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The North: A New Academic Frontier Opening Address by the President of Iceland Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson at the Second Akureyri Polar Law Symposium, University of Akureyri 10 September 2009

The North: A New Academic Frontier Opening Address by the President of Iceland Ólafur Ragnar... Opening Address by the President of Iceland Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson at the Second Akureyri Polar Law Symposium, University of Akureyri 10 September 2009 The speech was delivered without notes. This is a post-speech transcript. Rector, Scientists, Professors, Ambassadors, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is indeed a great pleasure for me to be once again in Akureyri to talk about the Arctic and the North, the challenges which we face in the coming years and how they offer the scholarly community many interesting issues and projects for dialogue and research. I was recalling on the way here today that ten years ago or so, when we started a dialogue on the North at the University of Rovaniemi, the general response we got from most people was a polite passiveness, diplomatic attempts to change the subject to something else, implying that this might be of some interest but not really of any great relevance. Almost every meeting we attended had to start with a major argument on why we should be talking about the North and the Arctic, why this neglected area, this isolated territory, should now become the subject of intellectual activity, academic, political and policy-oriented cooperation. It is highly http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Yearbook of Polar Law Online Brill

The North: A New Academic Frontier Opening Address by the President of Iceland Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson at the Second Akureyri Polar Law Symposium, University of Akureyri 10 September 2009

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Copyright 2010 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1876-8814
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2211-6427
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10.1163/22116427-91000029
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Opening Address by the President of Iceland Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson at the Second Akureyri Polar Law Symposium, University of Akureyri 10 September 2009 The speech was delivered without notes. This is a post-speech transcript. Rector, Scientists, Professors, Ambassadors, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is indeed a great pleasure for me to be once again in Akureyri to talk about the Arctic and the North, the challenges which we face in the coming years and how they offer the scholarly community many interesting issues and projects for dialogue and research. I was recalling on the way here today that ten years ago or so, when we started a dialogue on the North at the University of Rovaniemi, the general response we got from most people was a polite passiveness, diplomatic attempts to change the subject to something else, implying that this might be of some interest but not really of any great relevance. Almost every meeting we attended had to start with a major argument on why we should be talking about the North and the Arctic, why this neglected area, this isolated territory, should now become the subject of intellectual activity, academic, political and policy-oriented cooperation. It is highly

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The Yearbook of Polar Law Online – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 2010

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