Seminar
Indigenous perspectives: Sápmi
Valand Academy, Sweden
Moderated by Dr Sarah Tuck, head of the Craft and Fine Art Unit at HDK-Valand.
19.04.2022
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The seminar addressed issues arising from the current research project Indigenous perspectives on forest fires, drought and climate change: Sápmi.
Led by artist and researcher Dr. Ignacio Acost i in collaboration with Sámi journalist Liz-Marie Nilsen and Sámi Associate Profesor in Environmental History Dr May-Britt Öhman, the seminar will consider how proposed climate change solutions have intensified disruption and dispossession of Sámi land.
The seminar explored how an artistic research project developed collaboratively with Sámi communities can be used to document, analyse, discuss and provide a basis for promoting indigenous knowledges to the nation-state and climate change debate.
The research is funded by FORMAS and is based at Uppsala University, Centre for Multidisciplinary Studies on Racism (CEMFOR).
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HDK-Valand aims to create an environment where everyone has good knowledge of equal treatment issues and where we talk about and improve the environment together. For several years, we have had a seminar to welcome new and old students and staff at the start of the semester in September and another during the spring semester, as a follow-up.
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