On March 7, 2025, at 12:00 PM (CET), the SCALA Spring Seminar 2025 will take place in the Conference Room of DBC, Via degli Ariani 1, Ravenna. The event, organized by the University of Bologna’s LUMEN project research unit and the SCALA, Social and Cultural Anthropology Lab, research center at the University of Bologna. The event will also be streamed online via Zoom. It will feature Associate Professor Olga Ulturgasheva from the University of Manchester.
Prof. Ulturgasheva will deliver a presentation titled “On More-Than-Human Dimension of Research Collaborations and Nyamnin,” which will explore the importance of integrating Indigenous and scientific knowledge to address environmental crises in Arctic regions while safeguarding human and more-than-human lives. Her talk will highlight the Indigenous principle of "nyamnin" to promote symmetrical and mutually respectful collaborations that respond to climate challenges through a perspective embracing both human and non-human dimensions.
A Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Prof. Ulturgasheva’s research focuses on human/non-human personhood, childhood, youth, climate change, and adaptation in Siberia, the American Arctic, and Amazonia. She has led major interdisciplinary projects funded by the National Science Foundation and the European Research Council. She has taught at Princeton and is currently a Senior Research Scientist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Before the seminar, an Anthro Café session will be held at 11:00 AM on the same day at Grinder Coffee Lab (Via di Roma, Ravenna). The event will feature the seminar’s organizers, Olga Ulturgasheva and Sayan Ulturgashev, a professional ballet dancer who will enrich the morning with a performative and reflective intervention exploring the connections between art, body, and nature in Indigenous cultures.
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