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The call for papers of the 10th Round Table organized by the International Laboratory for Research on Images of the North, Winter and the Arcticl is underway! You have until March 3, 2023 to send your proposal. The round table will take place on March 31, 2023, in Montreal.

The objective of this roundtable is to bring together professors, researchers, students, artists, authors, curators and presenters in Montreal to exchange and share their expertise, projects and reflections in the form of a 15-minute presentation on the arts and societies of Inuit Nunaat (mainly Nunavik, Nunatsiavut, Nunavut and Greenland, but also other territories, including urban). Participants are invited to present one of their current or future creation, dissemination or research projects.

For more information, download the call for papers.

For all the details, please consult the following link: https://nord.uqam.ca/evene.../inuit-nunaat-et-etudes-inuites

Between October 3 and 8, 2022, as part of a traveling seminar in the Swedish Arctic, professors Thierry Rodon, Sophie Thériault, and Arn Keeling, as well as PhD students Sabrina Bourgeois, Louise Nachet, Caitlynn Beckett, and Zoé Boirin-Fargues, and Chief of Matimekush-Lac John, Réal Mckenzie, had the opportunity to discuss the challenges of extractive industries for Arctic communities. This seminar followed summer school on mining towns in transition that took place in the Canadian North in 2019, which also brought together participants from the international research networks MinErAL and REXSAC.

The seminar included a series of presentations, field trips, and meetings with local actors. Participants visited abandoned and transitional mining towns (Laver, Laisvall, Laisdalen, Malmberget, Nautanen, Kiruna), as well as abandoned mining sites (e.g., Nautanen) and sites in the process of revitalization (e.g., Laisvall). They also visited the Harsprång hydroelectric station, a dam, and a site impacted by this type of activity on the river Lule.

In Arjeplog, Malin Brännström, Sámi lawyer and director of the Silvermuseet Museum, discussed, among other topics, the rights of Sámi reindeer herders in Sweden and the issues they face, while in Jokkmokk, the visit to the Ajtte Sami Museum allowed the participants to learn more about the Sámi culture and traditional ways of life. During their stay in Kiruna, they met with Nina Eliasson, Head of Planning Development of the City of Kiruna, who explained the challenges and opportunities of relocating part of the city to allow for the expansion of the mining activities of LKAB. This was followed by a tour of LKAB's underground mine, where one of the communications managers, Anders Lindberg, shared the company's plans for expansion and energy transition, before completing the visit with an overview of the region's mining history.

The roundtable discussion "What future for the caribou?" provided an opportunity to learn more about the environmental, cultural and political issues surrounding this animal. Steve Côté (Université Laval), Pierre Drapeau (Université du Québec à Montréal) and Mathieu Leblond (Environment and Climate Change Canada) opened the discussion by highlighting the reduction in the range of the various types of caribou in Quebec, the impacts associated with the degradation of their habitat and the conservation issues concerning them.

Presentations by André Michel (Ashkuatshikunnu Experts-conseil), Mélissa Saganash (Cree Nation Government) and Serge Ashini Goupil (Innu Nation) allowed for a better understanding of the importance of the relationship between the Innu and Cree nations and the caribou, as well as its cultural and identity value. They also cited the example of the Maamuu nisituhtimuwin / Matineu-mashinaikan atiku e uauinakakanit agreement on caribou hunting that was signed between the Cree and Innu nations. 

The last part of the round table dealt with examples of caribou co-management in Quebec and Canada. Pier-Olivier Boudreault (CPAWS) gave the example of the committee formed to protect the Détour caribou population, which was born of a collaboration between the Algonquin community of Pikogan, the Ministère de la Forêt, de la Faune et des Parcs du Québec, the RYAM forestry company and the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS). Finally, Thierry Rodon showed the limits of caribou management processes and presented some examples of caribou co-management institutions in the Northwest Territories, Yukon and Quebec.

