mh903's list


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 11:00: Indigenous Sovereignty beyond Nations  (David Turnbull (Melbourne University))

2015-10-20 14:30: Reflections on Analysis and Authorship in Polar Worlds (Dr. Michael Bravo, Geography and SPRI)

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))

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

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

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))

2017-06-13 16:30: Polar Opposites: American and Norwegian voices in the exploration of Franz Josef Land (P.J. Capelotti (Professor of Anthropology, Penn State University))

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

2017-11-06 16:30: The meaning of Indlandsis: a cultural history of ice sheets (Jean de Pomereu (Research Associate, Scott Polar Research Institute) )

2017-11-27 16:30: Re/Fram/ing Geography: Fridtjof Nansen at the Royal Geographical Society c.1888-1914 (Peter Martin (University of Oxford))

2018-01-17 16:15: Postcolonial theory and the project of urban studies (Professor Ananya Roy, The Institute on Inequality and Democracy, University of California, Los Angeles)

2018-01-18 17:00: Racial banishment: Old and new forms of urban transformation in the United States (Professor Ananya Roy, The Institute on Inequality and Democracy, University of California, Los Angeles)

2018-01-29 16:30: Scott’s and Shackleton’s Huts: Antarctic Heritage and International Relations (Bryan Lintott (Scott Polar Research Institute))

2018-02-01 17:30: The Cultural Functions of Climate (Mike Hulme)

2018-02-05 16:30: Sacred Mountains as Flood Refuge Sites in Northwest North America (Thomas F. Thornton (University of Oxford))

2018-02-08 16:15: Protean geographies: Plants, politics and postcolonialism in South Africa (Professor Cheryl McEwan, Geography Department, Durham University)

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))

2018-02-19 16:30: Climate change, archaeology and tradition in an Alaskan Yup'ik Village (Rick Knecht (University of Aberdeen))

2018-03-01 16:15: What sort of challenge is climate change? Fifty years of editorialising in ‘Nature’ and ‘Science’ (Professor Mike Hulme, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge)

2018-04-23 16:30: Brand Antarctica: Advertising and the South (Hanne Nielsen (University of Tasmania))

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))

2018-05-10 16:30: Space of Biodiversity Expertise (Professor Esther Turnhout, Professor in Forest and Nature Conservation Policy, Wageningen University)

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

2018-05-14 16:30: 'They don't know about the people who live here': Local non-participation in extractive resource management in Greenland (Nina Doering (University of Oxford))

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) )

2018-06-13 13:00: Screening of Ruth Maclennan's film: Call of North (Ruth Maclennan)

2018-06-14 11:00: The Polar Museum: Museum store tour and discussion (Alex Partridge (The Polar Museum))

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

2018-07-02 16:30: Singing in the Wilderness: Antarctic Sledging Songs of the 'Heroic Age' (Elizabeth Leane (University of Tasmania) and Carolyn Philpott (University of Tasmania))

2018-10-09 17:00: BOOK LAUNCH: Studying Arctic Fields: Cultures, Practices, and Environmental Sciences (Richard Powell (University of Cambridge))

2018-10-30 16:30: From animism to speculation: representations of geopower among the Dene of Tulita, Northwest Territories, Canada (Brice Perombelon (University of Oxford))

2018-11-06 17:00: ERC ARCTIC CULT Launch Presentation (Richard Powell and project team (University of Cambridge))

2018-11-13 16:30: Antarctic Mosaic: Integrating Science and History in the McMurdo Dry Valleys (Adrian Howkins (University of Bristol))

2019-01-29 16:30: The role of the Arctic in the development of Soviet climate science (Jon Oldfield (University of Birmingham))

2019-01-30 13:00: Mapping the knowledge landscape: rethinking adaptation to climate change in the Western Ghats (Dr Anshu Ogra, King's College London)

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

2019-02-13 13:00: Knowledge, governance and scale in climate change litigation (Dr Joana Setzer, Grantham Institute, LSE)

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))

2019-03-05 16:30: 'As Far North As Whale Hunters Go': The Medieval Arctic Environment, Experienced and Imagined (Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough (Durham University))

