Category Archives: Announcement

July 2024 – Issue 19(2)

In times of climate change, biodiversity crisis, and environmental catastrophes we must necessarily ask what attitudes, skills, and forms of knowledge should be provided for the present and near future, i.e. what educational considerations should be made. This thematical issue addresses reflections on this question from six different views and an essay on the development … Continue reading July 2024 – Issue 19(2)

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March 2024 — Issue 19(1)

Issue 19(1)/2024 of Nordicum-Mediterraneum comprises eight new articles—all of which underwent the standard process of double blind peer review—, five conference papers, and four book reviews. In keeping with the journal’s canonical lines of geo-cultural emphasis and linguistic versatility, one such new article focusses on the exquisitely Nordic-Mediterranean conceptual axis deriving from the pioneering, highly … Continue reading March 2024 — Issue 19(1)

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New Special Issue of Nordicum-Mediterraneum Published: Twenty years of legal education at the University of Akureyri

The latest special edition of Nordicum-Mediterraneum contains contributions in celebration of the 20th anniversary of legal education at the University of Akureyri. The articles are based on presentations at the anniversary symposium held in March 2023 alongside some other works. All articles are available on an open-access basis as usual: Volume 18, no. 2 (2023) … Continue reading New Special Issue of Nordicum-Mediterraneum Published: Twenty years of legal education at the University of Akureyri

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March 2023 – Issue 18(1)

Nordicum-Mediterraneum becomes a grown-up. This year we publish the 18th regular issue of our pioneering Icelandic electronic journal, which thereby continues its online, free, open-access mission as a reliable scientific and scholarly source of information, understanding, communication and discovery across multiple disciplinary fields and geographic locations in the North and the in the South of Europe, … Continue reading March 2023 – Issue 18(1)

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January 2023 – Issue 17(5)

The special issue of Nordicum-Mediterraneum, 17(5)/2023, coordinated and edited by Paola de Cuzzani and Hans Marius Hansteen from the University of Bergen, and Mirella Pasini from the University of Genoa, contains articles based on lectures that were delivered at the conference held in Bergen, organized by the research group “Culture, Society and Politics”(Department of Philosophy, … Continue reading January 2023 – Issue 17(5)

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March 2022 — Issue 17(1)

This new regular issue of NoMe contains: three original articles that underwent double blind peer-review; sixteen book reviews; and one additional editor-reviewed contribution,  i.e., the second edition of the only extant Icelandic-language glossary of technical terms in Roman law, as prepared by Dr Jürgen Jamin and originally published in its first version in issue 16(1)/2021 … Continue reading March 2022 — Issue 17(1)

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July 2021 – Issue 16(2)

The new special issue of Nordicum-Mediterraneum 16(2)/2021, led by Dr. Barry Zellen from the Center for Arctic Study and Policy at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, includes a ground-breaking and fresh set of eight new research articles that underwent double blind peer review. This issue focuses on international relations theories and geopolitics, providing analysis of the current state … Continue reading July 2021 – Issue 16(2)

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March 2021 – Issue 16(1)

The new regular issue of Nordicum-Mediterraneum 16(1)/2021 includes three new research articles that underwent double blind peer review. Two of them deal with matters concerning the Nordic countries, i.e., experimental pedagogy across Scandinavia (“Children’s Rock Art. A Scandinavian Study” by Francis Joy) and the implications for the Arctic region of the current international shipping regime of … Continue reading March 2021 – Issue 16(1)

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November 2020 – Issue 15(3)

This special issue of Nordicum-Mediterraneum contains select papers from the research seminar Environmental Aesthetics and Citizenship (https://estenci.wordpress.com/), coordinated by Neli Dobreva, Oleg Bresky, Mogens Chrom Jacobsen and Oliver Kauffmann at the École des Arts de la Sorbonne, University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, in partnership with the research circles Patterns of Dysfunction in Contemporary Democracies. Impact on Human Rights and Governance, … Continue reading November 2020 – Issue 15(3)

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July 2020 – Issue 15(2)

This special issue of Nordicum-Mediterraneum contains the refined version of the papers presented at the conference on  reason and passion in politics, held in a period of two days at the University of Bergen in November 2019. The conference was organised as a joint effort by the Department of Philosophy of the University of Bergen … Continue reading July 2020 – Issue 15(2)

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October 2019 (and ALL successive updates) – DOI-number attribution (volumes 1/2006 – 19/2024)

As of October 2019, all published items in Nordicum-Mediterraneum are going to be attributed a DOI number (“Digital Object Identifier”). Operated by Iceland’s National/University Library in Reykjavik, the attribution is to begin with issue 14(2)/2019 (cf. list below), and then continue with the older volumes, proceeding backwards in time (i.e., 13, 12, 11, etc.), plus … Continue reading October 2019 (and ALL successive updates) – DOI-number attribution (volumes 1/2006 – 19/2024)

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March 2019 – Issue 14(1)

The regular issue 14(1)/2019 comprises two new articles that underwent double blind peer-review, one conference paper, an additional essay written in Icelandic and a rich collection of reviews of recent scientific and scholarly books, many of which deal with Arctic-related issues. (One belated review concerns an older book, but is published nonetheless for the sake … Continue reading March 2019 – Issue 14(1)

