Although pandemic restrictions postponed the triennial International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS), originally scheduled to be held June 2020 in Archangelsk, Russia, DurhamARCTIC has gone ahead with plans to ‘attend’ the meeting remotely.
Although pandemic restrictions postponed the triennial International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS), originally scheduled to be held June 2020 in Archangelsk, Russia, DurhamARCTIC has gone ahead with plans to ‘attend’ the meeting and will be presenting a number of papers there as well as leading a roundtable discussion: “Destabilising Arctic Knowledge through Interdisciplinary Education: A Roundtable on Building Bridges through Postgraduate Research and Training.”
DurhamARCTIC students presenting papers or posters at ICASS include:
· Giuseppe Amatulli (Anthropology): “Towards a Responsible Use of Natural Resources: Insights from Northern British Columbia”
· Eric Boyd (Anthropology): “The Dereaslisation of Kiruna’s Former City Chambers: Where Heritage Meets the Extractive Economy in the Arctic”
· Paul Burgum (Psychology): “Investigating Resilience and Wellbeing in Polar Regions Using Basic Psychological Needs Theory”
· Christian Drury (History): “An Accessible Arctic? British Travellers to Norway in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries”
· Greta Ferloni (Geography): “Knowledge Co-Production through Storytelling”
· Laura Seddon (Geography): “A Sociology of Arctic Sea-Ice Science: Measurement, Knowledge, and Representation”
Other DurhamARCTIC students who will be attending ICASS and participating in the roundtable discussion include:
· Beth Gillie (Biosciences)
· Ilona Kater (Biosciences)
· Danai-Maria Kontou (Geography)
· Ellie Ward (Biosciences)
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