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These are SPRI ’s research seminars for the social sciences and humanities relating to the polar regions. The seminars are usually held on Tuesdays at 16.30 in the SPRI Lecture Theatre and are presented by leading scholars. All interested are welcome to attend. The seminars will happen in-person, subject to the latest risk guidance from the University. Please contact the organiser of the 2025-26 series, Elizabeth Walsh (eaw67@cam.ac.uk), for further information.

If you have a question about this list, please contact: Geography/SPRI Webmaster; 48016; Professor Richard Powell. If you have a question about a specific talk, click on that talk to find its organiser.

2 upcoming talks and 68 talks in the archive.

[POSTPONED] Climate, uncertainty, and the slippery measurement of Antarctic ice

We regret this talk has been postponed.

UserAmelia Urry (History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 10 March 2026, 16:30-18:00

Unfrozen: The Fight for the Future of the Arctic

UserMia Bennett (Geography, University of Washington).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 17 February 2026, 16:30-18:00

Contradictory Contemporaneity? Sámi Building in Nordic Architectural Discourse

UserSofia Nivarti (Architecture, University of Cambridge).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 10 February 2026, 16:30-18:00

POSTPONED: Accessing Antarctica: an analysis of the institutional structures that facilitate Antarctic fieldwork

We regret this talk has been postponed.

UserBronte Evans-Rayward (SPRI, University of Cambridge).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 18 November 2025, 16:30-18:00

European Arctic conferences as places of inter-regional geopolitics

UserEmilie Canova (SPRI, University of Cambridge).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 11 November 2025, 16:30-18:00

Could the Antarctic Treaty System Learn from Enforcement Mechanisms in Other Areas of International Law?

UserLaura Parker (Visiting Scholar, SPRI).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 28 October 2025, 16:30-18:00

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

UserElizabeth Walsh (CCTL, University of Cambridge).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 14 October 2025, 16:30-18:00

What's in a name? - "Sakha"

UserKünnei Takaahai (University of Warsaw).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

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

A Slippery Signifier: Sea Ice in the Norwegian National Imaginary

UserPhilip Steinberg (Durham University).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

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

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

UserPiers Vitebsky (University of Cambridge).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

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

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

UserIsabelle Gapp (University of Aberdeen).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

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

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

UserElizabeth Walsh (University of Cambridge).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

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

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

UserEmilie Pillon (Université Paris Nanterre).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

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

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

UserMorgan Ip (University of Cambridge).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

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

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

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

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

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

Antarctic Research in the Anthropocene

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

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

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

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

UserNatan Obed, President of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

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

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

UserAlice Oates (University of Cambridge).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

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

[POSTPONED] Russian and Soviet glaciology of the Third Pole

UserChristine Bichsel (University of Fribourg).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

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

Antarctica is not one thing

UserJean de Pomereu (Marie Curie Research Fellow).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

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

Utopian Ambitions in the High Arctic at Resolute Bay

UserAlan Marcus (University of Aberdeen).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

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

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

UserEleanor Peers (University of Cambridge).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

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

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

UserIlona Kater (University of Cambridge).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

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

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

UserMarc Jacobsen (Carlsberg Foundation's Internationalisation Fellow) .

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

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

Defence and Security in the Arctic

UserDuncan Depledge (Loughborough University).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

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

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

UserPeter Martin (University of Cambridge).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

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

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

Cancelled

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

HouseZoom.

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

Change, continuity and value in Svalbard

UserSamantha Saville (University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom.

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

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

UserDuncan Depledge (Loughborough University).

HouseZoom.

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

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

UserHenry Anderson-Elliott (University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom.

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

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

UserMax Jones (University of Manchester).

HouseZoom.

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

Author Meets Critics: North Pole: Nature and Culture

UserMichael Bravo (University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom.

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

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

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

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

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

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

UserMax Jones (University of Manchester).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

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

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

UserSofia Gavrilova (University of Oxford).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

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

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

UserMorgan Seag (University of Cambridge).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

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

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

UserIngrid Medby (Oxford Brookes University).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

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

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

UserVanessa Heggie (University of Birmingham).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

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

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

UserDorothea Wehrmann (Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

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

Mittimatalik Arnait Miqsuqtuit Collective and the Art of Sealskin Sewing

UserNancy Wachowich (University of Aberdeen).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

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

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

UserEleanor Rosamund Barraclough (Durham University).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

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

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

UserJon Oldfield (University of Birmingham).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

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

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

UserAdrian Howkins (University of Bristol).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

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

ERC ARCTIC CULT Launch Presentation

UserRichard Powell and project team (University of Cambridge).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

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

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

UserBrice Perombelon (University of Oxford).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

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

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

UserRichard Powell (University of Cambridge).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

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

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

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

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

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

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

UserNina Doering (University of Oxford).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

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

Brand Antarctica: Advertising and the South

UserHanne Nielsen (University of Tasmania).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

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

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

UserRick Knecht (University of Aberdeen).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

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

Sacred Mountains as Flood Refuge Sites in Northwest North America

UserThomas F. Thornton (University of Oxford).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

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

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

UserBryan Lintott (Scott Polar Research Institute).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

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

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

UserPeter Martin (University of Oxford).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

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

The meaning of Indlandsis: a cultural history of ice sheets

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

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

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

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

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

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

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

Writing the North? Geography and the disciplines of Circumpolar exceptionality

UserRichard Powell (University of Oxford).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

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

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

UserRoman Sidortsov (Scott Polar Research Institute).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

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

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

Polar Exploration and the 'Spectral Turn' in the Humanities

UserShane McCorristine (SPRI).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

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

The Myth of Timelessness in the Polar Regions

UserBryan Lintott (SPRI).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

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

Reflections on Analysis and Authorship in Polar Worlds

UserDr. Michael Bravo, Geography and SPRI.

HouseSPRI Seminar Room.

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

Indigenous Sovereignty beyond Nations

UserDavid Turnbull (Melbourne University).

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

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

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

UserNiels Einarsson (Stefansson Institute, Iceland).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

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

Arctic Maritime International Law

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

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

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

The Topsy-Turvy Arctic: Navigating the Polar Airspace

User Marionne Cronin (University of Aberdeen).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

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

The social life of Arctic transportation networks

UserPeter Schweitzer (Austrian Polar Research Institute).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

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

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

UserYaël Schlick (Queen's University at Kingston).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

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

The Journals of William Hooper: Inuit ethnographer and evangelical

UserJohn MacDonald, Carolyn MacDonald, Wim Rasing.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

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

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