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. Over 20 research environments are spread across many departments, faculties and multiple campuses. ArcHum is a strategic initiative to bring together the breadth and expertise within the humanities at UiT and to promote interdisciplinarity, creativity, and innovation.

Upcoming

13th to 17th April ArcHum Blended Intensive Program (BiP) 

If you are interested in attending the BiP please contact lilli.mittner@uit.no by 15th February.

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

Research environments | Dutkanbirrasat | Forskningsmiljøer

Arctic Archaeology

Arctic Auditories 

Arctic Sustain

Arctic Sustainability Lab

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

Giellatekno

ICRED - Intercultural relations in education

InOvation - Art pedagogy

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

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

TRANSFORMATION

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)

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

Joar Vittersø, happiness researcher

Jorge Santos, marine ecologist

Janke Klok, literary scholar

Scientific coordinator | Dieđalaš koordináhtor | Faglig koordinator

Lilli Mittner