Gender in the Arctic

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POSTER for DISPLAY at Polar conferences - free to use (see below)

Tackling the “gender gap”
New IASSA Working Group Gender in the Arctic, kick off at ICASS IX in Umea/Sweden 2017
Queering Indigeneity:
Indigenous Queer Intersections in the Arctic - the “IASSA Working Group Gender in the Arctic” hosted an IASC-SHWG funded workshop on 6^th of September 2018 in Oulu/Finland
Gender in Polar Research: Gendered field work conditions, epistemologies and legacies at ASSW 2020 - ONLINE conference due to COVID 19
Gender in Polar Research: Poster presentation at the SCAR Online Conference 2020

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Kick off at ICASS IX in Umea/Sweden 2017

New IASSA Working Group Gender in the Arctic (GIA WG)

During the Ninth International Conference on Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS IX) in Umea/Sweden the new IASSA Working Group on “Gender in the Arctic” will be launched.

The “GIA WG” will kick-off with a roundtable discussion on 9th of June 2017 where the relevance and state of the art in Arctic Gender and Intersectionality Studies will be addressed. This discussion follows the official launch of the Working Group where future activities and modes of boosting the theme in Arctic research are going to be discussed. Everyone who is interested to contribute and participate is warmly welcome to this kick-off.

ICASS IX - gender related events

8th of June: Toward a gender equal sustainable human developement in the Arctic. session chair: Eva-Maria Svensson

9th of June: The invisibility of gender. session chair: Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv

9th of June: Roundtable: Gender in the Arctic. chair: J. Otto Habeck and Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv