ENMOTE Lecture GUNN-BRITT RETTER EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT THE SÁMI COUNCIL

DO16.01.2020, 17.00, ÜBUNGSRAUM Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, NIG, Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Vienna, 4th Floor

Gunn-Bri� Re�er was born and raised in the coastal Saami

community Unjárga-Nesseby by Varanger�ord in northea-

stern Norway. She was trained as a teacher at Sámi Uni-

versity College (Guovdageaidnu – Kautokeino, Norway)

and holds an M.A. in bilingual studies from University of

Wales. Since 2001, Re�er has worked with arc0c environ-

mental issues, first at the Arc0c Council Indigenous Peop-

les’ Secretariat (IPS) (Copenhagen, Denmark). She served

as a member of Saami Parliament (Norway) for two terms

(2005 – 2013). In her current posi0on with the Saami

Council which she has held since 2005, she has been invol-

ved in issues related to indigenous peoples and knowledge

related to climate change, biodiversity, language, pollu0on

and management of natural resources.

Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie

Gunn-Bri� Re�er

Head of the Arc0c and Environment Unit

of the Saami Council