Polaris Middle Term Conference

“Cultural and Natural Heritage in Arctic and Sub-Antarctic Regions for a CrossCultural and Sustainable Valorisation Process and Tourism Development: Siberia, Lapland and Patagonia”

FP7-Marie Curie Actions-People-International Research Staff Exchange Scheme, project no. 318974

International mid-term conference

Friday, May 22, 2015

OVSQ, bâtiment de recherche, room 2202

Program

10.30: Welcome and introduction by Jan Borm (UVSQ), project manager

10.45: Dr Alina Nakhodkina (North-Eastern Federal University at Yakutsk): Promotion and preservation of cultural heritage: translating the Olonkho into English

11.30: Sergei Vasiliev (Research Institute of Olonkho, Yakutsk): Documenting cultural practices on the Olonkho website

14.30: Didier Ramousse (UVSQ): Comparative approaches to tourism clusters: Patagonia (Argentina), Finnish Lapland, Yakutia (Russian Federation)

15.30: Alejandro Schweitzer (Southern Patagonia National University): Indicators and plan for comparative analyses of tourism clusters

16.15: Sébastien Gadal (Aix-Marseille University): The use of GIS data for the development of regional tourism observatories in Siberia

17-17.30: discussion and summary of results

Participants

Jan Borm (UVSQ), Mateo Cordier (UVSQ), Stephan Dudeck (ULAP), Claudia Fedorova (NEFU), Sébastien Gadal (Aix-Marseille), Jean-Michel Huctin (UVSQ), Alexandra Lavrillier (UVSQ), Alina Nakhodkina (NEFU), Didier Ramousse (UVSQ), Alejandro Schweitzer (UNPA), Sergei Vasiliev (NEFU), Magali Vullierme (UVSQ)