The University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), Department of Anthropology, seeks to hire a tenure-track linguistic anthropologist at the rank of assistant professor. They are particularly interested in candidates with both applied and strong theoretical interests. Language ideology and language politics, verbal art, orality and literacy, are areas of interest. A solid grounding in linguistic and anthropological field methods is expected. An interest in conducting research in Alaska is a requirement for the position, though prior experience is not required.

Dear polar researchers: We are delighted to announce a Call for Papers for the IPY Science Conference in Oslo, 8-12 June 2010. We call your attention particularly to the session "Natural Resource Exploration and Utilisation" (Theme 4, Session 2). This session will explore the development of large scale natural resource utilisation in the polar areas in the past and the present, as well as its geo-political consequences and the increasing tensions between different security perspectives surrounding oil and gas exploration. It will explore the tension between the notion of freedom of access to the resources of the polar areas, and the networks of private capital, states, and international political and legal regimes that control and sustain this notion of freedom

The Royal Geographic Society has just launched its new website of Arctic resources for General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) students in England and Wales. The resources on the website will be of use to a wide audience seeking up-to-date resources on the Arctic. The website address is: www.discoveringthearctic.org.uk

The Northern Review, a peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary journal of the humanities and social sciences based at Yukon College in Whitehorse, Canada, seeks reviewers for recent books in northern studies. The journal publishes reviews and original scholarship from around the circumpolar North in a wide range of fields, including history, anthropology, archeology, political science, sociology, law, environmental studies, literary studies, and the visual arts. Reviews are generally in the range of 800-1200 words in length.

A meeting entitled 'Antarctic Treaty Summit: Science-Policy Interactions in International Governance' is scheduled for Monday, 30 November - Thursday, 3 December 2009. It will be convened at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. The meeting will involve plenary presentations with panel discussions during the first three days followed by a final day of topical workshops that will apply the science-policy lessons from the international, interdisciplinary, and inclusive dialogues. The plenary sessions include: (1) Origin of the Antarctic Treaty; (2) Development of the Antarctic Treaty System; (3) Antarctica's Role in Global Science; (4) Scientific Advice in the Antarctic Treaty System; (5) International Cooperation in Antarctica; (6) Interactions Between the Antarctic Treaty System and other International Regimes; and (7) Governing International Spaces: Lessons From Antarctica. The topical workshops on the fourth day will consider: 'Arctic Governance: Lessons from Antarctica and 'The History of International Spaces.'

The Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT) and DIALOG, the Research and knowledge network relating to Aboriginal peoples, will host the 17th Inuit Studies Conference, which will take place from November 4 to 6, 2010. The event will be held at the UQAT First Peoples Pavilion on the Val-d’Or campus, Québec, Canada, under the theme “The Inuit and the Aboriginal World”. Through this theme, our intention is to explore the common concerns of the Inuit and the other Aboriginal peoples throughout the world. We propose the following sub-themes: the environment, the climate change, the economic development, the issues connected to languages and cultures and also the education.

Abstract submission and registration is now open for the 2010 State of the Arctic Conference. The conference will be held 16-19 March 2010 at the Hyatt Regency Miami in Miami, Florida. The main goal of the conference is to review current understandings of the arctic system in a time of rapid environmental change. It will provide an open international forum for discussion of future research directions aimed toward a better understanding of the arctic system and its trajectory. Further information about the conference can be found at: http://soa.arcus.org.

A new public exhibition and accompanying website devoted to the role of indigenous peoples and intermediaries, including interpreters and guides, in the history of exploration has been launched at the Royal Geographical Society in London, England. Materials from the Arctic, Africa, Asia, and the Americas are represented. The exhibition is open daily from 15 October to 10 December 2009. Entrance is free of charge. The website, which contains many more images, film clips, research materials from the RGS-IBG collections, and other research resources and links, is at: http://hiddenhistories.rgs.org/.

The attention of the northern research community is drawn to two upcoming events at the University of California, Riverside with Arctic themes. The first is a screening of and symposium about the Isuma film production of "The Journals of Knud Rasmussen" on Thursday, 19 November 2009: http://chass.ucr.edu/announcement/2009/10-01-09.html

The second event is the interdisciplinary conference on The Oceanic Turn in the Long 18th Century," to be held on 20 November 2009, which will feature a panel devoted to the Arctic: http://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/oceanicturn/index.html.