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SUMMARY:The hubris of youth? Oxford\, Cambridge and the Arctic\, c.1920–
 1940 - Richard Powell (University of Oxford)
DTSTART:20161117T153000Z
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CONTACT:Marta Halina
DESCRIPTION:During the interwar period\, the Universities of Oxford and Ca
 mbridge sent successive expeditions to the Arctic\, mainly focusing on Nor
 dauslandet (North East Land in the Svalbard archipelago) and Greenland. Th
 ese expeditions have been rather neglected by historians\, save for some c
 elebratory work by former protagonists. This paper investigates some of th
 eir legacies\, both in terms of their scientific contribution and in their
  impacts on particular Inuit communities. It focuses specifically on psych
 ological experiments conducted on the people of Illorsuit in the late 1930
 s. In investigating this\, some of these expeditionary activities complica
 te a number of historiographical assumptions about the nature of Greenland
 ic governance\, the role of universities in the field sciences and the wid
 er development of the disciplines of Arctic study.  This discussion also p
 rovides for heuristic reflection in recent attempts to de-colonise the cur
 riculum at both universities.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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