The SUN Project’s first conference panel will be taking place at the fourth World Congress of Environmental History! Located at the University of Oulu in picturesque Oulu, Finland, our panel is entitled, “Indigenous Survivance: Rethinking Environmental Crisis and Global Colonialism.”

How to write histories of the entangled forces of colonialism and environmental crisis without losing sight of Indigenous peoples as creative agents? Inspired by Gerald Vizenor’s concept of survivance, this panel explores the strategies that have energized Indigenous resilience across the globe.

A diverse group of talented international scholars will be presenting thought-provoking and engaging papers that invite participants to consider how to write environmental histories that, while recognizing the harrowing impacts of colonialism and environmental crises, draw attention to the creative Indigenous strategies that have fuelled Indigenous resilience and resurgence against almost unthinkable challenges.

Likewise, we encourage the panellists to discuss how to connect such critical issues as Indigenous ontologies, art, ritual and traditional ecological knowledge to the majority societies' concerns with environmental history.