Opportunities for Collaboration in IPY
International Arctic Social Sciences Association (IASSA)
For further information, please go to the IASSA web site:
http://www.uaf.edu/anthro/iassa/
To facilitate the submission of arctic social science and humanities
expressions of intent (pre-proposals) to the ICSU, the International
Arctic Social Sciences Association (IASSA) has launched an initiative to
create an exchange of ideas, discussion, and active communication.
As part of that effort, IASSA would like to announce the following
opportunities for collaboration.
Further information on each of these projects and the IASSA IPY
facilitation initiative is available at:
http://www.uaf.edu/anthro/iassa
PI seeks comments or prospects for collaboration
"Indigenous Peoples of the North and the Globalised World: Local
Perspectives on Nature, Risks and Landscapes"
Contact Information:
Frank J. Sowa
Research Centre for Social Sciences (SFZ)
Friedrich Alexander University
Erlangen-Nuremberg, Findelgasse 7/9
90402 Nuremberg, Germany
E-mail: frank.sowa [at] gmx.net
PI seeking IPY partners
"Study on health and social capital among mono- and bilingual indigenous
and autochthonous minorities in northern Sweden"
Contact Information:
Birger Winsa, Stockholm University
E-mail: Birger.winsa [at] finska.su.se
"Investigating the Economic and Environmental Resilience of Viliui Sakha
Villages: Building Capacity, Assessing Sustainability, Gaining Knowledge"
Contact Information:
Susan A. Crate
Email: scrate1 [at] gmu.edu
International partners sought
"Inuit Sea Ice Use and Occupancy Project"
Contact Information:
Claudio Aporta
CIERA and Department of Anthropology, Universite Laval
Email: claudio.aporta [at] ciera.ulaval.ca
Gita Laidler
Department of Geography, University of Toronto
Email: gita.laidler [at] utoronto.ca
PIs seek partnerships for similar work in Inuit communities in
Greenland, Canada, and possibly Siberia
"Language Planning for Eskimo-Aleut languages as perceived by their
speech communities"
Contact Information:
Lawrence Kaplan
Alaska Native Language Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks
E-mail: ffldk [at] uaf.edu,
Maria Hilden
Roskilde, University Center, Denmark
E-mail: the.bean [at] get2net.dk
PI seeking collaboration from other scholars working in anthropology,
environmental history, and the history of science
"Translocating Wildlife and Imagined Landscapes: Conflicting Cultural
Constructions of Arctic Landscapes"
Contact Information:
David G. Anderson
Email: david.anderson [at] abdn.ac.uk
Further information on each of these projects and the IASSA IPY
facilitation initiative is available at:
http://www.uaf.edu/anthro/iassa