2019-03-12 16:30: Mittimatalik Arnait Miqsuqtuit Collective and the Art of Sealskin Sewing (Nancy Wachowich (University of Aberdeen))

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))

2019-05-14 16:30: Critical Geopolitics of the Polar Regions: An Inter-American Perspective (Dorothea Wehrmann (Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik))

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))

2019-10-03 17:00: Cartographic Lines as Travel Pathways of Climate Knowledge: Alexander von Humboldt's Climate Map (Professor Birgit Schneider, University of Potsdam)

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

2019-10-16 13:00: Clumsy solutions for climate change: whose knowledge is needed? (Dr Rob Bellamy, University of Manchester)

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

2019-10-29 16:30: Meat to Mittens: a short history of survival science and extreme physiology in the Arctic and Antarctic regions (Vanessa Heggie (University of Birmingham))

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))

2019-11-12 17:00: Configuring and Contesting Planetary Health; Knowledge Politics in Ecologies of Disease (Professor Melissa Leach, IDS, University of Sussex)

2019-11-13 13:00: Accumulate to circulate: cultures of exchange in nineteenth-century museums (Dr Caroline Cornish, Royal Hollaway)

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

2019-11-19 16:30: From Arctic statehood to self: State personnel’s articulations of Arctic identity in Norway, Iceland, and Canada (Ingrid Medby (Oxford Brookes University))

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))

2019-11-27 13:00: From Empire to Globalisation: Jean Gottmann's Political Geographies  (Dr Antonio Ferraz-de-Oliveira, Downing College)

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))

2020-01-28 16:30: Gender and 20th century Antarctic fieldwork: Constructing and dismantling the 'ice ceiling' (Morgan Seag (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))

2020-02-11 16:30: Constructing the Other: representations of Arctic native communities in Russian regional museums (Sofia Gavrilova (University of Oxford))

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

2020-02-19 13:00: Out of Africa: former Colonial Officials and objects of colonial memory (Dr Chris Jeppesen, Department of History, University of Cambridge )

2020-03-03 16:30: [POSTPONED] Fridtjof Nansen’s FRAM expedition and the Making of a Transnational Hero (Max Jones (University of Manchester))

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

2020-04-30 14:00: [online] Researching the field at home: the field and its doubles (Johanne Bruun (University of Cambridge))

2020-05-05 17:00: Toward climate justice -- Should we rethink our narratives of Arctic glaciers and icebergs? (Professor Mark Carey, University of Oregon)

2020-05-06 16:15: Offshore oil, unruly icebergs, and the war against unpredictability in the North Atlantic Ocean (Professor Mark Carey, University of Oregon)

2020-05-12 16:30: [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))

2020-05-14 14:00: [online] Elusive Resources and Community Expectations: Petroleum Narratives by the Norwegian Barents Sea (Ragnhild Feng Dale (Western Norway Research Institute))

2020-06-04 15:00: [online] On Blue Ice: Antarctic Meteorites and Deepening Planetary Time (Alexis Rider, University of Pennsylvania)

2020-06-11 14:00: [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))

2020-09-01 17:00: The Shaggy Saviour of Northern Norway (Professor Dolly Jørgensen, Faculty of History  University of Stavanger, Norway)

2020-09-29 16:00: Why we should develop Arctic Humanities (Professor Sverker Sörlin, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden)

2020-10-13 18:00: Arctic Energy Before Petroleum: Or, What Whales Can Tell Us About Writing History  (Professor Bathsheba Demuth (Brown University))

2020-10-15 14:00: Finding connections across space, time, and disciplines: Space and Antarctica (Alice Oates (University of Cambridge) and Osnat Katz (University College London))

2020-10-29 14:00: What’s in a model? Shifting multi-species relationships in Sakha (Yakutia) (Eleanor Peers (University of Cambridge))

2020-11-03 16:00: Author Meets Critics: North Pole: Nature and Culture (Michael Bravo (University of Cambridge))

2020-11-04 13:00: Archiving Arctic ecologies in the early twentieth century: the field and its archival prostheses (Johanne M. Bruun (Cambridge University))

