about the fate of the
arctic sea ice cap and the arctic system as a whole. The past decade
showed also extraordinarily high ocean temperatures due to very warm
inflow from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans accompanied by a substantial
freshening of the upper ocean. The intriguing coincidence of these
evolutions raises the question of interactions or common causes.
Possible reasons for current changes are seen in large-scale circulation
changes with partly unclear connection to the ongoing global warming.
The efforts of the International Polar Year 2007-2008 and international
programs such as DAMOCLES, SEARCH, and others have enhanced the data
flow from ice and ocean observations and contributed to improving
modeling abilities from local to regional and global scales. The models
are also progressing through increased model resolution and improved
model physics. All these advance our understanding of the arctic system.
For this session, organizers encourage presentations on observed and
simulated changes in the Arctic Ocean, atmosphere, and ice, on their
mutual interaction and on the interaction with the global processes.
Organizers are interested in studies concerning decadal-scale as well as
in short time scale. Discussion of future scenarios of the arctic system
are welcome.
Support applications, students in particular, are due Friday, 3 December
2010. Further information on support opportunities is available by
clicking on the 'Support and Distinction' link in the left sidebar at:
http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2011/.
Abstract submission deadline: 10 January 2011.
To submit an abstract, please log in or create an account at:
https://administrator.copernicus.org/authentication.php.
For further information, please contact:
Ursula Schauer
Email: Ursula.Schauer [at] awi.de
Takashi Kikuchi
Email: takashik [at] jamstec.go.jp
Yevgeny Aksenov
Email: yka [at] noc.soton.ac.uk