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

Svalbard: Four Times Faster (Registration LInk Below)

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

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

User Emilie Canova & Liz Walsh, SPRI.

House 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

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

House 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

User Natan Obed, President of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami.

House 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

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

House 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

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

House 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

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

House 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

User Emilie Canova & Liz Walsh, SPRI.

House 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

User Bronte Evans, Emilie Canova, Liz Walsh, SPRI.

House 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

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

House 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

User Amanda Althoff, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University .

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

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

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

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

House 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

User Bronte Evans, Emilie Canova, Liz Walsh, SPRI.

House 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

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

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

Picturing the Invisible

User Makoto Takahashi.

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

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

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

User Alice Oates (University of Cambridge).

House 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

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

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

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

[POSTPONED] Russian and Soviet glaciology of the Third Pole

User Christine Bichsel (University of Fribourg).

House 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

User Jean de Pomereu (Marie Curie Research Fellow).

House 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.

User Emilie Canova, SPRI - University of Cambridge.

House 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

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

House 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

User Natasha Gardiner, University of Canterbury, New-Zealand.

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

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

Climate Repair and Governance: Science and Ethics Panel Discussion

User Speaker to be confirmed.

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

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

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

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

Introduction to PHaSS for new students and members of staff

User Bronte Evans, Emilie Canova, Liz Walsh, SPRI.

House 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

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

House 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

User 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.

House 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

User Dr. Julia Olsen.

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

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

Utopian Ambitions in the High Arctic at Resolute Bay

User Alan Marcus (University of Aberdeen).

House 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

User Dr. Nanna Katrine Lüders Kaalund.

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

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

Our experiences: Why Polar Research needs to be accessible

User Accessibility In Polar Research (@AccessPolar).

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

House Co-hosted with Pardee Center, Boston University.

Icy Humanities: A Collaborative Symposium

User Speakers' details are shown below.

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)

User Sam Kramer (William and Mary).

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

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

An Assessment of Progress to Decarbonize Antarctic Stations

User Juan Lucci, University of Cambridge.

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

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

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

User Eleanor Peers (University of Cambridge).

House 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

User Romain Chuffart, University of Durham.

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

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

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

User Ilona Kater (University of Cambridge).

House 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

User Marc Jacobsen (Carlsberg Foundation's Internationalisation Fellow) .

House 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

User Duncan Depledge (Loughborough University).

House 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

User Speaker to be confirmed.

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

House Co-hosted with Pardee Center, Boston University.

Curating the Arctic: Northern Museums and Decolonization

User Speaker to be confirmed.

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)

User Fiona Amery, University of Cambridge.

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

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

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

User Peter Martin (University of Cambridge).

House 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

User Stephen Lezak, University of Cambridge (SPRI).

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

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

Ice-geographies: Race, Indigeneity, and Coloniality

User Jen Rose Smith, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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

House Co-hosted with Pardee Center, Boston University.

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

User Prof. Andrew Stuhl, Bucknell University.

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

House Co-hosted with Pardee Center, Boston University.

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

User Professor Andrew Stuhl, Bucknell 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?

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

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

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

Contentious Collections? Decolonising the Polar Museum

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

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

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

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

User Marisa Karyl Franz (New York University).

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

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

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

Cancelled

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

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

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

Science in Practice: Sharing the field with natural scientists

User Sophie Duveau (Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris).

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

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

Greenland Geopolitics in the light of renewed American attention

User Marc Jacobsen (SPRI).

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

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

Change, continuity and value in Svalbard

User Samantha Saville (University of Cambridge).

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

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

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

User Laura Seddon (University of Durham).

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

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

Towards Humble Geographies

User Sam Saville (Unviersity of Cambridge).

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

User Daniela Portella Sampaio (City, University of London).

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

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

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

User Julia Schubert (University of Bonn).

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

User Duncan Depledge (Loughborough University).

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

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

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

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

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

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

Curating Environmental Change at the Science Museum

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

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

User Henry Anderson-Elliott (University of Cambridge).

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

House Co-hosted with Pardee Center, Boston University.

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

User Inuk Silis Høegh, Independent filmmaker.

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

User Iqra Choudhury (University of Manchester).

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

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

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

User Marijn Nieuwenhuis (Durham University).

House Online.

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

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

User Max Jones (University of Manchester).

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

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

Beyond Sublime: Antarctic art since WWII

User Jean de Pomereu (Associate of SPRI).

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

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

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

User Tom Simpson (Cambridge University).

House Online.

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

Roundtable discussion: Conducting Research in a Pandemic

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

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

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

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

User Johanne M. Bruun (Cambridge University).

House Online.

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

Author Meets Critics: North Pole: Nature and Culture

User Michael Bravo (University of Cambridge).

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

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

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

User Eleanor Peers (University of Cambridge).

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

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

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

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

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

House Co-hosted with Pardee Center, Boston University.

