Lunch Lecture: Alpine meets Nordic – situated and travelling avalanche expertise in and between Switzerland and the Westfjords
During the lecture on May 30th, Anna Rudloff will take us on a journey alongside travelling knowledge relating to management of avalanche and landslide risks in and between the Westfjords and Switzerland.
Anna is a PhD student in human geography at the University of Freiburg (Germany) and currently a visiting researcher at UW. In her PhD project on knowledge dynamics in disaster risk management, Anna investigates the meaning of spatial imagination in interrelations between knowledge, society and materiality in Switzerland. allows her to delve more into international dimensions of knowledge production and application. Here, she is mainly focusing on practices and discourses in the avalanche risk management and research as well as on international collaboration in these fields – not the least between Iceland and Switzerland.
In her talk, Anna will share preliminary findings from her empirical work in Switzerland and Iceland and reflect on the social and political notions of spatial imaginations in avalanche and landslide risk management. In particular, she will discuss how imaginations around places and spaces – such as ‘mountains’, ‘remote areas’, ‘Nordics’ or specific ‘local communities’ – are reflected, reinforced, and changed in practical contexts of knowledge creation and application on local, national and international scale.
The presentation will take place in the cafeteria at the University Centre of the Westfjords and will start at 12:10. The presentation will also be streamed via a Zoom link, which can be found here: https://eu01web.zoom.us/j/69947471079
The lunch lecture will be held in english