Conference Program

27 November – Tuesday
11:00 – 11:15	Welcome address by Jan Marcin Węsławski and Michał Łuszczuk.
11:15 – 11:30	Polar bears, penguins and cultural heritage – reflections about relevance. Susan Barr, IASC.
11:30 – 11:45	Political relevance of Arctic research in non-Arctic nations. Michał Łuszczuk, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin.
11:45 – 12:00	Norwegian polar research: relevance and debates. Pål W. Skedsmo, Fridtjof Nansen Institute.
12:00 – 12:15	Life of the Native Inhabitants of the Arctic Through Literature. Zdeněk Lyčka, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic.
12:15 – 12:30	Session summary and discussion.
12:30 – 12:45	Coffee break.
12:45 – 13:00	Perception of Arctic issues among Polish young learners. Izabela Kotyńska-Zielińska, TWH; Karolina Fornalewicz, SAS; Anna Pradzińska, IO PAN.
13:00 – 13:15	Is the Arctic melting down? Preliminary study on public perception of the Arctic and climate change. Joanna Piwowarczyk, Tymon Zieliński, Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences.
13:15 – 13:30	Arctic in Russia: trends of scientific research and public perception. Mikhail Gantsevich, Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Moscow.
13:30 – 13:45	Polar science in Lithuania: first steps. Sergey Olenin, University of Klaipeda.
13:45 – 14:00	Session summary and discussion.
14:00 – 14:45	Light lunch.
14:45 – 15:00	Social relevance of polar psychology researches. Agnieszka Skorupa, University of Silesia in Katowice.
15:00 – 15:15	How social science can help to promote the polar research. Barbora Padrtova, Masaryk University, Czech Republic.
15:15 – 15:30	Narratives of polar expeditions and their impact on Polish geographical-cultural imagination about the Arctic in interwar period. Agata Lubowicka, University of Gdańsk.
15:30 – 15:45	What do youngsters know about the Arctic? - results from the EDU-ARCTIC survey. Agata Goździk, Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences.
15:45 – 16:00	Coffee break.
16:00 – 16:15	Arctic as a territory of the Russian-Poland dialogue. Alexander V. Fedotovskikh, State Council for Arctic Development, Russia.
16:15 – 16:30	Art of the North – the role of a metaphor in visual narratives about polar regions. Marianna Michałowska, Adam Mickiewicz University.
16:30 – 16:45	Paradoxes of anthropopression. Human presence in polar regions. Hanna Mamzer, Adam Mickiewicz University.
16:45 – 17:00	Arctic coasts under pressure - zone of the culminated negative climate change effects and dramatic challenges for local communities. Mateusz Strzelecki, University of Wrocław.
17:00 – 17:15	Societal relevance of polar research- personal view. Friedrich Buchholz, Alfred Wegener Institute.
17:15 – 17:30	The relation between science and tourism: The way in which science is used as an experience in expedition cruise tourism in Svalbard. Machiel Lamers, Wageningen University & Research.
17:30 – 17:45	Session summary and discussion.
17:45 – 18:15	The Innuit myths and legends through the eyes of Martin Velisek. Photo and graphic exhibition presentation.
19:00 –	Conference dinner at Hotel Haffner. Each plenary lecture is scheduled for 15 minutes. Venue: Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland, Powstańców Warszawy 55, Sopot 81-712, Poland (www.iopan.gda.pl).

28 November – Wednesday
9:00 – 10:00	Joint discussion on the selection of topics for further research.
10:00 – 11:00	Separate working groups discussions on selected topics (coffee served!).
11:00 – 13:00	Summary of the discussions and recommendations.
13:00	Light lunch and farewell.