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:
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Laura Picot, Ghanaian farmers' gendered and intersectional vulnerabilities to COVID-19 measures.
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Marya Rozanova-Smith and Andrey Petrov, Arctic Women and COVID-19 Pandemic: Towards Measuring COVID-19 Gendered Impacts in the Arctic.
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Cheryl-lee Madden, GeoLive Crowdsourced Mapping of Unchartered COVID-19 Evictions: Are Women Disproportionately Affected by Job Loss?
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Julia Schinnenburg, Making Care Work Less of a Burden Through Accessible Care Infrastructure - A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Women's Employment Limitations in Denver.
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Margiana Petersen-Rockney, Power in Powerlessness: Gender, Race, Climate Change, and Who Has the Power to Adapt.
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Maria Elisa Christie, Process, Impacts, and Reflections of Gender Research and Collaboration in an International Agricultural Project in Vietnam.
AAG Sponsor Groups:
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Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group
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Feminist Geographies Specialty Group
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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
Presentation: Gender Empowerment and Governance in the Arctic.
Speakers: Prof. Andrey N. Petrov and Dr. Marya Rozanova-Smith.

October 14, 2021
Reykjavik, Iceland
Session: New Arctic Generation: Urban Youth and Sustainable Development in the Arctic
Panelists:
Policy-makers:
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Sen. Elena Shumilova, The Russian Federation Senate, Russia
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Ásthildur Sturludóttir, Mayor, City of Akureyri, Iceland
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Mirja Vehkaperä, Political Mayor of Oulu, Chair of the City Board, Finland.
Indigenous young leaders:
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Stacey Lucason, Alaskans for Better Elections
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Natalia Vaskova, Chair, Sami Nurash Russian Sami Youth organization.
Experts:
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Prof. Andrey Petrov, President, IASSA; Director, ARCTICenter (UNI)
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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.”

October 13, 2021
St. Petersburg, Russia
Presentation: Women Empowerment in the Arctic.
Speaker: Dr. Marya Rozanova-Smith.

June 17, 2021
Arkhangelsk, Russia
ICASS X: International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences
Presentation: Gender Equality and Political Empowerment in the Arctic.
Speaker: Dr. Marya Rozanova-Smith.

June 16, 2021:
Arkhangelsk, Russia
ICASS X: International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences
Session: Gender Equality in the Arctic III Report: Empowerment.
Co-organizer and moderator: Dr. Marya Rozanova-Smith.

May 14, 2021
Washington, D.C.
Report Launch Gender Equality in the Arctic.
Speakers: Prof. Andrey N. Petrov and Dr. Marya Rozanova-Smith.
Organizer: Polar Institute, the Woodrow Wilson Center.

April 8, 2021
University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en Yvelines- Paris Saclay (Paris, France)
Guest lecture on Gender Equality and Empowerment in the Arctic: National Legal and Political Frameworks and Institutional Mechanisms.
Speaker: Dr. Marya Rozanova-Smith.

December 1, 2020
Arctic Futures Symposium–2020
Panel: Community Resilience through Empowerment.
Speakers: Prof. Andrey N. Petrov and Dr. Marya Rozanova-Smith.
Organizer: International Polar Foundation.

November 18, 2020
Arctic Resilience Forum: Gender.
Organizer: Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
Speakers: Prof. Andrey N. Petrov and Dr. Marya Rozanova-Smith.

October 1, 2020
Special Session on Gender Empowerment.
A part of the Gender Equality in the Arctic (GEA III) project presentation of the Pan-Arctic Report on Gender Equality in the Arctic.
Speakers: Prof. Andrey N. Petrov, Dr. Marya Rozanova-Smith, and Varvara Korkina Williams.
Organized by the Icelandic Arctic Cooperation Network (IACN) in Akureyri, Iceland.