The Research Chair in Sustainable Development of the North is proud to announce the sixth French edition of the MOOC Québec nordique: enjeux, espace et culture, which will begin on February 3, 2022. Registration is open until February 25, 2022.

This free online course, open to all, is intended for all those with an interest in Northern Quebec and who wish to learn more about this territory, its history, societies and issues. 

This MOOC is an initiative of the Institut nordique du Québec (INQ), whose three founding universities are the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), Université Laval and McGill University. The course is under the responsibility of Professor Thierry Rodon of the Department of Political Science at Université Laval and holder of the Research Chair on Sustainable Development of the North.

The research program is funded by the Fonds de recherche du Québec Fonds du Québec - Société et culture (FRQSC), under the direction of Colin Scott (McGill). The Chairholder is a co-investigator in this program, which focuses on attempts to program, which focuses on attempts to implement visions of attempts to implement visions of protecting the cultural and environmental environmental heritage of indigenous peoples. 

Understanding the Evolution of Nordicity: Updating L.E. Hamelin's Indices

This project is a tribute to the pioneering work of Louis-Edmond Hamelin. 

Despite its importance and notable use by both scientists and the general public (Graham 1990, Brunelle 1989, Committo 2016), the Louis-Edmond Hamelin index has not been updated since its creation (Simard 2017). However, climate change, resource development and trade globalization are significantly affecting northern regions and these phenomena are therefore likely to modify both the physical and human boundaries of the northern world (Committo 2016).  

Updating this index in order to better measure the impact of these phenomena on Quebec and international Nordicity is therefore necessary. This work also allows us to take into account the criticisms that have been directed at it over time. For example, the VAPO has been criticized for defining the North through the South by conferring a northern character on sparsely populated areas with low economic development. Northern communities would thus be expected to lose their northern character the greater their economic development (Simard 2017). Some physical indices are also co-dependent, such as annual cold, permafrost type and vegetation cover. This co-dependency contributes to increase the nordicity index of a community located in a cold climate, and vice versa. (Vaguet, Couillet & Colange 2017)  

Other measures and indicators have been developed to account for certain factors of social or physical well-being. For example, the remoteness and accessibility measure developed by Statistics Canada (Alasia et al. 2017) takes into account geographic distance, travel time to other geographic centers as well as, the population level and services available in the community and nearby agglomerations. However, the main limitation of this index is that it only considers distance from other centers geographically and does not take into account climatic or social elements related to distance. At the same time, the Community Well-Being Index (CWB) developed in 2004 is used by the Ministry of Aboriginal and Northern Affairs to measure certain indicators related to the socio-economic health of communities, but leaves out health, environmental and cultural indicators related to well-being (Bouchard 2018). These indices therefore remain incomplete, measuring only certain aspects of community remoteness or well-being and not taking into account northernness as a whole.  

More generally, despite the availability of these indices and the amount of data collected on Aboriginal communities in Canada and around the world, the data is often not accessible to communities, is not available for small communities, or is not comparable between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities (Trevethan 2019).  

The criticisms of Louis-Edmond Hamelin's model and the limitations of the other indices show the relevance of improving the index in order to better measure northernness at both the human and physical levels and to meet the needs of northern populations. Thus, the VAPO index is the only indicator that provides longitudinal and multiscalar data on Nordicity. More importantly, only the VAPO provides a measure of Nordicity at the circumpolar scale and in a wide range of contexts, which is not the case for the CBI and the remoteness index (Vaguet 2019; Vaguet, Couillet & Colange 2017). Thus, while the index should be adapted to address these criticisms, its improvement thus allows for comparison between northern communities and regions around the globe.  

This project also allows public and para-public organizations as well as private promoters to acquire relevant tools to measure the potential impact of projects on communities and to adapt various social and territorial planning programs to the realities of communities. Through its environmental, social and economic components, the index can be relevant to a variety of stakeholders and can be adapted to their projects and measurement needs. Finally, the index is also one of the few tools that allows for both national and international comparisons, which allows different actors to develop locally and internationally relevant projects and to better measure regional differences. 

