Programme

08.30-09.00

09.00-09.20

Registration

Opening of the conference

Opening words by:

• Irja Seurujärvi-Kari (Associated Researcher, University of Helsinki)
• Alexey Tsykarev (United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, EMRIP)
• Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen (Indigenous Studies Director, University of Helsinki)
• Laura Siragusa (Indigenous Studies, Kone Foundation Fellow, University of Helsinki)

Keynote speech by (Sámi University of Applied Sciences, Norway):

The concept duodji, as everyday activity and action in art

Panel 1: Indigenous Languages and The Environment

Chairs: Laura Siragusa and Olesya Khanina (University of Helsinki, Finland)

Speakers:

(University of Helsinki, Finland):

Having white people around: research environments and Australian endangered language contexts

(University of Helsinki, Finland):

Multispecies shared experiences in language of horsemen in the Tyva Republic, Inner Asia

(Khabarovsk Regional Institute for Educational Development, Russian Federation)

and (University of Helsinki, Finland):

Observations on the Indigenous toponymy at the Amur-Sakhalin intersection

Panel 2: Morphology of Indigenous Art and Craftwork

Chair: Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen (University of Helsinki, Finland)

Speakers:

(University of Auckland, New Zealand):

Radical flower power in Aotearoa, New Zealand. Making art and doing gardens on the berm in a rural community.

(University of Helsinki and The Sámi Museum in Karasjok, Norway):

How duodji and art can support Sámi languages: the exhibition 'Skilful hands' at the Sámi museum in Karasjok as a showcase

(Sámi artist, Sweden):

To give my own perspective

Panel 3: Indigenous Literature

Chairs: Irja Seurujärvi-Kari and Hanna Guttorm (University of Helsinki, Finland)

Speakers:

(Sámi Allaskuvla and UiT The Arctic University of Norway):

Sámi literature as a medium for Sámi values and worldview

(Sámi author, Norway):

Sániid gielan čábbát gielain - I gracefully catch the words with my language

(Munduruku author, Brazil):

Indigenous literature and the fine line between writing and orality

Panel 4: Revival of Indigenous Languages

Chair: Rani-Henrik Andersson (University of Helsinki, Finland)

Speakers:

(Api Fakakoloa Educational Services, Auckland, New Zealand and

Tonga Institute of Education, Kingdom of Tonga) and (Api Fakakoloa Educational Services):

Fonua Koloa’ia: To be in abundance and active in the Kingdom of Tonga - the art of language revitalisation

(Executive Vice President at Red Cloud Indian School, Pine Ridge, South Dakota, USA):

Lakota language revitalization at the Red Cloud Indian School, Pine Ridge

(EMRIP):

The role of community-based language activism in revitalisation of indigenous Finno-Ugric languages

Keynote speech by (University of Texas at Austin, USA):

Learning to be satisfied: Navajo poetics, a chattering chipmunk, and anthropology on an intimate scale