Save the date! Join on 6-9 September 2023.

The Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland and The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) are jointly organising the first Inter-Polar Conference in collaboration with the UArctic Chairs in Arctic Legal Research and Education, and the Law Thematic Network.

Call for Abstracts

They invite abstract submissions, not exceeding 300-word, by scholars from the Arctic and the Third Pole regions that look at the following or closely related topics, from a focused lens, but preferably through a comparative or connecting lens. Abstract topics could include, but are not limited to the following:

• Climate change and environmental governance;
• Cryosphere;
• Institutions, and regional and global cooperation;
• Science diplomacy and science communications;
• Livelihood, culture and identity;
• Climate actions and sustainable development;
• Food and water security;
• Risk and disaster management.

Please visit this page to learn more about the conference and abstract submission process.

Submission deadline: 7 July 2023.

Cover image by Annie Spratt.