Open class in the course Governance Issues in the Arctic POL 4070-7070

"Rising China in the Arctic"

Rasmus Gjedssø Bertelsen, Barents Chair in Politics, Professor of Northern Studies, UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Marc Lanteigne, Associate Professor of Political Science (China, East Asia, Polar Affairs), UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Mariia Kobzeva, Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Social Sciences, UiT The Arctic University of Norway 

Rasmus Gjedsswillø Bertelsen will present on China in the Arctic from an international system perspective (transition from US unipolarity to Sino-American bipolarity). Marc Lanteigne will present on China’s identity-building in the Arctic. Mariia Kobzeva will present her research on Sino-Russian Arctic relations in the Arctic: dynamics and trends. 

WEDNESDAY, April 7th 2021, 12h00 

To receive the zoom link, please contact: info@chairedeveloppementnord.ulaval.ca 

The Canadian Talk is a documentary series, directed by Erika Ranke-Farro, a master's student in political science at the Université de Montréal, which aims to shed light on the reality of the impacts of Canadian mining companies establishing themselves abroad, with interviews with Kristina Maud Bergeron, Pierre Beaucage, Michel Jebrak, Thomas Mulcair and Thierry Rodon.

The event, by Ciné-Campus Université de Montréal, takes place on Tuesday, March 16 from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm.

For more information or to register for the event, please visit their Facebook or the event on the Website of SAÉ UdeM. 

Change in the coordination of the Chair

The Northern Sustainable Development Research Chair welcomes two new coordinators, Catherine Charest and Stéphanie Roullier.

 Catherine Charest will coordinate the activities of the Chair.

 E-mail: catherine.charest@ciera.ulaval.ca

 Stéphanie Roullier will be the coordinator of MinErAL Network. 

 E-mail: stephanie.roullier.1@ulaval.ca

The entire team of the Northern Sustainable Development Research Chair would like to thank Aude Therrien (center) for her dedication to the Chair!

Aude has been coordinating it since January 2014. During these 6 years, she has demonstrated with  professionalism, her expertise in research projects, her immense organizational capacity and her benevolent  accompaniment always appreciated by the students. Aude is leaving us for new functions, but her  contribution to the work of the Chair will remain marked.

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The Chair also welcomes two new students, Véronique Tremblay and Henri Desjardins. 
 

 Véronique Tremblay is currently a Master's student in International Studies - International Development with a thesis and is interested in the relations between the State and indigenous peoples in the field of development.

 She is in charge of the MOOC Le Québec nordique: enjeux, espaces et cultures for the winter 2021 session. 

 Henri Desjardins is a certificate student in Native Studies and is a research and teaching assistant for the Chair.

A support guide was launched by the Regroupement des femmes de la Côte-Nord and its partners, entitled Cohabiter avec le navettage aéroporté. This guide brings together 32 good practices in airborne commuting and is divided into four themes, which are infrastructure and services to the community, sustainable socio-economic benefits, living together and the well-being of workers and their families. Click on the following link to access the guide: https://navettageaeroporte.com/ 

The Comité condition féminine Baie-James just published its report on the Impacts of commuting on workers, their families and communities from Jamésie, to which the chair has contributed. 

Bouchard, K., Perry, A., West-Johnson, S. et al. "Measuring What Counts to Advance Indigenous Self-Determination: A Case Study of the Nisg̱a’a Lisims Government’s Quality of Life Framework and Survey". Int. Journal of Com. WB.

It is with deep sadness that we learned of the death of Louis-Edmond Hamelin, geographer at the origin of northern studies in Quebec and founder of the Centre d'études nordiques de l'Université Laval, of which CIÉRA is the heir. All researchers working on the North are deeply indebted to him.

He travelled the North on foot, by canoe, train and plane, but also mentally by creating a lexicon that allowed Quebec to express its nordicity and its autochthony, words he created to describe these too often unknown realities of Quebec. He has also put poetry into research by creating words such as glaciel or hivernité, which allow us to reconcile with our winter. Our debt to him is immense and we can only continue to clear the path he left us.

