Harald Gaski, professor at Sámi allaskuvla / Sámi University of Applied Sciences, in conversation with Krister Stoor, Várdduo - Centre for Sámi Research.
Harald Gaski, professor, Sámi allaskuvla / Sámi University of Applied Sciences, Kautokeino Norway and Honorary Doctor, Umeå University in conversation with Krister Stoor, Associate professor at Dept. of Language Studies/Sámi dutkan and Várdduo - Centre for Sámi Research
Introduced by Anca Rujoiu, curator Bildmuseet.
This event takes place at Bildmuseet sunday 2 March at 14.00-15.00
Free Admission
Limited Seats
Language: English
Girddán, seivvodan / I fly, I soar
In his talk, Harald Gaski will discuss how an aerial perspective of some of the ideas that constitute Sámi worldview and shape the notion of land and landscape, can be found in Sámi myths, yoiks and stories. Why did Johan Turi assume that a Sámi person's mind would be clearer high up on a mountain, and what did Nils-Aslak Valkeapää see while his 'poetic I' was soaring high above?
Harald Gaski is a professor in Sámi literature at the Sámi University of Applied Sciences in Guovdageaidnu, Norway. In the mid 1980s, Gaski was commissioned by the then University of Tromsø to build up Sámi literary studies as a separate academic field. Gaski has written extensively about Sámi literature, myths and worldview, and has in the recent decades been actively involved in developing Indigenous Critical Studies as a branch of Indigenous methodologies.
A collaboration between Bildmuseet, Ubmejen Biejvieh/Sámi week, Várdduo Centre for Sámi Research, Umeå University.