S p r i n g 2 0 0 2 ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. NNoorrtthheerrnn NNootteess The Newsletter of the International Arctic Social Sciences Association (IASSA)

Published by the IASSA Secretariat, University of Fairbanks, PO Box 757730, Fairbanks, AK 99775-7730, USA; tel.: (907)474-6367; fax: (907)474-6370; email: [email protected]; web: www.uaf.edu/anthro/iassa; editor: Anne Sudkamp, IASSA Coordinator, email: [email protected]

In this issue Features From the President ...... 1 Call for Articles, Book Reviews, etc...... 7 From the Coordinator ...... 2 Conferences, Meetings, and Workshops ...... 8 Toward an Arctic Human Development Report .. 3 Career Opportunities ...... 10 Who Owns Siberian Ethnography? ...... 4 For Students ...... 10 Departments Money Line ...... 11 About IASSA ...... 5 Bookshelf ...... 12 IASSA Council Members ...... 6 On the Web ...... 15 IASSA.Net ...... 7 Remembering ...... 16

From the President I am glad to announce that–as of this spring– (ICASS V) has been selected and that the dates, IASSA will have continuous representation at the location, and theme of the congress have been Arctic Council (AC). IASSA Council member determined. ICASS V will be held at the Gérard Duhaime agreed to play this important role University of Alaska Fairbanks campus from May for the next two years to come. As I am writing 19 through 23, 2004. The local organizing these lines, Gérard is attending the Arctic Council committee of the conference consists of IASSA meeting in Oulu, Finland. Below is a short members Richard Caulfield, Molly Lee, Amy information piece about AC which Gérard Lovecraft, and Phyllis Morrow; in addition, contributed and we hope to print regular updates IASSA Council member Gordon Pullar, IASSA on the subject from him. Starting with the next Coordinator Anne Sudkamp, and myself are AC meeting in October of 2002, IASSA will serving on the committee. One of the first cover the travel costs to AC meetings by Gérard activities of the organizing committee was to (or whoever will take on his duties eventually). select the conference theme Connections: Local Travel funding for AC meetings became possible and Global Aspects of Arctic Social Systems. A through an increase in IASSA membership fees first call for papers will be issued in the fall of this instituted recently. This is the first raise in year. For the time being, I encourage all members membership dues since the founding of IASSA to block out the above-mentioned dates and to and it will also help offset the rising costs of start thinking about potential sessions, workshops, administering the association. and papers. If you anticipate organizing a costly The other important news to report is that a session/workshop (e.g., one which requires local organizing committee for the next extensive travel subsidies for participants), let International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences Anne or myself know at the earliest possibility.

We will try to assist in finding outside funding scientist‖ on large natural science projects does sources. not necessarily enhance interdisciplinarity nor the In recent months, several events relevant for advance of social science research. My personal Arctic social scientists were conducted at the conclusion from these discussions (resembling a University of Alaska Fairbanks. It seems to me ―social science identity crisis‖) is that Arctic that the question of what the particular role of social scientists need to be more self-confident in social scientists within the ―Arctic research developing a specific social science agenda in the triangle‖ (courtesy of Igor Krupnik)–northern Arctic. If we continue to present ourselves merely residents, natural scientists, and social scientists– as brokers and interpreters, we should not be is or can be has been triggering the most debate. surprised if we encounter little demand for our In other words, what is the nature of collaboration services. If we can convince ourselves and others among these three groups and what are its benefits that social scientists address issues of high and costs? Several preliminary conclusions seem relevance for the Arctic, natural scientists and to be relevant. One is that social scientists can no indigenous communities will gladly cooperate longer (if they ever could) claim a role as middle with us. (wo)men between indigenous communities and I wish all IASSA members a pleasant and natural scientists: both groups are doing perfectly successful summer. fine collaborating without us. Another point is that the practice of serving as the ―token social Peter Schweitzer

