Guest Lecture on Arctic Indigenous Peoples

12.5.2009 14:30
The guest lecture by the Arktis Graduate School introduces the cultures and current state of some arctic indigenous peoples. The lecture takes place on Tuesday, the 19th of May.

Lecture includes:

Exploring traditional hunting rituals and cultural language of the Deh Cho Dene in Northern Canada
Dr. Carol Brown-Leonardi, Centre for Citizenship, Identity and Governance, Open University, UK

The Kola Saami: recent issues
Dr. Paul Fryer, Senior Assistant Professor,
Department of Geography, University of Joensuu

The lecture takes place on Tuesday, the 19th of May at 2 pm to 4 pm at the lecture hall 6 at the University of Lapland’s main building (address: Yliopistonkatu 8, Rovaniemi). Welcome!

Dr. Carol Brown-Leonardi is a social anthropologist and social science lecturer at the Open University in Cambridge, England. Her research focuses on land claims and political discourse amongst indigenous people in the circumpolar and Arctic regions. She has been working in the arctic regions for fourteen years. During this time she has lived and worked also in Finland for three years. She has also lived and worked in the Deh Cho region in Canada, where she was involved in ethnographic fieldwork as part of a PhD. Her presentation will examine Deh Cho Dene cultural practices. Particular focus will be on the interpretation of the delivery of words and their meanings in the transference of knowledge through oral narrative.    

Paul Fryer completed his PhD at the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, on the Komi ethno-political movement. Since 2000 he has been a lecturer and researcher at the University of Joensuu focussing on North-West Russia and the Volga-Urals region, specifically on socio-political transition amongst the non-Russian peoples. Since 2006, Fryer has been conducting research in a Finnish Academy supported project entitled Coping with transition: rural indigenous communities in the Russian North (A case study from Kola Peninsula, Murmansk Oblast).

More information:
Coordinator Päivi Soppela, tel. +358 400 138 805
Information and Congress Secretary Raija Kivilahti, tel. +358 40 568 4890, raija.kivilahti(at)ulapland.fi
www.arcticcentre.org/arktis

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