On Thin Ice: Stories of Trust (and Mistrust) in Arctic Research and Policy

Name: On Thin Ice: Stories of Trust (and Mistrust) in Arctic Research and Policy
Start: 2025-10-08T13:00:00-0400
End: 2025-10-08T14:00:00-0400

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Date: Wed, Oct 8, 2025 Time: 01:00pm - 02:00pm Location: Harvard School of Public Health

Moderator
Sappho Gilbert

Speaker
Juho Kähkönen

Speaker
Kenzo Kimura

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Speaker
Hans Peder Kirkegaard

Moderated by Sappho Gilbert, postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard Chan School and research fellow at the Arctic Initiative, this panel will explore the role of trust in research and policy with Arctic communities, focusing on how it is built, sustained, and at times lost and rebuilt. Drawing on examples from knowledge co-production and community engagement, governance, health care, food systems, and infrastructure, panelists will detail the risks of broken trust and the potential of lockstep, community-centered partnerships. Panelists include Harvard Chan student and Rose Service Learning Fellow, Kenzo Kimura and Fulbright Scholars at the Arctic Initiative, Alexandra Middleton, Hans Peder Kirkegaard and Juho Kähkönen.

Q&A to follow. Lunch will be provided.

Location: 651 Huntington Ave, François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights, Room G13