Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

What's in a name? - "Sakha"

Künnei Takaahai (University of Warsaw).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 13 May 2025, 16:30-18:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

North to the Future

Bennett Weissenbach (Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge).

Hybrid: Seminar room, SPRI & Zoom - email organiser for details.

Thursday 20 March 2025, 14:30-15:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Inuktitut in the Archive: Early insights from research into 19th century writing about Inuktitut

Leah Palmer (University of Galway, Ireland).

Hybrid: Seminar room, SPRI & Zoom - email organiser for details.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 14:30-15:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

A Slippery Signifier: Sea Ice in the Norwegian National Imaginary

Philip Steinberg (Durham University).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 11 March 2025, 16:30-18:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Arctic Voices: Indigenous Leadership and Self-Determination in Arctic Governance

Elena Kavanagh (University College Cork, Ireland and CSER, Cambridge University).

Hybrid: Seminar room, SPRI & Zoom - email organiser for details.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 15:30-16:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

The Fractured North: International Research and People in the Russian Arctic

Piers Vitebsky (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 16:30-18:00

Science in a Crisis: Networks, hierarchies and colonial continuities in responses to volcanic crisis

Dr Martin Mahony, University of East Anglia.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Thursday 27 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

Glacial Fractures: An Environmental Art History of Sioqqap Sermia, Greenland

Isabelle Gapp (University of Aberdeen).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 16:30-18:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

ArctiC-EUrope relations: A Case Study of Inter-Regional Co-Construction and Its Geopolitical Impacts

Emilie Canova (Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge).

Hybrid: Seminar room, SPRI & Zoom - email organiser for details.

Thursday 20 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

Birders

Speaker to be confirmed.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Thursday 30 January 2025, 13:00-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

[POSTPONED] Are They Coming Home? Transient Worker–Iñupiat Relations on Alaska's North Slope

Elizabeth Walsh (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 28 January 2025, 16:30-18:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

The impact of sensing Antarctica through sound: Insights from my fieldwork as a guide in Antarctica

Simone Eringfeld, PhD candidate, Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge University.

Hybrid: Seminar room, SPRI & Zoom - email organiser for details.

Thursday 21 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Imagining negative emission technologies: looking to the recent past and present to contemplate futures

Dr Léon Hirt, Department of Geography.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Thursday 21 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Arctic Environmental Humanities Workshop Series

Greening the Arctic [Panel Discussion Webinar, registration required]

Please register using the link below to receive the Zoom link to participate in the webinar. https://www.bu.edu/pardee/the-arctic-environmental-humanities-workshop-series-2/

Hannah Bradley, Inuk Silis Hœgh, Jeffrey Kerby, Kim Neider, Ross Virginia.

Co-hosted with Pardee Center for the Study of Longer-Range Future, Boston University.

Tuesday 19 November 2024, 15:00-16:30

Arctic Environmental Humanities Workshop Series

Inuit Piqutingit: What Belongs to Inuit [Film Screening]

Panel Speakers: Bernadette Dean, Deborah Kigjugalik Webster (Inuit Heritage Insights), Carol Payne (Carleton University).

Scott Polar Research Institute Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 12 November 2024, 16:30-18:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Interrelations between security and the zero-carbon energy transition in the Finnish and Norwegian Arctic

Marja Helena Sivonen, Doctoral researcher, Sociology Department, Tampere University & Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE).

Hybrid: Seminar room, SPRI & Zoom - email organiser for details.

Thursday 07 November 2024, 14:30-15:30

Life, land and sea: socio-ecological change and land-use in Shetland

Dr Ilona Kater and Dr Andrew Garrick.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Thursday 07 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Antarctica by proxy - The maintenance of ASTEP: gesture and temporality of a Concordia telescope.

Emilie Pillon, PhD candidate, Université Paris Nanterre, LAA.

Hybrid: Seminar room, SPRI & Zoom - email organiser for details.

