#Multibeing
How can universities create space for Indigenous knowledge? Our researchers @pirjokris.bsky.social, @outi.bsky.social, Sini Korja and our visiting prof. Carl Mika will explore this question at Beyond the Western Lens: Pathways to Decolonising Higher Education Conference @helsinki.fi on 25 September.
Exploring epistemic plurality at Beyond the Western Lens Conference – MultiBEING
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September 24, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Tutkimusyhteisömme jäsen, professori Jarno Valkonen esittelee MultiBEING-yksikköä 24.9. Lapin yliopistolla Deatnu-hankkeen tulosten kautta. Puheenvuoro avaa näkökulmia Tenojoen kalastussäätelyyn kietoutuviin valta- ja maailmasuhteisiin. 📷 Santeri Happonen. Tervetuloa! ulapland.fi/tapahtuma/ti...
September 22, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Welcome to the MultiBEING kick-off symposium at the University of Helsinki @helsinki.fi on 28.9! Explore Indigenous understandings of time, temporalities, seasonalities, ancestralities and more with scholars, artists & knowledge holders. Register and read more: multibeingjustice.org/tapahtuma/sy...
MultiBEING symposium: Indigenous relationships with time – MultiBEING
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September 17, 2026 at 7:21 AM
Miten tukea alkuperäiskansojen kielillä julkaisemista ja monikielisyyttä? Osallistu paneelikeskusteluumme 8.10. osana Tiedejulkaisemisen päiviä Lapin yliopistolla tai verkossa. Panelistit: Petter Morottaja, Kristiina Ojala & Jarno Valkonen. Ilmoittaudu 2.10. mennessä: www.tiedejulki.fi/ohjelma
Panel discussion on publishing research in Indigenous languages – MultiBEING
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September 16, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Call for papers! MultiBEING sessions at the International Symposium on Arctic Research in Japan, April 2027 by @vicsoyanpeemot.bsky.social, @nicolarenzi.bsky.social (@helsinki.fi) & Mikko Äijälä (Uni. Lapland). Submission details (DL 16 Oct): multibeingjustice.org/tapahtuma/ca...
📷: Victoria Peemot
September 11, 2026 at 12:43 PM
Welcome to the MultiBEING kick-off symposium at the University of Helsinki @helsinki.fi on 28.9! Explore Indigenous understandings of time, temporalities, seasonalities, ancestralities and more with scholars, artists & knowledge holders. Register and read more: multibeingjustice.org/tapahtuma/sy...
September 9, 2026 at 9:30 AM
Welcome to the MultiBEING opening seminar & public lectures on 1.9. in Rovaniemi or online! Meet our researchers & hear from guest speakers: Professors Carl Mika, Tim Ingold, Alexandra Xanthaki, Jérémie Gilbert. Program + livestream link: multibeingjustice.org/tapahtuma/mu...
📸: Victoria Peemot
August 27, 2026 at 9:19 AM
We're delighted to share a new publication in Nature to which MultiBEING researchers Martti Pärssinen, Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen @pirjokris.bsky.social & Francisco Apurinã from @helsinki.fi contributed. Open access: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Read more: multibeingjustice.org/ajankohtaist...
Over 20,000 precolonial earthworks in the Southwest Amazonia - Nature
Using canopy-penetrating LiDAR data, the northern part of southwestern Amazonia appears to contain as many earthworks as previously estimated for the whole of Amazonia.
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August 22, 2026 at 7:53 AM
MultiBEING researcher Maria Fedina (@helsinki.fi) takes part in the CoCoLaC workshop on 27 August, discussing how native language as a legal and ideological category influences linguistic hierarchies, self-identification and group belonging. Read more: multibeingjustice.org/tapahtuma/be...
August 18, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Register for the first-ever Siida Game Jam! Join MultiBEING researcher @outi.bsky.social and fellow game creators at the Siida Sámi Museum in Inari. Best ideas may become part of an exhibition! Registration for on-site participation closes 20.8. at 9 am. More info: saamigamejam.com/siidagamejam...
August 17, 2026 at 2:48 PM
"In Southwestern Amazonia,
plants have a significant place and role in Indigenous peoples' social relations.
Our article focuses on plant subjectivities in Apurinã ritual encounters"

www.academia.edu/164563113/Re...
Relational Plants and Apurinã's Multibeing Life-Making
Southwestern Amazonia is one of the most biodiverse areas of the world. In this region, plants have a significant place and role in Indigenous peoples' social relations. They are inseparable actor...
www.academia.edu
February 21, 2026 at 5:13 AM
Congratulations to #Centre of #Excellence (#CoEs) of #Multibeing #Indigenous & especially to @pirjokris.bsky.social from Univ @helsinki.fi as well as to Sanna Valkonen & Lotta Viikari both from Univ of Lapland
for the Research Council of Finland's funding for 2026-2033.
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Research Council of Finland selects 11 new Centres of Excellence in Research
The Research Council of Finland (RCF) has selected eleven Centres of Excellence (CoE) for the 2026–2033 programme period. The eleven CoEs of the new CoE programme include research teams from thi...
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October 31, 2025 at 10:40 AM
August 31, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Dr Jonathan Galka of Deep Currents Collective is a historian and ethnographer of modern sciences & environments and a Postdoctoral Fellow, Nat. Uni. of Singapore

