Warmly welcome to an Open Event with Josefina Skerk, the Vice President of the Sami Parliament in Sweden!
Ignored History: The Sami Perspective
When: Thursday, September 29th 17:15-19:30
Where: Betty Pettersson Eva Netzelius Room, Blåsenhus, von Kraemers Allé 1A, Uppsala
(Note: The room has been changed due to a large interest in the event. Eva Netzelius room is the lecture hall downstairs from the main entrance foyer of Blåsenhus building)
Is Sweden a leader of sustainable development in the world?
What are some current challenges faced in Northern Sweden?
Come join this lecture to explore these question from a Sami perspective, indigenous people in Scandinavia.
Josefina Skerk is the Vice President of the Saami Parliament in Sweden, Polar explorer and law student. Democratic socialist, queer feminist.
She is 29 years old and lives in village of about 50 people on the coast of northern Sweden. She is a member of the sami community, the northernmost Indigenous Peoples in Europe. Studying law at Umeå University, she has been active in sami politics since she was 19, and is the vice leader of the Jakt-och Fiskesamerna party, which represents the hunting and fishing sami. This is the largest party in the sami parliament in sweden. She is working on land and water protection, the right of indigenous children to their language and all children to a good school with the possibility to eliminate differences due to class. She was also the first person in the sami parliament to raise the issue of LGBTQ-persons rights and make sure that the sami parliament officially joined the pride parade 2011.
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Read an article by her here