From the Coordinator As I look back over this first year as the letting me know. For reference, the list of IASSA Coordinator, I’d like to thank you the ICASS IV sessions and roundtables follows: members for all your help on IASSA activities, from renewing your memberships, to submitting ICASS IV material for Northern Notes and IASSA.Net, to Session and roundtable titles and chairs included: providing ideas for ICASS V and the IASSA Circumpolar Mobility Program. Fae L. Korsmo website, and everything in-between. (National Science Foundation). A Few Organizational Notes Memory and History in the Arctic. François ~ The secretariat will be closed for summer break Trudel (Université Laval) and Ole Marquardt from June 8 to September 16. (Ilisimatusarfik / University of ). ~ IASSA.Net, the IASSA listserv, has undergone Issues of Identity in the North. Louis-Jacques some major changes in the past few months. It is Dorais (Université Laval). now restricted and non-public and subscribers Justice in the Circumpolar North. David Koester now post messages to [email protected] (University of Alaska Fairbanks) and Caroline While the secretariat is closed for the summer, Brown (University of Chicago). members needing any help with IASSA.Net may Sustainable Development and Food Security in contact University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) the Arctic. Nick Bernard (Université Laval). computer guru Daniel LaRoe at Governance and Aboriginal Peoples in the North. [email protected]. Daniel is also the Oran Young (Dartmouth College). person we may thank for reviving IASSA.Net when UAF’s server died in early April. For more Social Science Research in Northern Russia. information about IASSA.Net, see the article in Victoria Churikova (Novosibirk State this issue. University). ~ The IASSA website has moved from Laval Archaeological Research in Northern Europe. University to UAF: www.uaf.edu/anthro/iassa Noel Broadbent (University of Umeå). ~ As Peter notes above, planning for ICASS V has Northern Research Forum as an Academic begun. IASSA members may begin thinking Concept and Political Process (part 1). Lassi about sessions they’d like to see organized and Heininen (University of Lapland).

………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 2  Northern Notes Spring 2002 Archaeological Research in Northern Russia. Arctic Economy. Jens Kaalhauge Nielsen Vladimir Pitulko (Institute for the History of (Ilisimatusarfik / University of Greenland). Material Culture, Russian Academy of Challenges of Higher Education in the Arctic. Sciences). Heather Myers (University of Northern British Transformation of Health Status and Medical Columbia), Rasmus Ole Rasmussen (Roskilde Practices in the Arctic. Michael J. Kral University), Richard Langlais (University of (University of Windsor). Tromsø). Teaching of Aboriginal Languages. Irene Trends in Arctic Social Science Research. Jens Mazurkewich (Memorial University of Dahl (International Work Group for Indigenous Newfoundland). Affairs). Narrative that Heals (part 1). Wendy Arundale Narrative that Heals (part 2). Wendy Arundale (University of Alaska Fairbanks). (University of Alaska Fairbanks). Living Conditions Research among Indigenous Seal Hunting: A Multimillenary Activity. Paul Peoples in the Arctic. Birger Poppel and Thomas Charest (Université Laval). Andersen (Statistics Greenland). Toward a Social Archaeology of Paleoeskimo Films/videos on Indigenous Peoples of the North. Peoples. Bryan Hood (University of Tromsø). Andrei Golovnev (Institute of History and Languages and Oral Traditions in the Arctic. Archaeology, Russian Academy of Sciences) André Bourcier (Université Laval). and Gail Osherenko (Dartmouth College). Arts and Artists in the Arctic. Céline Saucier. European-Aboriginal Interactions. Ludger Dictionary-Making in Languages. Lawrence Müller-Wille (McGill University). Kaplan (University of Alaska Fairbanks). Preserving the Record: Electronic Databases in Media and Northern Identities. Annette Watson the North. William Schneider (University of (University of Minnesota). Alaska Fairbanks). Rock Art in the North. Daniel Arsenault Northern Research Forum: Roundtable (part 2). (Université Laval). Lassi Heininen (University of Lapland). Communicating Scientific Knowledge about Navigation and Travel in the Arctic: the Power of Peoples in the Arctic. Louis-Jacques Dorais Tradition. Joseph Sonnenfeld (Texas A&M (Université Laval). University).

Museum Representations and Archives of I wish you all a happy and productive summer! Northern Peoples. Nancy Wachowich

(University of British Columbia). Anne Sudkamp

Toward an Arctic Human Development Report The Arctic Council, a policy forum where demography, economies, environment, IASSA has observer status, is working toward the governance, globalization, laws, cultures, social creation of an Arctic Human Development change, human health, social capital, community Report. Several steps have been made since the viability, gender issues, international cooperation. creation of a task force in November 2001, under The task force approach is to base the report to the AC Sustainable Development Working Group. a considerable extent on existing social science At the occasion of the last meeting of the AC research in the circumpolar world, rather than Sustainable Development Working Group, on accumulating new data. It mentioned disciplines May 14th 2002 in Finland, the task force delivered such as anthropology, political science, economy, a report. The task force, led by Iceland political economy, human geography, human representatives and particularly Niels Einarsson of ecology, psychology and sociology. the Stephansson Arctic Institute, presented a 15- Following this approach, the initiative would chapter plan of the report, covering topics of build upon the experience of Arctic Monitoring

