26 March 2025 | 10:30 - 12:00 (MDT)
Open Session - HYBRID
Room: UMC Third Floor - 382
Organisers: Nicholas Parlato (Next Generation Science Diplomat Committee); Zia Madani (Next Generation Science Diplomat Committee); Susana Hancock (Next Generation Science Diplomats Committee)
Session Description:
This panel dialogue with next-generation science diplomats will explore transdisciplinary possibilities of the 5th International Polar Year (IPY) 2032-2033 and outline a research agenda based in Haudenosaunee-inspired seven-generation thinking. By IPY-5, another generation of researchers will have developed their expertise to confront major challenges in the Polar regions. This panel session will provide an opportunity to empower early-career researchers to speak about their shared future and to establish common interests with research in science, governance and humanities. This panel dialogue will give voice to an intersectional group of younger stakeholders, rightsholders, and knowledge holders whose input into geopolitical and scientific processes has been limited, but is nonetheless essential to achieve needed breakthroughs for social-environmental well-being with sustainability. This session will serve as a “crucial milestone” to inspire and prepare early-career researchers to participate actively in Arctic research planning for the next decade and beyond. Panelists and participants will reflect on the following questions:
- How can early-career researchers contribute to building transdisciplinary IPY-5 projects and programs that integrate natural sciences, social sciences, Indigenous knowledge, and the arts?
- What values, principles, and methodologies do early-career researchers believe are necessary to achieve personal and societal goals in the area of international polar science?
- What lessons can be learned from past decades of international polar scientific cooperation, including IPY-3 and IPY-4 in view of convergent research with IPY-5?
This session is proposed by the Next-Generation Science Diplomat Committee established with the University of the Arctic (UArctic) Thematic Network on Science Diplomacy.