President of International Arctic Social Sciences Association (IASSA), Professor Gail Fondahl is visiting Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland in Rovaniemi next week. She will give a visitor lecture with the title “Reflections on a Visit to the ‘Tree of Memory’: Evenki land rights, territoriality and resource development in Siberia“.
Professor Fondahl was among the few researchers to study land rights in Siberia and Northern Canada in the turbulent 1980s and all the way to the present. She is Professor of Geography at the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC), and currently Vice-President of Research of the university. Her interests are in the legal geographies of aboriginal land rights and land claims in the Russian North, and indigenous co-management regimes in Northern Canada. Professor Gail Fondahl has been a member of IASSA since 1992.
Her lecture is held as part of a lecture series organized by the Arctic Centre’s anthropology research team, in cooperation with the Arctic doctoral programme ARKTIS, on Tuesday November 13, from 10 am to 12 (noon) in Borealis lecture room, Arktikum building, 2nd floor (street address: Pohjoisranta 4, Rovaniemi).
The next lecture in the same series is held by the former rector of the European University of St Petersburg, Professor Nikolay Vakhtin on Monday November 26 at 2 pm in the same room. Professor Vakhtin will talk about “Arctic Studies: Soviet, Western, and Russian Approaches to Cooperation with Indigenous Partners”.
More information on the lecture series by the Arctic doctoral programme ARKTIS and the anthropology research team is available at
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Arctic anthropology blog.
More information:
Senior researcher Florian Stammler, tel. + 358 400 138 807, florian.stammler (at) ulapland.fi
Researcher Anna Stammler-Gossmann, tel. +358 400 882 065, anna.stammler-gossmann (at) ulapland.fi