Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room


2013-02-13 16:00: The Journals of William Hooper: Inuit ethnographer and evangelical (John MacDonald, Carolyn MacDonald, Wim Rasing)

2014-02-20 13:15: "Periodizing Modern Antarctica, or What is the Legacy of the Heroic Age?" (Yaël Schlick (Queen's University at Kingston))

2014-03-06 16:30: The social life of Arctic transportation networks (Peter Schweitzer (Austrian Polar Research Institute))

2014-04-24 16:30: The Topsy-Turvy Arctic: Navigating the Polar Airspace ( Marionne Cronin (University of Aberdeen))

2014-05-01 16:30: Arctic Maritime International Law (Dr Kamrul Hossain (Arctic Centre, University of Lapland))

2014-10-13 12:30: Fishing rights and financial capitalism in the Arctic: From common  property to private ownership assets (Niels Einarsson (Stefansson Institute, Iceland))

2014-10-22 13:00: Calving glaciers: flow, trends and geological signatures (Nick Toberg, Joe Todd, Kelly Hogan, and more ...)

2015-11-06 14:30: Volcanoes and Boundary Issues in International Law (Brendan Plant (Downing College))

2015-11-17 14:00: Polar Exploration and the 'Spectral Turn' in the Humanities (Shane McCorristine (SPRI))

2015-11-17 14:00: The Myth of Timelessness in the Polar Regions (Bryan Lintott (SPRI))

2016-01-19 14:30: Double-bill: Polar Representation in Museums (Claire Warrior (National Maritime Museum) and Charlotte Connelly (Polar Museum, SPRI))

2016-02-09 14:30: Writing the North? Geography and the disciplines of Circumpolar exceptionality (Richard Powell (University of Oxford))

2016-02-09 14:30: Wrestling With Polar Bears: Risk, Power, Law, and Oil and Gas (Roman Sidortsov (Scott Polar Research Institute))

2016-03-15 16:30: High-resolution modelling of polar climates using the regional climate model RACMO2.3 (Brice Noël (Utrecht University))

2016-10-12 16:30: A journey into Erebus volcano, Antarctica (Nial Peters)

2016-10-19 11:30: Interdisciplinary polar social sciences and humanities at Cambridge (Michael Bravo (SPRI))

2016-10-26 16:30: Linking ice-cliff and rock-slope failures (Antonio Abellan)

2016-10-28 11:30: Polar Research at Cambridge: Research updates and group synergies (Morgan Seag (SPRI))

2016-11-08 13:00: Greenland Ice Sheet motion, ice-ocean interactions, and other ambitions to understand the cryosphere (Twila Moon (University of Bristol))

2016-11-11 11:30: Reframing the conservation of polar bears in Svalbard (Henry Anderson-Elliott (SPRI))

2016-11-18 11:30: Interdisciplinary social science and humanities perspectives on climate change in the Arctic (Penny Goodman (SPRI))

2016-11-25 11:30: Arctic sovereignty and museum collections (Alex Partridge (Archaeology, Cambridge))

2017-01-27 11:30: Arctic and Antarctic research at Cambridge: Polar Social Sciences Workshop planning (Morgan Seag (SPRI))

2017-02-03 11:30: Conducting fieldwork in the Arctic (Henry Anderson-Elliott (SPRI))

2017-02-10 11:30: Roundtable discussion: Current events in the Arctic and Antarctic (Corine Wood-Donnelly (SPRI))

2017-02-17 11:30: Arctic architecture and design (Matthew Jull (University of Virginia))

2017-02-24 11:30: Education in Inuit communities in Canada (Penny Goodman (SPRI))

2017-03-03 11:30: Quantarctica: Polar humanities and social science database (Bryan Lintott (SPRI))

2017-03-10 11:30: Antarctica in contemporary fiction (Johanna Grabow (Leipzig University and SPRI))

2017-04-28 11:30: Polar Social Sciences Workshop - Welcome Back (Michael Bravo (SPRI))

2017-05-05 11:30: Architectures and built environments in the Polar Regions (Henry Anderson-Elliot (SPRI) and Morgan Seag (SPRI))

2017-05-12 11:30: Census making and “Becoming Peoples” (Alex Partridge (Archaeology, Cambridge))

2017-05-26 11:30: Making a broader impact with polar research (Victoria Herrmann (SPRI))

2017-06-02 11:30: Cultural institutions and Iñupiat identity in Utqiaġvik (Elizabeth Walsh (Social Anthropology, Cambridge))

2017-06-16 11:30: The Central Intelligence Agency and Antarctica: 1947-59 (Bryan Lintott (SPRI))

2018-02-09 11:30: The Anxiety of Ice: Visualizing Climate Change and Arctic Moving Images (Anna Stenport (Georgia Institute of Technology) and Scott MacKenzie (Queen's University, Kingston))

2018-04-26 11:00: Polar Social Sciences Workshop - Planning Discussion (Henry Anderson-Elliott (SPRI))

2018-05-03 11:00: The plural parent system in Saami reindeer herding families (Vegard Nergård (UIT The Arctic University of Norway))

2018-05-11 11:00: Current MPhil dissertation research (Cameron Mackay (SPRI) and Jamie Sandall (SPRI))

2018-05-24 11:00: Equal Opportunities on Ice: Sex discrimination legislation and British Antarctic science (Morgan Seag (University of Cambridge))

2018-05-24 11:45: Supposed-to-be-Land: Indigenous Tales of the Beaufort Sea (Peter Martin (University of Oxford))

