Past events

Indigenous studies

2025

Conference: The Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America (SALSA) Biennial Conference 2025 XIV, August 4-6, Helsinki, Finland 

2024

Julkaisutilaisuus: Saamelaisia koskevan tutkimuksen eettiset ohjeet Suomessa, 30 May, Online, Finland

Panel: Indigenous Knowledge in the Time of Polycrisis, 23 May, Think Corner, Helsinki

2023

Film screening: Geoglyphs in Southwestern Amazonia, December 11, Helsinki

Seminar: Indigenous Futures Imagined: Amazon and Arctic discussions, May 3, Barcelona, Spain

Panel: Sustainability and Language diversity, Sustainability Science Days 2023, May 24, Helsinki

Conference: Language technology in the Amazonian/Uralic context, September 23-Oct 3, Belém, Brazil

Panel: In their own words, January 25, Enschede, Netherlands.

2022

Panel discussion: Decolonising the Anthropocene: Indigenous and language-oriented perspectives, April 28, Helsinki, Finland

CEISAL X Conference, June 15-12, Helsinki, Finland, organising committee

Seminar: Animacy of Plants and Indigenous Biodiversity Conservation Symposium, December 14, Helsinki, Finland

2021

Panel discussion: Indigenous Methodologies for Game Design and Development, in Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) Virtual Conference 2021. May 22.

Seminar: Women to Women: Practices of Indigenous Communality-construction in Mexico, Sápmi, and Finland, October 5, Finland

Miela sorjjasmeahttunvuohta/Mental Independence, August 26, Helsinki, with Uniarts.

Book launch: Indigenous Research Methodologies in Sámi and Global Contexts, May 20, Helsinki, Finland

2020

Panel discussion: Climate Emergency and Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic March 12, University of Helsinki

Seminar: Sámi Dutkansearvvi in Umea, October 20, Umea, Sweden

Seminar: Ihmisen pitkän ajan vaikutus ja ympäristömuutokset Amazonialla, December 3, University of Helsinki

Kollegium Talks, March 12, Tiedekulma, Helsinki

2019

Indigenous Studies Writing Retreat, September 2019, Kilpisjärvi, Finland

Side Event "Pro­duc­tion and Trans­mis­sion of Tra­di­tional Know­ledge in Indigenous Un­der­stand­ing" at 18th UN­PFII April 25, United Na­tions Headquar­ters, NYC, USA

The Arts for Justice, Indigenous Co­ali­tion Build­ing and Artistic Prac­tices, April 15, University of Helsinki

Indigenous Stud­ies Vis­it­ing Sem­inar: Mak­ing of En­cyc­lo­paedic At­las of Apur­inã language, oral his­tory, and culture. Prof. Sidney Facundes, Federal University of Pará, Brazil, April 1, University of Helsinki

Sámi álbmotbeaivi / Sámi National Day. February 6, University of Helsinki.

Guest lecture by Prof. Andrew Wiget (Moscow State University): The Khanty of Siberia and Circumpolar Bear Ceremonialism, January 18, University of Helsinki.
 

2018

Closing symposium of the network Indigenous Research Methods in Academia: Re-searching Indigenous Methodologies and Engaging Communities (November 20-21), Sajos, Inari. Program

Bridging Cultural Concepts of Nature: A transnational Symposium on Indigenous Places and Protected Spaces of Nature (September 20-21), University of Helsinki.

Public Lecture by Dr. Chiara Minestrelli (University of the Arts London): It’s the “Abodigital”: Technological Approaches and Transnational Frameworks in the Struggle for Indigenous Rights in Australia (September 13), University of Helsinki.

Panel discussion: Arctic Railway Plans Between Finland and Norway and Indigenous Peoples’ Rights (September 6), University of Helsinki.

Seminar: The Materiality of Indigenous Languages: Co-Creating Landscapes (June 5-6), University of Helsinki.

Panel discussion: The Women of Standing Rock (May 23), University of Helsinki.

Future-symposium: On Thinking, Crafting and Claiming the Future(s) (February 12–13), University of Helsinki.

Sámi álbmotbeaivi / Sámi National Day (February 6), University of Helsinki.

Guest lecture by Czech photographer Stanislav Krupař: Shamans of Siberia. A Long-Term Documentary Project in the Tyva Republic, Russia (February 1), University of Helsinki.

2017

International Conference on the Indigenous Peoples’ Rights to Their Cultural Heritage (November 16–17), University of Helsinki.

Indigeneity in the Arctic: Local and Global Experiences (January 19-20), University of Helsinki.

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