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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