Arctic Five Chairs Symposium

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Wednesday October 2

09.00 – 11.00 Pre-symposium tour in the Luleå area

11.00 – 12.00 Lunch at Teknikens hus

12.00 – 14.00 Arctic Five Chairs session 1

Introduction

Welcome speech by Annica Sandström, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Dag Avango and Johanne Raade, Director and co-director of Arctic Five

Green transitions

Charlotta Söderberg, Associate professor, Political science, Luleå University of Technology

Energy Transition in the Arctic: Perspectives on Security, Acceptance, and Justice

Johan Sandström, Professor, Business administration / Organization studies, Luleå University of Technology

The power of promissory organizations in ‘green’ energy transitions in the Arctic

Arctic technology

Osmo Kauppila, University lecturer, Industrial Engineering and Management, University of Oulu

How to utilize modern quality engineering technologies to ensure the sustained competitiveness of the Arctic five area

Jonna Häkkilä, Professor, Industrial design, University of Lapland

Interactive Cultural Heritage in the Arctic with Emerging Technologies

14.00 – 14.30 Coffee

14.30 – 16.00 Arctic Five Chairs session 2

Arctic Sustainable Food

Daniele Wilde, Professor, Design School, Umeå University

Arctic Food Citizenship: entangling communities and cultures, scales and imaginaries toward more-than-human flourishing

Armando Perez-Cueto, Professor, Food Behavior, Public Health Nutrition and Consumer Behaviour, Umeå University

Sustainable food transitions in the Arctic

Wei Deng Solvang, Professor, Supply Chain Management, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway

Environmental preparedness and rapid mobilisation: tackling the challenges of pandemics, business disruptions, and political instability

Health in the Arctic

Sebastian Gabrielsson, Associate professor, Nursing, specialized in psychiatric and mental health care, Luleå University of Technology

“Digital Games Supporting Young People's Mental Health Recovery in the Nordic Arctic”

Tiina Maria Ikälheimo, Professor, Environmental and occupational health, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway

“Building adaptive capacity of Arctic workplaces to climate change”

18.00 Dinner

Hemmagastronomi

Thursday October 3

08.30 – 10.00 Arctic Five Chairs session 3

Arctic Security

Niklas Eklund, Profession, Political Science, Umeå University

Arctic security

Monika Gabriella Bartoszewicz, Associate professor, International Security, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway

Hybrid terrorism

Anna Krzywoszynska, Associate Professor, Anthropology, University of Oulu (Theme: Green transition – online)

Arctic Place: place-based knowledges for Artic sustainability transitions

Ana Luisa Sanchez Laws, Professor of Cultural Heritage, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway

Arctic Memoryscapes

Education in the Arctic

Björn Norlin, Associate professor History of education, Teacher education, Didactics, Umeå University

Truth commissions, teacher education and the Sami

Pigga Keskitalo, Professor, Education, University of Lapland

Indigenous Cultural Heritage Digitalization: Ethical Implications and Educational Opportunities

Arctic climate impacts

Daniel Metcalf, Professor, Terrestrial Ecology, Umeå University

Improved monitoring of northern forest carbon

10.00-10.15 Coffee

10.15 – 12.00 Parallell sessions

Session A: Arctic Five chairs group discussions

Session B: Arctic Five Executive Committee meeting