Content on the Arctic


The History of the Baltic Sea Region and Contested Identities

- Marta Grzechnik

The concept of the Baltic Sea Region challenges the idea of history as being solely a national narrative. Far from being fixed, contested Baltic…

Arctic region

A seedvault hidden in the snow at night
- Ann Legreid

The Arctic is a circumpolar region centered on the North Pole, home to diverse human populations, landscapes, vegetation, and wildlife. The climate is…

The Arctic Imaginary

A small arctic village. Small houses next to each other in a snow landscape.
- Dina Brode-Roger

Few have been there and yet everyone has some image of what the Arctic is. For most people, it conjures up images of an extreme environment, white and…

Cold Bodies: The geopolitics of ice in recent arctic cinema

Logo of university hub ReNEW
- Johannes Riquet

This presentation is from a transdisciplinary research workshop entitled Nordic Noir, Geopolitics and the North held at Aarhus University in October…

Arctic Council

The logo of the Arctic Council together with a representation of its member states. the logo is a white fox with the globe beside it.
- Ann Legreid

The Arctic Council was established in 1996 by the Ottawa Declaration with the intent of fostering “cooperation, coordination, and interaction between…