* indicates final confirmation is still pending
Bita Amani, SJD, University of Toronto; Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, cross-appointed Department of Gender Studies and Graduate Program in Cultural Studies; Co-Director, Feminist Legal Studies Queen’s, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario – ‘Restitution, Repatriation, and Resistance: Reframing the Biopiracy Dialogue toward Women's Work and Traditional Indigenous Knowledge’
Gail Baikie, PhD in progress; Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, Dalhousie University – ‘Rhetoric and Realities: The Mokami Status of Women Council’s Environmental Assessment Submission’
Shahnaj Begum, PhD (in progress), Lapland; Project Coordinator, Arctic Change Project, Gender Studies, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland – ‘Livelihood Transformation in the Arctic: Effects on Older People from a Gender-based Perspective with a Special Focus on Finnish Lapland’
Hege Brækhus, PhD, Law; Professor in Law and Dean, 2009-2013, Faculty of Law, University of Tromsø, Norway – ‘International Marriages: Russian Women Marrying Norwegian Men’
Monica Burman, PhD, Law; Associate Professor, Deputy Director and Head of Graduate Studies, Umeå Forum for Studies on Law and Society, Umeå University – ‘Men's Violence against Sami Women -- A blind Swedish Spot’
Åsa Gunnarsson, PhD, Law, Professor in Law and Deputy Director, Umeå Forum for Studies on Law and Society, Umeå University, Sweden – ‘Gender and Arctic Directions’
Rachel Kohut, MA, Public Health; Intern, The Arctic Institute, Montreal – ‘Imagining Birth Dislocated from Medicine: The Interconnectedness of the State and the Birthing Process in Canada’s North’
Elena Kotyrlo, PhD, Demographics; Postdoctoral Fellow, Ageing and Living Conditions Center, Demographic Data Base, Umeå University, Sweden – ‘Earnings and Labor Force Participation of Native and Immigrant Women with Pre-school Age Children in Vasterbotten and Norrbotten’ and ‘Time-Space Dynamics of Marriages and Cohabitations among Senior Male Partners and Female Immigrants in the North of Sweden’
Rauna Kuokkanen, PhD, Education; Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Aboriginal Studies Program, University of Toronto – Indigenous Economies, Self-Determination, and Women’s Rights
Kathleen Lahey, LLM, Osgoode; Professor and Queen’s National Scholar, Faculty of Law, cross-appointed Gender Studies Department and Graduate Program in Cultural Studies, Co-Director, Feminist Legal Studies Queen’s, Queen’s University, Kingston – ‘Women in Arctic and Northern Regions: Key Economic, Governance, and Fiscal Issues’
Louise Langevin, LLM, University of California Berkeley; Professor and Claire-Bonenfant Research Chair on the Status of Women, Faculty of Law, Laval University, Quebec City, Quebec – ‘Gender-based Analysis of Discrimination against Women – Economic Development Policies and Women’s Bargaining Power’
Kate McInturff, PhD, English; Research Associate, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – ‘Gender Equality and Women in the Arctic: Mapping the Future’
Vrinda Narain, DCL, McGill; Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, and the Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, McGill University, Montreal – ‘Postcolonial Constitutionalism: Complexities and Contradictions’
Kim Pate, LLD, University of Ottawa; Executive Director, Canadian Association of Elizabeth Frye Societies, and Professor, University of Ottawa Faculty of Law – ‘Canadian Corrections and Marginalized Women – Trish Monture’s Legacies’
Tahnee Prior, PhD (in progress), Balsillie School of International Affairs, University of Waterloo – ‘The Rights and Role of Indigenous Women in Climate Change Regulation’
Rakhi Ruparelia, LLM, Harvard; Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa – ‘Legal Feminism and the Post-Racism Fantasy’
Marguerite Russell, LLM, Queen’s; Barrister and Solicitor (Ont. and UK) – ‘Trafficking in Women: International Legal Perspectives’
Eva-Maria Svensson, PhD, Law; Professor in Law, Faculty of Law, University of Tromsø, Norway, and University of Gothenburg, Sweden – ‘Approaches to Gender Equality in Regional Governance of the Arctic Region’
Victoria Sweet, JD; Legal Research Fellow, Indigenous Law and Policy Center, Michigan State University College of Law, East Lansing, Michigan – ‘Rising Waters, Rising Threats: The Human Trafficking of Indigenous Women in the Circumpolar Region of the United States and Canada’
Lena Wennberg, PhD, Law; Senior Lecturer and Director, Umeå Forum for Studies on Law and Society, Umeå University – ‘Women and Aging in the Arctic Region’
Åsa Yttergren, PhD, Law; Senior Lecturer, Umeå Forum for Studies on Law and Society, Umeå University – ‘Prostitution and Trafficking in the North of Sweden – The “Swedish Model” in Action’