Arctic lectures in the Czech language

Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem (UJEP)

Opening speech by Dean Pavel Kuráň, Faculty of Environment, UJEP

Mgr. Miloslav Kolenatý, Vice-Dean, Faculty of Environment, UJEP University,  (miloslav.kolenaty@ujep.cz): Universities and Scientists in the Time of Climate CrisisIng. Richard Pokorný, Ph.D., Head of the Department of Environment, Faculty of Environment, and Head of Julius von Payer Institute for Arctic and Subarctic Research, UJEP (Richard.Pokorny@ujep.cz):
Wandering the Faroe Islands

Prof. Ing. Josef Elster, CSc., Centre for Polar Ecology, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice (Josef.Elster@ibot.cas.cz):
Czech Arctic scientific infrastructure – Josef Svoboda Station in Svalbard

Mgr. Ing. Jiří Lehejček, Ph.D., Department of Environment, UJEP (jirilehejcek@gmail.com): Arctic tree-rings as storytellers of the past

Jiří Moravec, Ph.D., Faculty of Environment, UJEP (jiri.moravec@ujep.cz, j.morawetz@seznam.cz): The Arctic: tourism, mining and military interests – Nature conservation under economic and political pressures

Mgr. Michal Kovář, Ph.D., Institute of Germanic Studies, Charles University, Prague (demeczi@gmail.com): Václav Marek on the origin of the Sámi people

PhDr. Ing. Zdeněk Lyčka, Cultural Coordinator, MFA, Prague (zdenek_lycka@mzv.cz): 100th anniversary of the winter crossing of the Baikal Lake by Czechoslovak legionaries