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..  Northern Notes Spring 2002 3 and Assessment Program (AMAP) and governments. This could have some importance Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF), especially for large-scope research programs that and will be inspired by the methodological cannot be adequately funded through the limited framework of the United Nations Human budgets of national research councils and that are Development Report (UNHDR). The project in need of several sources of funding. would require a budget of $250,000 USD for a report to be released by 2004. Projects supported by AC IASSA members interested in participating in Children and Youth (led by ), Co- this initiative can communicate with Niels management of Marine Resources in Arctic Areas Einarsson at [email protected] (led by Sami Council), Ecological and Cultural Tourism (led by US and Finland), Sustainable Guidelines for endorsement of research Reindeer Husbandry (led by Norway), initiatives Sustainable Development in Northern Timberline Since its creation, the Arctic Council has been Forests (led by Finland), Survey of Living asked to endorse social science research Conditions in the Arctic (led by and initiatives. Some of them received such an Greenland), Telemedicine (led by USA), endorsement, like Sustainable Development in Emerging Infectious Diseases (led by USA). Northern Timberline Forests (led by Finland) and Facts about AC Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic (led by AC is a policy forum that puts together Denmark and Greenland). However, the representatives of Arctic member states, procedures will be different in the future, since permanent participants, working groups and AC work is getting more complex. observers. They convene on a regular basis to take The Sustainable Development Working Group common action. (SDWG) is in the process of adopting guidelines Member States - Canada, Denmark, Greenland for future endorsements. These guidelines would & Faroe Islands, Finland, Iceland, Norway, The include minimal requirements as for the number Russian Federation, Sweden, of of Arctic countries to be involved in research America initiatives, and conformity to a code of ethics. Permanent Participants - Arctic Athabascan Discussions on this issue, that could have an Council, Gwich’in Council International, Inuit impact on initiatives by IASSA members, will Circumpolar Conference, Russian Association of continue in the months to come. In the meantime Indigenous Peoples of the North, Saami Council, however, it seems that AC-SDWG won’t add new Arctic Council Indigenous People’s Secretariat research projects on its list of supported projects. For more information, go to: www.arctic- At its last meeting, AC-SDWG has decided to council.org postpone discussion of that nature, while some initiatives applied for such support. Gérard Duhaime attended the AC Sustainable Endorsement by the Arctic Council is a Development Working Group in Finland on May political matter more than other things. It can help 14, 2002 as a representative of IASSA. Contact: to build credibility of a research program and [email protected] increase its chances to get funds from national

Who Owns Siberian Ethnography? An International Workshop on Methods and Approaches to Ethnography in the Russian North On March 7-9, 2002, the Max Planck Institute America, and Russia who have been actively for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany, conducting extensive fieldwork in the Russia hosted a workshop designed to commemorate and North over the last ten years, as well as promising critically assess the first decade of a revival of young scholars who are just now entering the international cooperation in the ethnography of field. the Russian North. The participants in the It has only been since the late 1980s that workshop were scholars from Europe, North Western scholars have gained renewed access to field sites that were closed to them during the ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 4  Northern Notes Spring 2002 Soviet period. In the 1990s, there was an professionals who have extensive experience in exponential growth in the number and scope of ethnographic studies in Russia and were invited to projects carried out in Russia by foreign make presentations at the roundtable. Roughly researchers, often in collaboration with Russian half of these were from Russia and the other half researchers. The number of young scholars were from Europe and North America. The entering the field rose dramatically as well. Some remaining 20 participants were students and barriers to mutual understanding, however, recent Ph.D.s who represent the coming surfaced in the process of this renewed Russian- generation of Siberianists. Western cooperation. These barriers resulted The workshop extended over three days, with partly from prolonged mutual isolation, diverging each day devoted to a selected theme. Each research traditions, and limited knowledge of each morning, participants made individual 20-minute other's perspectives and goals. The situation was presentations in plenary session on topics only exacerbated by the logistical difficulties that distributed in advance, using their own field Russian researchers faced in obtaining support for experiences as a basis. Rather than attempting to their research in the hostile economic climate of present the final word on that topic, presenters the 1990s, forcing interruptions in what had been were asked to provide raw material to stimulate long careers dedicated to field studies in Russia, discussion and to generate ideas for comparison of while Western social scientists began to take up our different approaches. Each afternoon, field studies in the very areas where these Russian workshop participants broke into five small ethnographers had long held sway. It is to the groups to discuss the morning's presentations. credit of researchers from both sides that relations Each day concluded with a second plenary session have generally remained so cordial and to discuss the findings of each small group, and to cooperative. Nevertheless, even as the number of summarize the day's theme. Discussions continued collaborative projects grows, there remains a need in the evenings over small-group dinners in for increased communication among all restaurants scattered throughout the city. concerned. The atmosphere at the workshop was one of It was in the interest of fostering that increasingly relaxed familiarity even as communication that the workshop organizers participants engaged in vigorous discussion of planned this unprecedented meeting in March. sometimes touchy issues. Many expressed The workshop was mainly oriented toward issues satisfaction over the fact that the discussions were that are rarely discussed at larger, more content- open and a wide variety of views could be aired. oriented conferences: fieldwork methodologies In the end, all were in agreement that this and ethical guidelines, new research agendas, and community of Northern scholars, in spite of our mechanisms for increasing mutually beneficial divergent backgrounds, has much in common, and collaborative activities between regional is indeed a ―community‖. Participants agreed to specialists within and beyond Russia. Using a develop and maintain a communication network, roundtable format for plenaries and then breaking and to prepare a published version of the into working groups, the workshop sought to workshop’s results. encourage discussions of both academic issues as well as personal experiences of doing fieldwork in Patty Gray, email: [email protected]; Peter Russia. Schweitzer, email: [email protected]; and Nikolai The workshop hosted a total of 39 participants Vakhtin, email: [email protected], Workshop Co- from 11 countries. Nineteen of them were selected organizers from among an expanding field of working

