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Jan de Vroede
Etoiles Polaires
Avannarliit 5
Nuuk 3900
Greenland

Phone: +299 556878
Email: polarjan@hotmail.com, jan@etoiles-polaires.org

Jan de Vroede was born in Belgium and speaks Flemish, French, English, German, Danish, and Greenlandic. He graduated cum laude from the University of Gent with a MA in musicology and from the University of Antwerp with a MA in international relations and politics (specializing in arctic issues). De Vroede currently lives in Greenland and works as an international manager for Katuaq Greenland Culture House. His research interests include cultural politics and policy, arctic music, identity, aboriginal films, and arctic nationalism. De Vroede first became interested in arctic contemporary culture through his involvement as a member of Chilly Friday, Greenland’s most popular rock band, and has lectured on this subject in Belgium, Greenland, Holland, Canada, and Denmark. As a member of the Greenland Film Association, he has been an announcer for arctic film festivals and has arranged arctic culture festivals. He also arranges international arctic festivals as chair of the Etoiles Polaires Association, a member of UNESCO’s Global Alliance.

De Vroede is interested in presenting to all audiences and sample lectures include:

• Contemporary Arctic Music: An Introduction
• Greenland’s Cultural Policy
• To be Inuit—Who Sets the Limits?
• Assilissat and Techno Suaasat: Greenlandic Film Making
• Arctic Rap—How Cultural Politics Shape National Identity in the Arctic