Events

March 14, 2022

The United Nations’ Sixty-sixth Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW66), NGO Forum

Panel on Gender Equality and Empowerment in the Arctic.

Welcoming address:

Jörundur Valtýsson, Ambassador, Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Iceland to the United Nations in New York

Moderator:

Embla Eir Oddsdóttir, Director, Icelandic Arctic Cooperation Network.

Speakers:

• Bridget Larocque, Senior Advisor, Arctic Athabaskan Council

• Andrey Petrov, Professor and Director, ARCTICenter, University of Northern Iowa

• Marya Rozanova-Smith, Research Professor, The George Washington University

• Malgorzata Smieszek, Co-lead “Women of the Arctic'' (WoA); Project Coordinator, UiT Arctic University of Norway

• Hjalti Ómar Ágústsson, Special Advisor, Directorate of Equality, Iceland.

Event organizers:

• Icelandic Arctic Cooperation Network

• Project "Understanding Gender Equality and Empowerment in the Arctic (UGEEA)" (NSF, PLR #2039884)

• ARCTICenter, University of Northern Iowa.

February 2, 2022

AAG–2022: The American Association of Geographers’ Annual Meeting–2022

Session Gender Inequality and Empowerment in Global Perspective.

Organizers: Dr. Marya Rozanova-Smith, Prof. Andrey N. Petrov, and Embla Oddsdóttir; Project "Understanding Gender Equality and Empowerment in the Arctic (UGEEA)" (NSF, PLR #2039884)

Chair: Embla Oddsdóttir, Icelandic Arctic Cooperation Network.

Speakers:

Laura Picot, Ghanaian farmers' gendered and intersectional vulnerabilities to COVID-19 measures.

Marya Rozanova-Smith and Andrey Petrov, Arctic Women and COVID-19 Pandemic: Towards Measuring COVID-19 Gendered Impacts in the Arctic.

Cheryl-lee Madden, GeoLive Crowdsourced Mapping of Unchartered COVID-19 Evictions: Are Women Disproportionately Affected by Job Loss?

Julia Schinnenburg, Making Care Work Less of a Burden Through Accessible Care Infrastructure - A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Women's Employment Limitations in Denver.

Margiana Petersen-Rockney, Power in Powerlessness: Gender, Race, Climate Change, and Who Has the Power to Adapt.

Maria Elisa Christie, Process, Impacts, and Reflections of Gender Research and Collaboration in an International Agricultural Project in Vietnam.

AAG Sponsor Groups:

Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group
Feminist Geographies Specialty Group
Polar Geography Specialty Group.

December 4, 2021:

St. Petersburg, Russia

XI International Forum Arctic: Today and in the Future

Presentation: The Changing Role of Women in the Arctic.

Speaker: Dr. Marya Rozanova-Smith.

October 14, 2021

Reykjavik, Iceland

Arctic Circle Forum

Presentation: Gender Empowerment and Governance in the Arctic.

Speakers: Prof. Andrey N. Petrov and Dr. Marya Rozanova-Smith.

October 14, 2021

Reykjavik, Iceland

Arctic Circle Forum

Session: New Arctic Generation: Urban Youth and Sustainable Development in the Arctic

Panelists:

Policy-makers:

Sen. Elena Shumilova, The Russian Federation Senate, Russia
Ásthildur Sturludóttir, Mayor, City of Akureyri, Iceland
Mirja Vehkaperä, Political Mayor of Oulu, Chair of the City Board, Finland.

Indigenous young leaders:

Stacey Lucason, Alaskans for Better Elections
Natalia Vaskova, Chair, Sami Nurash Russian Sami Youth organization.

Experts:

Prof. Andrey Petrov, President, IASSA; Director, ARCTICenter (UNI)
Dr. Marya Rozanova-Smith, Research Professor, The George Washington University.

Organized by: ARCTICenter (UNI); International Arctic Social Sciences Association (IASSA); Russian State Hydrometeorological University (RSHU); Arctic-COAST project; Understanding Gender Equality and

Empowerment in the Arctic (UGEEA) ; PIRE project “Promoting Urban Sustainability in the Arctic.”