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Saturday, February 6th\u00a0<\/b>(10 a.m. to about 1:15): Ellen Marie Jensen, Ph.D. <\/b>will visit\u00a0\u201cClimate Change & Colonization in the Arctic: Who are the S\u00e1mi?\u201d (hosted by Marja Eloheimo) as guest moderator of a panel discussion and conversation with seven Indigenous S\u00e1mi climate change experts in S\u00e1pmi. Dr. Jensen is both S\u00e1mi from Finnmark Province and American from Minneapolis, Minnesota. She earned her Ph.D. in Social Sciences and Humanities from\u00a0University of Troms\u00f8 (UiT) \u2013 Arctic University of Norway\u00a0in 2019 with the study Diasporic Indigeneity and Storytelling Across Media: A Case Study of Narratives of Early Twentieth Century S\u00e1mi Immigrant Women<\/a><\/i>, and is editor of What We Believe In<\/a><\/i>. Jensen also holds a Masters in Indigenous Studies and English Literature from the University of Troms\u00f8. Her scholarship broadly addresses S\u00e1mi and Indigenous studies, feminist\/gender studies, and migration. Currently, she is a guest researcher at the UiT Centre for Women\u2019s and Gender Research. The anticipated topic of the panel discussion is “S\u00e1mi Perspectives on Green Colonialism: Responses to Climate Change.”<\/p>\n About the series:<\/b><\/p>\n The Climate Justice and Resilience events constitute a year-long series that runs approximately biweekly throughout the 2020-21 academic year. Each event is hosted by a different Evergreen program, and guests are welcome to attend either synchronously (at a time fixed by the host program) or asynchronously (webinar recordings will be available as soon as possible after the event).\u00a0 This work builds on several climate-related summer institutes, last year\u2019s \u201cbig bets\u201d climate proposal, and the visioning for potential incorporation of climate-related curricular areas into New Academic Directions. In addition, the 2-credit class \u201cClimate Academy: Justice and Resilience\u201d (currently sponsored by Rachel Hastings) is offered each quarter based on this event series and associated readings.<\/p>\n