Program Commitee

Dr. Andrey Petrov, IASSA President, USA [Co-Chair]
Dr. Elena Koudryashova, Rector, Northern Arctic Federal University, Russia [Co-Chair]
Dr. Alexander Pelyasov, Professor of Geography, Moscow State University, Russia [Co-Chair]
Dr. Alexander Saburov, Arctic Research Center, Northern Arctic Federal University Russia (Early Career representative)
Dr. Diane Hirshberg, Professor of Education Policy, University of Alaska Anchorage, USA
Mr. Vyacheslav Shadrin, Vice-President, Russian Association of the Indigenous Peoples of the North (RAIPON)-Sakha (Yakutia), Russia
Dr. Konstantin Zaikov, Vice-Rector and Professor of History, Northern Arctic Federal University, Russia
Dr. Tatiana Degai, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Northern Iowa, USA and member of the Council of Itelmens “Tskhanom,” Russia
Dr. Tatiana Vlasova, Lead Researcher, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Dr. Gary Wilson, Professor of Political Science, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada
Dr. Marina Kalinina, Vice-President, University of the Arctic, Russia
Dr. Michal Luszczuk, Senior Researcher, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Poland
Secretary / coordinator (ex officio)

Theme leaders

1. Archaeology	Org. committee	UNI
2. Art & Design	Timo Jokela	University of Lapland, Finland
3. Cultures	Peter Schweitzer	University of Vienna, Austria
4. Environment & Climate Change	Grete Hovelsrud	Nord University, Norway
5. Governance	Gary Wilson	University of Northern British Columbia, Canada
6. Health & Well-Being	Arja Rautio	University of Oulu, Finland
7. History	Peter Skold (TBC)	Umea University, Sweden
8. Indigenous societies	Vyacheslav Shadrin	Institute for humanitarian studies and Indigenous peoples issues, Yakutsk
9. Law & Legal Regimes in the Arctic	Natalia Loukacheva	University of Northern British Columbia, Canada
10. Knowledge Systems & Education	Diane Hirshberg	University of Alaska, Anchorage, USA
11. Languages	Lenore Greoble	University of Chicago, USA
12. Literature	Org. Committee	UNI
13. Migrations & Mobilities	Nafisa Yeasmin	University of Lapland, Finland
14. Sustainability	Tatiana Vlasova	Russian Academy of Science, Russia
15. Museums & Heritage	Medea Csoba DeHass	DMACC/UNI
16. Arctic People & Places across Generations [OTHER]	Andrey Petrov	UNI
17. Religion & Spirituality	Piers Vitebsky	Scott Polar Centre, United Kingdom
18. Research Methodologies	Dmitry Funk	Institute of Ethnology RAS
19. Resource & Extractive Industries	Florian Stammler	University of Lapland, Finland
20. Settlements in the Arctic	Tim Heleniak	Nordregio
21. Tourism	Doris Carson	Umeå University Sweden
22. Social work in the Arctic	NARFU / Elena Golosova	NARFU / UNI
23. Arctic Youth and Generational Relations	Jón Haukur Ingimundarson	Stefansson Arctic Institute
24. Arctic Infrastructure	Vera Kuklina	Sochava Institute, RAS/GWU
25. International Relations and Science Diplomacy in the Arctic	Paul Berkman	Tufts U
26. IK and Knowledge co-production	Tatiana Degai / Alona Yefimenko	UNI / APS
27. Economy, labor, and development in the Arctic	Aleksandr Pelyasov / Nadezhda Zamyatina	MSU
28. Gender in the Arctic	Otto Habeck	Hamburg
29. Arctic Futures, Scenarios, Prospects	Marya Rozanova	RSHU/GWU
30. Technology and Innovation in the Arctic	Varvara Korkina	UNI