We also want to emphasize that Louis-Edmond Hamelin was one of the great intellectuals of the Quiet Revolution, but above all a man of integrity, generosity and who, despite all the recognition he received, kept a simplicity and curiosity that made him endearing and always pleasant.

Thank you for everything.

To view or review the discussion at the Louis-Edmond Hamelin Tribute Evening, organized by Caroline Desbiens, Chaire de recherche du Canada en patrimoine et tourisme autochtone, on February 11, 2021, click here.

The research chair, at the initiative of the INQ, is working on an online course (MOOC) on northern Quebec. This course offers an introduction to social and political issues of northern Quebec, a territory that is also the traditional home of several First Nations. The different units will allow a better understanding of the northern populations’ cultures, of northern representations in our collective imagination, of the various visions of the economic development of this territory and of its socio-political developments.

This course is aimed at everyone who is interested in northern Quebec and would like to know more about this territory, its historical context, its various societies and issues.
The course will be offered in English in fall 2019. Registrations are now opened!

To learn more about the course, read the course syllabus and watch the trailer (in French).

Photo: Amélie Breton

The report "Cohabiting with Fly-in Fly-out commuting: Experiences of women and communities on the North Shore" is now available! Several members of our team contributed to the coordination and various stages of the research, which resulted from a collaboration with the Regroupement des femmes de la Côte-Nord and the Société du Plan Nord.

The report (in French only) mentions the social, economic and community impacts of fly-in fly-out commuting, both for workers' families and for host communities. Thus, although families of FIFO workers see their income and purchasing power increase, wives often have to take care of their children alone, which would also limit their ability to get involved in their community. In addition, host communities face a decline in their permanent population, and pressure on the availability of certain consumer goods and housing, which sometimes leads to shortages and an increase in the cost of living. 

The research team therefore proposes several recommendations. Among these, it highlights the importance of promoting flexible arrangements that allow workers to leave the workplace without penalty or take rest periods in the event of an unforeseen event at home and encouraging social activities within the workplace between commuters and residents of work communities. In addition, it invites source communities to set up and adequately support networking services to break the isolation of wives. For host communities, the team recommends, among other things, developing a hiring and retention assistance service for businesses and community organizations and encouraging economic diversification, particularly in single-industry towns and communities on the Lower North Shore. Finally, the team suggests bringing commuters closer to the city and avoiding housing them all in the same place so that they can consume more local goods and develop a more meaningful connection with the host community.

From May 6 to 10, the Institut nordique du Québec (INQ) will hold a training session for graduate students and researchers at the beginning of their careers working in northern Quebec and in the Canadian Arctic. In order to prepare their fieldwork, participants will benefit from the advice of a team of multidisciplinary trainers, who share a strong commitment to the North. The five-day training will be divided into three parts. The "northern regions" component will address the ecosystem, geographic and climatic characteristics of the North. The "northern issues" component will address the environmental, political, social and economic issues of the region. Finally, the "ethical practice" component will present good practices for conducting research in northern environments that is respectful and beneficial to northerners. Note that most of the training will be offered in French, but some interventions will be conducted in English. Visit the INQ website for registration details.

SUKUIJARVIK – The new CEN-Kangiqsualujjuaq station

The inauguration of the CEN-ULaval research station, recently built in Kangiqsualujjuaq, took place on September 5 and 6. The event was a great success, with the participation of more than 60 participants from the community, 2 partners from Kuujjuaq, 5 members of the CEN and 1 member of the CIERA. The ceremony consisted of prayer, speeches, flag signing, community meals, and games. Participants and partners also proposed names in Inuktitut for the new station, which aims to be a platform for Inuit and academic knowledge exchange. The choice was made for Sukuijarvik, which means "Science Place". The next day, a berry picking contest led about fifty participants to explore the area in search of these little orange treasures called "arpik" (chicoutai).

