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Voices from COP21: Changing Climate and the Health of the Arctic

A Public Conversation with Indigenous Leaders Okalik Eegeesiak, chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council International, and Sheila Watt-Cloutier, author of The Right to be Cold.

Tuesday, January 12, 2016
4:30pm – 6:00pm
Dartmouth 105
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Conferences, Lectures & Seminars

Voices from COP21: Changing Climate and the Health of the Arctic

A Public Conversation with Indigenous Leaders Okalik Eegeesiak and Sheila Watt-Cloutier

Facilitated by Ross Virginia, Director of the Institute of Arctic Studies and Myers Family Professor of Environmental Science

Okalik Eegeesiak is Chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council International and Sheila Watt-Cloutier is an Inuit leader and author of The Right to Be Cold (2015). View photos of Sheila Watt-Cloutier's past visit to Dartmouth in 2010. 

Sponsored by the Institute of Arctic Studies at the Dickey Center for International Understanding and the Institute for Circumpolar Health Research, Canada. Part of a two-day closed seminar on Arctic Health issues attended by academic, governmental, indigenous and youth leaders and experts from the circumpolar north.

For more information, contact:
Sharon Tribou-St. Martin
sharon.m.tribou-st.martin@dartmouth.edu
646-1278
Permanent URL to this event: https://dickey.dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=37550

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