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> PUBLICATION OF THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF THE SAAMI
> PEOPLE,
> AND AN INDIGENOUS SEMINAR
> Time: 2.12.2005 
> Place: Ritarisali, Ritarikatu 1 Helsinki, Finland
> 
>  PRESS CONFERENCE 
> OF THE NEW PUBLICATION    'THE SAAMI — A CULTURAL
> ENCYCLOPAEDIA'
> 
> Presentations in Finnish and in Saami  
> 10-11 	Presentations of the publication 'The Saami
> – a cultural encyclopaedia':
> Ulla-Maija Kulonen, Irja Seurujärvi-Kari ja Risto
> Pulkkinen, Editors-in-Chief
> 
> 11-12	Lunch
> 
> INDIGENOUS SEMINAR — THE FUTURE OF THE CULTURES OF
> INDIGENOUS PEOPLES  
> 
> Chairperson:  Irja Seurujärvi-Kari
> 
> Presentations in English
> 				
> 12-Presentation of the new publication 'The Saami
> — a Cultural Encyclopadia'
> 		Risto Pulkkinen 
> University of Helsinki, Department of Finno-Ugric
> Studies
> 
> Musical performance: Anna Näkkäläjärvi
> 
> 12.15 - Challenges for the future of the cultures
> of indigenous people
> Victoria Tauli Corpuz
> Chairperson of the Permanent Forum on indigenous
> issues, Philippines
> 	
> 13- 	Saami ethnical questions from a historical
> point of view 
> Christian Carpelan
> 	University of Helsinki, Institute for Cultural
> studies, Department of
> Archaelogy
> 
> 13.45	Coffee break
>
> 14.15	The future of Saami culture - challenges of
> modernity
> Jelena Porsanger
> The Nordic Saami Institute, Kautokeino		
> 
> 15-International policy of Inuit Circumpolar
> Conference: preserving culture
> through modern means
> 	     	Timo Koivurova
> Northern Institute	 for Environmental and Minority
> Law, University of
> Lapland, Rovaniemi
> 
> 15.45 - 16	Conclusion of the seminar
> 
> The event welcomes the Saami people, the media, the
> academic world,
> authorities and everybody interested in indigenuos
> issues at any level.
> 
> Organisers: The Department  of the Finno-Ugric
> studies of the University of
> Helsinki, the Finnish Literature Society, the
> Ministry of Foreign Affairs
> and Raidu, a student association. 
> 
> More information:
> * Rauno Endén, Managing Editor/Finnish Literature
> Society, tel. +358-201 
> 131 223, [log in to unmask]
> * Irja Seurujärvi-Kari, Saami lecturer,  tel. +358
> 400 876 222,
> [log in to unmask]
> 
> 
> Background
> 
> This event is arranged to celebrate the newly
> published cultural
> encyclopaedia of the Saami. On this occasion we also
> want to have a seminar
> to honour the diversity and uniqueness of the
> cultures of Saami people and
> other indigenous cultures.  
> 
> The aim of the Saami culture encyclopaedia is to
> emphasize the preservation
> and the development of the cultures of the
> indigenous Saami people and to
> promote a widespread distribution of researched
> information on it. In
> today’s rapidly changing world it is also important
> to create ways to
> prevent the social and cultural marginalization of
> indigenous peoples living
> in marginal conditions. Thus one of the most
> important intentions of the
> encyclopaedia is to strengthen the identity of the
> Saami people and to
> support their awareness of their own cultural
> heritage. To achieve this
> intention it is also important to present minorities
> within the Saami
> people, such as the Russian Saami, who until now
> have remained in the
> margins even in the ongoing research on Saami
> culture. 
> 
> On this basis, the aim of the seminar is to discuss
> the future of indigenous
> peoples and their challenges in facing modernity,
> while trying to preserve
> their traditions and ethnicity. The theme is
> approached from the perspective
> of multidisciplinary studies. Multidisciplinarity is
> an integral requirement
> for discussion on identity, ethnicity and culture.
> The lecturers are experts
> on Saami culture and history, and the guest of
> honour of the seminar is Ms
> Victoria Tauli Corpuz from Philippines. Ms Victoria
> Tauli Corpuz was elected
> as chairperson of the Permanent Forum on indigenous
> issues of the United
> Nations in May 2005.  
> 



		
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