In October 8-10 2008 the conference Human Dimensions in the Circumpolar Arctic: An Interdisciplinary Conference under the Auspices of the International Polar Year will take place at Umeå University, Sweden. As national organizers of the conference, we regard this as an excellent opportunity to focus on the human dimensions on the Arctic region which have usually been neglected during previous Polar Years. The conference will thus pay particular attention to human life and conditions in the circumpolar Arctic in the past, present and future.
