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News ISMR 18 Faroe Islands, Klaksvík and Vágur, 3 – 10 August 2005

Former seminars, programme:

ISMR 17: Wales ISMR Programme (welcome pack).doc

Introduction ISSMR

After many years of ad hoc organisation of the biennial International Seminar on Marginal Regions - it was decided at the meeting in Skye and Lewis, in July 1987, to set up an International Society for the Study of Marginal Regions (ISSMR).

The purpose of the Society is to ensure the continuity of our hitherto informal efforts to bring together people with a common interest in the problems of marginal areas in industrialised countries in the North Atlantic region, notably Canada, Norway, Ireland, Scotland, Finland, Wales and Sweden.

The Society aims to encourage an informed and interdisciplinary approach to an understanding of the problems of marginal regions in these countries, to promote active research on these problems by professional and academic practitioners, to disseminate the work of the Society as widely as possible through seminars and publications, and to seek funds to enable these aims to be carried out.

Membership is open to any person, institution or organisation wishing to support these aims. The income from members' subscriptions will be used underwrite the cost of publishing the proceedings of the biennial Marginal Regions Seminar, which will be distributed free to members; and to provide members with regular news of the Society's activities. 

Election of Officers:

At the meeting August 2003 in Wales (ISMR XVII) these elections were made:

President: Jørgen Amdam, Volda University College: (jorgen.amdam@hivolda.no)  

Secretary of ISSMR: Alison McCleery, Napier University. Edinburgh. (am.mccleery@napier.ac.uk )

Treasurer of ISSMR: Roar Amdam, Volda University College: (roar.amdam@hivolda.no )

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