The first Arctic Horizons workshop will be February 7-9, and will be hosted by the Department of Anthropology at Portland State University.  Although all five workshops will be addressing the same major questions (https://arctichorizons.org/workshops ), the  unifying theme of the Portland workshop will be Arctic Social Sciences in the 21st Century: Integrating Past, Present, and Future Human Ecodynamics in Arctic Social Science Research.

 

This stems from the fact that the members of our team are all archaeologists, and we all take the approach that looking back through time can help us to look forward.

About 50% of the attendees at the Portland workshop are archaeologists.  However, the balance of the attendees represents a wide range of disciplines, including economics, geology, sociocultural anthropology, linguistics, etc. (click here for full list of attendees).

 

The structure of the workshop will consist of a mix of keynote addresses and break-out discussion groups (link to draft agenda here).  For the discussion groups, we will split the overall group into six groups of six members each.  All of the groups will be addressing each of the major questions in each of several sessions, first within their group, and then reporting major conclusions to the broader group.  The results of these discussions will form the backbone for the PSU final report, and will also feed into the overall final synthesis report.