PROGRAMME
Location: Cabinet ”Valkoinen peura”, hotel Pohjanhovi

The programme will include keynote talks, presentations by the participants and discussions on the basis of presentations. There will be two keynote speakers in the symposium this year:

Helena Ruotsala, a professor of ethnology at University of Turku, Finland, studies currently everyday transnational processes in Finland and Sweden on the border, further Haparanda-Tornio twin-city. She is interested in the everyday life and the related social, economic and environmental aspects. Her past research relate to environmental change, northern livelihoods, reindeer herding and tourism as well as ethnic policies and identities.

Gérard Duhaime, a professor at the Université Laval in Québec, Canada, is a widely known specialist on Arctic living conditions and on the mechanisms for social change and its consequences for local communities. A sociologist and political scientist by training, he has specialized in the comparative analysis of the economic, social and political living conditions in the Arctic.

Thursday, 8 September 2016
11.00-11.45 Lunch
11.45-12.00 Monica Tennberg, University of Lapland: Opening of the symposium
12.00-13.00 Helena Ruotsala, University of Turku: Multiple voices on the transnational everyday life in Tornio River Valley
13.00-13.35 Paula Tulppo, University of Lapland: The European Union as part of the every-day cross-border cooperation in the Arctic border region between Finland and Sweden
13.35-14.10 Kari Alenius, University of Oulu: The refugee crisis in Tornio in 2015 conveyed by Finnish newspapers
14.10-14.25 Coffee break
14.25-15.00 Aslı Tepecik Diş; Nordregio: Kiruna - a test site for new spatial planning practices. What does the relocation of a sub-Arctic town teach us?
15.00-15.35 Aileen Espiritu, The Arctic university of Norway in Tromsø: The everyday life of a mine closure
15.35-16.10 Joonas Vola, University of Lapland: Space out Rovaniemi – Aerial and afoot counter-mappings of the city
16.10-16.45 Olga Shadrina, Northern Arctic Federal University: Visual environment as a stress factor of everyday life
16.45-17.00 Wrap up of day’s discussions
19.00 Dinner

Friday, 9 September 2016
9.00-10.00 Gérard Duhaime, Université Laval: Circumpolar Arctic social inequities in the global economy
10.00-10.15 Coffee
10.15-10.50 Rasmus Ole Rasmussen, Nordregio: Bridging to the local labour market for the youth in sparsely populated areas.
10.50-11.25 Nathan Cohen-Fournier, Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy in Tufts University: Local economic development in Nunavik
11.25-12.00 Tatyana Troshina & Konstantin Zaikov, Northern Arctic Federal University: Collective self-preservation: strategies and practices of indigenous people in the isolated areas of the Russian Arctic. Case of Nenets people of Vaigach island
12.00-12.45 Lunch
12.45-13.20 Monica Tennberg, University of Lapland: Patterns of resilience among households in times of socio-economic crises in Europe: Finnish case results
13.20-13.55 Panu Itkonen, University of Lapland: The state’s role in a case of social change in the Arctic
13.55-14.15 Coffee
14.15-14.50 Ilona Mettiäinen, University of Lapland: Regional climate change strategies – planning for everyday or for exceptional circumstances or utopias?
14.50-15.25 Leneisja Jungsberg and Anna Karlsdóttir, Nordregio; Citizen perspectives on future community development in the Nordic Arctic
15.25-16.00 Final discussion

Programme in PDF


REGISTRATION

Please register your participation to symposium organizer by August 31, 2016, by email to Paula Tulppo pjoona(at)ulapland.fi. Let us know if you have any wishes about the diet.

Travel and accommodation

The event will be held in Rovaniemi centre. Information about travel and accommodation arrangements will be sent to the participants. For presenters and research team members, the event is free of charge.


More information:

Symposium organizer Monica Tennberg: monica.tennberg(at)ulapland.fi
research professor, Northern political economy/Sustainable development
Arctic Centre, University of Lapland


The organizer team:
Hanna Lempinen: hanna.lempinen(at)ulapland.fi
Adrian Braun: adrian.braun(at)ulapland.fi
Paula Tulppo: pjoona(at)ulapland.fi
Raija Kivilahti: raija.kivilahti(at)ulapland.fi


WELCOME!