Day 1 - Thursday 26th September

9:30-10:00                            

Registration and coffee

 

10:00-10:15                          

Welcome address by organizers

 

10:15-11:15                         

Session 1, Chair: Torjer Olsen, SESAM

Kajsa Kemi Gjerpe (UiT), Textbook Sápmi: an analysis of Sami content in textbooks”

Hans Mark Svedal and Henriette Harbitz (Western University of Applied Sciences, Norway), Conveying Sami culture in teacher’s education”

Renate Eggen (NTNU), “The Presentation of Sámi issues in National Curricula and Government Guidelines on Education in Norway” 

 

11:15-12:15 

Session 2, Chair: Hilde Solid 

Kristin Evju (UiT), "Local negotiations of national demands: Indigenizing education in Northern Norway"

Paulette van der Voet (UiT), Sami language education from kindergarten to upper secondary school

Pigga Keskitalo, Satu-Maarit Frangou and Janne Väätäjä (University of Lapland, Finland), “Enhancing Sámi pedagogy and digital education in a northern educational context”

 

12:15-13:15                          

Lunch

 

13:15-14:15                         

Keynote speaker: 

Anna Lill Drugge (Umeå University, Sweden), “Introducing Sápmi in mainstream education - challenges, strategies and possibilities”

                                              

14:15-14:30                         

Coffee break

 

14:30 – 15:30                       

Session 3, Chair: Kristin Evju, SESAM

Michelle Francett-Hermes and Helena Pennanen (University of Oulu, Finland),“Navigating positionality and ethics in indigenous research – examples from two Nordic female academics” 

Norunn Askeland (University of South-Eastern Norway),Metaphors and identity in Sami literature in textbooks: a postcolonial perspective”

Kendyl Reis (UiT), Implementing Act 31 in Wisconsin; An Exploration of the Journey, the Act, and the Exemplars who Make it Happen

15:30 - 15:45

Coffee break 

15:45 - 17:15

Session 4 and closing discussion, chair: Else Grete Broderstad, SESAM

Kristin Gregers Eriksen (University of South-Eastern Norway) and Stine H. Bang Svendsen (NTNU), 

"Engaging the Colonial Baseline & Making Indigeneity Conceivable in Mainstream Education"

Jorun Bræck Ramstad (UiT), “Maori ‘corporate warriors’: Education and modern ‘entrapment’”

Linita Manu’atu and Mere Kepa, "Publish or Perish. Promoting the abundance of International Indigenous scholarship

19:00                                      

Dinner at Graffi

 

 

Day 2 - Friday 27th September

9:15-10:15                            

Keynote speaker: 

Sanna Valkonen (University of Lapland, Finland), “Citizenship and belonging. Conceptual reflections”

 

10:15-10:30                          

Coffee break

 

10:30 – 12:00                        

Session 5, Chair: Velina Ninkova, SESAM

Else Grete Broderstad (UiT), “Indigenous and citizenship rights: Contradictory or coherent?” 

Kjersti Fjørtoft (UiT), "Citizenship education in the context of indigenous citizenship"

Annamari Vitikanien (UiT), “Indigenous Citizenship, Shared Fate, and Non-ideal Circumstances”

Kristina Belancic (Umeå University, Sweden), "(Un)equal access to Sámi and Swedish language knowledge within the Sámi National Curriculum"

                                                 

12:00-13:00                          

Lunch

13:00-14:15                          

Session 6: Hunter Gatherer Education, Chair: Jennifer Hays

Jennifer Hays (UiT), “Introduction to the Research and Advocacy Group on Hunter Gatherer Education”

Marilyn Ngales (Lyceum of the Philippines University), “Locating yourself in the intersections and connectedness of indigeneity towards constructing an indigenous research paradigm”

Edmond Dounias (French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development), "New technology: Killer or safeguard of indigenous and local knowledge?"

Velina Ninkova (UiT),“Perpetuating the myth of the 'wild Bushman': Inclusive multicultural education for the Omaheke Juǀ’hoansi in Namibia”

  

14:15-14:30                          

Coffee break

 

14:30-15:10                          

Session 7, Chair: Kjersti Fjørtoft, UiT

Torjer Olsen (UiT), "Decolonizing education in Sápmi/Norway: Rights, interface and the pedagogies of discomfort and hope"

Åse Mette Johansen and Hilde Solid (UiT), "The role of place in Sámi language education"

                                                  

15:10-16:30                          

Roundtable discussion and wrap up by organizers