Group photo: Jeannie Annanack, Christine Barnard, Najat Bhiry, Nancy Etok, Richard Fortier, José Gérin-Lajoie, Élise Rioux-Paquette, Thierry Rodon, Eleonora Townley, Hilda Snowball.

Thierry Rodon was at Calgary University November 21st for a session on Indigenous consultation and engagement in resource development. Thierry Rodon presented two case studies: the Mary River mine (Nunavut) and the Voisey's Bay mine (Nunatsiavut) .

Peter Sköld, director or the Arctic Research Center at Umea University, in Sweden, and president of the ICASS, was at Laval University on February 25th and 26th. During his short stay, he visited the CIÉRA, the CEN and the research chair. It was also the occasion to sign a memorandum on understanding allowing cooperation between Laval University and Umea University. This important agreement will facilitate the organization of common activities and the student mobility. Peter Sköld took also the time to share its research during a conference on Sami history. His presentation is available online

Martin Papillon and André Juneau have just published their new book: Canada the State of the Federation: Aboriginal Multilevel Governance. Thierry Rodon is one of the author of a chapter on Inuit governance: " Multilevel Governance in the Inuit Regions of the Territorial and provincial North". Consult the publisher page to learn more about the book.

The Chair just published a new report on the impacts of mining exploration on the communities of Akulivik and Puvirnituq. The report also create a call to action and ultimately bring the remediation of local abandoned exploration sites. Furthermore, it intends to describe and explain the views of the community of Akulivik with regards to future mineral development in the region.

During the Arctic Circle Annual Assembly,  Thierry Rodon presented the chair' works to the Quebec Prime Minister, Philippe Couillard. The Arctic Circle Annual Assembly took place October 15th to 18th, 2015 in Reykjavik, Iceland, and gathered researchers and politicians  from around the globe to discuss on the future of the Arctic.

Thierry Rodon and Francis Lévesque published an article in The Northern Review . A very interesting article that will allow readers to learn more about the various impacts of mining in the Inuit communities.

Both authors show a historical portrait of the Canadian Arctic mines in the 1957 to 1990 century and discuss the subject of royalties distributed by the mining industry.

The International Symposium on Northern Development, organized in collaboration with Université Laval, is held from February 25 to 27 2015 in Québec, at the Québec City Convention Centre.

For this event, we suggest you to read this adress from Louis-Edmond Hamelin (in french only), an internationally renowned northerner that offers us a refreshing perspective on northern development.

Thierry Rodon co-chaired two sessions on inuit eduction, december 9th, as part of the Arctic Change meetings. The first session, Education in Inuit Nunangat in a Time of Change, allowed for researchers to present their work on education in Inuit Nunangat. Francis Lévesque presented his researches on the history of education in Nunavik. The second session, Inuit Nunangat University: Issues and Prospects, gathered the experts  Paul Quassa, Nunavut minister of education; Mary Simon, chairperson of the National Committee on Inuit Education; Lars Kullerud, president of the Arctic University and Keith Chaulk, director of the Labrador Institute of Memorial University, for a roundtable on Inuit Nunagat University. This session was the subject of an article in Nunatsiaq News.

The Chair organized a workshop, in collaboration with Peter Sköld (Arctic Research Centre at Umeå University) on relation between mines and Aboriginal populations of the Northern Europe and Quebec inUmeå, November 26-27. Thierry Rodon, Stéphanie Benoît, Julie Fortin and Tania Gibériyen presented their research. Adamie Delisle-Alaku, executive V-P. at Makivik Corporation, Andy Baribeau, from the Grand Council of the Crees of Eeyou Istchee, and Chesley Andersen, V-P. of Labrador Affairs at Aurora Energy Resources also did a presentation.Showing on the picture, from left to right: Tania Gibéryen, Adamie Delisle-Alaku, Stéphanie Benoît, Peter Sköld (at the back), Thierry Rodon, Chesley Andersen and his wife and Chris Southcott, Lakehead University.