2020-11-12 16:00: Roundtable discussion: Conducting Research in a Pandemic (Charlotte Schoonman (AWI), Anna Guasco (University of Cambridge), Karla Boxall (SPRI))

2020-11-18 13:00: The climatic pivot: Mapping water, people, and empires in Central Asia, c.1850-1930 (Tom Simpson (Cambridge University))

2020-11-26 14:00: Beyond Sublime: Antarctic art since WWII (Jean de Pomereu (Associate of SPRI))

2020-12-01 16:00: Exploration, Celebrity and the Making of a Transnational Hero: Fridtjof Nansen and the Fram Expedition (Max Jones (University of Manchester))

2020-12-02 13:00: An auto-ethnographic account of a hitchhiking journey from Gateshead to Poland (Marijn Nieuwenhuis (Durham University))

2020-12-03 14:00: SCAR in the 60s: The successes and failures of science diplomacy in Antarctica (Iqra Choudhury (University of Manchester))

2020-12-16 16:00: Sumé: the Sound of a Revolution (film pre-screening and discussion) (Inuk Silis Høegh, Independent filmmaker)

2021-01-26 16:00: Captive polar bears: politics, (re)production, and performance (Henry Anderson-Elliott (University of Cambridge))

2021-01-27 13:00: Curating Environmental Change at the Science Museum (Efram Sera-Shriar, Alex Rose, and Rupert Cole (Science Museum, London))

2021-01-28 14:00: Rethinking the Virtual: Towards Digital Decolonisation in the Scott Polar Research Institute (Eva Crowson and Elise Nyborg (University of Cambridge, SPRI))

2021-02-09 16:00: [POSTPONED] Defence and Security in the Arctic: The UK perspective (Duncan Depledge (Loughborough University))

2021-02-10 13:00: Science-Politics Alliances and the Career of Climate Engineering: Making Sense of a ‘Bad Idea Whose Time has Come’ (Julia Schubert (University of Bonn))

2021-02-11 14:00: Fishing and conservation in the Southern Ocean: methodological challenges with stakeholders’ interviews (Daniela Portella Sampaio (City, University of London))

2021-02-24 13:00: Towards Humble Geographies  (Sam Saville (Unviersity of Cambridge))

2021-02-25 14:00: The challenges and opportunities of working across the physical and social sciences (Laura Seddon (University of Durham))

2021-03-09 16:00: Change, continuity and value in Svalbard (Samantha Saville (University of Cambridge))

2021-03-11 14:00: Greenland Geopolitics in the light of renewed American attention (Marc Jacobsen (SPRI))

2021-05-06 14:00: Science in Practice: Sharing the field with natural scientists (Sophie Duveau (Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris))

2021-05-11 16:00: [Cancelled] Languages of Emergency, Infrastructures of Response and Everyday Heroism in the Circumpolar North (Olga Ulturgasheva (University of Manchester) and Barbara Bodenhorn (University of Cambridge))

2021-05-27 15:00: Mariinsky Post as a Meeting Place: Affective Encounters and Ethnographic Records (Marisa Karyl Franz (New York University))

2021-06-03 14:00: Contentious Collections? Decolonising the Polar Museum (Mia Surridge & Alex Partridge (The Polar Museum, Cambridge))

2021-06-24 14:00: 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))

2021-09-14 11:30: What Can We Learn from Ignorance? Arctic Energy Frontiers, Environmental Regimes, and Indigenous Rights Movements Since the 1970s (Professor Andrew Stuhl, Bucknell University)

2021-10-12 16:30: “What Can We Learn from Ignorance? Arctic Energy Frontiers, Environmental Regimes, and Indigenous Rights Movements Since the 1970s” (Prof. Andrew Stuhl, Bucknell University)

2021-10-21 15:00: Ice-geographies: Race, Indigeneity, and Coloniality (Jen Rose Smith, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

2021-10-28 14:00: The Arctic at the End of the World: Hannah Arendt and the Narration of Apocalypse (Stephen Lezak, University of Cambridge (SPRI))

2021-11-02 16:30: The ‘Origins of the Inuit’: Indigenous Marginalisation within a Transnational Debate (Peter Martin (University of Cambridge))

