Category: Arctic Cultures Blog

In this post, PDRA Johanne Bruun draws from her field notes to reflect on her brief visit to the settlement of Barentsburg.

In this blog post, PDRA Johanne Bruun recounts her recent research trip to Svalbard. She reflects upon her own journey in relation to that of the Oxford University Arctic Expeditions, one hundred years prior.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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’.