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November 2018 – Issue 13(2)

This special issue of Nordicum-Mediterraneum contains selected proceedings from three research circles within the Nordic Summer University (NSU): Human Rights and International Relations,  Understanding Migration in Nordic and Baltic Countries and Patterns of Dysfunction in Contemporary Democracies; Impact on Human Rights and Governance. The meetings took place in Saulkrasti, Latvia, from 29/7 to 2/8 2017 and in Copenhagen, … Continue reading November 2018 – Issue 13(2)

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March 2018 – Two new issues: 12(4) & 13(1)

Two new issues of Nordicum-Mediterraneum are being released in March 2018. The former, special issue 12(4), comprises proceedings from the conference “The Sick Action. Shadows of the World, Shadows of Mankind”, held in Palermo, Italy, on the 9th and 10th of June 2017, and organised by the Sneffels Psychoanalytic Circle of Palermo in collaboration with Italian and … Continue reading March 2018 – Two new issues: 12(4) & 13(1)

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August 2017 – Two special issues

Two new special issues of Nordicum-Mediterraneum are being released in August 2017. The former, issue 12(2), comprises proceedings from the latest symposium of the research circle n. 5 of the Nordic Summer University, “International Relations and Human Rights”, held in Wroclaw, Poland, this February. The latter, issue 12(3), comprises proceedings from the international conference “The … Continue reading August 2017 – Two special issues

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March 2017 – Issue 12(1)

The new regular issue 12(1)/2017 comprises four new articles that underwent double blind peer review, three additional contributions (two of which of article-length), and a rich collection of reviews of recent scientific and scholarly literature, including three publications dealing specifically with Arctic issues. As regards the four new articles, the first one, written by Eirikur Bergmann, discusses the legal and political … Continue reading March 2017 – Issue 12(1)

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November 2016 – Issue 11(3)

This special issue of Nordicum-Mediterraneum contains selected proceedings from the meetings of two Nordic Summer University research circles: Crisis and Crisis Scenarios: Normativity, Possibilities and Dilemmas and Human Rights and International Relations. Once again, Nordicum-Mediterraneum was chosen by the Nordic Summer University as the venue to make the dissemination of the research circles’ output available to the international academic … Continue reading November 2016 – Issue 11(3)

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Welcome, New Webmasters – Thank You, Old Webmaster!

In its eleven years of life, Nordicum-Mediterraneum has relied primarily upon two persons, namely its editor and its webmaster, Mr Fabrizio Veneziano of Schiller International University in Paris, France. As of today, Mr Veneziano steps down qua webmaster and the IT Services Department of the University of Akureyri replace him. On behalf of the Editorial Board and of myself, … Continue reading Welcome, New Webmasters – Thank You, Old Webmaster!

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May 2016 – Issue 11(2)

The University of Akureyri and Akureyri Academy held the Conference entitled “No one is an island: Iceland and the International Community” at the University of Akureyri on the 19th of March 2016, in collaboration with the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. The conference addressed the subject of Iceland in the International Community on a broad basis, featuring a variety of perspectives … Continue reading May 2016 – Issue 11(2)

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March 2016 – Two new issues

In March 2016 two issues of Nordicum-Mediterraneum are being published simultaneously. The first one, special issue 10(3), contains select proceedings from the third meeting of the Nordic Summer University’s research circle called “Crisis and Crisis Scenarios: Normativity, Possibilities and Dilemmas”, held April 9th—12th, 2015 at the Lysebu Conference Centre in Oslo, Norway. The circle’s research … Continue reading March 2016 – Two new issues

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2015 – Ten years of Nordicum-Mediterraneum

The 2015 regular issue of Nordicum-Mediterraneum celebrates the journal’s first decade with three special contributions by noted Icelanders who, for professional or personal reasons, have very close ties with Italy: the celebrated tenor Kristján Jóhannsson; the ECHR judge and jurist Róbert Spanó; and the TV journalist, anchorwoman  and former presidential candidate Þóra Arnórsdóttir. In addition,  a selection … Continue reading 2015 – Ten years of Nordicum-Mediterraneum

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2012 issues

SEPTEMBER 2012 7(3) – 2012 special issue no.2 This year’s second special issue contains papers presented at the latest summer meeting of the Nordic Summer University’s (NSU) study group called “Conceptions of ethical and social values in post-secular society: Towards a new ethical imagination in a cosmopolitan world society”. An introduction to the study group, … Continue reading 2012 issues

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Our 2011 regular issue

With the release of the present issue, our journal celebrates its sixth year of activity. We thank most warmly all the scholars and interested persons that have made its continued existence possible, whether by reading, writing, editing, citing or indexing the growing literature on Nordic and Mediterranean subjects that we have endeavoured to make available online, free of any charge.
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2010 – Nordicum-Mediterraneum migration

As announced in the Webmaster’s Note of Volume 4, issue n.1, Nordicum-Mediterraneum was finally migrated to a new platform which will provide better performance for the future. While some tasks are still in progress, we are confident that this new configuration will be favourably received by both our readers and authors. Due to database incompatibility, old … Continue reading 2010 – Nordicum-Mediterraneum migration

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