About IASSA Foundation Conference on Coordination of Research in the IASSA was founded in 1990 in Fairbanks, Arctic held in Leningrad in 1988 to establish an Alaska at a meeting held in conjunction with the international association to represent arctic social Seventh Inuit Studies Conference. The creation of scientists. IASSA follows the suggestion made at the From its foundation in 1990 until 1992, IASSA's secretariat was housed at the Department …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..  Northern Notes Spring 2002 5 of Geography, McGill University, Montreal, ~to follow the IASSA statement of ethical Canada. From 1992-1995, it was located at the principles for the conduct of research in the Arctic Center, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Arctic. Finland. From 1995 to 1998, it was at the Department of Eskimology, University of Administration Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. From 1998 IASSA is governed by an elected seven- to 2001, it was at the GETIC (Groupe d'etudes member council and a general assembly inuit et circumpolaires), Laval University, Quebec consisting of all members who have paid their City, Canada. membership. See also IASSA Council Members. Objectives Membership The Arctic is defined as all arctic and sub- Membership is open to anyone interested in arctic regions of the world. The social sciences arctic social sciences. Membership is required to encompass disciplines relating to behavioral, participate in ICASS (International Congress of psychological, cultural, anthropological, Arctic Social Sciences). Members receive archaeological, linguistic, historical, social, legal, Northern Notes, the IASSA newsletter, twice a economic, environmental, and political subjects, year and may subscribe to IASSA.Net, an email as well as health, education, the arts and server list. Current membership fees are in US or humanities, and related subjects. Canadian dollars and cover three years: The objectives are: Researchers: $100US or $167Ca; ~to promote and stimulate international Associate (students, retirees, etc.): $50US or cooperation and to increase the participation of $83Ca.; social scientists in national and international Institutions: $200US or $333Ca. arctic research; Contact the IASSA Secretariat for further ~to promote communication and coordination information on joining IASSA: email: with other research organizations; [email protected]; tel.: (907)474-6367. ~to promote the active collection, exchange, Meetings dissemination, and archiving of scientific IASSA held its First International Congress of information in the arctic social sciences; Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS I) in Ste-Foy, ~to promote mutual respect, communication, and Quebec, Canada in October 1992. ICASS II was collaboration between social scientists and held jointly in Rovaniemi, Finland and northern people; Kautokeino, Norway in the summer of 1995. ~to facilitate culturally, developmentally, and ICASS III took place in Copenhagen, Denmark in linguistically appropriate education in the North; May 1998. ICASS IV was held in Quebec City, Canada in May 2001. ICASS V will be held in Fairbanks, Alaska, USA in May 2004.

IASSA Council Members See also About IASSA Gérard Duhaime (Past President, ex Following are the council members elected at the IASSA General Assembly held May 20, 2001 in officio) Email: [email protected] Quebec City: Murielle Nagy Peter Schweitzer (President) Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Birger Poppel Noel Broadbent Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Gordon Pullar Galina Diatchkova Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Nancy Wachowich Email: [email protected]

