In the first hour, you will learn from Alexey Tsykarev on how Indigenous People's decision-making in the Arctic and globally impact language revitalization and education policies and human rights. Aleksei Tsykarev serves as chair of the Center for Support of Indigenous Peoples and Civic Diplomacy «Young Karelia», an NGO recognized with special consultative status by United Nations Economic and Social Council. A lifetime activist for the rights of indigenous peoples in Russia, Tsykarev previously led the International Youth Association of Finno-Ugric Peoples, and has served as an independent expert in several United Nations capacities. Tsykarev is a former Member and Chairperson-Rapporteur of the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, a subsidiary body of the UN Human Rights Council. He served on the Steering Committee for the UN’s 2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages, led by UNESCO. Tsykarev holds a Master of Linguistics from Petrozavodsk State University, in Russia, and his academic publications focus on indigenous peoples’ rights, particularly in the areas of language and culture. In Spring 2019, he was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Colorado in the United States. Most recently, Tsykarev was appointed by the UN Economic and Social Council to serve as Member of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues for a three-year term starting on 1 January, 2020. Tsykarev advises global institutions, including the World Bank, as well as think tanks and scientific organizations, regarding indigenous peoples’ rights. He has been active in a range of indigenous organizations, and has participated in regional and international forums, including the World Conference on Indigenous Issues, World Conference on Youth, the World Congress of Finno-Ugric Peoples, and the Global Indigenous Youth Caucus. Tsykarev has coordinated a number of international projects in the sphere of human rights, culture, and civic diplomacy, and serves on advisory councils to government ministries and offices. Tsykarev lectures on indigenous peoples and human rights at universities around the world, as well as in various bodies of the United Nations.

In the second hour, you will learn from Dr. Bathsheba Demuth about Arctic energy before petroleum, and what whales can tell us about writing history. Dr. Bathsheba Demuth is an Assistant Professor of History and Environment and Society at Brown University. She is an environmental historian, specializing in the lands and seas of the Russian and North American Arctic. She is the author of the prize-winning Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait (Norton 2019), and her has appeared in publications from The American Historical Review to The New Yorker.

In the first hour, you will learn from Dr. Daris Shapovalova about the governance, operations, and cosequences of oil spill prevention and response in the Arctic. Dr Daris Shapovalova is a lecturer and Co-Director of the Aberdeen University Centre for Energy Law. Daria' main research interests are in energy, environmental law and human rights.

In the second hour, you will learn from Justine Hudson on Marine mammals in a warming Arctic. Justine Hudson is a marine mammal technician at Fisheries and Oceans Canada. Her research focuses on the health of marine mammals in the Canadian Arctic.

In the first hour, you will learn from Dr. Barbora Padrtova about Arctic security, trends in Arctic strategies from Arctic nation states, and Arctic policies more broadly. Dr. Barbora Padrtova is an Assistant Professor at the Department of International Relations and European Studies at the Faculty of Social Studies at Masaryk University in Brno, the Czech Republic. Since 2020, Barbora has been leading an interdisciplinary Arctic research project ARCTOS MU. In 2018-2019, she also worked as a Research Scholar affiliated with the Arctic Futures Initiative at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), based in Laxenburg, Austria. She is a Czech delegate to the Social & Human Working Group of the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC).

In the first hour, you will learn from learn from Dr. Roman Sidortsov about the history of Arctic energy, its current state, and what the future holds for a rapidly changing region. Dr. Sidorstov is an Assistant Professor of Energy Policy, Michigan Technological University and a Senior Research Fellow In Energy Justice And Transitions Sussex Energy Group Science Policy Research Unit University of Sussex. He is a comparative socio-legal scholar and teacher focusing on the intersection of energy and environmental law and policy. His current research is motivated by the need to transition to sustainable energy systems and includes international and comparative energy law and policy with a special emphasis on the Russian Federation and the United States, revitalization of post-industrial communities through sustainable energy development, energy security and justice, risk governance in the energy sector, and Arctic energy development.

In the second hour, you will learn from Dr. Vera Kuklina wias she uses infrastructure in Eastern Siberia as an example to examine sustainability, resilience and adaptive capacities of such complex systems as SETS for informed decision making and local knowledge co-production. Understanding infrastructure as social-ecological-technological system allows us to deal with the complex issues humanity faces today converging different sources of knowledge within environmental, social-cultural and technological-infrastructural domains. In this livestreamed talk

A Research Professor at The George Washington University, Dr. Kuklina's research interests include urbanization of indigenous people, traditional land use, socio-ecological systems, cultural geographies of infrastructure and remoteness. Dr. Kuklina currently leads a project, entitled "Informal Roads: The Impact of Unofficial Transportation Routes on Remote Arctic Communities."

In this talk, she will explore how the environmental domain provides ecosystem services to the social-cultural domain, while humans apply anthropogenic impact on the environment. The technological-infrastructural domain affects the social-cultural domain by the use of technologies and infrastructure as well as impacting local mobilities, while social perception and values are embedded in the creation and maintenance of infrastructure and technologies. Bearing capacity of infrastructure is significantly determined by environmental conditions while transformations in technologies and infrastructure cause changes in ecological flows.