Events
Explore upcoming seminars, workshops, public talks, conferences, and other events organised by MultiBEING or featuring members of the Centre.
Victoria Peemot to present at Coloquio Historia PUCP
Our researcher Victoria Soyan Peemot will deliver a lecture at the Coloquio Historia PUCP in Lima, Peru, on 28 October. Her presentation explores how objects can act as carriers of knowledge, memory, and relationships across generations and species. Our researcher Victoria Soyan Peemot (University of Helsinki) will give a lecture entitled “Multispecies Stories, Language, and […]
Outi Kaarina Laiti to speak at Worlds We Build Together
Our researcher Outi Kaarina Laiti will take part in the event Worlds We Build Together – game design, art and institutions at Aalto University on 27 October. The event brings together experts from game research, museums and the gaming industry to explore games as spaces for collaboration, participation and imagining shared futures. M-Cult and Aalto […]
Indigenous knowledge and higher education discussed at International Paris Colloquium
Our researchers Francisco Apurinã, Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen, Jelena Porsanger and Carl Mika contributed to international discussions on Indigenous knowledge systems, higher education and epistemological plurality at the international colloquium Re-Enchanting the University? The Inclusion of Indigenous Knowledges in the University, held in Paris on 19–23 October. Our CoE was strongly represented at the international colloquium […]
Leena Hansen presented Ethical Guidelines for Cooperation with Sámi Reindeer Herders at CBD COP17
Our researcher Leena Hansen participated in a panel discussion at the UN Biodiversity Convention COP17 in Yerevan, Armenia, focusing on Indigenous rights, biodiversity governance and the green transition in Sápmi. The 17th Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP17) is currently taking place in Yerevan, Armenia. On 21 October, […]
Situated cosmovisions and plant-based knowledge: Pre-exhibition conversation with Anais-karenin
MultiBEING co-organised a public conversation with artist Anais-karenin and art historian Minna Valjakka on 16 October in Helsinki. The event explored plant-based knowledge, healing cosmovisions and the ecological and cultural relations that shape our understandings of the plant world. Plants and plant-based knowledge have long been part of how worlds are made, understood and inhabited. […]
Call for papers: Two MultiBEING sessions at the ISAR-9 in Japan
Our researchers Victoria Peemot, Nicola Renzi and Mikko Äijälä are organising special sessions at the 9th International Symposium on Arctic Research (ISAR-9) in Hokkaido, Japan, on 16–20 April 2027. Photo: The Tuha (Duha) reindeer herders’ early autumn place, Üzük, in East Taiga, northern Mongolia (August 2026). 📷: Victoria Peemot Call for papers Our researchers Victoria […]
Áile Aikio to deliver keynote on Sámi temporalities at the Nord Conference for Sámi and Indigenous People
Our researcher Áile Aikio will deliver a keynote lecture at the Nord Conference for Sámi and Indigenous People 2026 in Bodø, Norway, on 13 October. Her presentation explores duodji as a Sámi practice of time and offers Indigenous perspectives on temporality, relationality and intergenerational responsibility. Our researcher Áile Aikio (University of Lapland) will be among […]
What place do mosquitoes have in a sonic democracy?
Our post-doctoral researcher Nicola Renzi will take part in the international symposium How to live together in sound? Towards sonic democracy, organised by the University of the Arts Helsinki at the Helsinki Music Centre on 12 October. Photo: Mai Britt Utsi standing in the mosquito shower. 📷: Nicola Renzi Event description Our post-doctoral researcher Nicola […]
Victoria Peemot presents in the Spinal Memory online lecture series
Our senior researcher Victoria Soyan Peemot will participate in Spinal Memory, an international online lecture series that explores the entangled lives of humans and non-human animals across art, literature, film and archives. Event description Our senior researcher Victoria Soyan Peemot (University of Helsinki) will give a lecture on 10 October 2026 as part of Spinal […]
Oral histories for educational transformation
Our researchers Francisco Apurinã and Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen participated in the Sámi and Indigenous Education Conference in Guovdageaidnu from 6 to 8 October 2026. Our CoE was represented at the Sámi and Indigenous Education Conference 2026, hosted by Sámi Allaskuvla – Sámi University of Applied Sciences in Guovdageaidnu, Norway, from 6 to 8 October 2026. […]
Panel discussion on publishing research in Indigenous languages and keynote by Veli-Pekka Lehtola
How can academic publishing better support Indigenous languages and multilingual knowledge production? As part of the Science Publishing Days 2026, MultiBEING organised a panel discussion on this theme, focusing on Sámi-language scholarly publishing, while also hosting a keynote lecture by Professor Emeritus Veli-Pekka Lehtola. The annual Science Publishing Days 2026 were held on 8–9 October […]
MultiBEING symposium: Indigenous relationships with time
The Centre of Excellence is organising a kick-off symposium at the University of Helsinki on 28 September. It brings together internationally renowned scholars, artists and knowledge holders to engage with diverse Indigenous conceptions of time, which shape how relationships with other beings are lived, valued and understood. Event description The MultiBEING kick-off symposium at the […]