Programme
Wednesday, February 22
Museum Gustavianum, Auditorium Minus
NB! The last session Film Screening at 17:30 is held at the Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies
08:00-08:45 | Keynote speech: Kim Anderson (Guelph, Ontario) Indigenous gender relations, truth and reconciliation in Canada |
08:45-10:00 | Panel 4: Debating dominant paradigms of gender in science and religion Chair: Gulnara Aitpaeva (Bishkek) Discussant: Barbara Bodenhorn (Cambridge, UK) |
08:45-09:05 | Gunilla Larsson (Uppsala) Gender projections in Archaeological reconstructions of Sámi Sites in Sweden |
09:05-09:25 | Stephan Dudeck (Rovaniemi/St. Petersburg) and Virginie Vaté (Paris) Religion and the transformations of gender roles among circumpolar Indigenous people |
09:25-09:45 | Thomas F. Thornton (Oxford) Beyond materialism: the unexpected power of women in certain Alaskan and Far North economies |
09:45-10:00 | Discussion |
10:00-10:15 | Coffee break |
10:15-12:00 | Panel 5: Evolving family relations and economies Chair: Yulian Konstantinov (Sofia/Murmansk) Dicussant: Yulia Gradskova (Stockholm) |
10:15-10:35 | Zoya Tarasova (Yakutsk) and Elena Khlinovskaya Rockhill (Cambridge) The growing spousal autonomy and hyper-biologisation of parent-child relatedness among the Sakha of north-eastern Siberia |
10:35-10:55 | Janne Flora (Copenhagen) No great hunter without a wife |
10:55-11:15 | Elizaveta Iaptik (Iar-Sala) Ethnically mixed marriages in Yamal Region |
11:15-11:35 | Vera Kuklina (Washington, DC), Olga Povoroznyuk (Vienna/Moscow) and Getrude Saxinger (Vienna) Railroad rhythms and gendered labor: professional and family lives of workers on the Baikal-Amur Mainline |
11:35-12:00 | Discussion |
12:00-13:00 | Lunch break |
13:00-13:45 | Keynote speech: Larry Hamilton (Durham, NH) Female Outmigration from Arctic Settlements |
13:45-15:30 | Panel 6: Nature and gendered patterns of power and self-determination Chair: Virginie Vaté (Paris) Discussant: TBA |
13:45-14:05 | Alex Wilson (Saskatoon) Our Coming In Stories: queerness, body sovereignty, and gender self determination |
14:05-14:25 | May-Britt Öhman (Uppsala) Feminist interventions and everyday struggles for the protection of Forest Sámi cultures against “environmentally friendly” power production and other colonial and racist technoaggressions |
14:25-14:45 | Margaretha Uttjek (Umeå) Efforts against violence towards Sámi women – shifting social and power relations |
14:45-15:05 | Anne Kubai (Uppsala) Female warriors: shifting gender roles among pastoral nomadic Turkana communities in Kenya |
15:05-15:30 | Discussion |
15:30-15:45 | Coffee break |
15:45-17:00 | Panel 7: Gender and security Chair: Olga Povoroznyuk (Vienna/Moscow) Discussant: Robert Alexander Innes (Saskatoon) |
15:45-16:05 | Tahnee Prior (Waterloo, Ontario) Human security & the Arctic: where do Arctic women stand? |
16:05-16:25 | Petia Mankova (Tromsø) Care and accessibility: caretakers, disabled people and elders in a remote tundra village |
16:25-16:45 | Vladislava Vladimirova (UCRS) Social security strategies of Indigenous women in the Nenets Autonomous Region, Russia |
16:45-17:00 | Discussion |
17:30-18:30 | Film screening Valentina Sovkina (Lovozero): “The time of Gavavuohta” NB! Venue: Library, Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS), Gamla Torget 3 |