What kind of importance does both the symbolism and significance of snakes and serpents have in connection with the tasks of the noaidi in Sámi culture as seen depicted through prehistoric rock paintings in Finland and shaman drum landscapes past and present?

Joy, F. (Puhuja)

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Conference titled: The Mineral Arctic: Imagination, Communication and Practices. The Malaurie Institute of Arctic Research Monaco-UVSQ (MIARC) is organising an international and interdisciplinary conference “The mineral Arctic: imagination, communication and practices” in association with UArctic Thematic Network Arctic Cultures and History (ARCH) and UArctic Regional Centre for Continental Europe at UVSQ in Versailles on 8-10 Octobre 2025.

Aikajakso	8 lokak. 2025
Pidetty	UArctic Regional Centre Continental Europe, Ranska
Vaikuttavuus / laajuus	Kansainvälinen

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Junior Full Professor Joanna Kodzik is organising an international and interdisciplinary conference together with the MIARC team and in cooperation with the research group Nordic Blue Humanities at the Sorbonne University from 8-10 October 2025 in Versailles / Paris and on-line. In association with UArctic Thematic Network Arctic Cultures and History (ARCH) and UArctic Regional Centre for Continental Europe the Malaurie Institute of Arctic Research Monaco-UVSQ proposes a reflection on stones in the Arctic inspired by the works of its co-founder Jean Malaurie and the title of his memoirs De la pierre à l'âme [From stone to soul] within the field of Arctic Humanities. STONES and the MINERAL ARCTIC will serve as an object of research and source of inspiration for discussing the diversity of entities represented by colors, mineral constitution, weight, hard or porose surface, forms and shapes as well as structures and their mental representations. Aspects of particular interest include changes, continuities, demarcations, overlapping, entanglements, inclusion or exclusion, connection and disconnections. The conference is dedicated to the (non)materiality of STONES and ROCKS, which is understood both as an idea and a resource, as the epitome of emptiness and fullness, from Antiquity until the long 19th century. The principal focus will be on musings about and imaginations, images and attributions of meaning to Arctic stones, rocks and mineral environments in text and visual media, in the arts and crafts, communication about resources, religious practices, colonial economic profit or practices of knowledge production, collecting and structuring, trade and production of commodities and remedies.