Apr 10, 2024: Talk by Alexandra Meyer at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences
Alexandra Meyer gives a talk at the HVL. Photo by Else B. Ness.
In Svalbard, the environment, society, and policy are changing rapidly. On April 10, 2024, a lunch seminar at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL) discussed what these changes mean for people in Longyearbyen, and the dilemmas associated with using and protecting the environment. The seminar featured Alexandra Meyer from InfraNorth, who gave a guest talk on Longyearbyen’s transition to climate and societal changes, and Halvor Dannevig and Kristin Løseth from the Western Norway Research Institute (Vestlandsforsking), who gave a talk about the challenges of balancing tourism and nature preservation in Svalbard.
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International Conference, September 22 – 24, 2025, at the University of Vienna. Extended deadline for submissions: April 21, 2025. Infrastructure is often seen as solid, fixed, and inevitable while shaping the way we move, live, and connect. But what about the infrastructures that remain unfinished, abandoned, or merely imagined? How do built, un-built, or non-built […]
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The third volume of the Fractured North book series, edited by Erich Kasten, Igor Krupnik, and Gail Fondahl, has recently been released by SEC Publications, the publishing house of Kulturstiftung Sibirien. The volume includes a chapter by Olga Povoroznyuk, titled “Reconceptualizing Siberia: a personal account of a changing field.” In it, she reflects on her […]
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