Jan 20: Open lecture “Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainability” with Åsa Larsson Blind

Warmly welcome to CEMUS spring semester start-up open lecture “Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainability” with Åsa Larsson Blind, council member of the Saami Council!

When: January 20 at 15.15-17.00

Where: Hamberg Lecture Hall, Geocentrum, Villavägen 16, see map here: https://link.mazemap.com/vyZ4YHy1

How: For all CEMUS spring semester students and open to the public, no registration needed

Sámediggi Sametinget, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Åsa Larsson Blind is a council member of the Saami Council. In addition she works as the project manager for the project “ReCap ASáp – Regaining Capacity in a Changing Sápmi”. She has been a member of the Saami Council since 2008 and was elected President in the period 2017-2019. She was, as the first female, elected chair of the National Sámi Association in Sweden 2019-2021. Larsson Blind was 2011-2015 the Saami Council board member of IPS, Indigenous Peoples Secretariat, and served also in that period as the HoD for Saami Council at Arctic Council SAO meetings. Larsson Blind is born and raised in a reindeer herding family and holds a Master’s Degree in Human Resources Management and Development from the University of Umeå. Larsson Blind has been active in several Sámi organizations in Sweden. She has been a board member of the National Sámi Association in Sweden 2007-2011, a board member in the Sámi Educational Center in Jokkmokk 2007-2009, and the Sámi Youth organization in Sweden, Sáminuorra 2002-2007.