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


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

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))

2017-06-16 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) )

2018-06-14 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))

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))

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

2020-10-15 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))

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

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

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

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))

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

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

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))

2021-05-27 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))

2021-10-21 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))

2021-11-11 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)

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

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

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))

2022-05-05 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)

2022-05-19 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)

2022-11-30 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)

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

2023-03-09 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))

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

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)

2024-02-22 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 14:00: Antarctica by proxy - The maintenance of ASTEP: gesture and temporality of a Concordia telescope.  (Emilie Pillon, PhD candidate, Université Paris Nanterre, LAA)

2024-11-07 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))

2024-11-21 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)

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))

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

2025-03-13 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))

2025-05-22 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)

2025-10-16 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)

2025-11-06 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)

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

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

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)