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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.

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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.

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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.

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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. 

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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.”

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October 13, 2021

St. Petersburg, Russia

 

Eurasian Women’s Forum 

Presentation: Women Empowerment in the Arctic.

Speaker: Dr. Marya Rozanova-Smith.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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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.

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