Seira Duncan
Researcher
Biography
Seira Duncan is an indigenous Eurasian doctoral researcher in the Social and Cultural Encounters programme at the University of Eastern Finland and was a fellow at the Arctic Institute and the East-West Center. More recently, she started her fellowships at the International Arctic Science Committee and the European Centre for Minority Issues and completed her stays as a Visiting PhD student at the University of Tromsø and Ilisimatusarfik (University of Greenland).
Publications
Music and life in Mongolia: an interview with YouTuber Bayaraa
What does life in Mongolia sound like? What are the roles of sound and music? Ethnomusicologists continue to explore the topic (see, for instance, Mongolian Sound Worlds and The Contemporary
A mountain of connections? The alpine environments of Asia and Scotland
Seira also explored Scottish-Arctic connections in her 2022Â op-ed With the seeming foreignness of disciplines like glaciology and mountain studies, one might be surprised to learn that mountains cover roughly a
Missing links: connections among the Scots and the indigenous peoples of Japan
Seira also explored Scottish-Arctic connections in her 2022Â op-ed Only one percent of the Scottish population can speak Gaelic1. Similarly, the majority (particularly younger generations) of the indigenous peoples of Japan