Programme
Tuesday, February 21
Museum Gustavianum, Auditorium Minus
| 08:00-08:15 | Registration |
| 08:15-08:30 | Opening and welcome speech Claes Levinsson (Director, UCRS), Jevgenija Gehsbarga (Information Officer, UCRS), and the conference organizers |
| 08:30-09:15 | Conference keynote speech: Hugh Beach (UCRS) Ongoing gender discrimination among Indigenous Saami resulting from Swedish legislation: an historical analysis of how the ideal of land use utilitarianism has led to the infringement of Saami women’s civil liberties |
| 09:15-10:00 | Keynote speech: Barbara Bodenhorn (Cambridge, UK) Mixing it up on the North Slope of Alaska: a 21st century account of gender and environment |
| 10:00-10:15 | Coffee break |
| 10:15-12.00 | Panel 1: Female political leadership: a resource and a challenge Chair: Alex Wilson (Saskatoon) Discussant: Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov (St. Petersburg) |
| 10:15-10.35 | Andrew Wiget (Las Cruces, NM/Moscow) and Olga Balalaeva (Khanty-Mansiisk) Gendering politics: the emergence of indigenous women leaders in Western Siberia |
| 10:35-10.55 | Damaris Parsitau (Nakuru) Multiple marginalities, enslaving culture! Maasai women navigating culture, tradition and patriarchy in their quest for political leadership in Kenya |
| 10:55-11:15 | Gulnara Ibraeva (Bishkek) Challenges for women’s political leadership in the “liquid modernity” of Kyrgyzstan |
| 11:15-11.35 | Ann-Mari Sätre (Uppsala) and Leo Granberg (Helsinki) Women in local politics in the Other Russia: coping with poverty and strategies for development |
| 11:35-12:00 | Discussion |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch break |
| 13:00-14:45 | Panel 2: Masculinities in the Far North and beyond (tradition and innovation) Chair: Joachim Otto Habeck (Hamburg) Discussant: Sverker Finnström (Uppsala) |
| 13:00-13:20 | Gulnara Aitpaeva (Bishkek) Who has the right to speak for the great Kyrgyz epic “Manas”? |
| 13:20-13:40 | Robert Alexander Innes (Saskatoon) Confronting shame, confronting violence: Indigenous men’s responses to violence against Indigenous women |
| 13:40-14:00 | Veronika Simonova (St Petersburg) Militant masculinity in the North: consequences or a condition of gender asymmetries? |
| 14:00-14:20 | Aimar Ventsel (Tartu) Blurring masculinities in the Russian Far East |
| 14:20-14:45 | Discussion |
| 14:45-15:00 | Coffee break |
| 15:00-15:45 | Keynote speech: Siri Gerrard (Tromsø) Gender, gender contracts and nobility in the North – an example from Finnmark, Norway |
| 15:45-17:00 | Panel 3: Debating normative perspectives on gender in law and politics Chair: Larry Hamilton (Durham, NH) Discussant: Charlotta Widmark (Uppsala) |
| 15:45-16:05 | Elena Liarskaya (St. Petersburg) From the East to the North? Early Soviet policy concerning Native women in the North |
| 16:05-16:25 | Yulia Gradskova (Stockholm) Women, Empires, and Emancipation in the first half of the 20th century: Conflicts and Contradictions (considering examples from the Volga-Ural region) |
| 16:25-16:45 | Nathan Light (Uppsala) Culturally intimate icebergs: bride kidnapping (marriage by capture/ abduction) among Kyrgyz and what we might look for in other regions of Eurasia |
| 16:45-17:00 | Discussion |