Scandinavia

Tromsø museum, 2-4 October 2008

This two day seminar will explore the way that indigenous people create homes and homelands for themselves in the circumpolar North.

The seminar will consist of a set of public lectures by specialists on the cosmology and archaeology of circumpolar dwellings as well as the historical dynamics of households. There will be equal time in the programme for craftspeople to display modern and traditional dwellings and to speak about their meaning.

More information: http://www.sami.uit.no/boreas/conference.html

6–9 August 2008, Tromsø (Norway)

Nordic Assocation for Canadian Studies (NACS/ANEC), in collaboration with the Centre for Sami Studies at the University of Tromsø, and in parallel with the Nordic Political Science Association (NOPSA), will be holding its ninth triennial conference in Tromsø, Norway, from 6–9 August 2008.

Papers may be given in English or French; the working language of the Conference will be English.

The conference themes include: Northern security, Canadian and Nordic Aboriginal issues, Arctic issues, narratives of Norths, Canadian film and Northern arts, and constitutional issues.

The 9th triennial Conference of the Nordic Assocation for Canadian Studies (NACS/ANEC) will take place in Tromsø, at the northernmost university in the world, located north of the arctic circle. The Conference is organized in cooperation with the Centre for Sami Studies.

More information: http://www.sami.uit.no/nacs/