The Pomor-project closing conference program

 

 

PROFESSIONALIZATION OF SOCIAL WORK

 

SAME CONCEPTS IN DIFFERENT CONTEXTS?

 

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Tuesday 26th June

18.00 – 19.30             Registration at Radisson SAS Hotel, Storgaten 2, 8006 Bodoe

                                   Special interest group meeting

                                   Meeting room will be available

 

20.00                          Reception at Bodoe City Hall

                                  

  

Wednesday 27th June

Chair persons: Lisbet Lund, Larissa Malik

 

09.00                          Bus departure for Bodoe Regional University

                                   Registration at Bodoe Regional University, main entrance A.

 

10.00 – 11.30              Opening session

                                    Official greetings

Cultural performance

 

Introducing abstract-collection and chairpersons

A: Rehabilitation: Sveinung Horverak, Elena Golubeva

B: Criminal and drug: Ståle Sårheim, Ludmilla Neuman

C: Violence against women*: Siv Oltedal, Raissa Danilova

D: Social Policy: Gunn Strand Hutchinson, Elena Koudriashova

E: Social Work Education: Asgeir Solstad, Larissa Malik

           

*This workshop is organised in co-operation with the NCRB – a network for crisis centres in the Russian/Barents Region Project, by

Dr. Aino Saarinen, Department of Education, University of Oulu, Finland 

coffee-break

 

12.00 – 12.45              Professional Social Work in a postmodern future: challenges and possibilities

Dr. philos Rolv Lyngstad, Bodoe Regional University, Norway

13.00 – 13.45              Social Policy and Professional Social Work in Russia    

Professor Elena Iarskaia- Smirnova, Saratov University, Russia

                                   
                                    lunch

 

15.00 – 18.00             5 parallel workshops

                                   separate program for workshops

some workshops will have excursions

18.15                                                     Bus departure for Radisson SAS Hotel/Norroena Hotel

20.00                          Dinner at Radisson SAS Hotel

 

 

Thursday 28th June

Chairpersons: Asgeir Solstad, Raissa Danilova

09.00                          Bus Departure for Bodoe Regional University

09.45 – 10.30             Empowerment Theory and Social Work Practice

Associate Professor Pamela Brown, Chico State University

California, U.S.A.

                                 

                                   coffee-break

 

11.00 – 11.45              Towards a gendered and anti-racist professionalism

Associate Professor Wendy Weeks,

University of Melbourne, Australia  

12.00 – 14.30             sight-seeing

                                   lunch

 14.30 – 17.30             parallel workshops

 17.45                                                     Bus departure for Radisson SAS Hotel/Norroena Hotel

 19.45                                                     Bus departure for Bodoe Regional University

 20.00                          Official Dinner at Bodø Regional University

 00.00                          Bus departure for Radisson SAS Hotel/Norroena Hotel

 

 

Friday 29th June

Chair persons: Lisbet Lund, Marina Kalinina

09.00                          Bus Departure for Bodoe Regional University

09.30 – 09.45             Practical information

09.45 – 10.30              Conceptualizing social work: the development of a profession - where next?

Director of Social Work Studies Steven Shardlow, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

                                  

                                   coffee-break

                                  

11.00 – 13.00             parallel workshops

                              

lunch

 

14.30 – 16.30             parallel workshops

17.00 – 18.30             closing session

18.45                                                     Bus departure for Radisson SAS Hotel/Norroena Hotel

 20.00                          Dinner

 

 

 

 

LOFOTEN ISLANDS:

 

Saturday 30th June

Early morning: departure from Bodoe to Lofoten Islands, Moskenes

Accommodation at  ”Å vandrerhjem og rorbuer”.

Sightseeing by bus and by foot, fishing, mid-night sun walk etc.

Special interest groups meeting.

 

Sunday 1th July

Breakfast and departure from Moskenes. Arrival Bodoe in the middle of the day.

 

Departure from Bodoe Airport in the afternoon.

For the Russian group: departure by bus for St.Petersburg.

 

 

Conference information

 

Localisation

The conference will be localised at Bodoe Regional University.

There will be organised bus transport according to the programme. Please be aware of the hours for departure to and from Radisson SAS Hotel and Bodoe Regional University.

 

Languages

The conference languages are English and Russian. The opening and closing sessions as well as the plenary speeches, will be simultaneously interpretated.

In the parallel workshops, there will be oral interpretation.

 

Accommodation and registration

Participants will be accommodated at Radisson SAS Hotel or Norroena Hotel. The Hotels are situated close to each other, both in the city centre. The first registration hour will be on Tuesday 26th June 18.00 – 19.30 at Radisson SAS Hotel. The next registration hour will be on Wednesday 27th June 09.30 – 10.00 at Bodoe Regional University.

 

Conference documents

By registration you will get a book of abstracts containing work submitted for the Pomor-project conference. You will also get a collection of articles containing work in the field of social work submitted for the Pomor-project. In addition you will get Final Conference Programme and separate programme for workshops. The documents will be available in both languages, English and Russian. 

 

Currency

The Norwegian krone (NOK) is the national currency. At present time 1 USD = 9 NOK.

Automatic teller machines and exchange offices are readily available. Hotels, restaurants and shops accept major credit cards.

 

Communication

Public telephones are easy to locate and calling cards may be used. Fax, internet and message services are readily available at Bodoe Regional University or at Radisson SAS Hotel.

 

Payment

All payments for conference packages should be paid in advance to

Via Flyspesialisten by/Ronny Bolle

Address: Storgata 4 a, 8006 Bodoe

phone: +47 75 54 17 84

fax: +47 75 54 17 17

e.mail: ronny.bolle@flyspesialisten.no

 

Programme Committee

Norwegian members

Assistant Professor/project leader  Lisbet Lund, Bodoe Regional University

e-mail: lisbet.lund@hibo.no

Assistant Professor Asgeir solstad, Bodoe Regional University

e-mail: asgeir.solstad@hibo.no

 

Russian members:

Director/project co-ordinator Marina Kalinina, Norwegian-Pomor University centre, Arkhangelsk. e-mail: marina@pomorsu.ru

Dean Larissa Malik, Pomor State University, Arkhangelsk. e-mail: f.social@pomorsu.ru

Professor Raissa Danilova, Pomor State University, Arkhangelsk.

e-mail: f.social@pomorsu.ru