Category: News & Events

We are delighted to be able to advertise for two new extension posts to join the Arctic Cultures team. Closing date 5 June 2022.

We are delighted to announce that the European Research Council has agreed an extension to the project until September 2024.

Peter has recently completed visits to archives across the USA as part of his research for the Arctic Cultures project.

Richard gave a Keynote Lecture at the Annual Meeting of Finnish Geographers (Maantieteen päivät), 2021 at the University of Oulu, Finland.

Peter has recently returned from an archival research trip to Copenhagen to consult various materials for the Arctic Cultures project.

Richard participated in a panel discussing COP26 for a wider public audience held at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge .

Peter is giving paper at ‘The Third Barry Lawrence Ruderman Conference on Cartography: Indigenous Mapping’ at Stanford University on 20-21 October 2021.

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.