Gender, sexuality, and ethnicity in Sámi pop culture

Dr. Kelsey A. Fuller-Shafer will give a virtual lecture: "Gender, sexuality, and ethnicity in Sámi pop culture: An exploration of 21st-century Indigenous music, multimedia art, and film."

The lecture is sponsored by the Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center at Augustana. This is the first in the center's lunchtime lecture series.

Dr. Fuller-Shafer is a visiting assistant professor of Scandinavian Studies, and the outreach coordinator for the Swenson Center. Her research interests include Sami contemporary music, culture, and intersectionality in Nordic contexts. She has written about Indigenous solidarity, ecocriticism, and feminism as they are expressed and experienced through Sami popular music and multimedia art activism. In her teaching, she has designed and taught courses in music, literature, history and Scandinavian studies.