Center for Arctic Humanities

The Center for Arctic Humanities (ArcHum) coordinates various research environments at UiT The Arctic University of Norway to strengthen collaborative relationships and to make ongoing and emerging research within Arctic humanities visible. ArcHum is also a place to address societal challenges and advance creativity and innovation through the arts and humanities.

Upcoming events

21th January Environmental humanities gathering #64: Deleuze and Guattari reading group chapter 9 

27th January Recolonising the Arctic? Russia’s Spatial Strategies in the Era of War

29th January  The Welsh Dragon hearing the Irish harp: the influence of Irish nationalism on the Welsh National Party, 1925–1939

30th January Real Problems, Transformative Responses: Preparing Students to Contribute to Sustainable Futures 

1st to 8th February Sami Week at the museum Living with the Ocean Exhibition | Arctic Frontiers 

2nd February, 11.00-12.30 Turning the Tide Through Engaged Arctic Humanities  | ArcHum på Arctic Frontiers 

2nd February, 13.00-13.30 Living with the Ocean Exhibition Opening Arctic Frontiers

2nd February, 15.00-18.00  Living with the Ocean: Closing Gathering Storgata Camping Minigolf

4th February, 12.15–13.15 Brown bag seminar with Scott Nielsen, arranged by the Centre for Sámi Studies

5th February, 11.00–13.00 Object-based conversation with Scott Nielsen, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador

13th to 17th April ArcHum Blended Intensive Program 

26the to 29th May Archum at UArctic Congress 2026, Torshavn, Faroe Islands 

Past Events



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Research environments | Dutkanbirrasat | Forskningsmiljøer

Arctic Archaeology

Arctic Auditories 

Arctic Sustain

Arctic Voices

Arctic Youth

CNN - Creating the New North

CRAFT lab. Knowledge Integration and Blue Futures

EA:RTH - Ethnographic Action: Researching Transformations of Humans and Environment on a Disrupted Planet

EnvHum - Environmental Humanities 

EnvPhil - Environmental Philosophy

FemArc - Feminist Theories in the Arctic

Giellatekno

ICRED - Intercultural relations in education

IVO - Indigenous voices

INREL - Indigenous Religion(s): Local Grounds, Global Networks 

Interdisciplinary Phenomenology

KVENSK - Faglig nettverk for forskning og kunnskapsutvikling om kvenske tema

Narrating the Postcolonial North

RESULT- Resource Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology

PEACE

PSIF - Pax Slavica in Flux: European Contexts

SamForsk - Research on Sámi Research and on Representation of Sámi Cultural Heritage 

SESAM - Centre for Sami Studies 

STED - Place, power and mobility

WONA - Worlding Northern Art

XARC - Exploration, Exploitation and Exposition of the Gendered Heritage of the Arctic 

If your research environment is interested to join the Centre for Arctic Humanities, please contact Lilli Mittner: lilli.mittner@uit.no.

About

UiT's Centre for Arctic Humanities was initiated in 2023 by the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education, The Arctic University Museum of Norway, Academy of Arts, and the University Library. ArcHum is a response to the challenges in the Research Council's evaluation of the humanities in Norway and a Norwegian parliamentary report on the Humanities in Norway (2016-2017), as well as to UiT's humanities strategy (2021), and UiT's strategy Eallju – Developing the High North: UiT’s strategy towards 2030 (2022). 

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Archum progress report (in Norwegian)

Steering group | Stivrenjoavku | Styringsgruppe

Anne Britt Flemmen, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education

Lena Aarekol, Director at The Arctic University Museum of Norway and Academy of Fine Arts

Johanne Raade, Director at the University Library

Reference group | Referánsajoavku | Referansegruppe

Tim van Gerven, Associate Professor of Nineteenth-Century History and Vice-Dean for Research, Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education

Trude Fonneland, Professor, Arctic University Museum of Norway

Per Pippin Aspaas, Senior Academic Librarian, Department for Research and Education Support, University Library

Elders Council | Vuorasolbmuidráđđi | Eldrerådet

Ann Therese Lotherington, dementia researcher

Jorge Santos, ecologist

Joar Vittersø, happiness researcher

Marit Anne Hauan, folklorist

Scientific coordinator | Dieđalaš koordináhtor | Faglig koordinator

Lilli Mittner

Center for Arctic Humanities


archum@uit.no
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