Welcome to a seminar with Doctoral student Lena Leimgruber Haraldsson! Following the Arctic Connect meeting by the Arctic Centre, Lena will share her experiences and reflections on the doctoral course "Arctic Future Pathfinders, which allowed her to visit true Arctic people and environments in Canada and Alaska.
In this talk, I reflect on my experiences during the course Arctic Future Pathfinders, organised by UiT- The Arctic University of Norway, which took me to the Canadian High North and Alaska in September 2025. Combining travel narrative, photographs and personal reflection, the talk offers an overview of the course and its shifting itinerary, as well as what it meant to move through different Arctic spaces on the ground.
Beyond the formal course activities, I will share experiences of spending time in a Canadian Indigenous community, engaging with elders and navigating the ethical and emotional dimensions of being a visitor, researcher and listener in the Arctic.
While the lecture is informed by my PhD project in the environmental humanities, it is not a traditional academic presentation. Instead, it is a story-driven account of place, encounter and learning to explore how lived experience, research and Arctic futures intersect.
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Room "Mustang Sally" in A Working Lab. See map
Lena is a Doctoral student in in English literature at the Department of Language Studies, and connected to the Arctic Graduate School at Umeå University. Her research focuses on speculative fiction, postcolonial literature and ecocriticism, with a focus on the Arctic.