………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 6  Northern Notes Spring 2002 IASSA.Net This server list is designed for use by members meetings or conferences, news about upcoming and others interested in the goals of IASSA. IASSA activities, information about new Information, questions and communications on publications of interest to arctic social scientists, this server list will deal broadly with issues job announcements, or request for contacts affecting arctic social sciences and with matters of regarding scholar investigations of particular interest to IASSA members. topics. As of February 7, 2002, IASSA.Net is restricted ~Items that are strictly for personal interest should and non-public, meaning that only subscribers be sent through email. may post a message and that subscribers may be ~New subscribers to IASSA.Net are encouraged to added only with the approval of listowners. introduce themselves to other members of the Subscribing list by posting (as appropriate) a short To subscribe to this list, send an email message biography, academic affiliations, research to Anne Sudkamp ([email protected]) or, if the interests, language proficiencies, telephone and date is between June 8 and September 16, 2002 fax contact numbers, etc. when the secretariat is closed, contact Daniel ~All those posting items to the list should include LaRoe ([email protected]) and she or he a name and email address with their will provide directions. In your email requesting contribution. to subscribe, please note who you are and why ~IMPORTANT: If you use your mailer's REPLY you would like to subscribe to IASSA.Net. command to respond to a message, please remember that ALL subscribers will receive Posting Messages your message. If you want to reply to only one To post a message to IASSA.Net, send your person, please use their personal email address. email message to [email protected]. It will be automatically distributed to all list subscribers. ~Comments or suggestions about this list should Please make sure to include your name and email be sent to listowner Anne Sudkamp with each message. Otherwise subscribers will not ([email protected]) or, if the date is between June know who sent the message or how to respond to 8 and September 16, 2002 when the secretariat is you personally. closed, they should be sent to Daniel LaRoe ([email protected]). Guideline for Use ~Topics should be related to professional interests Special thanks to the University of Alaska of arctic social scientists. For example, Fairbanks, USA, for supporting this server list. contributions may include announcements of

Call for Articles, Book Reviews, etc. See also Conferences, Meetings, and Workshops (617)441-5417; email: [email protected]; and Bookshelf web: www.cs.org Cultural Survival Encyclopedia of the Arctic Cultural Survival, based in Cambridge, MA, is Fitzroy Dearborn's Encyclopedia of the Arctic, collecting material for an anthology of articles by edited by Mark Nuttall, is scheduled for or about Innu and is also collecting material for a publication in Spring 2003. website on the Innu to be included in a new Scientists, writers, academics, or residents of project called Ethnosphere, that Cultural Survival the Arctic who are interested in contributing some is creating in cooperation with National of the few remaining unassigned entries should Geographic. Contact: Lucia Clark, Ethnosphere look at the project web site at: Research Coordinator, Europe and Canada, www.fitzroydearborn.com/london/arctic.htm Cultural Survival; tel.: (617)441-5414; fax: where they will find the list of unassigned entries …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..  Northern Notes Spring 2002 7 grouped by topic as well as other useful Street; London W1B 3AX; tel.: +44-20/7467- information about the project. Contributors will 1424 (direct line and voicemail); fax: +44- receive a fee and be fully credited in the 20/7636-6982. Encyclopedia. Deadlines will be from 1 April or by Indigenous Nations Studies Journal arrangement. Offers to write entries should be This journal is now accepting articles and book emailed to the publishers, at reviews for Volume 3, Numbers 1 and 2. Contact: [email protected] or faxed to: +44- Elyse L. Towey, Associate Editor, The Indigenous 20/7636-6982, giving brief background details of Nations Studies Journal, The University of academic position and research. Kansas, 1410 Jayhawk Boulevard, 105 Lippincott Additional contact information: Encyclopedia Hall, Lawrence, KS 66045; tel.: (785)864-2660; of the Arctic; Fitzroy Dearborn; 310 Regent email: [email protected]

