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Join the Center for European Studies for a discussion of how exhibitions in the Sámi region and Sweden’s Torne Valley engage with questions of identity, heritage, and representation. The talk will highlight the essential role of museums in supporting minority languages and cultures, and in shaping how arctic communities and their histories are presented to wider audiences.
About the Speaker
During her extensive career, Selma Green has served as Museum Director of the Konstmuseet i Norr, Norrbotten County Art Museum in Sweden and the Vaasa City Museums, including the Ostrobothnian Museum and Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art/Tikanoja Art Museum. In addition, she has edited several art publications, lectured on art history and contemporary art, and served as an assistant, an exhibition secretary, and a cultural producer, in several visual arts organizations.
In 2023 Green was named Director of Tampere Art Museum. The Museum administers Finland’s second largest art collection and, as an institution with regional responsibilities, follows the visual culture of the Pirkanmaa region and serves regional creators and the general public. The Moomin Museum, which is part of the Tampere Art Museum organization, is home to an internationally significant collection of Tove Jansson’s illustration art.
“Tove Jansson, the Moomins & the Legacy of Imagination” is sponsored by the Center for European Studies and the Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, with support from Imagining Climate Change.