Event Type
Conferences and Workshops

Health and Shared Prosperity in the North

Event Dates
2018-10-09
Location
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

The 2018 Arctic Science Conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science is being held in tandem with the Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation (CRRF)’s annual meeting, which runs from October 10-12. The conference theme is Health and Shared Prosperity in the North.

The theme of the meeting reflects the idea that health, of both people and ecosystems, and prosperity, of both human and more-than-human arctic residents, are inexorably intertwined. This reality is at the core of Indigenous world views and lifeways, and increasingly, is being acknowledged by research and policy. At this conference, we seek to further advance the discussion of health and prosperity as a focal point for sustainable communities and development policies.

Conference topics include traditional scientific disciplines, science education, arctic social sciences, biomedical research, and artistic interpretation of health in the North. Information about CRRF and the full, joint program will be released soon at the website linked above.

Abstracts for contributed talks will be open on February 15, with an initial deadline of April 30.