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Sápmi: Just transition or green colonialism?

The Sámi Law Symposium 2025 discusses the relationship between the green transition and Sámi rights. 

Photo of a flock of reindeer crossing a winding road across a tundra in Finnmark

Photo: Mark Konig / Unsplash

The Sámi Law Symposium is an annual event at the Faculty of Law. Part 1 of the symposium takes place in English. 

Programme

12.30Mingling and refreshments
13.00Welcome. Introduction of speakers
Kristin Bergtora Sandvik and Carola Lingaas
13.10

Academic perspectives on green colonialism
Moderator: Carola Lingaas

  • Historical perspectives on Green Colonialism – Åsa Össbo
  • From Urgency to Delay: Political Temporalities in Norway’s Energy Transition – Henrikke Sæthre Ellingsen
  • The coloniality of consultation law in Sápmi – Dorothée Cambou
  • Local reporting on a "green shift" conflict – Eli Skogerbø
  • Resisting green transition in Finnmark – Sindre Sollund Stixrud, Ragnhild Sollund
14.45Q&A
15.00

Coffee break

15.15Panel discussion: Temporal Politics, coloniality and resistance in the Nordic Energy Transition
Moderator: Kristin Bergtora Sandvik 
15.55Wrap-up and acknowledgments 

For the programme for the rest of the day, please see the Norwegian event page.  

Confirmed speakers

  • Åsa Össbo, researcher at Umeå University, Sweden
  • Dorothée Cambou, assistant professor at the Universitety of Helsinki, Finland
  • Henrikke Sæthre Ellingsen, PhD candidate at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
  • Eli Skogerbø, professor at the Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo
  • Sindre Sollund Stixrud, research assistant at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law, University of Oslo
  • Ragnhild Sollund, professor at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law, University of Oslo
  • Carola Lingaas, professor at VID Specialized University, Norway
  • Kristin Bergtora Sandvik, professor at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law, University of Oslo

Registration and streaming

The event is free and open to everyone, but because of refreshments, we ask attendees to register. The doors open at 12:30. 

Sign up here

If you aren't able to attend in person, the Sámi Law Symposium will also be streamed live to this webpage from 13:00. 


Funding

The Sámi Law Symposium 2025 is partially funded by the Research Group in Natural Resources Law and the Faculty of Law. 

Published Oct. 10, 2025 2:22 PM - Last modified Sep. 15, 2026 10:06 AM