Lecture by Tamara Semenova is the first in the quest lecture series to present and discuss topical issues in environmental politics in the Arctic.
The lecture will be given on Monday, December 8th, 2008, at 10 am by senior researcher Tamara Semenova from Research Institute for Cultural and Natural Heritage, Moscow, Russia. The lecture is open to anyone interested.
The title of her presentation is Russian Indigenous Peoples of the North as Political Actors.
Tamara Semenova is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Cultural and Natural Heritage under Russian Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Culture. She is a Ph.D.Student at Helsinki University, Political Science, Major in International Relations.
A selection of Semenova’s research activities include:
- participation as a senior researcher in the British-Russian project on "Cultural landscape as a heritage feature: comparative analysis"
- an international research project on "Indigenous peoples as international actors",
- participant in the Council of Europe formal meetings in Russia and CIS (on spatial development and heritage conservation),
- serving as a member of Global Environmental Facility in Russia - " Persistent Toxic Substances, Food Safety and Indigenous Peoples of the North in Russia", and
- serving as an expert in the Review Committee of the Environmental Impact Assessment of the State Committee of the Environmental Protection.
The lecture will be held in Aurora room, in the Arktikum, 1st floor.
Welcome!
More information: research professor Monica Tennberg, Arctic centre, University of Lapland, forename.surname@ulapland.fi