Thursday 24 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Welcome lightning talks

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

Thursday 24 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Gatekeepers of the Greenland icesheet: The international politics of knowledge production on climate change

Lin Alexandra Mortensgaard, PhD candidate, Danish Institute for International Studies & Department of Political Sciences, University of Copenhagen.

Online (email organisers for details).

Thursday 17 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Welcome event - Introduction to PHaSS

Emilie Canova, Liz Walsh & Deb Wood, SPRI.

Scott Polar Research Institute, Friend's Room.

Thursday 10 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Ecosystem order and political rupture in the Arctic

Dr. Elana Wilson Rowe, Research professor and Head of the Center for Ocean Governance at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs.

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Friday 21 June 2024, 14:00-15:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Digital Colonial Histories: the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and its Polar Collections

John Woitkowitz and Larissa Schmid, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin.

Hybrid: Seminar room, SPRI & Zoom - email organiser for details.

Thursday 23 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Uncertainty on Ice

Amelia Urry, PhD candidate SPRI & HSPS, University of Cambridge.

Hybrid: Seminar room, SPRI & Zoom - email organiser for details.

Thursday 09 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Accessing Qikiqtaruk in a changing Arctic: Using immersive virtual reality for community engagement

Dr Jeffrey T. Kerby, SPRI, University of Cambridge.

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 25 April 2024, 14:00-15:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Isobel Hutchison’s Arctic Quest

Naï Zakharia, PhD candidate, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge.

Online (email organisers for details).

Thursday 14 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Beyond knowledge-building: Research infrastructure, technology, and the practice of Arctic (in)security

Aleksis Oreschnikoff, Doctoral researcher, University of Helsinki.

Online (email organisers for details).

Thursday 07 March 2024, 14:30-15:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Infrastructural Fear: or When Climate Change Isn’t an Allegory

Stephen Lezak, PhD candidate, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Gates scholar.

Hybrid: Seminar room, SPRI & Zoom - email organiser for details.

Thursday 22 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Arctic Museum Cultures: A Critical Perspective on Heritage Practices in/about the North

Liz Walsh and Morgan Ip, postdoctoral researchers, ERC Arctic Cultures Project, University of Cambridge.

Hybrid: Seminar room, SPRI & Zoom - email organiser for details.

Thursday 15 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

The role of international law in socio-ecological resilience to climate change of coastal Arctic communities - An international law study of the case of Arctic bowhead whaling

Johanna Sophie Bürkert, Ph.D. fellow at Københavns University, Law Faculty.

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 08 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Arctic Environmental Humanities Workshop Series

Svalbard: Four Times Faster (Registration LInk Below)

Mathias Albert, Dina Brode-Roger, Lisbeth Iverson, Zdenka Sokolíčková.

Co-hosted with Pardee Center for the Study of Longer-Range Future, Boston University.

Tuesday 12 December 2023, 14:00-15:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

End of term Polar social gathering

Emilie Canova & Liz Walsh, SPRI.

In-person - location TBC.

Thursday 30 November 2023, 17:00-19:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Sustainability and the Arctic - interdisciplinary ECR workshop in Tampere

Svenja Holst (Bielefeld University); Anna Ott (Syke and University of Lapland); Anna Varfolomeeva (University of Oulu); Marlene Payva (University of Lapland).

Online (contact organiser for Zoom link).

Thursday 16 November 2023, 13:45-15:45

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Visual culture masterclass – Arctic Expedition Photography: Critical Perspectives, Inuit Returns

Dr Carol Payne, Professor of Art History, Carleton University.

In-person - SPRI Old library.

Thursday 02 November 2023, 14:00-16:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

“Tragedy was not our business”: Individual emotional experience and the Terra Nova Expedition

Deb Wood, PhD candidate and Sarah Airriess, research associate, Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge University.

Hybrid: Seminar room, SPRI & Zoom - email organiser for details.