Gap Analysis:Mining Development in Canada. Aboriginal communities and mining development in northern Canada has just been published by  ReSDA as part of gap analysis projects. You can read the report on the ReSDA website.

Inuit Education Session at the 19th Inuit Conference in Québec City. Naullaq Arnaquq (gouvernement du Nunavut), Louise Flaherty (Nunavut Arctic College), Sheena Kennedy (CarletonU), Francis Lévesque (UQAT), Thierry Rodon (LavalU), Fiona Walton (UPEI) and Kerri Wheatley (UPEI)

The 19th Inuit Studies Conference was held at Laval University from October 29^th to November 1^st, 2014. The event, held under the theme of Qaumaniq : enlightening knowledge attracted more than 250 people from Canada and beyond. The Chair was involved in the organisation of the congress: Thierry Rodon and Francis Lévesque being part of the organization committee and Caroline Boudreault-Fiset taking an active part in the organisation of the event.   

Friday October 31st, Thierry Rodon did a presentation on « Serving Nunavimmiut: Public Policy Autonomy in Nunavik ». On the same day, Thierry Rodon, Mylène Riva and Jonathan Blais presented their findings on the social impacts of the Raglan Mine: « The evidence provided by the Raglan Mine and the two neighbouring Inuit communities of Salluit and Kangiqsujuaq ».  Francis Lévesque also did a presentation on post-secondary education in Nunavut named « Postsecondary Education and Profesional Success for Inuit in Nunavut ». The day before, Tania Gibéryen did a presentation on state and community development.  Finaly, the chair organised a session on the mines in Inuit Nunangat named «Community vs State Based Development: the Innavik Hydro-Project ».

The Northern Housing Forum will be held october 28th 2014 at Laval University. You can register online until october 24. The forum is organized by the Secrétariat aux affaires autochtone, the CEN, ArcticNet, the CIÉRA and the northern sustainable development research chair.  Thierry Rodon is co-president of the organizing comittee with Michel Allard and he will do a presentation with Maxime Thibault.

Thierry Rodon will present a conference entitled Inuit Nunangat’s Economy: Past, Present, and Future at the Arctic Futures Symposium, between October 14^th-15^th, in Brussels, Belgium.

The report co-written by Thierry Rodon on the Role of the Public Sector in Northern Governance as just been published. You can read it here.

The 19th Inuit Studies Conference will be held at Laval University from October 29^th to November 1^st, 2014. the theme of the meeting is Qaumaniq: Enlightening Knowledge.  Thierry Rodon, the chairholder, and Francis Lévesque are part of the organization committee. Follow this link  for more details and to register.  

On October 30^th, Tania Giberyen will do a presentation entitled Community vs State Based Development: the Innavik Hydro-Project.  On October 31^st,Thierry Rodon will do a presentation entitled Serving Nunavimmiut: Public Policy Autonomy in Nunavik; Thierry Rodon, Mylène Riva and François Blais will present The evidence provided by the Raglan Mine and the two neighbouring Inuit communities of Salluit and Kangiqsujuaq and Francis Lévesque will do a presentation on Postsecondary Education and Profesional Success for Inuit in Nunavut. Moreover, the chair will organise a session on the mined in the Inuit Nunangat

Thierry Rodon was a participant of the conference Moving the North South: Understanding the Importance of the Provincial North in Canadian Political Economy held at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. He presented a communication titled "From Nouveau-Québec to Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee: the Political Economy of Northern Québec".

Thierry Rodon presented the research conducted by the Northern Sustainable Development Chair in collaboration with Mylène Riva and Jonathan Blais during Kuujjuaq Mining Workshop 2014. His talk was titled Mining Development and Inuit Communities Well-Being: Evidence from Salluit and Kangiqsujuaq.

The Program can be found here

Thierry Rodon and Francis Lévesque assisted to the social cohesion workshop and training meeting, Understanding Community Change in Qikiqtaaluk, held by the Qikiqtani Inuit Association in Iqaluit, Nunavut, from february 4th to february 6th 2014.

