Invitation to the launch of Ilisimatusarfik's Centre for Arctic Welfare

Ilisimatusarfik's Centre for Arctic Welfare is a new interdisciplinary research centre anchored at the Department of Social Work at Ilisimatusarfik.

The centre will bring together and promote research on welfare-related topics.

We will do this by creating a research network, a PhD network, a thesis bank and club, as well as assisting in the publication and dissemination of research and theses on welfare-related topics conducted at Ilisimatusarfik.

You are hereby invited to the centre's kick-off seminar on 27 October from 13.00 to 17.00 in the auditorium at Ilisimatusarfik.

At the seminar, we will present the centre's purpose and vision, as well as some of the exciting new welfare-related research being conducted at Ilisimatusarfik.

The seminar ends with a reception.

Program

13.00 - 13.30: Opening by rector Gitte Adler Reimer. Welcome and presentation by Steven Arnfjord & Tenna Jensen: Velfærdsbegrebet, velfærdsforskning, samfundsrelevansen, studenterengagementet & centerets opgave og funktion (The concept of welfare, welfare research, social relevance, student engagement & the mission and function of the centre)

13.30 - 13.40: Inge Seiding, Head of Institute of Culture, Language & History: Arktisk Velfærd - og det historiske perspektiv (Arctic Welfare - and the historical perspective)

13.40 - 14.00: Tone Huse: Urban transformations and the Nordic colonialism

14.00 - 14.20: Short coffee break

14.20 - 14.40: Ingelise Olesen: Figuren - Vores Sundhed (The figure - Our Health)

14.40 - 15.00: Kamilla Nørtoft: Møder mellem borgere og kommune på ældreområdet (Meetings between citizens and the municipality in the field of elderly care)

15.00 - 15.20: Nanna Lund Hansen: Kinguaariit Inuunerissut - Intergenerationelle trivselsfremmende camps (Kinguaariit Inuunerissut - Intergenerational well-being camps)

15.20 - 15.30: Short coffee break

15.30 - 15.50: Dida Heilmann: Socialt udsatte borgeres selvopfattelse - efter en ydre makeover (The self-perception of socially vulnerable citizens - after an external makeover)

15.50 - 16.10: Unni Jakobsen og Kevin Perry: Gadeplansarbejde med Sermersooqs myndighedsafdeling (Street work with Sermersooq municipality)

16.15 - 16.30: Closing remarks

16.30 - 17.00: Reception