Thursday 26 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Welcome event - Introduction to PHaSS

Emilie Canova & Liz Walsh, SPRI.

In-person - SPRI Friend's room.

Thursday 12 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

End of term Polar social gathering

Bronte Evans, Emilie Canova, Liz Walsh, SPRI.

In person - pub Fort St George.

Thursday 15 June 2023, 17:30-19:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Oceanic Ecotopia, (De) colonizing the South; China’s First Encounter with Antarctica, 1882-1906

Po-hsi Chen, Post-doctoral fellow, University of Cambridge, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.

Hybrid: Seminar room, SPRI & Zoom - email organiser for details.

Thursday 08 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Human-insect relations and material culture in Western Alaska

Amanda Althoff, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University .

Zoom - email organiser for details.

Thursday 25 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

People, places, politics and science in the historical geographies of Halley Bay, 1956-present

Alice Oates, PhD candidate, University of Cambridge, Scott Polar Research Institute.

Hybrid: Seminar room, SPRI & Zoom - email organiser for details.

Thursday 11 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

The Arctic and Antarctica in popular novels

Bronte Evans, Emilie Canova, Liz Walsh, SPRI.

In person - Panton Arms.

Friday 17 March 2023, 17:00-19:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Insulating the wild. Culture-Nature relationship through the lens of Antarctic Architecture

Dr Victoria Nuviala Antelo, Faculty of Architecture, Design & Urbanism, University of Buenos Aires, Archive SUR – Archive of Architecture & Habitat in Antarctica .

Zoom - email organiser for details.

Thursday 09 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Picturing the Invisible

Makoto Takahashi.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Thursday 09 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Scalar politics and power processes in shared international spaces

Dr Pauline Pic, École Supérieure d’études internationales (ESEI), University of Laval.

Zoom - email organiser for details.

Thursday 02 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

[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

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Europe's cartographic 'Arcticulation' of the North: The use of maps in official European and national Arctic policies.

Emilie Canova, SPRI - University of Cambridge.

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 26 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Book launch: Inventing Greenland – Designing an Arctic Nation

Bert de Jonghe, Harvard University and Dr Mia Bennett, University of Washington.

Scott Polar Research Institute, Friends' Room.

Thursday 19 January 2023, 15:00-17:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Stakeholder perspectives on knowledge exchange practices at the Antarctic science-policy interface

Natasha Gardiner, University of Canterbury, New-Zealand.

Zoom - email organiser for details.

Wednesday 30 November 2022, 19:00-20:00

Arctic Environmental Humanities Workshop Series

Climate Repair and Governance: Science and Ethics Panel Discussion

Speaker to be confirmed.

Co-hosted with Pardee Center for the Study of Longer-Range Future, Boston University.

Monday 28 November 2022, 16:00-17:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Rurality, Indigeneity and the Alaska Income Tax, 1949-1980

Maximilien Zahnd, Hauser Post-Doctoral Fellow, NYU School of Law.

Zoom - email organiser for details.

Thursday 17 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Introduction to PHaSS for new students and members of staff

Bronte Evans, Emilie Canova, Liz Walsh, SPRI.

Scott Polar Research Institute, Friends' Room.

Thursday 10 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Decolonisation of Arctic library and archive metadata

Sandy Campbell, John W. Scott Health Sciences Library, University of Alberta, Canada.

Hybrid: Seminar room, SPRI & Zoom - email organiser for details.

Thursday 13 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Histories of Antarctica

Henrietta Hammant, Anthropology of Heritage PhD candidate, University of Reading; Elias Angele, PhD candidate Department for Contemporary East European History and Culture, University of Bremen.

Hybrid: Seminar room, SPRI & Zoom - email organiser for details.

Thursday 26 May 2022, 16:00-17:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Arctic coastal communities and increasing shipping activities: local impacts and adaptive responses

Dr. Julia Olsen.

Zoom - email organiser for details.