Conferences, Meetings, and Workshops June 16-18, 2002 Anchorage, AK 99508, USA; tel.: (907)279-2706; Athabascan Languages Conference. Fairbanks, fax: (907)279-2716; email: [email protected]; Alaska, USA. The theme is Beyond web: www.uaf.edu/uafrural/ISC Revitalization: Toward a sustainable future for August 4-6, 2002 Athabascan languages. Contact: Gary Holton, Taking Wing - Conference on Gender Equality Alaska Native Language Center, Box 757680, and Women in the Arctic. Saariselka, Inari, Fairbanks, AK 99775-7680 USA; tel.: (907)474- Finland. Organized by the Arctic Council, Nordic 6585; fax: (907)474-6586; email: [email protected]; Council of Ministers, and Finland as the host web: www.uaf.edu/anlc/alc country, the conference themes are Women and June 16-20, 2002 work in the Arctic and Human rights in the Arctic The Fifth International Conference on from a gender perspective. Contact: Laura Tohka, Environmental Radioactivity in the Arctic and Conference Coordinator, Department of Women's Antarctic. St. Petersburg, Russia. Contact: NRPA Studies, FIN-33014 University of Tampere, – Arctic Radioactivity Conference 2002, P.O. Box Finland; tel.: +358-3-215 8982; fax: +358-3-215 55, NO-1332 Østerås, Norway; fax: +47-67-14- 6562; email: [email protected]; web: 54-44; email: [email protected]; web: www.arctic-council.org www.amap.no (see News and Announcements). August 8-11, 2002 June 17-21, 2002 American Quaternary Association (AMQUA) The 19th Polar Libraries Colloquy, Poles Apart - 17th Biennial Meeting. Anchorage, Alaska, USA. Poles On-Line. Copenhagen, Denmark. The theme The theme is the peopling of the Americas in its refers to the many library and archive collections paleoenvironmental setting, Climate Change and becoming accessible on-line. Contact: Vibeke Human Migration in the North Pacific Basin. The Sloth Jakobsen, Danish Polar Center Library, AMQUA meetings will be preceded by the Inuit Strandgade 100H, DK-1401 Copenhagen K, Studies Conference and a special Beringia Denmark; tel.: +45/3288-0100, +45/3288-0106; Working Group symposium on Archaeology of fax: +45/3288-0101; email: [email protected]; web: the Russian Far East. Contact: David R. Yesner, www.dpc.dk/plc email: [email protected], or c/o the Department of Anthropology, University of August 1-3, 2002 Alaska, 3211 Providence Drive, Anchorage, AK The 13th Inuit Studies Conference. Anchorage, 99508 USA; tel.: (907)786-6845; fax: (907)786- Alaska, USA. The theme is Voices from 6850; web: www.uaa.alaska.edu/anthropology Indigenous Communities: Research, Reality & Reconciliation. Contact: Gordon L. Pullar, September 9-14, 2002 Department of Alaska Native and Rural Northern Archaeological Congress. Khanty- Development, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Mansiisk, Russia. The congress will share and 2221 East Northern Lights Boulevard, Suite 213, highlight recent significant results, ideas and ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 8  Northern Notes Spring 2002 future research projects on archaeology of the web: www.amap.no (see News and Northern Hemisphere (Arctic and sub-Arctic Announcements). areas) in the three major themes of Origin and October 23-27, 2002 Prehistory of the Northern Cultures, Methods and Oral History Association Annual Conference Technologies in Interdisciplinary Studies and 2002, Global Linkages: The Internationalization Archaeological Legacy in the 21st Century Socio- of Everyday Life. San Diego, CA, USA. Contact: Cultural Context. Contact: NAC Secretariat, Teresa Barnett, tel.: (310)206-2454; email: Institute of History and Archaeology Ural - [email protected], or Jane Collings, tel.: Branch RAS, 56, Luxemburg street, Ekaterinburg (310)267-4754; email: [email protected] 620026, Russia; tel./fax: 7-3432-223456; email: [email protected]; web: January 4-7, 2003 www.northcongress.ural.ru Conference on Users Knowledge and Scientific Knowledge In Management Decision Making. September 19-22, 2002 Reykjavik, Iceland. The background for this North Second Northern Research Forum (NRF). Veliky Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission Novgorod, Russia. NRF’s mission is to promote (NAMMCO) conference is the disagreements and dialogue among members of the research often direct conflicts between whalers, sealers, community and a wide range of other northern and fishermen on the one hand and scientists on stakeholders that addresses the critical issues, the other. The goal of the conference is to find problems, and opportunities facing circumpolar ways to incorporate user knowledge into the peoples in the context of social and environmental management decision-making process in parallel changes and economic globalization. Contact: with science. Contact: NAMMCO Secretariat, Northern Research Forum Secretariat, University Polar Environmental Centre, N-9296 Tromso, of Akureyri & Stefansson Arctic Institute, Norway; tel.: +47/7775-0180; fax: +47/7775- Nordurslod, IS-600 Akureyri, Iceland; tel.: +354- 0181; email: [email protected] 463-0900; fax: +354-463-0589; email: [email protected]; web: www.nrf.is February 24-March 1, 2003 Arctic – Alpine Ecosystems and People in a September 22-27, 2002 Changing Environment. Tromsø, Norway. Inter-Congress of the International Union of Organized and sponsored by the Norwegian Polar Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. Institute (NPI), Norwegian Institute for Air Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan. The theme is The Research (NILU), Norwegian Institute for Nature Human Body in Anthropological Perspectives. Research (NINA), University of Tromsø, and Contact: Eisaku Kanazawa, tel.: +81-47-360-9317 Institute of Marine Research, the conference will or 9318; fax: +81-47-364-6295; email: address the broad field of Environmental Change [email protected]; web: www.the- research in Northern Europe, Arctic and Alpine convention.co.jp/inter2002/index.htm areas. Contact: email: [email protected]; October 1-4, 2002 fax: +47 7775 0501; web: The Second AMAP International Symposium on www.npolar.no/ArcticAlpine2003 Environmental Pollution in the Arctic. Rovaniemi, March 30-April-1, 2003 Finland. This second international scientific Seventh International Symposium on Mining in symposium dealing with pollution of the Arctic in the Arctic. Iqaluit, , Canada. Topics will an integrated circumpolar context will showcase include mining industry case histories; mining results of recent research and monitoring into the under hostile conditions; sources and pathways, levels, trends, and effects technologies; arctic environmental issues; arctic of persistent organic pollutants (POPs), heavy mining regulatory issues; economics of arctic metals, and radioactivity in the Arctic, including mining developments; and decommissioning of the implications for human health of arctic arctic mines. Contact: John E. Udd, Mining and residents. The symposium is arranged as a prelude Mineral Sciences Laboratories, Natural Resources to the Third Arctic Council Ministerial Canada, c/o 555 Booth Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Conference, which will be held in Inari, Finland Canada, K1A 0G1; tel.: 613/947-8383; fax: immediately following the symposium. Contact: 613/996-2597; email: [email protected]; web: www.nunanet.com/~cngo/isma.html …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..  Northern Notes Spring 2002 9 Career Opportunities Assistant or Associate Professor, American Indians or Alaska Natives is preferred. The department places a high priority on the Psychology creation of an environment supportive of diversity University of Alaska Fairbanks and the promotion of ethnic minorities, women, Closing date: until filled. and persons with disabilities. For more Doctoral degree in psychology or related field information, see: is required. Applicants should have strong cross- www.uaf.edu/uafhr/jobs/Faculty.html cultural/multicultural, community and rural experience and/or interests. Experience with