On November 14, Tukitaarvik is launched at NS in Ottawa. Tukitaarvik (www.tukitaarvik.ca) is a website created  to inform, connect and inspire Inuit postsecondary students. Tukitaarvik was created by an ArcticNet research team led by Northern sustainable development Chair Dr. Thierry Rodon, in partnership with ITK, Inuit Qaujisarvingat and Nunavut Sivuniksavut.

Second biannual meeting of the Mining Network will take place on next October 10^th in Iqaluit. The Mining Network, financed by SSHRC from 2013 to 2016, will bring together Nunavik, Nunavut, Nunatsiavut, Eeyou-Ichtee and Université Laval representatives. This second meeting will present projects working on topics linked to the Mining Network and follow up on the first meeting held on May 9^th.

Francis Lévesque and Thierry Rodon are both presenting a communication during the IPSSAS seminar on May 23, 2013. This ten-day seminar is being held annually in a northern or aboriginal community. This year, the seminar is held in Wendake, Essipit and Quebec City.

Francis Lévesque presents a communication titled Revisiting Inuit qaujimajatuqangit: How are Inuit knowledge, culture, language and values reflected in Nunavut institutions?. Thierry Rodon's presentation is titled The Paradoxes of Development in Inuit Nunangat.

Thierry Rodon participated in two events held in Montreal on April 25 and 26. He first presentated a paper called “Les défis humain et le développement durable au Nunavik” during the workshop Vers un développement du Nord viable? organized by the regroupement en toxicologie, chimie et génie environnemental de l’Université du Québec. Information is available here.

He then participated in the “Panel II : Quelle place pour les autochtones? ” during the Le Canada au Conseil de l’Arctique : à la veille de la présidence 2013-2015 seminar organized by the CIRRICQ (Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur les relations internationales du Canada et du Québec). Information is available here.

The Chair is organizing a French-only seminar on mining development on May 8th, 2013 called Développement minier et communautés inuites et cries: comment rendre le développement minier plus durable dans le Nord?  during the 81^econgrès de l’ACFAS held at Université Laval.

The seminar is held in room 1E of De-Koninck building between 8:15am and 4pm.

The program is available here.

Thierry Rodon will be participating the in the Keeping the Promise: The Path Ahead to Full Modern Treaty Implementation conference organized by the Land Claims Agreement Coalition between Feb. 26th and March 1st at Lac Leamy Hilton in Gatineau. He will present a paper titled In Partnership with the State: Assessing the Canadian Co-­management Experience.

Thierry Rodon a présenté deux papiers à la Northern Governance and Economy Conference: Pathway to Prosperity qui se tient à Yellowknife.

The Political Economy of Nunavik

Community vs State-Based Development: The Innavik Hydro-Project, avec Tania Gibéryen et Tommy Palliser

Les présentations ainsi que le résumé de la conférence seront disponibles sur le site de la conférence

Thierry Rodon has presented a communication titled "Toward Sustainable Nunavik Communities: Challenges and Opportunities" during the The Far North: Economic Opportunities, Environmental Challenges and Scientific Exploration IFAT conference IFAT in Munich on May 9th 2012 at the New Munich Trade Fair Centre.

Thierry Rodon, Fiona Walton and Pam Gross presented the results of the project Improving Access to University Education in the Canadian Arctic during the International Polar Year 2012 From Knowledge to Action Conference on Friday, April 27 at the Palais des congrès in Montreal.

Nunatsiaq News published an article about the Nunavik Symposium on the Social Economy. Thierry Rodon presented the results of some of his research at the Symposium where he reminded his audience of the importance of traditional economy on the social well-being of Inuit populations. Rodon pointed to well-established Inuit-run businesses such as Pangnirtung Fisheries Ltd. and Nunavik Creations, the Makivik Corp. subsidiary that employs Nunavimmiut seamstresses to produce traditional clothing and outerwear.

Kuujjuaq conference highlights importance of traditional economy.