2021-11-11 14:00: 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)

2021-11-16 17:00: Curating the Arctic: Northern Museums and Decolonization (Speaker to be confirmed)

2021-11-25 14:00: Short film discussion session: Utuqaq (Speaker to be confirmed)

2021-11-30 16:30: Defence and Security in the Arctic (Duncan Depledge (Loughborough University))

2021-12-07 16:30: The Greenland Self-Government's enhanced agency in Arctic politics (Marc Jacobsen (Carlsberg Foundation's Internationalisation Fellow) )

2022-01-25 16:30: The changing world of reindeer: People, climate and forests in Northern Fenno-Scandia (Ilona Kater (University of Cambridge))

2022-01-27 14:00: Indigenous sovereignty and environmental protection in the Arctic (Romain Chuffart, University of Durham)

2022-02-08 16:30: Singing the Universe: Kant’s aesthetic and indigenous Siberian pop (Eleanor Peers (University of Cambridge))

2022-02-10 14:00: An Assessment of Progress to Decarbonize Antarctic Stations (Juan Lucci, University of Cambridge)

2022-03-10 14:00: Isolate and Assimilate: Settler Colonialism in the Canadian Arctic (a bipolar perspective) (Sam Kramer (William and Mary))

2022-04-05 18:00: Icy Humanities: A Collaborative Symposium  (Speakers' details are shown below)

2022-05-05 14:00: Our experiences: Why Polar Research needs to be accessible (Accessibility In Polar Research (@AccessPolar))

2022-05-12 14:00: 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)

2022-05-17 16:30: Utopian Ambitions in the High Arctic at Resolute Bay (Alan Marcus (University of Aberdeen))

2022-05-19 14:00: Arctic coastal communities and increasing shipping activities: local impacts and adaptive responses (Dr. Julia Olsen)

2022-05-26 16:00: 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)

2022-10-13 14:00: Decolonisation of Arctic library and archive metadata (Sandy Campbell, John W. Scott Health Sciences Library, University of Alberta, Canada)

2022-11-10 14:00: Introduction to PHaSS for new students and members of staff (Bronte Evans, Emilie Canova, Liz Walsh, SPRI)

2022-11-17 14:00: Rurality, Indigeneity and the Alaska Income Tax, 1949-1980 (Maximilien Zahnd, Hauser Post-Doctoral Fellow, NYU School of Law)

2022-11-28 16:00: Climate Repair and Governance: Science and Ethics Panel Discussion (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-11-30 19:00: Stakeholder perspectives on knowledge exchange practices at the Antarctic science-policy interface (Natasha Gardiner, University of Canterbury, New-Zealand)

2023-01-19 15:00: Book launch: Inventing Greenland – Designing an Arctic Nation (Bert de Jonghe, Harvard University and Dr Mia Bennett, University of Washington)

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)

2023-02-07 16:30: Antarctica is not one thing (Jean de Pomereu (Marie Curie Research Fellow))

2023-02-21 16:30: [POSTPONED] Russian and Soviet glaciology of the Third Pole (Christine Bichsel (University of Fribourg))

2023-03-02 16:00: Scalar politics and power processes in shared international spaces (Dr Pauline Pic, École Supérieure d’études internationales (ESEI), University of Laval)

2023-03-07 16:30: Placing Halley research station in the history of UK Antarctic science, 1960 to present (Alice Oates (University of Cambridge))

2023-03-09 13:00: Picturing the Invisible (Makoto Takahashi)

2023-03-09 14:00: 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 )

2023-03-17 17:00: The Arctic and Antarctica in popular novels (Bronte Evans, Emilie Canova, Liz Walsh, SPRI)

2023-05-11 14:00: 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)

2023-05-25 14:00: Human-insect relations and material culture in Western Alaska (Amanda Althoff, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University )

2023-06-08 14:00: 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)

2023-06-15 17:30: End of term Polar social gathering (Bronte Evans, Emilie Canova, Liz Walsh, SPRI)

2023-10-12 14:00: Welcome event - Introduction to PHaSS (Emilie Canova & Liz Walsh, SPRI)

2023-10-26 14:00: “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)