Thursday 19 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

A tale of two price-lists: economic topography and colonial governance in the context of the Royal Greenland Trading Company

Dr. Nanna Katrine Lüders Kaalund.

Zoom - email organiser for details.

Thursday 12 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Our experiences: Why Polar Research needs to be accessible

Accessibility In Polar Research (@AccessPolar).

Zoom - email organiser for details.

Thursday 05 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Arctic Environmental Humanities Workshop Series

Icy Humanities: A Collaborative Symposium

Speakers' details are shown below.

Co-hosted with Pardee Center, Boston University.

Tuesday 05 April 2022, 18:00-20:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Isolate and Assimilate: Settler Colonialism in the Canadian Arctic (a bipolar perspective)

Sam Kramer (William and Mary).

Zoom - email organiser for details.

Thursday 10 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

An Assessment of Progress to Decarbonize Antarctic Stations

Juan Lucci, University of Cambridge.

Zoom - email organiser for details.

Thursday 10 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Indigenous sovereignty and environmental protection in the Arctic

Romain Chuffart, University of Durham.

Zoom - email organiser for details.

Thursday 27 January 2022, 14:00-15:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

Defence and Security in the Arctic

Duncan Depledge (Loughborough University).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Short film discussion session: Utuqaq

Speaker to be confirmed.

Zoom.

Thursday 25 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Arctic Environmental Humanities Workshop Series

Curating the Arctic: Northern Museums and Decolonization

Speaker to be confirmed.

Co-hosted with Pardee Center, Boston University.

Tuesday 16 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

What is left unsaid within images of the aurora borealis? The use of linguistic strategies in deciphering the ‘Flaming Letters on the Dark Vault of Night’ in the First International Polar Year (1882-3)

Fiona Amery, University of Cambridge.

Zoom.

Thursday 11 November 2021, 14:00-15:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

The Arctic at the End of the World: Hannah Arendt and the Narration of Apocalypse

Stephen Lezak, University of Cambridge (SPRI).

Zoom.

Thursday 28 October 2021, 14:00-15:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Ice-geographies: Race, Indigeneity, and Coloniality

Jen Rose Smith, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Zoom.

Thursday 21 October 2021, 15:00-16:00

Arctic Environmental Humanities Workshop Series

“What Can We Learn from Ignorance? Arctic Energy Frontiers, Environmental Regimes, and Indigenous Rights Movements Since the 1970s”

Prof. Andrew Stuhl, Bucknell University.

Co-hosted with Pardee Center, Boston University.

Tuesday 12 October 2021, 16:30-18:00

Arctic Environmental Humanities Workshop Series

What Can We Learn from Ignorance? Arctic Energy Frontiers, Environmental Regimes, and Indigenous Rights Movements Since the 1970s

Professor Andrew Stuhl, Bucknell University.

Co-hosted with Pardee Center, Boston University.

Tuesday 14 September 2021, 11:30-13:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Improving the relationships between researchers and Indigenous rights holders in the Arctic - What needs to change in funding?

Nina Döring (IASS) and Elle Merete Omma (Saami Council).

Zoom.

Thursday 24 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Contentious Collections? Decolonising the Polar Museum

Mia Surridge & Alex Partridge (The Polar Museum, Cambridge).

Zoom.

Thursday 03 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Mariinsky Post as a Meeting Place: Affective Encounters and Ethnographic Records

Marisa Karyl Franz (New York University).

Zoom.

Thursday 27 May 2021, 15:00-16:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

[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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Science in Practice: Sharing the field with natural scientists

Sophie Duveau (Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris).

Zoom.

Thursday 06 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Greenland Geopolitics in the light of renewed American attention

Marc Jacobsen (SPRI).

Zoom.

Thursday 11 March 2021, 14:00-15:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

Change, continuity and value in Svalbard

Samantha Saville (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

The challenges and opportunities of working across the physical and social sciences

Laura Seddon (University of Durham).

Zoom.

