Dear all! See below the latest update of our IASC funded 1-day workshop/side event at the UArctic Congress! Program and abstracts: https://gender-arctic.jimdo.com/ It is a really exciting program bringing together activists and scholars. We are looking forward seeing many of you in Oulu on Thursday 6th of September. With best wishes, Gerti, Otto, Rauna and Gunhild (the IASSA WG Gender in the Arctic steering committes) Queering Indigeneity: Indigenous Queer Intersections in the Arctic Program Date: 6th of September, 2018 Place: IT115, University of Oulu 8:30 get together 9:00-10:30 Academic Panel Chair: Gertrude Saxinger Emerging visibility of Alaska Native LGBTQ(+) voices on the Internet Dr. Maureen P. Hogan, Professor of Education and Women's and Gender Studies, University of Alaska Fairbanks, US Queering Indigeneity in Nordic Popular Culture: Media, Nature, Sexuality Dr. Katariina Kyrölä, Lecturer, Gender Studies, Åbo Akademi University, FI An archaeology of research in queer indigenous existences in Siberia Dr. Stephan Dudeck, Senior Researcher University of Lapland, FI & European University at St. Petersburg, RF Acknowledging existence as a necessity for reconciliation: Two spirit people, homelessness and access to services in urban centres in Saskatchewan, Canada Dr. Ranjan Datta, and Ryan Jimmy, Aboriginal Education Research Centre (AERC), University of Saskatchewan, CAN Queering Indigenous self-determination in the Arctic Rauna Kuokkanen, Professor, Arctic Indigenous Politics, University of Lapland, FI 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break 11:00-12:30 Activism Panel Chair: Rauna Kuokkanen Teaching Two-Spirit: Decolonizing Gender Diversity Education Kyle Shaughnessy, social worker and MSW student at Dalhousie University, CAN Decolonizing Queerness - indigenous queer realities Stina Roos, MA in Design from Uni Lapland, FI Coming In: Cree cosmology, gender and sexual diversity Alexandria Wilson, professor, Department of Educational Foundations and the Academic Director of the Aboriginal Education Research Centre at the University of Saskatchewan, CAN Possibilities and challenges working towards indigenous queer politics Mikkel Eskil Mikkelsen, Member of the Executive Council in the Sami Parliament in Norway 12:30-13:30 Lunch break 13:30-14:30 Panel discussion Chair: Joachim Otto Habeck Activism and Science: How can we cooperate? How can we learn from each other and push matters forward? With: Alexandria Wilson, Mikkel Eskil Mikkelsen, Kyle Shaughnessy 14:30-15:00 Outlook and joint discussion of future focuses of the IASSA Working Group Gender in the Arctic. Invitation to participate in the steering commitee. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Gertrude Saxinger (Eilmsteiner) Department for Social and Cultural Anthropolgy, University of Vienna & APRI - Austrian Polar Research Institute Universtitaetsstr. 7/C412, 1010 Vienna, AT // [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> // +43 660 2118551 // www.polarresearch.at/faculty/group-eilmsteiner-saxinger<http://www.polarresearch.at/faculty/group-eilmsteiner-saxinger> https://ksa.univie.ac.at/saxinger-gertrude/ Adjunct researcher at Yukon College, Canada ReSDA Project "LACE Labour Mobility and Community Participation in the Extractive Industries - Yukon" www.resda.ca/labour-mobility<http://www.resda.ca/labour-mobility> [Mobile_Workers_Guide_SM] [Cover_2016-jep HGS] [cover SaE] [Böhlau Cover] [Arktis_ewr_24_cover_klein_NEU] ************************************************************* * Anthropology-Matters Mailing List * http://www.anthropologymatters.com * * A postgraduate project comprising online journal, * * online discussions, teaching and research resources * * and international contacts directory. * * To join this list or to look at the archived previous * * messages visit: * * https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/Anthropology-Matters * * If you have ALREADY subscribed: to send a message to all * * those currently subscribed to the list,just send mail to: * * [log in to unmask] * * * * Enjoyed the mailing list? Why not join the new * * CONTACTS SECTION @ www.anthropologymatters.com * * an international directory of anthropology researchers * To unsubscribe please click here: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=ANTHROPOLOGY-MATTERS&A=1 ***************************************************************