The Smithsonian Institution announces a new publication: "Smithsonian at the Poles: Contributions to International Polar Year Science: Proceedings of the International Polar Year Symposium (2008)."

Second invite to the seminar February 23-24 2009 Thule Institute, University of Oulu, lecture hall IT116

The Indigenous Fellowship Programme (IFP) was launched by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in the context of the first International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples (1995/2004).

The Nasivvik Centre, Laval University, is pleased to announce its sixth call for applications for Summer Internship Awards on Inuit environmental health.

Representatives of research, reindeer herding, local authorities and industry contributed to a "declaration of coexistence" between reindeer nomads and the oil and gas industry in the Russian North.

Russia considered at UN Human Rights Council, fails to adequately address indigenous issues

The next Students On Ice Antarctic Expedition leaves tomorrow!

"Leadership in the Age of Uncertainty", the second annual Jokkmokk Winter Conference was held February 1-4, in the lovely town of Jokkmokk, Sweden.

Undergraduate Research Opportunity, Toolik Lake Research SiteBrooks Range, Alaska, 5 June - 25 August 2009Application Deadline: Sunday, 15 March 2009

Scientia Canadensis, the Canadian journal of the history of science, technology and medicine, welcomes submissions for a special comparative issue on the History of Circumpolar Science.We invite submissions dealing with Arctic, Subarctic, and Antarctic regions and any national context. Papers from non-Canadianist perspective...

The University of Akureyri (Iceland) announces a new, international, master's program in polar law. Polar law describes the legal regimes applicable to the Arctic and Antarctica. Program emphasis will be placed on areas of international and domestic law concerning the polar regions, such as issues of human rights, environmen...

International Arctic Research CenterUniversity of Alaska FairbanksFairbanks, Alaska, 7-19 July 2009

The Past Global Changes (PAGES) project announces the latest issue of the PAGES Newsletter, Volume 17, Number 1.

Rovaniemi, Finland 2 – 3 March 2009

Polarworld, in association with the Scott Polar Research Institute, announces a new publication: "Face to Face: Polar Portraits." This publication brings together rare, unpublished, images from the historic collections of the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI), University of Cambridge, and modern imagery from expedition p...