2023-11-02 14:00: Visual culture masterclass – Arctic Expedition Photography: Critical Perspectives, Inuit Returns (Dr Carol Payne, Professor of Art History, Carleton University)

2023-11-16 13:45: 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))

2023-11-21 16:15: Unpacking Colonial Ties: Self-determination in Inuit Nunangat, Canada (Natan Obed, President of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami)

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

2023-11-30 17:00: End of term Polar social gathering (Emilie Canova & Liz Walsh, SPRI)

2023-12-12 14:00: Svalbard: Four Times Faster  (Registration LInk Below) (Mathias Albert, Dina Brode-Roger, Lisbeth Iverson, Zdenka Sokolíčková)

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)

2024-02-15 14:00: 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)

2024-02-20 16:30: From the margins of the Third Pole: the geopolitics of cryosphere in Tajikistan (Professor Christine Bichsel, Department of Geosciences, University of Fribourg)

2024-02-22 14:00: Infrastructural Fear: or When Climate Change Isn’t an Allegory (Stephen Lezak, PhD candidate, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Gates scholar)

2024-03-07 14:30: Beyond knowledge-building: Research infrastructure, technology, and the practice of Arctic (in)security (Aleksis Oreschnikoff, Doctoral researcher, University of Helsinki)

2024-03-14 14:00: Isobel Hutchison’s Arctic Quest (Naï Zakharia, PhD candidate, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge)

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)

2024-05-09 14:00: Uncertainty on Ice (Amelia Urry, PhD candidate SPRI & HSPS, University of Cambridge)

2024-05-23 14:00: Digital Colonial Histories: the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and its Polar Collections (John Woitkowitz and Larissa Schmid, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin)

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)

2024-10-10 14:00: Welcome event - Introduction to PHaSS (Emilie Canova, Liz Walsh & Deb Wood, SPRI)

2024-10-17 14:00: 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)

2024-10-24 13:00: Welcome lightning talks (Speaker to be confirmed)

2024-10-24 14:00: Antarctica by proxy - The maintenance of ASTEP: gesture and temporality of a Concordia telescope.  (Emilie Pillon, PhD candidate, Université Paris Nanterre, LAA)

2024-10-29 16:30: Urban Futures in the North - A Collective Imagination of an Arctic Borderland (Morgan Ip (University of Cambridge))

2024-11-07 13:00: Life, land and sea: socio-ecological change and land-use in Shetland (Dr Ilona Kater and Dr Andrew Garrick)

2024-11-07 14:30: 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))

2024-11-12 16:30: Inuit Piqutingit: What Belongs to Inuit [Film Screening] (Panel Speakers: Bernadette Dean, Deborah Kigjugalik Webster (Inuit Heritage Insights), Carol Payne (Carleton University))

2024-11-19 15:00: Greening the Arctic [Panel Discussion Webinar, registration required] (Hannah Bradley, Inuk Silis Hœgh, Jeffrey Kerby, Kim Neider, Ross Virginia)

2024-11-21 13:00: Imagining negative emission technologies: looking to the recent past and present to contemplate futures (Dr Léon Hirt, Department of Geography)

2024-11-21 14:00: 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)

2024-11-26 16:30: Antarctica by Proxy : an Anthropological Exploration of the Values of Antarctica’s Scientific Data. (Emilie Pillon (Université Paris Nanterre))

2025-01-28 16:30: [POSTPONED] Are They Coming Home? Transient Worker–Iñupiat Relations on Alaska's North Slope (Elizabeth Walsh (University of Cambridge))

2025-01-30 13:00: Birders (Speaker to be confirmed)

2025-02-20 14:30: ArctiC-EUrope relations: A Case Study of Inter-Regional Co-Construction and Its Geopolitical Impacts (Emilie Canova (Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge))

2025-02-25 16:30: Glacial Fractures: An Environmental Art History of Sioqqap Sermia, Greenland (Isabelle Gapp (University of Aberdeen))

2025-02-27 13:00: Science in a Crisis: Networks, hierarchies and colonial continuities in responses to volcanic crisis (Dr Martin Mahony, University of East Anglia)

