Past Activities

  • Invited article in the Ocean Newsletter, published by the Ocean Policy Research Institute in Japan
  • Seminar report: Asia and the Arctic: Encounters and Entanglements, 4 July 2025
    • The UArctic Thematic Network on Asia in the Arctic, and Arctic in Asia, the Hokkaido University Arctic Research Center, the Arctic Challenge for Sustainability (ArCS) III – Arctic Governance Research Group, and the Asia Arctic Network for Research and Education, co-organized a hybrid seminar titled “Asia and the Arctic: Encounters and Entanglements” in Sapporo on 4 July 2025. Read more here.
  • Publication: Juha Saunavaara, Marina Lomaeva, Hiroki Takakura, and Fujio Ohnishi. (2025). Japan’s Engagement with the Arctic after Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine, In M. Dervovic, L. Ulatowski, S. Kirchner (Eds.), Arctic Policies of Non-Arctic States. Brill, 2025, 101–125. (https://brill.com/edcollbook/title/72555)
  • Planning and creation of a multi-disciplinary PhD Summer School, 2021.
  • Publication of a collection of articles on Regional Development in the Arctic in Asia and Asia in the Arctic in a peer-reviewed journal or an anthology in a NSD-ranked publishing house. 2021.
  • A Seminar on The Arctic in Asia and Asian in the Arctic: China in Focus with the Barentsspektakel Festival on “Chinatown”, 13 February 2019
  • Application for funding to establish an UArctic Thematic Network on The Arctic in Asia and Asian in the Arctic, April 2019
  • Application to the UArctic to establish an UArctic Thematic Network on The Arctic in Asia and Asian in the Arctic, April 2019
  • Presented the application to to establish a Thematic Network on The Arctic in Asia and Asian in the Arctic to the UArctic 2019 meeting, September 2019
  • Organised an international conference on The Arctic in Asia and Asia in the Arctic: Opportunities and Challenges, in Kirkenes, 2-3 October 2019.
  • Planning meeting towards the creation of a PhD course on The Arctic in Asia and Asia in the Arctic with partners from the Republic of Korea, Japan, Finland, and Norway.
  • International Water Association (IWA) – Asia Pacific Regional Group (ASPIRE) Conference, Hong Kong. Espiritu presented a coference paper entitled “Negotiating water as a resource: the benefit-sharing dynamics of managing hydropower in a triborder region in the European Arctic.”, 31 Oct – 2 Nov 2019

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