Thursday 25 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

Towards Humble Geographies

Sam Saville (Unviersity of Cambridge).

Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87664367578?pwd=c0hwRmFXbDFEQWlXMW9kaWRFa3EwQT09.

Wednesday 24 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Fishing and conservation in the Southern Ocean: methodological challenges with stakeholders’ interviews

Daniela Portella Sampaio (City, University of London).

Zoom.

Thursday 11 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

Science-Politics Alliances and the Career of Climate Engineering: Making Sense of a ‘Bad Idea Whose Time has Come’

Julia Schubert (University of Bonn).

Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89064485170?pwd=VERUMndwSHdPTWpXZHBTd0NiS29pUT09.

Wednesday 10 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

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

Duncan Depledge (Loughborough University).

Zoom.

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Rethinking the Virtual: Towards Digital Decolonisation in the Scott Polar Research Institute

Eva Crowson and Elise Nyborg (University of Cambridge, SPRI).

Zoom.

Thursday 28 January 2021, 14:00-15:00

Curating Environmental Change at the Science Museum

Efram Sera-Shriar, Alex Rose, and Rupert Cole (Science Museum, London).

Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86705370977?pwd=ak1XblJvRFFWVllSYU1wUFc3bG91QT09.

Wednesday 27 January 2021, 13:00-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

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

Henry Anderson-Elliott (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

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

Arctic Environmental Humanities Workshop Series

Sumé: the Sound of a Revolution (film pre-screening and discussion)

Inuk Silis Høegh, Independent filmmaker.

Co-hosted with Pardee Center, Boston University.

Wednesday 16 December 2020, 16:00-17:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

SCAR in the 60s: The successes and failures of science diplomacy in Antarctica

Iqra Choudhury (University of Manchester).

Zoom.

Thursday 03 December 2020, 14:00-15:00

An auto-ethnographic account of a hitchhiking journey from Gateshead to Poland

Marijn Nieuwenhuis (Durham University).

Online.

Wednesday 02 December 2020, 13:00-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Beyond Sublime: Antarctic art since WWII

Jean de Pomereu (Associate of SPRI).

Zoom.

Thursday 26 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

The climatic pivot: Mapping water, people, and empires in Central Asia, c.1850-1930

Tom Simpson (Cambridge University).

Online.

Wednesday 18 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Roundtable discussion: Conducting Research in a Pandemic

Charlotte Schoonman (AWI), Anna Guasco (University of Cambridge), Karla Boxall (SPRI).

Zoom.

Thursday 12 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Archiving Arctic ecologies in the early twentieth century: the field and its archival prostheses

Johanne M. Bruun (Cambridge University).

Online.

Wednesday 04 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

Author Meets Critics: North Pole: Nature and Culture

Michael Bravo (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

What’s in a model? Shifting multi-species relationships in Sakha (Yakutia)

Eleanor Peers (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Thursday 29 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Finding connections across space, time, and disciplines: Space and Antarctica

Alice Oates (University of Cambridge) and Osnat Katz (University College London).

Zoom.

Thursday 15 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Arctic Environmental Humanities Workshop Series

Arctic Energy Before Petroleum: Or, What Whales Can Tell Us About Writing History

Note that the talk is accompanied by a "pre-reading" available to download upon registration.

Professor Bathsheba Demuth (Brown University).

Co-hosted with Pardee Center, Boston University.

Tuesday 13 October 2020, 18:00-19:30

Arctic Environmental Humanities Workshop Series

Why we should develop Arctic Humanities

Professor Sverker Sörlin, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden.

Co-hosted with Pardee Center, Boston University.

Tuesday 29 September 2020, 16:00-17:30

Arctic Environmental Humanities Workshop Series

The Shaggy Saviour of Northern Norway

Professor Dolly Jørgensen, Faculty of History University of Stavanger, Norway.

Co-hosted with Pardee Center, Boston University.

