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SSF-Svalbard Science Forum

Svalbard and the Humanities: A Two-Day Workshop in Tromsø

Tildelt: kr 0,14 mill.

Out of 24 workshops supported by the Svalbard Science Forum in 2008-14 and publicized on the SSF website to promote their recommendations, none is devoted specifically to a humanistic approach to Svalbard. To fill an obvious gap, a two-day workshop, dedicated to Svalbard and the humanities, is proposed to be held in Tromsø late in 2017, in partnership between UiT (Norway), KTH (Sweden) and AIRO-XXI (Association of Russian Historians, Russia). The workshop will consist of 16 papers by 18 scholars and cultural practitioners from Norway, Sweden, Germany, Russia and Great Britain. The participants´ specialisation includes, among others, law, politics, geography, history, archeology and anthropology, as well as urban, gender, literary and visual studies. The participants will have a rare public opportunity to talk to each other not only within but also across their disciplines. The papers will deal with both the current state of humanistic research on Svalbard and its possible future lines and forms of enquiry. A new area studies discipline within Arctic humanities, namely Svalbard Studies, is expected to be inaugurated. An additional special session will be held focusing on the SSF´s strategic objectives and discussing, in particular, how to increase research cooperation, coordinate activities and facilitate the open sharing of data for all the humanists involved. The workshop results will be disseminated by video recording and through the RiS database, as well as various local, national and international media channels, a workshop report and a special issue of an academic journal for selected papers from the workshop.

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SSF-Svalbard Science Forum