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Silent film in Arctic exploration

Posted on April 20, 2022 | by rcp31

 

In this blog post, PDRA Johanne Bruun reflects on the use of silent film footage produced during Arctic expeditions in the 1920s.

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Access Denied?: Bureaucratic Challenges in Arctic Archival Research

Posted on December 16, 2021 | by jssd2

 

In this blog post, PDRA Peter Martin discusses his recent fieldwork in Denmark and the USA and reflects on the varying levels of access to Arctic archives.

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Monuments and Memory: Knud Rasmussen in Copenhagen

Posted on October 12, 2021 | by rcp31

 

In this blog post, PDRA Nanna Kaalund reflects on Danish explorer Knud Rasmussen, the ways in which he has been remembered in Copenhagen, and the consequences for both Greenland and Denmark.

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‘The Song of the Innuit’: Circulating Ethnographic Information Through Rhyme

Posted on September 7, 2021 | by rcp31

 

In this blog post, PDRA Peter Martin explores the ways in which travellers in the Arctic used poetry and song as a means to communicate ethnographic information about the Inuit to a variety of audiences.

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A Letter from Nuuk

Posted on July 16, 2021 | by rcp31

 

In this blog post, PDRA John Woitkowitz reflects on the implications of nineteenth-century Greenlandic and German mapmaking for a global history of Arctic cartography.

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The Lasting Legacies of Learning Kalaallisut

Posted on April 30, 2021 | by rcp31

 

In this blog post, PDRA Peter Martin explores the history of international interest in the Kalaallisut language.

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Adrift in Ice and Time

Posted on February 11, 2021 | by rcp31

 

In this blog post, PDRA John Woitkowitz reflects on the uses of history in the 2019-20 MOSAiC expedition to the central Arctic Ocean.

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The Arctic as a ‘natural archive’?

Posted on January 15, 2021 | by rcp31

 

In this blog post, PDRA Johanne Bruun reflects on the different ways in which Arctic landscapes and sites have been imagined, used, and approached as ‘natural archives’.

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Hans Egede, ice-cream and museum exhibits: Is Denmark ready to reckon with its colonial past (and present)?

Posted on December 9, 2020 | by rcp31

 

In this blog post, PDRA Nanna Kaalund investigates the ongoing developments in relations between Denmark and Greenland. She argues that only by understanding the past can we comprehend events in the Greenlandic-Danish present.

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Futures for Arctic Studies after #2020?

Posted on November 12, 2020 | by rcp31

 

In this post, PI Richard Powell reflects on the future study of the Arctic and how the project has been affected by a tumultuous year.

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