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.

User Professor Bathsheba Demuth (Brown University).

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

House Co-hosted with Pardee Center, Boston University.

Why we should develop Arctic Humanities

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

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

House Co-hosted with Pardee Center, Boston University.

The Shaggy Saviour of Northern Norway

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

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?

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

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

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

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

User Alexis Rider, University of Pennsylvania.

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

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

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

User Ragnhild Feng Dale (Western Norway Research Institute).

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

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

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

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

House Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

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

House Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

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

User Professor Mark Carey, University of Oregon.

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

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

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

User Professor Mark Carey, University of Oregon.

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

User Johanne Bruun (University of Cambridge).

House 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

User Alice Oates (University of Cambridge).

House 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

User Max Jones (University of Manchester).

House 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

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

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

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

Roundtable discussion on 'Intersectionality and International Polar Research'

User Morgan Seag (University of Cambridge).

House 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

User Sofia Gavrilova (University of Oxford).

House 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”

User Peter Martin (University of Cambridge).

House 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’

User Frances Marsh and Eleanor Peers (University of Cambridge).

House 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'

User Morgan Seag (University of Cambridge).

House 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

User Zoia Tarasova (University of Cambridge).

House 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

User Eavan O'Dochartaigh (Umeå University).

House Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

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

From Empire to Globalisation: Jean Gottmann's Political Geographies

User Dr Antonio Ferraz-de-Oliveira, Downing College.

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

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

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

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

House 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

User Ingrid Medby (Oxford Brookes University).

House 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

User Eleanor Peers (University of Cambridge).

House Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

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

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

User Dr Caroline Cornish, Royal Hollaway.

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

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

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

User Professor Melissa Leach, IDS, University of Sussex.

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

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

House 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

User Prem Gill (University of Cambridge).

House 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

User Vanessa Heggie (University of Birmingham).

House 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

User John Woitkowitz (University of Cambridge).

House Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

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

Clumsy solutions for climate change: whose knowledge is needed?

User Dr Rob Bellamy, University of Manchester.

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

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

Life in Alaska as an Inupiaq Artist

User Willy Topkok (Independent Artist, Alaska).

House Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

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

Cartographic Lines as Travel Pathways of Climate Knowledge: Alexander von Humboldt's Climate Map

User Professor Birgit Schneider, University of Potsdam.

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

Thursday 03 October 2019, 17:00-18:00

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

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

User Aki Tonami (University of Tsukuba).

House 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

User Mia Bennett (University of Hong Kong).

House 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

User Alex Partridge (The Polar Museum).

House 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'

User Elizabeth Lewis Williams (University of East Anglia).

House 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

User Elizabeth A. Walsh (Department of Anthropology).

House 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

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

House 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

User Dorothea Wehrmann (Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik).

House 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

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

House 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

User Maximilien Zahnd (University of Cambridge).

House 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

User Ruth Maclennan (SPRI).

House 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

User Nancy Wachowich (University of Aberdeen).

House 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

User Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough (Durham University).

House 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

User Lill Rastad Bjørst (Aalborg University).

House 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"

User Morgan Seag (University of Cambridge).

House Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

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

Knowledge, governance and scale in climate change litigation

User Dr Joana Setzer, Grantham Institute, LSE.

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

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

Antarctic Heritage and International Relations: Commemorating the Ross Sea Party

User Bryan Lintott (University of Cambridge).

House 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

User Dr Anshu Ogra, King's College London.

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

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

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

User Jon Oldfield (University of Birmingham).

House 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

User Test.

House 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

User Adrian Howkins (University of Bristol).

House 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

User Richard Powell and project team (University of Cambridge).

House 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

User Brice Perombelon (University of Oxford).

House 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

User Richard Powell (University of Cambridge).

House 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'

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

House 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

User Morgan Seag and Bryan Lintott (University of Cambridge).

House 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

User Alex Partridge (The Polar Museum).

House Scott Polar Research Institute, Museum Store.

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

House Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

Screening of Ruth Maclennan's film: Call of North

User Ruth Maclennan.

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

User Astrid Nonbo Andersen (Danish Institute for International Studies) .

House 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

User Stine Alling Jacobsen (University of Oslo).

House 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

User Peter Martin (University of Oxford).

House 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

User Morgan Seag (University of Cambridge).

House 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

User Nina Doering (University of Oxford).

House 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

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

House Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

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

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

Space of Biodiversity Expertise

Geographies of Knowledge annual lecture

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

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

User Vegard Nergård (UIT The Arctic University of Norway).

House 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

User Henry Anderson-Elliott (SPRI).

House 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

User Hanne Nielsen (University of Tasmania).

House 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’

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

House 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

User Rick Knecht (University of Aberdeen).

House 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

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

House 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

User Professor Cheryl McEwan, Geography Department, Durham University.

House 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

User Thomas F. Thornton (University of Oxford).

House Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

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