#ISA30 #lawofthesea #ocean #oceangovernance #extractivism #OceanJustice #Multibeing
#DeepCurrentsCollective#DeepSeabedMining
July 25, 2025 at 12:09 PM
World Ocean Day 2025
#Huu-ay-aht nation
This is how protection and care can look...
#oceanhumanities #worldoceansday #worldoceanday #oceanjustice #multibeing
June 9, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Big oil & their allies fight to keep future profits from plastic free to flow. Their persistent belligerence, despite evidence of plastic multibeing communities everywhere, now & into futures, is barbaric.
#OceanJustice #MultibeingJustice #Plastic #FossilFuels

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An update on Canada’s plastic ban lawsuit | The Narwhal
An industry coalition won a court case challenging Canada's plastic ban on single-use items. The government appealed. What's next?
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January 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Welcome to the MultiBEING opening seminar & public lectures on 1.9. in Rovaniemi or online! Meet our researchers & hear from guest speakers: Professors Carl Mika, Tim Ingold, Alexandra Xanthaki, Jérémie Gilbert. Program + livestream link: multibeingjustice.org/tapahtuma/mu...
📸: Victoria Peemot
August 15, 2026 at 6:46 AM
🌿The LAIC project, Learning Across Indigenous Contexts: Advancing Community Participation in Public Policy, Chile–Finland, led by MultiBEING scholar Saara Alakorva (University of Lapland) receives EDUFI's TFK funding 📷: Universidad Católica de Temuco. Read more: multibeingjustice.org/ajankohtaist...
Connecting Sápmi and La Araucanía through learning, research and Indigenous participation – MultiBEING
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August 10, 2026 at 12:08 PM
How can Indigenous understandings of food, responsibility, and relationality contribute to more just food governance? In June, Cintia Cruz (@helsinki.fi) presented early findings from her PhD research at the Ecologies of Food Conference in Perugia, Italy 📸: Caroline Boules. Read more on our website!
Indigenous knowledge and food governance: Reflections from the Ecologies of Food Conference – MultiBEING
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July 3, 2026 at 6:38 AM
MultiBEING researchers Saara Alakorva (with Pauliina Feodoroff), Mikko Äijälä & Jarno Valkonen will discuss epistemic justice and Indigenous knowledge systems at the Inari Symposium on Research Ethics in Nature, Environment and Indigenous Research, 10–11 June. 📸: Mikko Äijälä tenk.fi/en/events/in...
June 8, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Join us to hear MultiBEING researcher
@vicsoyanpeemot.bsky.social (@helsinki.fi) present her work on human–nature relations: ”More-than-Human Homelands: Human–Livestock Communities and Wildlife Relationships in Inner Asia” 🌿 Tue 9 June, 13.00–14.00 at the Kumpula Campus, Helsinki (also via Zoom) 🌿
June 6, 2026 at 5:16 AM
MultiBEING-tutkijat ovat mukana Rovaniemellä järjestettävillä Sosiologipäivillä 7.–8.5.2026! Tänä vuonna teemana on Yhteisön tulevaisuudet.
Nappaa ohjelmasta tutkimusyhteisömme tutkijoiden puheenvuorojen aikataulu ja paikka: sosiologipaivat.fi
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May 6, 2026 at 10:08 AM
MultiBEING researcher Sini Korja will take part in the “Indigenous teachings on good living” workshop, produced by the Siemenpuu Foundation at @World Village Festival in Helsinki on 16–17 May. The workshop features perspectives on good life (buen vivir) from Indigenous peoples in the global South.
Indigenous teachings on good living - Maailma kylässä -festivaali
The workshop will feature perspectives on good life (buen vivir) from indigenous peoples in the Global South, particularly Myanmar and Colombia. The guest speaker and one of the workshop leaders is Pa...
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April 11, 2026 at 11:31 AM
MultiBEING-huippuyksikön avajaistilaisuus järjestetään maanantaina 30.3. klo 17 Saamelaiskulttuurikeskus Sajoksessa, Inarissa. Tilaisuus on suomen- ja pohjoissaamenkielinen. Puheosuuden jälkeen tarjotaan pullakahvit ja keskustellaan yhdessä. Tervetuloa seuraamaan paikan päälle tai striimin kautta!
Moniolevainen oikeudenmukaisuus alkuperäiskansojen yhteiskunnissa -huippuyksikön avajaiset - Lapin yliopisto
Moniolevainen oikeudenmukaisuus alkuperäiskansojen yhteiskunnissa (MultiBEING) -huippuyksikön avajaisia vietetään Saamelaiskulttuurikeskus Sajoksessa Inarissa maanantaina 30.3. klo 17.00–19.00. Tilais...
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March 28, 2026 at 11:47 AM