The workshop will particularly highlight older people’s inclusion, exclusion and human rights, construction of gender in welfare state politics and law, status of indigenous elderly, as well as the challenges elderly encounter due to the environmental change in the Arctic.

The keynote speakers are Director Lena Wennberg from the Umeå Forum for Studies on Law and Society at the University of Umeå, Sweden; Professor (emeritus) of Social Gerontology Jyrki Jyrkämä from the University of Jyväskylä, Finland; Senior Research Fellow Pirjo Nikander from the Institute for Advanced Social Research at the University of Tampere, Finland; Associate Professor Joan R. Harbison from the School of Social Work at the Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada; and Teacher Sigrid Stångberg who has worked with revitalizing the Southern Sami language in Sweden.

The workshop is part of the activities of the Arctic Change project led by Professor Päivi Naskali and Professor Marjaana Seppänen from the University of Lapland. It is funded by NORDREGIO within the Arctic Cooperation Programme (2012–2014) and supported by Royal Norwegian Embassy in Helsinki and City of Rovaniemi.
 
 
More information:

Dean, Professor Päivi Naskali
Tel. +358 40 484 4127
paivi.naskali(at)ulapland.fi

Project Coordinator Shahnaj Begum
Tel. +358 40 484 4122 or +358 50 463 5987
shahnaj.begum(at)ulapland.fi

Project’s web page
 
 
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