For Students Circumpolar Arctic Social Science Ph.D. August. Focus of the course is on the management of resources, both natural and human, in Network renewable resources-dependent communities. The Circumpolar Arctic Social Science Ph.D. Contact: Rasmus Ole Rasmussen, Professor, Network (CASS) is a network of Ph.D. students Roskilde University, Denmark; email: and researchers that focuses on the cultural, [email protected]; web: www.nors.info political and economic basis for community development and the resources required for local, Circumpolar PhD Network in Arctic community-based ways of life. Environmental Studies The network also focuses on how local CAES Network is addressed to PhD students perceptions about the resources have been and post-doctoral scientists and acts as an affected and how cumulative development institution for research education in the impacts have altered local systems of social circumpolar northern countries. The purpose of control, land and sea tenure, conventional the network is to foster interdisciplinary research configurations of rights and resources in general. and partnership between young researchers who The congruencies and disjunctions between local are engaged in natural, cultural and socio- accounts and social and biophysical scientific economic aspects of arctic environmental studies. accounts are studied. A coordinating role in the network is given to One of the primary goals of the network is that senior researchers (core group and advisory board the group of Ph.D. students meets one or two of the network), although contribution from PhD times a year for two weeks, hosted consecutively students and postdocs is of greatest importance. by the participating universities. These The main activity of the network is to conduct a arrangements take place in communities in the series of interdisciplinary research education Arctic and during the two weeks the activities courses covering some important topics related to include a specific program developed by the arctic environment, such as reindeer herding, arranging university, emphasizing topics that are industrial impacts, climate change, forestry, etc. characteristic for that specific university and The courses are conducted annually in various region, including visits to important centers, regions of the northern circumpolar countries and agencies, etc. In addition to the specific program, are intended to be linked to each other. the activities involve the presentation of papers by Complementary activities of the network are the Ph.D. students based on their projects. an electronic network, research workshops and Last fall a course was held at the Kola Science mobility of young researchers. The CAES Center in Apaptity on the Kola Peninsula, Russia, Network co-operates with the Circumpolar Social with visits to major industrial sites in the region Science PhD Network (CASS) and is involved in such as Nikel, Monchegorsk and Murmansk. Part the development of the University of the Arctic. of the course also took place in Lovozero―the This year CAES will hold the course, center of Sami culture on the Kola Sustainable Development and the Environmental, Peninsula―and in Archangelsk. Political, Economic, and Legal Institutions of The course in 2002 is planned to take place in Society in Lulea, Sweden from September 14-29, Iceland and East Greenland in the second part of 2002. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 10  Northern Notes Spring 2002 Contact: Dr. Ekaterina (Katja) Ruth, CAES, Subsequent seminars will take place at other Coordinator, Lulea University of Technology, SE- locations. 97187 Lulea, Sweden, tel.: +46-702087807; fax: Contact: IPSSAS, c/o Department of +46-920-491030; email: [email protected]; or Eskimology, University of Copenhagen , contact: Dr. Päivi Soppela, CAES, Coordinator, Strandgade 100H, 1401 Copenhagen K, Denmark; Arctic Center, University of Lapland, P.O. Box tel.: +45 32 88 01 66; fax: +45 32 88 01 61; email: 122, FI-96101 Rovaniemi, Finland, tel.: +358-16- [email protected]; web: 3412791, fax: +358-16-3412777, email: www.hum.ku.dk/ipssas/index.html [email protected]; CAES website: www.caesnetwork.cjb.net ITASCA Field Biology Program Arctic Field Ecology: Integrating research, International Ph.D. School for Studies of teaching, and Inuit ecological knowledge. One Arctic Societies (IPSSAS) section of Arctic Field Ecology (University of IPSSAS is both an international Ph.D. school Minnesota, EEB 4842, 4 semester credits) is being and an international network of researchers offered this summer (25 June - 21 July 2002). centered on the study of Arctic Societies. Its main This is a field ecology course that involves a objectives are: multidisciplinary team of ecologists and Inuit -to promote the study of Arctic societies in the collaborators. The course will explore a transect fields of history, culture and language; from treeline south of the Brooks Range to the Arctic Ocean in Alaska, passing along the western -to explore new research trends in those fields and edge of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to develop coordinated and collaborative post- (ANWR). Participants will meet in Fairbanks, graduate teaching; Alaska, and travel by van over the Brooks Range -to stimulate international networking and synergy and by along the Sagavanirktok River to between participating scientific institutions; Alaska's north coast. They will integrate course -to foster partnerships between Arctic societies work with a major field study looking at the and participating scientific institutions; and interaction of vegetation, climate, and soils along -to encourage participation of and knowledge this transect. They will camp along the way, sharing with Arctic communities in its activities, interact with scientists at the research sites, and so as to bring more students from Arctic meet with native people to learn about their societies to register at the Ph.D. level. knowledge of the region. The course is sponsored by the National The main activity of IPSSAS is an annual Science Foundation, the International Institute for seminar of two week's duration for Ph.D. students Tropical Forestry, and the University of and senior M.A. students. The partner institutions Minnesota Itasca Field Biology Station. It is open of IPSSAS pledge themselves to give credits to to undergraduate and graduate students from those of their graduate students who have around the world. Course cost is $3100. participated in an IPSSAS seminar. Contact one of the instructors: Bill Gould, The first seminar will take place in Nuuk, the USDA Forest Service, International Institute of capital of Greenland, from May 28 to June 8 Tropical Forestry, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00928- 2002, under the theme Arctic Societies and 2500; tel.: 787/766-5335 ext 114; email: Research Dynamics and Shifting Perspectives [email protected]; web: http://muskox.com; or with an estimated maximum of 15 students. Andrew Borner, University of Alask, Fairbanks; tel.: 907/474-1844; email: [email protected] Money Line: Requests for Proposals Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council RFP resources provide. Each year the council invites This council administers the restoration fund individuals, private industry, government established following the Exxon Valdez oil spill agencies, and other interested parties to submit to restore the resources injured by the spill and the proposals for restoration projects. reduced or lost services (human uses) the …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..  Northern Notes Spring 2002 11 At the end of July or early August, the council [email protected]; tel.: 907/278- will solicit proposals under the Phase 2 Federal 8012 (toll free 1-800/478-7745 within Alaska or Fiscal Year 2003 Invitation. Contact the council 1-800/283-7745 outside Alaska); web: restoration office in Anchorage: email: www.oilspill.state.ak.us

