Centre for Innovation and Research
in Culture and Learning in the Arctic
CIRCLA
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)
11.15: ‘Canada’s Perspectives on a Changing Arctic’
Kim Girtel, Chargé d’Affaires, 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
Lone Dirckinck-Holmfeld
Dean, The Faculty of the Humanities