The Sami Culture Week is the first program of the Cultures in Danger (CiD) initiative, organized at the CEU campus, in the heart of Budapest and open to the CEU community and the wider public. This project is aimed to raise awareness of endangered cultures and vanishing tangible and intangible heritage by presenting a threatened indigenous culture, the Sami through various events, in accordance with the mission of the Cultures in Danger (CiD) initiative.
CiD was launched by the students of the Cultural Heritage Studies Program at CEU. Its goal is to inform the audience about disappearing cultures, their values, and traditions, and to present currently important issues of the preservation of cultural identity in today’s political, social and economic conditions.
The Sami Culture Week’s goal is to not only to promote the Sami’s heritage, but also to spread information about that specific community to a wider audience and to contribute to a better understanding of the Sami culture.
By raising these issues in an international academic environment through events such as the Sami Culture Week, CiD aims to create a community that is aware of and engaged in the diversity of endangered cultures in contemporary societies.
Program
Monday, 5 October
19:00, Octagon: Opening of the exhibition “The Sami. Indigenous People in the Modern World”
Joiking (traditional Sami music) performed by Street Art Choir
Opening speech by H.E. Pasi Tuominen, Ambassador of Finland in Budapest and H.E. Niclas Trouvé, Ambassador of Sweden in Budapest
Scandinavian Bookstall of the Nordic House
20:00, Basement Café: Pub Quiz on the Sami
Wednesday, 7 October
17:30, Gellner Room: “Indigenous Challenges during 400 Years - The Sami of Northern Scandinavia”. Public lecture by Professor Peter Sköld (Umeå University, Sweden)
Scandinavian Bookstall of the Nordic House
Thursday, 8 October
Auditorium: Film screening
17:30 - Introduction to the two movies
18:00 - Suddenly Sami (Min mors hemmelighet) 52 mins
19:00 - Kautokeino Rebellion (Kautokeino-opprøret) 96 mins