Category: News & Events

Peter is organising and co-convening a session at the Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers) Annual Conference, 31 August – 3 September 2021. Peter’s session is entitled ‘Bound by Craft: Material Culture and Bordering within Histories

During the ICASS X meetings in June 2021, our SPRI collegaue, Dr. Piers Vitebsky, was awarded an Honorary Lifetime Membership by the International Arctic Social Sciences Association (IASSA).

Peter presented a paper on “Arctic Silence in Circulation: Mediating Inuit Geographical Knowledge” at the RGS-IBG PGRG Biannual Workshop ‘Inequalities of Knowledge Production in Political Geography’, held on 30 June – 1 July 2021.

The Arctic Cultures team attended ICASS X (10^th International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences) earlier this month.

The full project team are presenting a panel at the “Greenland-Denmark 1721-2021” conference in Copenhagen later today, 11 June 2021.

Richard gave an invited Plenary lecture at the conference “Greenland-Denmark=300” in Copenhagen on 10 June 2021.

John is presenting his research at the Modern European History Research Seminar of the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge on 8 June 2021.

John is giving a paper as part of the APECS International Conference on “Polar Science: Success Stories from the Field and from Home” held online on 12 May 2021. In his presentation “Measuring and Mapping the Arctic:

John contributed an entry on the history of global networks in the making of Arctic cartography for the Gotha Research Library in Germany.