In the third episode of our More than Human webinar series, Åsa Andersson Martti, Francis Joy and John C. Ryan will tell us about the different ways of communicating with the forests, speaking from the Sámi tribe's traditions and Indigenous knowledges, as well as from scientific perspectives of forest intelligence, memory and sentience.

Date: 6th December 2024

Time: 1 pm GMT

Registration link:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82427216191?pwd=bbJ7PGebW2DFjpFOhY0k2PlJbbFDAB.1

Åsa Andersson Martti is an Indigenous Sámi and Tornedalian artist, healer, and academic researcher based in Kiruna, Swedish Sápmi. She is founder of the historical and animistic pilgrim trail ‘Sámi Trail of Tears’ based on her mother’s childhood memories.

Francis Joy, originally from Yorkshire, England, lives in Finland, and works as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Lapland Arctic Centre as a member of the Arctic Anthropology research team. His field of study includes prehistoric rock art, Sámi pre-Christian religion and practice of Sámi shamanism both past and present. Francis is also a Druid.

John C. Ryan is a researcher in literary studies, creative writing, and environmental humanities. He is Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the Nulungu Research Institute, University of Notre Dame, Australia. Funded by the Kone Foundation in Helsinki, his current project examines possibilities for communication and collaboration between people and trees in Northern Finland. He also edits the new journal Plant Perspectives. For more information, see www.johncharlesryan.com