Call for papers: Two MultiBEING sessions at the ISAR-9 in Japan

Our researchers Victoria Peemot, Nicola Renzi and Mikko Äijälä are organising special sessions at the 9th International Symposium on Arctic Research (ISAR-9) in Hokkaido, Japan, on 16–20 April 2027.

Photo: The Tuha (Duha) reindeer herders’ early autumn place, Üzük, in East Taiga, northern Mongolia (August 2026). 📷: Victoria Peemot

Call for papers

Our researchers Victoria Peemot, Nicola Renzi (University of Helsinki) and Mikko Äijälä (University of Lapland) are organising special sessions at the 9th International Symposium on Arctic Research (ISAR-9), to be held in Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan, on 16–20 April 2027. The Arctic Science Summit Week precedes ISAR-9 at the same venue on 11–15 April 2027.

We invite individual paper submissions for the following sessions:

S27: Technologies as Intermediaries in Human-Dog Relations in the Arctic and North Asia | Conveners: Mikko Äijälä and Victoria Peemot

S28: Voicing the Crisis: More-than-human Acoustemologies in the Circumpolar North | Conveners: Nicola Renzi and Victoria Peemot

The submission deadline is 16 October 2026.

How to submit

1. Register on the submission website https://isar.confit.atlas.jp/login.

2. Download the abstract template.

3. Complete your abstract.

4. Submit your abstract and select the relevant special session from the drop-down menu.

If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to the conveners.

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