Tuesday 01 September 2020, 17:00-18:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

[online] Polar humanities research in the Covid-19 pandemic: Where does the SPRI library fit in?

Eleanor Peers and Frances Marsh (Polar Library, Scott Polar Research Institute).

Zoom.

Thursday 11 June 2020, 14:00-15:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

[online] On Blue Ice: Antarctic Meteorites and Deepening Planetary Time

Alexis Rider, University of Pennsylvania.

Zoom.

Thursday 04 June 2020, 15:00-16:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

[online] Elusive Resources and Community Expectations: Petroleum Narratives by the Norwegian Barents Sea

Ragnhild Feng Dale (Western Norway Research Institute).

Zoom.

Thursday 14 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

[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

Offshore oil, unruly icebergs, and the war against unpredictability in the North Atlantic Ocean

Professor Mark Carey, University of Oregon.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

Wednesday 06 May 2020, 16:15-00:00

Toward climate justice -- Should we rethink our narratives of Arctic glaciers and icebergs?

Professor Mark Carey, University of Oregon.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 05 May 2020, 17:00-00:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

[online] Researching the field at home: the field and its doubles

Johanne Bruun (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Virtual Seminar Room.

Thursday 30 April 2020, 14:00-15:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

[Cancelled] ‘No work before breakfast’: Putting people first at Halley Bay research station, Antarctica

Alice Oates (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

[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

Out of Africa: former Colonial Officials and objects of colonial memory

Dr Chris Jeppesen, Department of History, University of Cambridge .

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Roundtable discussion on 'Intersectionality and International Polar Research'

Morgan Seag (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 11:00-12:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Roundtable discussion on “Off the beaten track? Critical approaches to exploration studies”

Peter Martin (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Roundtable discussion on ‘Decolonising the Polar Library: Moving forward’

Frances Marsh and Eleanor Peers (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Human Anxieties, Bovine Solutions: Political Subtexts of Native Cattle Conservation in Northeastern Siberia

Zoia Tarasova (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 16 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Arctic Visible: Picturing Indigenous Communities in the Nineteenth-Century Western Arctic

Eavan O'Dochartaigh (Umeå University).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 14:00-15:00

From Empire to Globalisation: Jean Gottmann's Political Geographies

Dr Antonio Ferraz-de-Oliveira, Downing College.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

The Selected Body: Investigating Ideas about Nerves and Constitutions in the Heroic Age of Polar Exploration

Ed Armston-Sheret (Royal Holloway, University of London).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

From Epic Bards to Pop Stars in North-East Siberia: Song as Patriotic Education

Eleanor Peers (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Accumulate to circulate: cultures of exchange in nineteenth-century museums

Dr Caroline Cornish, Royal Hollaway.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Configuring and Contesting Planetary Health; Knowledge Politics in Ecologies of Disease

Professor Melissa Leach, IDS, University of Sussex.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 17:00-18:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Introducing Tikigaq - Living with the Whale in the Arctic

Othniel Art Oomittuk Jr and Ellis Doeven (Visiting Artists, Alaska).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 07 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

"Minorities in Polar Research"-Network

Prem Gill (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 31 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Science Policy Workshop Report/Arctic Circle Assembly 2019

John Woitkowitz (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 24 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Clumsy solutions for climate change: whose knowledge is needed?

Dr Rob Bellamy, University of Manchester.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Wednesday 16 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Life in Alaska as an Inupiaq Artist

Willy Topkok (Independent Artist, Alaska).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Tuesday 15 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Japan and its Arctic identity: Forming a narrative about the region

Aki Tonami (University of Tsukuba).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Friday 16 August 2019, 11:00-12:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

The Sublimity of Sublimating Ice: Ruins of the Anthropocene

Mia Bennett (University of Hong Kong).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 20 June 2019, 11:00-12:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

'Museum Entanglements: acquisitions, engagement and exhibitions at the Polar Museum

