Nicola Renzi

Dr. Nicola Renzi is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He received his PhD in Indigenous Studies at (UH) in 2025 through a joint degree with the University of Bologna. His dissertation mapped Sámi sound ontologies, ecosystems, and acoustemologies, taking the bottom-up concept of eanet go musihkka (more-than-music) as its organising framework. Renzi is a Sard scholar and field recordist whose expertise spans soundscape ecology and conservation, as well as more-than-human musicking, with particular attention to human–mosquito interplays. His work moves between Sardinia’s Campidano and Sápmi: geographies where local acoustemologies similarly resist state-driven resource extraction. In Sápmi, he has built meaningful research and artistic collaborations over the past decade. He taught Anthropology and Ecology of Sound as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Turin. He is also recipient of the 2025 Carpitella Fellowship, leading to the current production of the film Advocate of Yoik, with the Cini Foundation and Ánde Somby. Across fieldwork, academic venues, and art spaces, his work asks how we might create space for other-than-human voices that are systematically excluded from colonial systems of value, yet act as constitutive participants in shared heritages and increasingly conflictual sound worlds.