Lunch & Learn seminar with Tom Mels
- Date
- 6 May 2026, 12:00–13:00
- Location
- Campus Gotland, lecture hall B51
- Type
- Seminar
- Organiser
- Gotland Forum
- Contact person
- Tom Mels
You are warmly invited to a Lunch & Learn seminar, Indigenous Rights and the Green Transition, with Tom Mels from the Department of Human Geography.
This talk presents research conducted in northern Sweden, with a particular focus on Sámi herding rights. It explores conflicts over land and natural resources emerging in the wake of the so-called green transition.
We will be providing a lunch salad, and as we need to know how many to order, please register for the seminar via this link no later than Monday 4 May.
Welcome!
Tom Mels
Tom Mels is a Professor of Human Geography whose research focuses on historical landscape change, resource use, and environmental justice, among other areas.
His research engages with questions of power, justice, and the politics of nature and landscape, with a historical, materialist, and humanist orientation. Empirical interests include capitalist modernity and nature conservation in Sweden; the production of land-reclamation spaces on Gotland; and planning and resource contestation in the Swedish part of Sápmi.
He also coordinates the undergraduate planning programme at Campus Gotland and teaches courses in, among other areas, environmental justice, planning, landscape studies, and natural resource management.
Tom was elected Teacher of the Year at Campus Gotland for 2024/2025 by the Gotland Student Union Rindi.