The workshop will particularly highlight older people’s inclusion and exclusion, gender dimensions, health-illness-care-right as well as the challenges elderly encounter due to the environmental change in the Arctic.

The research group includes Professor Päivi Naskali, Professor Marjaana Seppänen, University Lecturer Seija Keskitalo-Foley, Researcher Shahnaj Begum and student Esther Dorsman. Other workshop participants will come from NORUT Northern Research Institute, University of Tromsø, Norway; Umeå University, Sweden; Northern Arctic Federal University (NArFU) (Arkhangelsk), Russia; Murmansk Humanities Institute, Russia; University of Dalhousie, Canada; University of Helsinki and Kemi-Tornio University of Applied Sciences, Finland.

The workshop includes keynote speakers Joan Harbison (Human Rights and Gender) from the University of Dalhousie, Canada and Mona Anita Kiil from the University of Tromsø, Norway (Age and Gender), as well as three parallel sessions based on project’s main themes.

The workshop is a part of activities of the Arctic Change project coordinated by the University of Lapland and funded by NORDREGIO within the Arctic Cooperation Programme (2012–2014). This workshop is also partially supported by the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Helsinki. The workshop is organized in collaboration with the University of Tromsø/NORUT.

More information:
Shahnaj Begum, tel. +358 40 484 4122 or +358 50 463 5987, shahnaj.begum (at) ulapland.fi