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Seminars and public lectures within the Geographies of Knowledge research group of the Department of Geography.

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1 upcoming talk and 185 talks in the archive.

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

End of term Polar social gathering

UserEmilie Canova & Liz Walsh, SPRI.

HouseIn-person - location TBC.

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

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Sustainability and the Arctic - interdisciplinary ECR workshop in Tampere

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

HouseOnline (contact organiser for Zoom link).

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

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

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

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

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

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

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

End of term Polar social gathering

UserBronte Evans, Emilie Canova, Liz Walsh, SPRI.

HouseIn person - pub Fort St George.

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

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

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

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

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

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

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Human-insect relations and material culture in Western Alaska

UserAmanda Althoff, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University .

HouseZoom - email organiser for details.

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

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

The Arctic and Antarctica in popular novels

UserBronte Evans, Emilie Canova, Liz Walsh, SPRI.

HouseIn person - Panton Arms.

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

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

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

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

HouseZoom - email organiser for details.

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

Picturing the Invisible

UserMakoto Takahashi.

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography.

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

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Scalar politics and power processes in shared international spaces

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

HouseZoom - email organiser for details.

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

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Book launch: Inventing Greenland – Designing an Arctic Nation

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

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Friends' Room.

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

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

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

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

HouseZoom - email organiser for details.

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

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Decolonisation of Arctic library and archive metadata

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

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

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

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Histories of Antarctica

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

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

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

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Short film discussion session: Utuqaq

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseZoom.

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

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

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

UserStephen Lezak, University of Cambridge (SPRI).

HouseZoom.

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

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Ice-geographies: Race, Indigeneity, and Coloniality

UserJen Rose Smith, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

HouseZoom.

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

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Contentious Collections? Decolonising the Polar Museum

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

HouseZoom.

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

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Science in Practice: Sharing the field with natural scientists

UserSophie Duveau (Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris).

HouseZoom.

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

Towards Humble Geographies

UserSam Saville (Unviersity of Cambridge).

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

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

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

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

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

HouseZoom.

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

Curating Environmental Change at the Science Museum

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

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

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

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

UserMarijn Nieuwenhuis (Durham University).

HouseOnline.

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

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Beyond Sublime: Antarctic art since WWII

UserJean de Pomereu (Associate of SPRI).

HouseZoom.

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

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

UserTom Simpson (Cambridge University).

HouseOnline.

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

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Roundtable discussion: Conducting Research in a Pandemic

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

HouseZoom.

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

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

UserJohanne M. Bruun (Cambridge University).

HouseOnline.

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

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

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

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

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 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.

UserProfessor Bathsheba Demuth (Brown University).

HouseCo-hosted with Pardee Center, Boston University.

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

Arctic Environmental Humanities Workshop Series

Why we should develop Arctic Humanities

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

HouseCo-hosted with Pardee Center, Boston University.

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

Arctic Environmental Humanities Workshop Series

The Shaggy Saviour of Northern Norway

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

HouseCo-hosted with Pardee Center, Boston University.

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

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

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

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

HouseZoom.

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

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

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

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography.

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

From Empire to Globalisation: Jean Gottmann's Political Geographies

UserDr Antonio Ferraz-de-Oliveira, Downing College.

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography.

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

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

UserDr Caroline Cornish, Royal Hollaway.

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography.

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

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

UserProfessor Melissa Leach, IDS, University of Sussex.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

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

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Introducing Tikigaq - Living with the Whale in the Arctic

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

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

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

Clumsy solutions for climate change: whose knowledge is needed?

UserDr Rob Bellamy, University of Manchester.

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography.

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

Knowledge, governance and scale in climate change litigation

UserDr Joana Setzer, Grantham Institute, LSE.

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography.

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

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

POLAR2018: Conversations and outcomes

UserMorgan Seag and Bryan Lintott (University of Cambridge).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

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

Space of Biodiversity Expertise

Geographies of Knowledge annual lecture

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

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

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

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

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

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

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

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

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/

UserMike Hulme.

HousePlumb Auditorium, Christ's College.

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

Department of Geography - other talks

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

Distinguished International Visiting Fellow Lecture

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

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 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

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

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Antarctica in contemporary fiction

UserJohanna Grabow (Leipzig University and SPRI).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

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

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

Double-bill: Polar Representation in Museums

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

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

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

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