Programme

Thursday, February 23

Museum Gustavianum, Auditorium Minus

09:00-09:45 Keynote speech: Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov (St-Petersburg)
Gender asymmetries as affective landscape
09:45-10:00 Coffee break
10:00-12:00 Panel 7: Transcending the center/periphery divide: gender in place, gender as an asset
Chair: Kim Anderson (Guelph)
Discussants: Elena Khlinovskaya Rockhill (Cambridge, UK) and May-Britt Öhman (Uppsala)
10:00-10:20 Timothy Heleniak (Stockholm)
Gender and settlement in the Nordic Arctic
10:20-10:40 Joachim Otto Habeck (Hamburg)
Remoteness as an asset
10:40-11:00 Rasmus Ole Rasmussen (Stockholm)
Gender, education and population flows: the role of path dependencies
11:00-11:20 Kirill V. Istomin
Why tundra girls are going out and village girls are coming in: gender
displacement and gender replacement among Komi reindeer herders
of Bolshezemelskaya Tundra
11:20-11:40 Yulian Konstantinov (Sofia/Murmansk)
“Hyper-gender” asymmetries: women’s absence in illegal taking from
nature
(notes from Bulgaria and Murmansk Region, NW Russia)
11:40-12:10 Discussion
12:10-13:00 General discussion
Chairs: Hugh Beach (Uppsala) and Siri Gerrard (Tromsö)