27-28th November 2018, Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences in Sopot

Conference Program

27 November – Tuesday
11:00 – 11:15 Welcome address by Jan Marcin Węsławski and Michał Łuszczuk.
11:15 – 11:30 Polar bears, penguins and cultural heritage – reflections about relevance.
Susan Barr, IASC.
11:30 – 11:45 Political relevance of Arctic research in non-Arctic nations.
Michał Łuszczuk, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin.
11:45 – 12:00 Norwegian polar research: relevance and debates.
Pål W. Skedsmo, Fridtjof Nansen Institute.
12:00 – 12:15 Life of the Native Inhabitants of the Arctic Through Literature.
Zdeněk Lyčka, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic.
12:15 – 12:30 Session summary and discussion.
12:30 – 12:45 Coffee break.
12:45 – 13:00 Perception of Arctic issues among Polish young learners.
Izabela Kotyńska-Zielińska, TWH; Karolina Fornalewicz, SAS; Anna Pradzińska, IO PAN.
13:00 – 13:15 Is the Arctic melting down? Preliminary study on public perception of the Arctic and climate change.
Joanna Piwowarczyk, Tymon Zieliński, Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences.
13:15 – 13:30 Arctic in Russia: trends of scientific research and public perception.
Mikhail Gantsevich, Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Moscow.
13:30 – 13:45 Polar science in Lithuania: first steps.
Sergey Olenin, University of Klaipeda.
13:45 – 14:00 Session summary and discussion.
14:00 – 14:45 Light lunch.
14:45 – 15:00 Social relevance of polar psychology researches.
Agnieszka Skorupa, University of Silesia in Katowice.
15:00 – 15:15 How social science can help to promote the polar research.
Barbora Padrtova, Masaryk University, Czech Republic.
15:15 – 15:30 Narratives of polar expeditions and their impact on Polish geographical-cultural imagination about the Arctic in interwar period.
Agata Lubowicka, University of Gdańsk.
15:30 – 15:45 What do youngsters know about the Arctic? - results from the EDU-ARCTIC survey.
Agata Goździk, Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences.
15:45 – 16:00 Coffee break.
16:00 – 16:15 Arctic as a territory of the Russian-Poland dialogue.
Alexander V. Fedotovskikh, State Council for Arctic Development, Russia.
16:15 – 16:30 Art of the North – the role of a metaphor in visual narratives about polar regions.
Marianna Michałowska, Adam Mickiewicz University.
16:30 – 16:45 Paradoxes of anthropopression. Human presence in polar regions.
Hanna Mamzer, Adam Mickiewicz University.
16:45 – 17:00 Arctic coasts under pressure - zone of the culminated negative climate change effects and dramatic challenges for local communities.
Mateusz Strzelecki, University of Wrocław.
17:00 – 17:15 Societal relevance of polar research- personal view.
Friedrich Buchholz, Alfred Wegener Institute.
17:15 – 17:30 The relation between science and tourism: The way in which science is used as an experience in expedition cruise tourism in Svalbard.
Machiel Lamers, Wageningen University & Research.
17:30 – 17:45 Session summary and discussion.
17:45 – 18:15 The Innuit myths and legends through the eyes of Martin Velisek. Photo and graphic exhibition presentation.
19:00 – Conference dinner at Hotel Haffner. Each plenary lecture is scheduled for 15 minutes. Venue: Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland, Powstańców Warszawy 55, Sopot 81-712, Poland (www.iopan.gda.pl).


28 November – Wednesday
9:00 – 10:00 Joint discussion on the selection of topics for further research.
10:00 – 11:00 Separate working groups discussions on selected topics (coffee served!).
11:00 – 13:00 Summary of the discussions and recommendations.
13:00 Light lunch and farewell.



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