Programme
Monday evening at 8 o'clock we invite for an unformal meeting at Driv (the former Mack brewery building South in Storgata)
Tuesday, October 14th 2014 |
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| 0915 | Welcome by Siri Gerrard |
| 0925 | Presentations of participants |
| 0945-1100 |
Keynote Sharon Roseman, Memorial University |
| “Home Girls” and “Home Boys”: Indentured Child Labour, Multiple Mobilities, and Gender in Canadian History | |
| Commentator: Mai Camilla Munkejord | |
| Plenary discussion | |
| Chair: Ingrid Kielland | |
| 1100-1115 | Break |
| 1115-1230 | Magnfríður Júlíusdóttir, University of Iceland |
| Mobility in regional development discourse in Iceland - People, place and politics in the context of workplace relocation | |
| Commentator: Marit Aure | |
| Plenary discussion | |
| Chair: Mai Camilla Munkejord | |
| 1230-1330 | Lunch TEO Kafe |
| 1330-1445 | Karin Jóhanna L. Knudsen, Roskilde University and University of Faroe Islands |
| Fending for yourself across borders: Women practicing a dual orientation to life | |
| Commentator: Sharon Roseman | |
| Plenary discussion | |
| Chair: Halldis Valestrand | |
| 1445-1515 | Break |
| 1515-1630 | Deatra Walsh, Kvinnforsk, UiT The Arctic University of Norway |
| Gender and Commuting in a Comparative Context: The more things change, the more they stay the same? | |
| Commentator: Paul Pedersen and Barbara Patterson | |
| Plenary discussion | |
| Chair: Halldis Valestrand | |
| 1900 | Dinner at Rå Sushi |
Wednesday the October 15th 2014 |
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| 0830-0945 | Siri Gerrard, UiT the Arctic University of Norway |
| There is no mobility without places and there is no places without mobility - Examples and reflections about the relationships between spatial mobilities, gender and place | |
| Commentator: Magnfríður Júlíusdóttir | |
| Plenary discussion | |
| Chair: Tatiana Wara | |
| 0945-1000 | Break |
| 1000-1115 | Marit Aure and Mai Camilla Munkejord, UiT the Arctic University of Norway and ROKKAN Centre, UiB |
| Masculinities in the North: in-comers’ negotiations of rural masculine identities | |
| Commentator: Unnur Dís Skaptadóttir | |
| Plenary discussion | |
| Chair: Tatiana Wara | |
| 1115-1230 | Ingrid M Kielland, Kvinnforsk, UiT The Arctic University of Norway |
| Politics of work mobilities and gender: Stories about employment-related mobility and mobile workers in Hammerfest and Kvalsund | |
| Commentator: : Karin Jóhanna L. Knudsen | |
| Plenary discussion | |
| Chair: Deatra Walsh | |
| 1230-1330 | Lunch TEO Kafe |
| 1330-1445 | Barbara Paterson - Saint Mary’s University, Canada Gender and mobility in the Namibian hake fishery |
| The paper is written in collaboration with Moeniba Isaacs - University of the Western Cape, South Afrcia | |
| Commentator: Siri Gerrard | |
| Plenary discussion | |
| Chair: Marit Aure | |
| 1445-1500 | Break |
| 1500-1615 | Halldis Valestrand, UiT The Arctic University of Norway |
| ‘Too much of a good thing?’ Analysing place and mobilities with an intersectionality perspective: On risk of stumbling in a complicated field. | |
| Commentator: Deatra Walsh | |
| Plenary discussion | |
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Chair: Marit Aure |
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| 1900 |
Dinner: Fjellheisen |
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Thursday, October 16th 2014 |
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| 0915-1030 |
Gordon Cooke, Memorial University |
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Rural and Non-standard employment among younger and older, and female and male, workers: Implications for staying or going. |
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| Commentator: Halldis Valestrand | |
| Chair: Mai Camilla Munkejord | |
| 1030-1045 | Break |
| 1045-1200 |
Unnur Dís Skaptadóttir, University of Iceland |
| The impact of economic recession on immigrants in Iceland | |
| Commentator: Barbara Neis | |
| Plenary discussion | |
| Chair: Ingrid Kielland | |
| 1200-1300 | Lunch : Forskningsparken |
| 1300-1430 | Summary: Can research with focus on mobilities and place contribute to a better understanding of gender and gender relations and in what way? |
| Hanne Haavind - Introduction to discussion | |
| Chair: Siri Gerrard | |
| 1430-1500 | Evaluation of the conference |
| Finale: Welcome again in 2016 | |
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