Centre for Innovation and Research

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Centre for Innovation and Research in Culture
and Learning in the Arctic
CIRCLA
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The Arctic Today and Tomorrow 9.30 Opening
of the conference Robert C. Thomsen, Director of
CIRCLA, Aalborg University 9.35 Note of
Welcome introduction to CIRCLA Lone
Dirckinck-Holmfeld, Dean of the Faculty of
Humanities, Aalborg University 9.45 Arctic
Studies and Aalborg University Inger Askehave,
Pro-rector of Aalborg University 9.55 A New
Future for the Arctic? Klavs A. Holm,
Ambassador, Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
10.30 The Arctic is Open for Business Claus
Holstein, Managing Director of Aalborg
Harbour/Arctic Business Network 11.00 Coffee
break (free of charge)
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11.15 Canadas Perspectives on a Changing
Arctic Kim Girtel, Chargé dAffaires, Canadian
Embassy, Copenhagen 11.30 Indigenous Rights
in Russian and North American Norths Gail
Fondahl, Professor, University of Northern
British Columbia/International Arctic Social
Sciences Association 12.15 Marine Resources
in Greenland strategies, politics and new
opportunities Jesper Raakjær, Professor,
Aalborg University 13.00 Lunch (free of
charge) 13.30 Arctic Studies globalization,
urbanization and culture Birgit Kleist
Pedersen, Assoc. Professor, University of
Greenland/Ilisimatusarfik
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The Arctic Today - and Tomorrow Lone
Dirckinck-HolmfeldDean, The Faculty of the
Humanities