Moderated by Dr Sarah Tuck.
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 Acosta in collaboration with Sámi journalist Liz-Marie Nilsen and Sámi Associate Profesor in Environmental History Dr May-Britt Öhman, share their ongoing research Indigenous perspectives on forest fires, drought and climate change: Sápmi funded by FORMAS and is based at Uppsala University, Centre for Multidisciplinary Studies on Racism (CEMFOR). The seminar considers how proposed climate change solutions have intensified disruption and dispossession in Sábme and 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.
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.