Rovaniemi Workshop 2024, Program

NOS-HS exploratory workshop: Resilience and Militarisation
12- 13 November 2024, Rovaniemi

Venue
University of Lapland,
Lecture Room Castrén (D194), Yliopistonkatu 8


Program

Tuesday 12 November

9.15 – 10.30 Welcome!

Keynote speech: Resilience, Militarization, and the Mobilization of Intimate Lives
Senior Researcher Robin May Schott, Danish Institute for International Studies

Break

10.45 – 11.45 Presentations, session I

Becoming better: Resilience thinking in Danish military presence in Greenland
Frank Sejersen, University of Copenhagen

Achieving and upholding resilience in the Arctic through local and indigenous involvement?
Signe L. Lindbjerg, Royal Danish Defence College

11.45-13.00 Lunch (offered to the presenters)

13.15 – 14.15 Presentations, session II

Fostering resilient colonization? Contextualizing and countering Swedish settler self-indigenization in the south of Saepmie
Angelika Sjöstedt, Gaskeuniversiteete/Mid Sweden University

Arctic Defence and the Sámi of Finland – Strengthening Partnerships or Melting Trust?
Helmi Rantala, University of Helsinki

14.15 – 14.45 Coffee & snacks

14.45 – 16.00 Presentations, session III

Posthuman War in the Digital Anthropocene? Military Governmentality at the Human-Machine-Nature Nexus
Claes Tängh Wrangel, Uppsala University

A Failure at Connectivity: The ambiguities in the politics of resilience in Slovakia
Lukas Makovicky, University of Lapland

16.30 -> Informal get-together and food at the University Sauna Building (for workshop presenters)

Wednesday 13 November

9.15 – 10.30 Keynote speech: Resilience in Australia: militarized presences, absences and lifelines
Professor Lauren Rickards, La Trobe University, Australia

Break

10.45 – 11.45 Presentations, session IV

Russia’s understanding of resilience
Sophie Stammler, University of Lapland

African children in conflict: The harsh realities of militarized resilience
Enock Mathapoly-Codjoe, University of Lapland

11.45-13.00 Lunch (offered to the presenters)

13.00 – 14.30 Presentations, session V

The evolution of ‘heroic’ resilience into ‘social’ resilience: (Re)conceptualization of resilience in textural and structural social context
Azher Hamed Qamaar, Lund University

The Delineation and Conception of Resilience in the Context of Outer Space
Zhuoyan Lu, University of Lapland

No more “a clenched fist”? Redefining activist to build more resilient social justice movements
Susanna Jussila, University of Jyväskylä

14.30 -> Coffee, snacks & free discussion

Welcome to join!

The POWERS network:
Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen, Marjo Lindroth and Julian Reid, University of Lapland
Frank Sejersen, University of Copenhagen
Claes Tängh Wrangel, Uppsala University