Programme
The conference venue will be the HSL building on the UiT campus. Keynote lectures and wrap up sessions will be held in auditorium E-0.10,1 and parallel sessions in auditorium E-0.101 and lecture rooms E-0.103 and E-0.104.
| Wednesday 15 June | |||
| 0830-0900 | Registration, Campus E 0101 | ||
| 0900-0910 | Dean Sonni Olsen, The Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education: Welcoming | ||
| 0910-0930 | Chair Professor Siri Gerrard, Kvinnforsk and Professor Barbara Neis, Memorial University and Honorary doctor at UiT The Arctic University of Norway: Introduction – the aim and scope of this symposium | ||
| 0930-1045 | Keynote lecture: Professor Linda McDowell, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford Moving stories: women migrants, mobility and gender divisions of labour |
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| 1045-1100 | Break | ||
| 1100-1220 | Parallel session | ||
| 1. The Challenges of aging | 2. Women on the move | 3. Gender, Place and mobility | |
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E0101 Marit Aure Robyn Mayes |
E0103 Mai Camilla Munkejord Marianna Pavlovskaya |
E0104 Deatra Walsh Linda Mc Dowell |
| Aija Lulle Where is future for ageing labour migrants? Commentator: Gerrard
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Arta Mellupe Collecting knowledge about migration motivation: a literature review about marriage mobility Commentator: Munkejord
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Halldis Valestrand "This is a very stable place, but people are a lot on the move": Producing knowledge concerning gendered mobilitites in a particular geographical location Commentator: Juliusdottir |
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Dagrunn Grønbech |
Karin Johanna L. Knudsen Migration streams and migration trajectories: Faroese women's migration practice between the Faroe Islands and Denmark |
Sara Dorow and Shingirai Mandizadza |
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| 1220-1305 | Lunch, main cantina, Theory building House 1 | ||
| 1305-1420 | Keynote Lecture: Professor Marianna Pavlovskaya, Department of Geography, Hunter College, New York/adjunct professor atKvinnforsk, UiT Post-Soviet labor market and gendered migration in Russia |
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| 1440-2345 |
Bus and ferry to the fishing village of Skjervøy, the bus leaves from Campus precisely at 1440 (snack on the bus). Return to Tromsø by the Coastal Steamer (Hurtigruten), docks at Scandic Ishavshotellet. Conference dinner on board |
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Thursday 16 June |
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| 0915-1030 | Keynote lecture: Dr. Robyn Mayes, QUT Business School, Management, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane. Australia Labour migration and embodiment of gender - change and continuation |
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| 1030-1045 | Break | ||
| 1045-1325 | Parallel Session | ||
| 4. Transitions | 5. Migration and segregation | 6. Home, mobility and work | |
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E0101 Mai Camilla Munkejord Marianna Pavlovskaya |
E0103 Halldis Valestrand Stuart Aitken |
E0104 Marit Aure Linda McDowell |
| Erika Anne Hayfield Gender culture and high (im)mobility in a small island community Commentator: Gerrard |
Katherine Lippel Labour policy implications for employment-related geographic mobility: What can we learn from applying gender lens? Commentator:Brækhus |
Barbara Neis, Kathy Fitzpatrick, Lachlan Barber, Natasha Hanson, Christine Knott, Stephanie Premji, Elise Thorburn Towards a gendered rhythmanalysis of the home, mobility and working lives of workers and their families engaged in exteded employment-related geographical mobility in the Canadian context Commentator: Lulle |
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| Siri Gerrard - Deatra Walsh What kind of future do we have in this Place: Transformation of work and mobilities in Norway's high North: Examples from the municipality of Loppa, Finnmark Commentator: Hayfield |
Silvia Lopes Estrada (Im)mobilities at work int the Garment industry in Mexico Commentator: Valestrand |
Deatra Walsh Going the distance? Gender and commuting in Northern Norway Commentator: Neis |
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| Johanna Overrud, Elin Kvist and Erika Sörensson Mobility, flexibility and livelihoods. Labour market changes and global migration in the Swedish North Commentator: Munkejord |
Magnfridur Juliusdottir |
Guido Sechi, Zaiga Kisjane, Elina Apsite-Berina, Maris Berzins |
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| 1325 -1430 | Lunch at the "Science Park", 8 minutes walk | ||
| 1430-1545 | Keynote lecture: Professor Stuart Aitken, Department of Geography, San Diego State UniversityThe Work of Fathering in the Context of Erasure and Neoliberal Politics. | ||
| 1545-1600 | Break | ||
| 1600-1700 | Film screening: Living With Boko Haram, by Trond Waage and Mouazamou Ahamadou, 2016 35 min. | ||
| 1930 | Informal dinner at Cafe Globus. Pick-up at Scandic Ishavs Hotel 19.15 | ||
| 2100 | Social and cultural gathering "Mobile cultures in the North", guided-walk, please wear comfortable shoes | ||
| Friday 17 June | |||
| 0830-1110 | Parallel sessions | ||
| 7. Belonging | 8. Mooring/return | 9. Fatherhood | |
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E0101 Deatra Walsh Robyn Mayes |
E0103 Lise Nordbrønd Linda McDowell |
E0104 Siri Gerrard Stuart Aitken |
| Mai Camilla Munkejord "I work With my heart." Experiences of Professional migrant care workers in a northern, rural context Commentator: Lopes Estrada |
Chris McMorran The genderes work of producing fixities Commentator: Pavlovskaya |
Helene Pristed Nielsen A gender and generation perspective on mobility practices in and around the Danish Offshore sector Commentator: Esperitu |
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Maria-Fernanda Gonzales Rojas |
Baiba Svane |
Keiu Telve Fathers at home an away: A case study of Estonian men in Finland Commentator: Aure |
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Darius Dauksas |
Aileen Espiritu |
Marit Aure "I do things. That's what i do". Assemblages in the petroleum industry: Fathering in work related mobility Commentator: Mandizadza |
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| 1110-1130 | Break | ||
| 1130 -1315 | Approaching mobilities, comments and plenary discussions | ||
| Linda McDowell, Marianna Pavlovskaya, Robyn Mayes and Stuart Aitken: Theorethical and methodological challenges in gender and (im)mobility studies |
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| How does feminist mobility studies add to the understanding of gender? What have gender perspectives brought to the studies of mobility? |
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| Where do we go from here? Plenary discussion | |||
| 1315-1415 | Lunch at the main cantina | ||