Official Opening of the Exhibition “On Thin Ice” and Seminar on Research in the Arctic

16:30-17:00            Registration - tea/coffee

17:00-17:10            Official opening of the exhibition “On Thin Ice”

Vladimir Grusman, Director of the Ethnographic Museum

Tom Cato Karlsen, State Secretary of the Norwegian Ministry of Transport and Communications 

17:10                      Cultural performance: Traditional dance and music from North

17:20-17:45            Scientific expeditions in the Arctic: Sharing Experiences and discoveries from the N-ICE2015 expedition on the research vessel “Lance” 

Welcoming words by Heidi Olufsen, Consul General at the Royal Norwegian Consulate General in St. Petersburg 

Moderator: Nikita Lomagin, Academic Director of the ENERPO Program and Professor at the European University at St Petersburg 

Dr. Harald Steen, Leader for the Norwegian Polar Institute’s Centre for Ice, Climate and Ecosystems 

Nikita Kusse-Tiuz, Scientific researcher at the Department of Oceanology at the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute 

Q&A/Comments 

17:45-18:25            Research in the Arctic 

Moderator: Nikita Lomagin, Academic Director of the ENERPO Program and Professor at the European University at St Petersburg 

Arctic Climate Studies: Challenges and Approaches by Dr. Alexander Klepikov, Deputy Director for Research and International Cooperation at the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute 

When Science and Politics Meet: Contradictions and Contributions to Arctic Research by Dmitry Tulupov, Professor of International Relations at the St. Petersburg State University 

Q&A 

18:25-18:30            Concluding remarks 

18:30-19:00            Reception 

To register, please, contact RSVP.CGSTP@mfa.no or +7 812 612 41 00