The Geography Department at the Memorial University of Newfoundland is seeking a human geographer with expertise in the human dimensions of climate change. The successful candidate will be expected to teach at the undergraduate and graduate levels and should demonstrate commitment to excellence in teaching and research. Candidates should be engaged in an active
research program.

The Department of Anthropology at Brown University is offering two fellowships for highly qualified applicants to their anthropology graduate program. The fellowships will have an arctic archaeology/anthropology focus and begin during the 2010 academic year. In addition to tuition and stipend, funding is available for fieldwork at a late prehistoric site on the Kobuk River in northwestern Alaska, during the summer of 2010. The fieldwork will provide MA thesis opportunities for the successful candidates.

Contemporary cultural landscapes of the circumpolar North are in a state of rapid flux. If we consider landscapes to be cultural texts, “readable” for the social, cultural, historical, political, and economic processes out of which they emerge, what do these changes to Northern landscapes tell us? As Northern spaces come into view for different reasons – as contested spaces of national sovereignty, imaginative scapes of national-cultural desire, resource rich hinterlands, tourist destinations, and home spaces for northern peoples – how are landscapes changed? And how, amidst these changing perceptions, on the shifting terrains of late-capitalist globalization, are notions of the local formed and lived on northern landscapes?

The 7th Summer Seminar of the International PhD School for Studies of Arctic Societies (IPSSAS) will be held at the University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, and Stromness, Orkney, Scotland, from 18-29 May, 2010. The seminar will be hosted by the Department of Anthropology, University of Aberdeen.

A two-part photo exhibit by environmental photojournalist Gary Braasch in association with author and filmmaker Lynne Cherry will open on Monday, 26 October 2009. It will be on display at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Headquarters Atrium in Washington, D.C., through February 2010. Climate Change in Our World, an exhibit of large-scale color photographs, will show climate change effects already rampant, and illustrate some of the actions being taken toward a future of lower emissions and new opportunities. The images are from the book Earth Under Fire: How Global Warming is Changing the World by Braasch.

The National Park Service (NPS) seeks applications for projects conducted under the Shared Beringian Heritage Program. This initiative is an international program that unites American and Russian Natives, scientists, land managers, conservationists, and other interested parties in promoting the protection, understanding, and enjoyment of the common heritage of the Beringia region of northwestern Alaska and eastern Chukotka. Projects funded under this program may be either scientific research projects or local, community-based educational, cultural, or conservation projects that fulfill some or all of the goals of the Beringia program. Scientific research proposals are expected to contain sufficient detail for technical review by subject matter specialists.

The University of Tromso seeks a post-doctoral research fellow in archaeology. This position is for a fixed term of two years, and is based in Tromso, Norway. The position is linked to the research project, "Landscape Knowledge and Resource Management in Interior Arctic Norway,
2500 BC - AD 1000 (LARM)".

The Legacy of Hope Foundation is pleased to announce that the “We were so far away…” : The Inuit Experience of Residential Schools exhibition will be on display at the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre (PWNHC), Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada, from November 2009 to January 2010. “We were so far away…” presents the stories of Inuit residential school Survivors in their own words, illustrated with their personal objects and photographs along with historical photographs from archives across Canada.

The Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT) and DIALOG (Research and knowledge network relating to Aboriginal peoples) will host the 17th Inuit Studies Conference 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”.

Proposals for papers must be sent to conference coordinators by email or postal mail by Friday, 22 January 2010, at the latest. Proposals can be presented in French or in English. A scientific committee will select the papers to be presented at the conference. The Committee’s selections will be made public in March 2010.

Film Description: Martha was only 5 when she and her parents were lured away from their Inuit village. Along with a handful of other families, they were moved to Canada’s most northerly island, Ellesmere, to ensure Canadian sovereignty in the Arctic. They were told that game would be plentiful and life would be easy. Instead, they discovered that the islands of the Arctic are among the least hospitable to human life in the world. For years, they endured hunger and extreme cold. Deprived of the right to an education and a childhood, Martha had to help her family survive. Yet she proved as resilient as the other people from her community who appear in the film. Martha of the North is the story of a journey and a childhood spent in a new and unwelcoming land. Also available in French as Martha qui vient du froid. Director: Marquise Lepage. Producer: Marcel Simard. 2008, 83 min.