Announcing the full list of Guest Speakers for the live symposium

We are very pleased to share the full list of guest speakers for the live symposium Return to Nature? The Transformation of a Post-Coal Mining Landscape.

Joining us on Friday 16th September we will hear presentations by:

• *Programme update* Due to unforeseen circumstances Dag Avango is unable to join us for todays symposium.

• Thomas Juel Clemmensen, Professor of Landscape Architecture at UiT The Arctic University of Norway and Head of the landscape architecture programme at the Academy of Arts in Tromsø.

• New Mineral Collective (Tanya Busse and Emilija Škarnulytė) is a platform that looks at contemporary landscape politics to better understand the nature and extent of human interaction with the earth's surface.

• Maria Jensen, Associate Professor in Arctic Geology at The University Centre in Svalbard and Head of the Arctic Geology Department.

• LPO Architects’ Ingvild Sæbu Vatn, from Oslo, Norway, studied architecture at Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim and has lived in Svalbard permanently since 2011. And Lilli Wickström, from Oulu, Finland. Wickström studied at Royal Danish Academy - Architecture, Design, Conservation in Copenhagen with a master's degree in architecture in extreme environments with a focus on social sustainability, sustainable development and technological solutions.

• Kjerstin Uhre, Associate Professor in Landscape Architecture at UiT The Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø and partner at Dahl & Uhre Architects, who have received awards for their urban and built projects.

• Anatolijs Venovcevs, PhD candidate in the Institute for Archaeology, History, Religious Studies, and Theology at the UiT The Arctic University of Norway as part of the project Unruly Heritage: An Archaeology of the Anthropocene.

The symposium will take place at The Arctic University of Norway, Academy of Arts in Tromsø on 16th September 2022. To find out more about this exciting project, the invited guest speakers, essay commissions and how to book for the free live event, see here.