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…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..  Northern Notes Spring 2002 15 Remembering . . . Yosif Sopochin Khanto, one of the two principal Khanty Yosif Sopochin, a leader among the Surgut community associations in Surgut region. Most region Khanty, died of cancer at the end of recently, he had been attempting to secure funds January 2002 in the hospital in Khanty-Mansiisk, so that his community association could purchase Russia. fishing areas along the Ob' to engage in Yosif was a Trom-Aganski Khant whose commercial fishing. In recent years, he also family was from Ulti-Yagun village just north of played a forceful role in the Khanty-Mansi native Surgut. association Spasenie Yugra. His initiative, energy, experience and Enormously energetic, talented, phlegmatic, imagination raised him into a position of nervous, generous, keenly insightful, Yosif leadership in the post-Soviet period. He himself traveled in Europe and America, often with his worked diligently to secure benefits for Khanty wife Agrafena Pesikova, attending conferences who were suffering from the adverse impacts of and seminars, talking to all who would listen, petroleum development and to find alternative trying to call attention to the plight of the eastern means of economic self-sufficiency for relocated Khanty. Khanty. In turn,Yosif warmly welcomed visitors, even A former village council member, he had in the depths of winter, to his homes in participated in negotiating economic agreements Russkinskiye or Yubilenie. for Trom-Aganskii Khanty with regional oil Yosif will be missed not only by his family companies to channel funds to Khanty. and Khanty community, but also by many friends As early as 1994, he was active in the around the world. obshchina (native community association) movement and became a major figure founding Andrew Wiget

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