by MeyerA | Nov 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
In 2023 and 2024, the Svalbard Social Science Initiative (SSSI) hosted two workshops under the project Transdisciplinary Bridges to explore how researchers and local stakeholders can collaborate across disciplinary boundaries in Svalbard. Funded by...
by MeyerA | Oct 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
Ragnhild Bjørnsen is currently in Longyearbyen for a residency with Artica Svalbard. She was nominated by the Norwegian Non-Fiction Writers and Translators Association (NFFO) and will spend her time in Svalbard to continue her research on the experiences of children...
by MeyerA | Oct 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
Art/Place is a webinar series exploring how artists and/or arts-based practitioners engage with Arctic places through diverse creative practices and perspectives. The series, developed for the UArctic Thematic Network on Critical Arctic Studies (CAS), is co-hosted by...
by SSSIAdmin | Mar 21, 2025 | Uncategorized
On 14 April at 13:00, SSSI member Zdenka Sokolickova and colleagues Anne Beaulieu and Maarten Loonen will present and discuss the interactive interface Contaminating Encounters. This interface developed out of a 2022...
by SSSIAdmin | Mar 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
The magazine New Internationalist recently published a feature about “Svalbard’s green gamble”. SSSI members Grete Hovelsrud, Tiril Vold Hansen and Zdenka Sokolíčková were interviewed for the piece. You can download and read the article here: ‘Svalbard’s...
by SSSIAdmin | Nov 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
On September 26th 2024, the standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence held an open meeting in Kulturhuset in Longyearbyen to listen to local concerns related to the White Paper for Svalbard (Report to the Storting No. 26 (2023-2024)). Together with Lpo...
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