Alex Partridge (The Polar Museum).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 13 June 2019, 11:00-12:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Antarctic Building and Dwelling: the Poetics of the 'Wide, White Page'

Elizabeth Lewis Williams (University of East Anglia).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 06 June 2019, 11:00-12:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

‘They Should Do It Themselves’: Settler Affect and Indigenous Sovereignty on Alaska’s North Slope

Elizabeth A. Walsh (Department of Anthropology).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 11:00-12:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

‘Indigenous’ avant la lettre. The Origin and Livelihoods of the Sámi in European Scholarly Thought 1930-1960

Otso Kortekangas (Stockholm University and KTH Royal Institute of Technology).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 16 May 2019, 11:00-12:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Identity in Change/Svalbard Futures - with an introduction to the Svalbard Social Science Initiative

Dina Brode-Roger (KU Leuven) & Sam Saville (Aberysthwyth).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 11:00-12:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Can Taxation Help Indigenous Peoples Remap Space?: The Socio-Legal History of the Native Village of Kluti Kaah

Maximilien Zahnd (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 25 April 2019, 14:00-15:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Ivan Chai and King Crabs

Ruth Maclennan (SPRI).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 11:00-12:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

'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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Partnerships in Mining: Stories, Emotions, and the Quest for Stable Relationships in the Greenlandic Mining Sector

Lill Rastad Bjørst (Aalborg University).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 14:00-15:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Roundtable discussion on "Gender in Polar Research"

Morgan Seag (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 14:00-15:30

Knowledge, governance and scale in climate change litigation

Dr Joana Setzer, Grantham Institute, LSE.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Antarctic Heritage and International Relations: Commemorating the Ross Sea Party

Bryan Lintott (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 31 January 2019, 11:00-12:00

Mapping the knowledge landscape: rethinking adaptation to climate change in the Western Ghats

Dr Anshu Ogra, King's College London.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Test

Test.

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Friday 18 January 2019, 11:30-12:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

POLAR2018: Conversations and outcomes

Morgan Seag and Bryan Lintott (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 28 June 2018, 11:00-12:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

The Polar Museum: Museum store tour and discussion

Alex Partridge (The Polar Museum).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Museum Store.

Thursday 14 June 2018, 11:00-12:30

Screening of Ruth Maclennan's film: Call of North

Ruth Maclennan.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

Wednesday 13 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

"This isn’t South Africa" – on using the analytical tools of memory studies and transitional justice in Greenland

Astrid Nonbo Andersen (Danish Institute for International Studies) .

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 07 June 2018, 11:00-12:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Cryolite Ghosts - histories of absence from Ivittuut

Stine Alling Jacobsen (University of Oslo).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Friday 01 June 2018, 11:00-12:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Supposed-to-be-Land: Indigenous Tales of the Beaufort Sea

Peter Martin (University of Oxford).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 24 May 2018, 11:45-12:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Equal Opportunities on Ice: Sex discrimination legislation and British Antarctic science

Morgan Seag (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 24 May 2018, 11:00-11:45

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

'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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Current MPhil dissertation research

Cameron Mackay (SPRI) and Jamie Sandall (SPRI).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Friday 11 May 2018, 11:00-12:30

Space of Biodiversity Expertise

Geographies of Knowledge annual lecture

Professor Esther Turnhout, Professor in Forest and Nature Conservation Policy, Wageningen University.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

Thursday 10 May 2018, 16:30-17:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

The plural parent system in Saami reindeer herding families

Vegard Nergård (UIT The Arctic University of Norway).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 03 May 2018, 11:00-12:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Polar Social Sciences Workshop - Planning Discussion

Henry Anderson-Elliott (SPRI).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 26 April 2018, 11:00-12:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

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

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

What sort of challenge is climate change? Fifty years of editorialising in ‘Nature’ and ‘Science’

Professor Mike Hulme, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 01 March 2018, 16:15-18:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

The Anxiety of Ice: Visualizing Climate Change and Arctic Moving Images

Anna Stenport (Georgia Institute of Technology) and Scott MacKenzie (Queen's University, Kingston).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Friday 09 February 2018, 11:30-12:30

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Protean geographies: Plants, politics and postcolonialism in South Africa

Professor Cheryl McEwan, Geography Department, Durham University.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 08 February 2018, 16:15-18:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

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

The Cultural Functions of Climate

This talk is part of the Christ's climate series, found here: http://www.csap.cam.ac.uk/events/climate-seminar-3-1-feb-2018/

Mike Hulme.

