Antarctica by Proxy : an Anthropological Exploration of the Values of Antarctica’s Scientific Data.

Emilie Pillon (Université Paris Nanterre).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 26 November 2024, 16:30-18:00

Urban Futures in the North - A Collective Imagination of an Arctic Borderland

Morgan Ip (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 29 October 2024, 16:30-18:00

From the margins of the Third Pole: the geopolitics of cryosphere in Tajikistan

Professor Christine Bichsel, Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg.

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 20 February 2024, 16:30-17:45

Antarctic Research in the Anthropocene

Professor Alejandra Mancilla, Professor Peder Roberts, Ms. Amelia Urry.

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Monday 27 November 2023, 14:00-15:30

Unpacking Colonial Ties: Self-determination in Inuit Nunangat, Canada

Natan Obed, President of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami.

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 21 November 2023, 16:15-18:00

Placing Halley research station in the history of UK Antarctic science, 1960 to present

Alice Oates (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 07 March 2023, 16:30-18:00

[POSTPONED] Russian and Soviet glaciology of the Third Pole

Christine Bichsel (University of Fribourg).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 21 February 2023, 16:30-18:00

Antarctica is not one thing

Jean de Pomereu (Marie Curie Research Fellow).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 07 February 2023, 16:30-18:00

Utopian Ambitions in the High Arctic at Resolute Bay

Alan Marcus (University of Aberdeen).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 17 May 2022, 16:30-18:00

Singing the Universe: Kant’s aesthetic and indigenous Siberian pop

Eleanor Peers (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 08 February 2022, 16:30-18:00

The changing world of reindeer: People, climate and forests in Northern Fenno-Scandia

Ilona Kater (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 25 January 2022, 16:30-18:00

The Greenland Self-Government's enhanced agency in Arctic politics

Marc Jacobsen (Carlsberg Foundation's Internationalisation Fellow) .

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 07 December 2021, 16:30-18:00

Defence and Security in the Arctic

Duncan Depledge (Loughborough University).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 30 November 2021, 16:30-18:00

The ‘Origins of the Inuit’: Indigenous Marginalisation within a Transnational Debate

Peter Martin (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 02 November 2021, 16:30-18:00

[Cancelled] Languages of Emergency, Infrastructures of Response and Everyday Heroism in the Circumpolar North

Cancelled

Olga Ulturgasheva (University of Manchester) and Barbara Bodenhorn (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Tuesday 11 May 2021, 16:00-17:30

Change, continuity and value in Svalbard

Samantha Saville (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Tuesday 09 March 2021, 16:00-17:30

[POSTPONED] Defence and Security in the Arctic: The UK perspective

Duncan Depledge (Loughborough University).

Zoom.

Tuesday 09 February 2021, 16:00-17:30

Captive polar bears: politics, (re)production, and performance

Henry Anderson-Elliott (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Tuesday 26 January 2021, 16:00-17:30

Exploration, Celebrity and the Making of a Transnational Hero: Fridtjof Nansen and the Fram Expedition

Max Jones (University of Manchester).

Zoom.

Tuesday 01 December 2020, 16:00-17:30

Author Meets Critics: North Pole: Nature and Culture

Michael Bravo (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Tuesday 03 November 2020, 16:00-17:30

[POSTPONED] Languages of Emergency, Infrastructures of Response and Everyday Heroism in the Circumpolar North

Olga Ulturgasheva (University of Manchester) and Barbara Bodenhorn (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 12 May 2020, 16:30-18:00

[POSTPONED] Fridtjof Nansen’s FRAM expedition and the Making of a Transnational Hero

Max Jones (University of Manchester).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 16:30-18:00

Constructing the Other: representations of Arctic native communities in Russian regional museums

Sofia Gavrilova (University of Oxford).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

Gender and 20th century Antarctic fieldwork: Constructing and dismantling the 'ice ceiling'

Morgan Seag (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 16:30-18:00

From Arctic statehood to self: State personnel’s articulations of Arctic identity in Norway, Iceland, and Canada

Ingrid Medby (Oxford Brookes University).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Meat to Mittens: a short history of survival science and extreme physiology in the Arctic and Antarctic regions

Vanessa Heggie (University of Birmingham).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 29 October 2019, 16:30-18:00

Critical Geopolitics of the Polar Regions: An Inter-American Perspective

Dorothea Wehrmann (Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 14 May 2019, 16:30-18:00

Mittimatalik Arnait Miqsuqtuit Collective and the Art of Sealskin Sewing

Nancy Wachowich (University of Aberdeen).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 16:30-18:00

'As Far North As Whale Hunters Go': The Medieval Arctic Environment, Experienced and Imagined

Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough (Durham University).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 16:30-18:00

The role of the Arctic in the development of Soviet climate science

Jon Oldfield (University of Birmingham).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 29 January 2019, 16:30-18:00

Antarctic Mosaic: Integrating Science and History in the McMurdo Dry Valleys

Adrian Howkins (University of Bristol).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 13 November 2018, 16:30-18:00

ERC ARCTIC CULT Launch Presentation

Richard Powell and project team (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 06 November 2018, 17:00-19:00

From animism to speculation: representations of geopower among the Dene of Tulita, Northwest Territories, Canada

Brice Perombelon (University of Oxford).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 30 October 2018, 16:30-18:00

BOOK LAUNCH: Studying Arctic Fields: Cultures, Practices, and Environmental Sciences

Richard Powell (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 09 October 2018, 17:00-19:00

Singing in the Wilderness: Antarctic Sledging Songs of the 'Heroic Age'

Elizabeth Leane (University of Tasmania) and Carolyn Philpott (University of Tasmania).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 02 July 2018, 16:30-18:30

'They don't know about the people who live here': Local non-participation in extractive resource management in Greenland

Nina Doering (University of Oxford).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 14 May 2018, 16:30-18:30

Brand Antarctica: Advertising and the South

Hanne Nielsen (University of Tasmania).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 23 April 2018, 16:30-18:30

Climate change, archaeology and tradition in an Alaskan Yup'ik Village

Rick Knecht (University of Aberdeen).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 19 February 2018, 16:30-18:00

Sacred Mountains as Flood Refuge Sites in Northwest North America

Thomas F. Thornton (University of Oxford).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 05 February 2018, 16:30-18:00

Scott’s and Shackleton’s Huts: Antarctic Heritage and International Relations

Bryan Lintott (Scott Polar Research Institute).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 29 January 2018, 16:30-18:30

Re/Fram/ing Geography: Fridtjof Nansen at the Royal Geographical Society c.1888-1914

Peter Martin (University of Oxford).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 27 November 2017, 16:30-18:00

The meaning of Indlandsis: a cultural history of ice sheets

Jean de Pomereu (Research Associate, Scott Polar Research Institute) .

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 06 November 2017, 16:30-18:00

Polar Opposites: American and Norwegian voices in the exploration of Franz Josef Land

P.J. Capelotti (Professor of Anthropology, Penn State University).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 13 June 2017, 16:30-17:30

Writing the North? Geography and the disciplines of Circumpolar exceptionality

Richard Powell (University of Oxford).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Tuesday 09 February 2016, 14:30-16:00

Wrestling With Polar Bears: Risk, Power, Law, and Oil and Gas

Roman Sidortsov (Scott Polar Research Institute).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Tuesday 09 February 2016, 14:30-16:00

Double-bill: Polar Representation in Museums

Claire Warrior (National Maritime Museum) and Charlotte Connelly (Polar Museum, SPRI).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Tuesday 19 January 2016, 14:30-16:00

Polar Exploration and the 'Spectral Turn' in the Humanities

Shane McCorristine (SPRI).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Tuesday 17 November 2015, 14:00-16:00

The Myth of Timelessness in the Polar Regions

Bryan Lintott (SPRI).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Tuesday 17 November 2015, 14:00-16:00

Reflections on Analysis and Authorship in Polar Worlds

Dr. Michael Bravo, Geography and SPRI.

SPRI Seminar Room.

Tuesday 20 October 2015, 14:30-16:00

Indigenous Sovereignty beyond Nations

David Turnbull (Melbourne University).

Hardy Building Room 101, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 22 October 2014, 11:00-12:30

Fishing rights and financial capitalism in the Arctic: From common property to private ownership assets

Niels Einarsson (Stefansson Institute, Iceland).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Monday 13 October 2014, 12:30-13:30

Arctic Maritime International Law

Dr Kamrul Hossain (Arctic Centre, University of Lapland).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 01 May 2014, 16:30-18:00

The Topsy-Turvy Arctic: Navigating the Polar Airspace

Marionne Cronin (University of Aberdeen).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 24 April 2014, 16:30-18:00

The social life of Arctic transportation networks

Peter Schweitzer (Austrian Polar Research Institute).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 06 March 2014, 16:30-18:00

"Periodizing Modern Antarctica, or What is the Legacy of the Heroic Age?"

Yaël Schlick (Queen's University at Kingston).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 20 February 2014, 13:15-14:15

The Journals of William Hooper: Inuit ethnographer and evangelical

John MacDonald, Carolyn MacDonald, Wim Rasing.

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Wednesday 13 February 2013, 16:00-18:00