2018-06-01 11:00: Cryolite Ghosts - histories of absence from Ivittuut (Stine Alling Jacobsen (University of Oslo))

2018-06-07 11:00: "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) )

2018-06-28 11:00: POLAR2018: Conversations and outcomes (Morgan Seag and Bryan Lintott (University of Cambridge))

2019-01-18 11:30: Test (Test)

2019-01-31 11:00: Antarctic Heritage and International Relations: Commemorating the Ross Sea Party (Bryan Lintott (University of Cambridge))

2019-02-14 14:00: Roundtable discussion on "Gender in Polar Research" (Morgan Seag (University of Cambridge))

2019-02-28 14:00: Partnerships in Mining: Stories, Emotions, and the Quest for Stable Relationships in the Greenlandic Mining Sector (Lill Rastad Bjørst (Aalborg University))

2019-03-14 11:00: Ivan Chai and King Crabs (Ruth Maclennan (SPRI))

2019-04-25 14:00: Can Taxation Help Indigenous Peoples Remap Space?: The Socio-Legal History of the Native Village of Kluti Kaah (Maximilien Zahnd (University of Cambridge))

2019-05-09 11:00: Identity in Change/Svalbard Futures - with an introduction to the Svalbard Social Science Initiative  (Dina Brode-Roger (KU Leuven) & Sam Saville (Aberysthwyth))

2019-05-16 11:00: ‘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))

2019-05-23 11:00: ‘They Should Do It Themselves’: Settler Affect and Indigenous Sovereignty on Alaska’s North Slope (Elizabeth A. Walsh (Department of Anthropology))

2019-06-06 11:00: Antarctic Building and Dwelling: the Poetics of the 'Wide, White Page' (Elizabeth Lewis Williams (University of East Anglia))

2019-06-13 11:00: 'Museum Entanglements: acquisitions, engagement and exhibitions at the Polar Museum (Alex Partridge (The Polar Museum))

2019-06-20 11:00: The Sublimity of Sublimating Ice: Ruins of the Anthropocene (Mia Bennett (University of Hong Kong))

2019-08-16 11:00: Japan and its Arctic identity: Forming a narrative about the region (Aki Tonami (University of Tsukuba))

2019-10-15 14:00: Life in Alaska as an Inupiaq Artist (Willy Topkok (Independent Artist, Alaska))

2019-10-24 14:00: Science Policy Workshop Report/Arctic Circle Assembly 2019 (John Woitkowitz (University of Cambridge))

2019-10-31 14:00: "Minorities in Polar Research"-Network (Prem Gill (University of Cambridge))

2019-11-07 14:00: Introducing Tikigaq - Living with the Whale in the Arctic (Othniel Art Oomittuk Jr and Ellis Doeven (Visiting Artists, Alaska))

2019-11-14 14:00: From Epic Bards to Pop Stars in North-East Siberia: Song as Patriotic Education (Eleanor Peers (University of Cambridge))

2019-11-21 14:00: The Selected Body: Investigating Ideas about Nerves and Constitutions in the Heroic Age of Polar Exploration (Ed Armston-Sheret (Royal Holloway, University of London))

2019-12-05 14:00: Arctic Visible: Picturing Indigenous Communities in the Nineteenth-Century Western Arctic (Eavan O'Dochartaigh (Umeå University))

2020-01-16 14:00: Human Anxieties, Bovine Solutions: Political Subtexts of Native Cattle Conservation in Northeastern Siberia (Zoia Tarasova (University of Cambridge))

2020-01-30 14:00: Roundtable discussion on ‘Decolonising the Polar Library: Moving forward’ (Frances Marsh and Eleanor Peers (University of Cambridge))

2020-02-06 14:00: Roundtable discussion on “Off the beaten track? Critical approaches to exploration studies” (Peter Martin (University of Cambridge))

2020-02-19 11:00: Roundtable discussion on 'Intersectionality and International Polar Research' (Morgan Seag (University of Cambridge))

2020-03-12 14:00: [Cancelled] ‘No work before breakfast’: Putting people first at Halley Bay research station, Antarctica (Alice Oates (University of Cambridge))

2023-01-26 14:00: Europe's cartographic 'Arcticulation' of the North: The use of maps in official European and national Arctic policies. (Emilie Canova, SPRI - University of Cambridge)

2023-11-27 14:00: Antarctic Research in the Anthropocene (Professor Alejandra Mancilla, Professor Peder Roberts, Ms. Amelia Urry)

2024-02-08 14:00: 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)

2024-04-25 14:00: Accessing Qikiqtaruk in a changing Arctic: Using immersive virtual reality for community engagement (Dr Jeffrey T. Kerby, SPRI, University of Cambridge)

2024-06-21 14:00: 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)

2025-10-09 10:30: Under Fedchenko’s teeth: knowing glaciers in the Pamir Mountains (Professor Christine Bichsel ( Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg))

2025-10-22 15:00: Rethinking the territory of (critical) geopolitics through Arctic infrastructures (Vesa Väätänen, Associate Research Fellow at the Arctic Center, University of Lapland)

2025-10-29 14:00: Holding up the skies: Is Starlink occupying Low Earth orbit? (Professor Mia Bennett, Centre for Outer Space Studies, University College London)

2025-11-05 15:00: The Art of Listening: Reflections on Arctic Cultures (Professor Michael Bravo (University of Cambridge))

2025-11-19 15:00: Beyond Risk: Co-Producing Arctic Nuclear Sustainability through Technology, Indigenous Knowledge, and Governance (Caterina Monni, PhD candidate at Ca' Foscari University of Venice)