AUNA Newsletter - February 2026
We hope everyone has settled into the new year – and that you are enjoying the snowy winter-break.
AUNA is still being shaped, but the community around it is growing steadily. Many new members have joined since our first meeting in December, and we have a series of seminars and initiatives are already taking shape. We warmly invite you to bring your ideas to us; whether it’s an event, a project, or talk, a invited guest-speaker, or a collaborative effort. We’re happy to provide a platform or framework to help turn your ideas into reality.
This newsletter is for our community, and your contributions are what make it meaningful. If you have upcoming events, new publications, job openings, or other news relevant to Arctic and North Atlantic research, please share them with us at this email. Together, we can make this newsletter a useful and engaging space, keeping our community informed and connected throughout the year.
AUNA Seminar Series
Thursday, 19th Feb. 2026, AIAS (Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies) 1632-212, 13:00-15:00
Theresa Kohlbeck Jakobsen, PhD student, Nordeuropa-Institut, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: Labouring in the Shadows: Gendered Blind Spots in Literary Depictions of Faroese Fisheries and Tuberculosis.
The seminar will begin with a presentation followed by a Zine workshop where participants will make their own fishy zine. We look forward to seeing you there!
AUNA Occassional Seminars
13th March, 14:00 -16:00 with Department of History, Room to be announced
Andrew G. Newby, Dr, University fo Galway, Ireland: Famine, Philanthropy, and Colonial Interventions in Denmark’s North Atlantic Realm, c. 1850-1870
9th April, 13:00-15:00, Room to be announced
Ivana Bicak, Assistant Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Bilkent University in Turkey: Of Bears, Danes, and Englishmen
Job announcements
The Nordic House in the Faroe Islands is currently inviting applications for internships in literature and communications to begin autumn 2026. Learn more BY CLICKING HERE
Ilisimatusarfik / University of Greenland is currently inviting applications for an adjunkt or studieadjunkt at. Afd. for kultur og Samfundshistorie. Read the full description BY CLICKING HERE
Call for Papers
The journal, Small States and Territories has a call for papers to the issue: Cold Greenland in the Hot Seat: High Stakes in the High North? To be published May 2027. Read the call BY CLICKING HERE
Conferences
The call for contributions to the 32nd EAA Meeting for Archaeologists in Athens 26th-29th August has now passed. But registration is open. CLICK HERE
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