Early Career Workshop Preliminary Schedule
Sixth International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences Meeting
August 22-26, 2008, Nuuk, Greenland
Session A (30 minutes)
Opening welcome: Arthur Mason & Jen Baseman of APECS and Amy Wiita & Lassi Heininen (invited) of NRF
Host welcome: Yvon Csonka, ICASS organizer
Session B (60 minutes)
Interactive Panel with roundtable discussion—Deanna Kingston, Moderator:
Experiences in grant funding and faculty tenure – Deanna Kingston, Oregon State University
Working with Native/Aboriginal groups in Canada, the IRB processes and navigating government agencies – Carly Dokis, Ph.D. candidate, University of Alberta
The view from industry: relations with communities in the North – Cathleen McCarthy, ConocoPhillips (invited)
Experiences in publishing – Lorri Hagman, University of Washington Press (invited)
Working with federal/state relations – Larry Persily, State of Alaska (invited)
IPY Qualitative Data Management – John Howard, Arizona State University (invited)
MEET AND GREET BREAK (10 minutes)
Session C (60 Minutes)
Early Career Scientist Presentations
The following proposals have been received to date are currently being considered by the ICASS committee and chairs of this session:
The Meaning of Education for Inuvialuit Youth and Families, Raila Saloaknags
The Dynamic Context of Cultural and Social Sustainability of Communities in Southwest Alaska, Davin L. Holen
Community Adaptation to Climate Change in Ulukhaktok, Canada, Tristan Pearce
Contemporary Alaska Native Arts Revitalization, Nadia Mary Louise Jackinsky-Horrell
How come Denmark is still an Arctic Superpower? Toomas Lapp
The population history of the Greenlandic Inuit, Oddný Ósk Sverrisdóttir
Session D (30 Minutes)
Meeting the Needs of Early Career Scientists
Natural science/social science collaborations
Early Career Science programs
Discussion of coordinating various early career scientist programs that exist: NRF, APECS, UArctic…etc.
How NRF & APECS & other organizations could help better meet early career scientists’ needs