2013 Stefansson Memorial Lecture by Tom McGovern

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SUSTAINABILITY and COLLAPSE in the Norse North Atlantic: Implications for Climate Adaptation Today

Tom McGovern gave the 2013 Stefansson Memorial Lecture at Dartmouth College on Tuesday, 29th October.

Dickey Center at Dartmouth: Thomas McGovern, Sustainability and Collapse in the Norse North Atlantic

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This event was co-sponsored by the Dickey Center’s Institute of Arctic Studies and the Stefansson Arctic Institute, Iceland. The Stefansson Memorial Lecture is an annual event established by the Stefansson Arctic Institute honoring the legacy of arctic explorer, anthropologist, and former Dartmouth faculty member Vilhjálmur Stefánsson (1879-1962).

Thomas McGovern, professor of anthropology, Hunter College, City University of New York, has done archaeological fieldwork in the UK, Norway, France, the Caribbean, and NE US, but his main research work has been in the North Atlantic (Greenland, Iceland, Faeroes, and Shetland).

McGovern was one of the founders of the North Atlantic Biocultural Organization (NABO, www.nabohome.org), and has served as NABO coordinator to the present.

This international regional research cooperative has sponsored collaborative science, education, and outreach work from arctic Norway to Labrador, and its website now provides rich resources for science and education.

In 2009 NABO was funded by NSF to explore the possibilities of taking this collaborative model global by connecting other regional interdisciplinary teams working in longterm human ecodynamics.

McGovern is associate director of the Human Ecodynamics Research Center at the CUNY Graduate Center.

This lecture was broadcast live on the internet and can now be viewed on Dartmouth’s YouTube channel.