The Center for European and Russian Studies is pleased to announce a virtual webinar entitled "Greenland: Seeking self-determination between Europe and the US" on Tuesday, February 10, 2026 at 12:00PM PST (21:00 WGT). This conversation will feature Ulrik Pram Gad, senior researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies and specialist in the role of Greenland in Arctic security, in discussion with Laurie Kain Hart and Daniel Treisman, co-directors of the UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies. Register to join us.

About the Speaker

Ulrik Pram Gad is a senior researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies, specialized in the role of Greenland in Arctic security. He edits a series of policy briefs digging into the mechanics of Greenlandic/Danish foreign policy coordination. Publications include an edited volume on Greenland in Arctic Security (2024 w. M.Jacobsen & O.Wæver) and a monograph on Greenlandic National Identity Politics and Postcolonial Sovereignty Games (2016). Before entering academia, he worked on foreign policy for the Governments of Greenland and Denmark in Nuuk and Copenhagen.

About the Discussants

Laurie Kain Hart is a sociocultural anthropologist with a research focus on the long-term effects of ethnopolitical conflict, civil war, state-engineered population displacements, migration, nationalism, racism, globalization, and ethnospatial segregation on individuals and communities. As a former architect, she is particularly interested in theories of space and place that help illuminate the impact of spatial, architectural, and geopolitical forces on social inequality and marginalization. Her work seeks to understand the links between macro-social and political forces and individual subjectivity. She therefore works at the intersection of political anthropology, space and place theory, and medical-psychiatric anthropology.

Daniel Treisman is a professor of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is currently also the Co-Director of UCLA’s Center for European and Russian Studies. His research focuses on Russian politics and economics as well as comparative political economy, including in particular the analysis of democratization, the politics of authoritarian states, political decentralization, and corruption.

Sponsor(s): Center for European and Russian Studies, Burkle Center for International Relations