Arctic Politics Seminars

The research seminars offer dialogue and discussions based on papers or draft articles (only work-in-progress) on some of the newest research regarding the Arctic.

Papers for the seminars are circulated one week in advance, so that the seminars may proceed on the assumption that all participants have read the papers. Hence, the papers are not presented as such - only a brief contextualization is given.

The seminars are hosted by the Danish institute for International Studies and take place mostly on Thursdays 14:00 – 16:00 pm. Subscribe to the mailing list by sending an email with a short presentation to Lin Alexandra Mortensgaard, lamo@diis.dk.

Recent and upcoming seminars
 

March 20, 2024 from 14.00-16.00

• Assistant Professor Marc Jacobsen (Royal Danish Defence College), and Research Assistant Signe Lyngholm Lindbjerg (Royal Danish Defence College) will present their paper entitled "X Marks the Spot: Decoding Danish SoMe Debates on US Engagement in Greenland".
• Senior Researcher Ulrik Pram Gad (DIIS) will present a paper entitled "Nations and other modular forms of imagined communities: Greenland as a case of postcolonial politics of comparison".
   

January 11, 2024 from 14.15 to 16.15

• Astrid Nonbo Andersen is a Senior Researcher at DIIS, and she will present a draft from her and Journalist Martine Lindskrebs’ upcoming book “Monumentet”.
• PhD Student, Emilie Canova (University of Cambridge) will present a draft for her upcoming paper titled “The European Union and its Member States in the Arctic: official complementary but underlying rivalry?”. 
   

September 28, 2023 from 9.00 to 11.00

• Professor of Law Rafael Cox Alomar (University of the District of Columbia) is an expert on comparative constitutional law in the context of decolonization and will present his resent work on Free Association in a Greenlandic context compared to current Free Association-states, under the title “Modalities of Autonomy: A Comparative Analysis”.
• Postdoc of Law Mette Marie Stæhr Harder (KU) will present her resent work on indigenous parliamentary representation in metropolitan or Settler states with focus on the representation of Greenland in the Danish parliament under the title “While we are waiting… Parliamentary Representation in the Metropolitan – or the Settler State”.
   

August 11, 2023 from 14.00 to 16.00

• Associate Professor Jeppe Strandsbjerg (Royal Danish Defence College and Nasiffik) will present his draft paper titled “Creating the Joint Arctic Command: cutting cost or preparing for the future? Strategic culture, Arctic security and strategic reasoning within the Kingdom of Denmark”
   

April 27, 2023 from 15.00 to17.00

• Senior Researcher Astrid Nonbo Andersen (DIIS) will present an article by Rachael Lorna Johnstone, Renata Colwell & Astrid Nonbo Andersen “Truth and Reconciliation in Different Contexts of Colonisation (Working title): On the difference between the Canadian TRC and the Greenland Reconciliation process seen from a legal perspective”.
• Senior Researcher Astrid Nonbo Andersen (DIIS) “Theorizing an Interregnum: temporalities at play in the context of Greenland Reconciliation process (working title): On the historical context of the Greenland Reconciliation process analyzed through the lenses of metahistory”.
   

April 14, 2023 from 15.00 to 17.00

• Ph.D. applicant Esther Jónsdóttir will present her Ph.D. proposal on “Gendered Indigenous Experiences and Perspectives on Climate Change and Self-Determination in a Changing Arctic: The Case of Greenland”.
   

March 23, 2023 from 15.00 to 17.00

Chapters from the book Mobilities at the Margins: Creative processes of place-making.

• Associate Professor Carina Ren (AAU) will present a chapter with the working title: “A lack of love? Failed tourism futures at an abandoned naval base in Southern Greenland”.
• Associate Professor Mette Simonsen Abildgaard (AAU) will present a chapter with the working title: “Data on the margins. Tele-infrastructural encounters in North Greenland”.
   

December 17, 2022 from 15:00 to 17:00:

• PhD student Lin Alexandra Mortensgaard (DIIS) will present the paper titled “Becoming Arctic: The US’ quest for ontological security in the Arctic”
• PhD student Lise Wiederholt Christensen (KU) will present the paper titled “Becoming a Kingdom in NATO: new diplomatic practices inside NATO’s Arctic policy field”.
   

November 17, 2022 from 14:00 to 16:00:

• Astrid Nonbo Andersen (DIIS) will present the chapter with the preliminary title “Et politisk monument” for a book she is writing with journalist Martine Lind Krebs about the Greenland monument on Christianshavns Torv and the changing perceptions and images of Greenland in Denmark from the past 100 years. The chapter traces a connection between the monument and the dispute over East Greenland between Norway and Denmark in the 1920s and 30s.
• Malin Arvidsson (LiU) will present a rough draft of a paper with the preliminary title “From informal truth initiatives to state-sponsored Truth and Reconciliation Commissions: Two Swedish minorities seeking historical justice”. The text is intended for an edited volume about historical truth and accountability in the post-colonial state.
   

May 5, 2022 from 14:00 to 16:00:

• Lill Rastad Bjørst (AAU), Frank Sejersen (KU), Kirsten Thisted (KU) will present the chapter “Affective approaches – rethinking emotions in resource extraction” written for Resource Extraction and Arctic Communities: The New Extractivist Paradigm edited by S, Sverker.
• Kirsten Thisted (KU): will present a chapter (title tbc) for Unravelling the North – Critical Studies of the Arctic edited by Lindroth, M., Sinevaara-Niskanen, H. & Tennberg, M.