2025-03-04 16:30: The Fractured North: International Research and People in the Russian Arctic (Piers Vitebsky (University of Cambridge))

2025-03-06 15:30: Arctic Voices: Indigenous Leadership and Self-Determination in Arctic Governance (Elena Kavanagh (University College Cork, Ireland and CSER, Cambridge University))

2025-03-11 16:30: A Slippery Signifier: Sea Ice in the Norwegian National Imaginary (Philip Steinberg (Durham University))

2025-03-13 14:30: Inuktitut in the Archive: Early insights from research into 19th century writing about Inuktitut (Leah Palmer (University of Galway, Ireland))

2025-03-20 14:30: North to the Future (Bennett Weissenbach (Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge))

2025-05-13 16:30: What's in a name? - "Sakha" (Künnei Takaahai (University of Warsaw))

2025-05-22 16:00: SCAR and the Antarctic Treaty System (Angharad Downes (Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research))

2025-05-29 14:00: “Walk the Perimeter” – Stories of Place in the Falkland Islands (Bronte Evans Rayward (University of Cambridge))

2025-06-05 14:00: A Historian's Lessons from the Canadian Mountain Assessment (Danielle Inkpen (Mount Allison University, Canada))

2025-10-09 15:00: Welcome event - introduction to PHaSS (PHaSS convenors)

2025-10-14 16:30: Are They Coming Home? Transient Worker–Iñupiat Relations on Alaska's North Slope (Elizabeth Walsh (CCTL, University of Cambridge))

2025-10-16 14:00: Can we keep our cool? Exploring ongoing developments, questions, and concerns around polar geoengineering research (Albert van Wijngaarden, PhD candidate, SPRI, University of Cambridge)

2025-10-28 16:30: Could the Antarctic Treaty System Learn from Enforcement Mechanisms in Other Areas of International Law? (Laura Parker (Visiting Scholar, SPRI))

2025-11-06 14:00: Arctic Signs and the Questions They Raise: An Introduction to Inuit Sign Language and Its Possible Avenues of Future Research (Bethany Baljak, BA Linguistics graduate, University of Cambridge)

2025-11-11 16:30: European Arctic conferences as places of inter-regional geopolitics (Emilie Canova (SPRI, University of Cambridge))

2025-11-18 16:30: POSTPONED: Accessing Antarctica: an analysis of the institutional structures that facilitate Antarctic fieldwork (Bronte Evans-Rayward (SPRI, University of Cambridge))

2025-11-20 14:00: ‘Goats, Grasses, and Glaciers’ - Rethinking Climate Migration in the Indian Tibetan Plateau (Samira Patel, PhD candidate, SPRI, University of Cambridge)

2025-11-20 14:00: Pitcairn and Polynesia (Dr Sebastian Fox, Alumnus)

2025-11-27 13:00: Landlocked: Oil, Empire, and Planetary Politics in Alberta (Dr Jeremy Schmidt, Queen Mary University of London)

2025-11-27 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Marco Volpe, Arctic Centre, University of Lapland)

2026-02-10 16:30: Contradictory Contemporaneity? Sámi Building in Nordic Architectural Discourse   (Sofia Nivarti (Architecture, University of Cambridge))

2026-02-17 16:30: Unfrozen: The Fight for the Future of the Arctic (Mia Bennett (Geography, University of Washington))

2026-03-10 16:30: [POSTPONED] Climate, uncertainty, and the slippery measurement of Antarctic ice (Amelia Urry (History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge))

2026-03-12 14:00: “To those who knew him best because they loved him most”: Loss, Grief, and Family in British Antarctic exploration, c. 1901-1922 (Deb Wood, PhD candidate, Scott Polar Research Institute)

2026-03-19 14:00: Rights of Nature, Ecocentrism, and Antarctica (Jordane Liebeaux, PhD candidate, University of Bristol)

2026-05-05 16:30: Discovery Investigations: Science, Empire and the Making of the British South Atlantic (Daniella McCahey (History, Texas Tech University))

2026-05-12 16:30: Climate, uncertainty, and the slippery measurement of Antarctic ice (Amelia Urry (History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge))