Welcome to a conference that explores the intersections of religion, spirituality, colonial legacies, and ecological sustainability in European contexts. It encourages a conversation across disciplines with a particular focus on extractivism – including forestry, mining, and other forms of land and resource exploitation. The conference addresses how religious traditions have contributed to extractivism in the past, but have the potential to challenge prevailing drivers, practices and attitudes toward the more-than-human world.

The conference creates space, within the context of the Nordics, for analysis through Indigenous and other marginalized perspectives of ecological debates. It also offers an opportunity to critically examine real life dilemmas and extractivist paradigms while exploring alternative economic, ethical, and spiritual relationships to forests, land, and ecosystems.

These concerns, however, resonate far beyond the Nordic region, and so the conference welcomes perspectives from all over the world. As Europe continues to grapple with the ecological consequences of its colonial past, there is an urgent need to imagine new narratives and practices for a more equitable and justice-based transition—where religious traditions and concrete questions of land use are central.

Registration is now open, please register here 
Registration deadline: April 25

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8 maj, 14:00 – 15:30
Panel II: Unpacking (Green) Colonialism in Sápmi – Critical Indigenous Perspectives

• • Eva Marie Fjellheim
    Indigenous Studies, Independent scholar
  • Lovisa Mienna Sjöberg
    Theology and Society, VID Specialized University, Tromsø
  • Kaisa Huuva
    Sámi Studies, Umeå University