The FACE-IT partner Nordland Research Institute and the Nord University in Bodø are hosting the Arctic Congress Bodø 2024. It will be a unique event, combining the International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS) XI, the UArctic Congress 2024, and the High North Dialogue 2024. The event will consist of high-level plenary sessions, several parallel sessions, network activities, and social and cultural events. If will provide researchers, policymakers, businesses, and students with many opportunities to exchange knowledge and meet and connect across the Arctic.

FACE-IT member Grete K. Hovelsrud (Nordland Research Institute) is the chair of the steering committee. Furthermore, many FACE-IT colleagues are (co-)convening many of the sessions and will present talks and posters.

Check out all the FACE-IT involvements below!

 

Session 2.2.1: Gazing at melting ice? Arctic tourism in transition, multi-sensory encounters in changing Arctic landscapes

Thora Herrmann¹, Halvor Dannevig², Vesa-Pekka Herva¹, Kristin Løseth², Julia Olsen³, Albina Pashkevich⁴, Margareta Pintér⁵, Carina Ren⁶, Alix Varnajot^1
1University of Oulu, ²Western Norway Research Institute, ³Nordland Research Institute, ⁴Center for Tourism and Leisure Research, Dalarna University, ⁵The SAXO Institute, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen, ⁶The Techno-Anthropology Lab, Aalborg University

Session description at the Arctic Congress homepage

• Talk: “The affective power of melting ice” – Halvor Dannevig (Western Norway Research Institute)

 

Session 2.3.1: Cruise tourism in the Arctic: sustainable approaches, community impacts, and the role of polar ambassadorship

Session description at the Arctic Congress homepage

• Talk: “Sustainable Arctic Cruise Communities: tools and practices” – Julia Olsen (Nord University)

 

Session 2.3.4: Managing change in Arctic coastal communities: resources, practices, and livelihoods

Grete Hovelsrud¹, Anna G. Sveinsdóttir¹

¹Nordland Research Institute

Session description at the Arctic Congress homepage

• Talk: “Sustainable tourism governance in the Arctic: Examining the potential for adaptive tourism governance in Svalbard and Greenland” – Anna G. Sveinsdóttir (Nordland Research Institute)
• Talk: “The change that has to be managed: Lessons learned from the EU project FACE-IT” – Simon Jungblut (University of Bremen)
• Talk: “Contested wilderness: The importance of narratives in shaping adaptive co-management options to Svalbard tourism under a changing climate”- Ragnhild Dale (Western Norway Research Institute)
• Talk: “The challenge of limitless growth of expedition cruise tourism in Svalbard” – Kristin Løseth (Western Norway Research Institute)
• Talk: “Climate research in Greenland that matters” – Lill Rastad Bjørst (Aalborg University)
• Talk: “The political ecology of the coastal cryosphere: Theory and praxis” – Amy Lovecraft (Center for Arctic Policy Studies at University of Alaska Fairbanks)

 

Session 3.1.7: Arctic Tourism Futures – Part II

Session description at the Arctic Congress homepage

• Talk: “Developing the situated comparison for collaborative ways of knowing in Arctic tourism. The case of Greenland” – Carina Ren (Aalborg University, Department of Culture and Learning)

 

Session 3.2.1: Arctic Green Transitions: Contexts and Practices

Lill Rastad Bjørst¹ , Peder Roberts²

¹Aalborg University, ²University of Stavanger

Session description at the Arctic Congress homepage

• Talk: “Green transition in the Arctic – with or without climate policies” – Lill Rastad Bjørst (Aalborg University)

 

Session 4.0.13: Greenland imagining independence: Postcolonial politics of comparison

Ulrik Gad¹, Lill Rastad Bjørst²

¹Danish Institute of International Studies, ²Aalborg University

Session description at the Arctic Congress homepage

• Talk: “Politics of Comparison in Greenland’s Green Transition” – Lill Rastad Bjørst (Aalborg University)
• Talk: “To be or not to be like Iceland? (Ontological) Politics of comparison in Greenlandic tourism Development” – Carina Ren (Aalborg University, Department of Culture and Learning)

 

Session 4.1.11: Restoring sustainable food systems, livelihoods and ecosystems in the Arctic

Majken Paulsen¹, Camilla Risvoll¹, Camilla Brattland², Julien Lebel¹, Maiken Bjørkan¹

¹Nordland Research Institute, ²UiT Norges Arktiske Universitet

Session description at the Arctic Congress homepage

• Talk: “Possible future changes and conflicts in fisheries regulations in the Arctic. Comparing Isfjorden (Svalbard) and Porsangerfjorden (Northern Norway)” – Julien Lebel (Nordland Research Institute)
• Talk: “Co-creation of sustainable food systems using maps in local communities in Salten, northern Norway” – Camilla Risvoll (Nordland Research Institute)
• Talk: “Changing food systems in the Porsangerfjorden region and Impacts on local communties” – Camilla Risvoll (Nordland Research Institute)

 

Session 5.15: Arctic Futures: Local Visions and Global Projections – Part II

Session description at the Arctic Congress homepage

• Talk: “Contemporary and projected shipping growth: local communities’ perspectives” – Julia Olsen (Nord University)

 

Session 5.18: The powers of maps in shaping human-nature relations in the Arctic

Helena Gonzales Lindberg¹, Camilla Risvoll¹

¹Nordland Research Institute

Session description at the Arctic Congress homepage

• Talk: “The roles and powers of maps and the consequences for environmental governance and planning in the Arctic” – Helena Gonzales Lindberg (Nordland Research Institute)

 

Scientific Poster Exhibition – Topic: Climate and environment

Session description at the Arctic Congress homepage

• Poster: “Experimental assessment of Arctic kelp community productivity to marine heatwaves” – Cale Miller (Utrecht University)
• Poster: “Affecting all of us! Potential consequences of sea urchin metabolism to local coastal economy” – Simon Jungblut (University of Bremen)

 

Photos: Simon Jungblut (University of Bremen)