Plumb Auditorium, Christ's College.

Thursday 01 February 2018, 17:30-19:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

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

Department of Geography - other talks

Racial banishment: Old and new forms of urban transformation in the United States

Distinguished International Visiting Fellow Lecture

Professor Ananya Roy, The Institute on Inequality and Democracy, University of California, Los Angeles.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 18 January 2018, 17:00-18:30

Department of Geography - other talks

Postcolonial theory and the project of urban studies

Distinguished International Visiting Fellow Seminar

Professor Ananya Roy, The Institute on Inequality and Democracy, University of California, Los Angeles.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 17 January 2018, 16:15-17:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

The Central Intelligence Agency and Antarctica: 1947-59

Bryan Lintott (SPRI).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Friday 16 June 2017, 11:30-12:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Cultural institutions and Iñupiat identity in Utqiaġvik

Elizabeth Walsh (Social Anthropology, Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Friday 02 June 2017, 11:30-12:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Making a broader impact with polar research

Victoria Herrmann (SPRI).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Friday 26 May 2017, 11:30-12:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Census making and “Becoming Peoples”

Alex Partridge (Archaeology, Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Friday 12 May 2017, 11:30-12:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Architectures and built environments in the Polar Regions

Henry Anderson-Elliot (SPRI) and Morgan Seag (SPRI).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Friday 05 May 2017, 11:30-12:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Polar Social Sciences Workshop - Welcome Back

Michael Bravo (SPRI).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Friday 28 April 2017, 11:30-12:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Antarctica in contemporary fiction

Johanna Grabow (Leipzig University and SPRI).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Friday 10 March 2017, 11:30-12:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Quantarctica: Polar humanities and social science database

Bryan Lintott (SPRI).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Friday 03 March 2017, 11:30-12:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Education in Inuit communities in Canada

Penny Goodman (SPRI).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Friday 24 February 2017, 11:30-12:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Arctic architecture and design

Matthew Jull (University of Virginia).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Friday 17 February 2017, 11:30-12:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Roundtable discussion: Current events in the Arctic and Antarctic

Corine Wood-Donnelly (SPRI).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Friday 10 February 2017, 11:30-12:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Conducting fieldwork in the Arctic

Henry Anderson-Elliott (SPRI).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Friday 03 February 2017, 11:30-12:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Arctic and Antarctic research at Cambridge: Polar Social Sciences Workshop planning

Morgan Seag (SPRI).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Friday 27 January 2017, 11:30-12:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Arctic sovereignty and museum collections

Alex Partridge (Archaeology, Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Friday 25 November 2016, 11:30-12:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Interdisciplinary social science and humanities perspectives on climate change in the Arctic

Penny Goodman (SPRI).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Friday 18 November 2016, 11:30-12:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Reframing the conservation of polar bears in Svalbard

Henry Anderson-Elliott (SPRI).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Friday 11 November 2016, 11:30-12:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Polar Research at Cambridge: Research updates and group synergies

Morgan Seag (SPRI).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Friday 28 October 2016, 11:30-12:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Interdisciplinary polar social sciences and humanities at Cambridge

Michael Bravo (SPRI).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Wednesday 19 October 2016, 11:30-12:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Volcanoes and Boundary Issues in International Law

Brendan Plant (Downing College).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Friday 06 November 2015, 14:30-16:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

"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

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

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