The University of Aberdeen is conve ning a major international conference on the theme:Conversations from the N orth: Scholars of many disciplines and inhabitants of many places in dialog ue with one another, with animals and plants, and with the land.
The conference is being held in associati on with the 11th Rectors’ Forum of the University of the Arctic, and will t ake place in Aberdeen from August 27th to 29th 2017.
The goal of the conference is to celebrate th e University’s emergence as a world-leading centre for interdisciplinary re search on the circumpolar North.
The conference will be fully interdisciplinary, with themes including:
the Anthropocene in the Arctic mov ements and encounters of northern peoples in the long term health, demograp hy and culture change in the North land, sovereignty and indigenous rights political regimes and international relations in the circumpolar North.
A call for abstracts, for both oral and pos ter presentations, is now open, with a submission deadline of Febru ary 14th 2017. Full instructions for submission, along with detail s of the conference theme, programme and registration, are available at http://www.abdn.a c.uk/uarctic/abstract-submission/ .
We welcome your submissions. Please feel free to distribute this call among your own networks. Should you have any inquiries, don’t hesitate to contac t us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.< /span> .
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