Category: News & Events

High North News reported on the first ERC Arctic Cultures project workshop on ‘Knowledge Formations and Colonial Encounters in the Arctic’ held at the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge on 9-10 January 2020.

We are delighted to welcome over 60 delegates to our first Arctic Cultures Project Workshop, ‘Knowledge Formations and Colonial Encounters in the Arctic’ over the next two days (9 and 10 January 2020). Fascinating papers are being presented

Richard Powell and Peter Martin are presenting at the History of Arctic Anthropology conference at the Royal Anthropological Institute in London on 27 and 28 February. Richard’s paper is ‘Fin de Siècle Method in Arctic Anthropology and

Registration is now open for our first Arctic Cultures Workshop – ‘Knowledge Formations and Colonial Encounters in the Arctic’, 9-10 January 2020. This is being held at the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge. Please join us!

Johanne Bruun is presenting a paper on ‘Aircraft and Pencraft’: between tradition and modernity in Arctic varsity exploration, at the Science Museum in London on 12th November 2019

John Woitkowitz is participating in the Science Policy Workshop ‘Raising awareness and building capacity for science-based policy-making’ at the Icelandic Center for Research (RANNIS) in Reykjavik, Iceland, on 8-9 October 2019. He is contributing his expertise and research as

Richard Powell is giving a presentation, ‘Arctic Cultures and Social Sciences’, at UKRI ‘The Changing Canadian Arctic Workshop’ in London on 19 June 2019. He will be representing Arctic Social Sciences in the UK, on behalf of ESRC.

John Woitkowitz is presenting a paper on ‘August Petermann and the Speculative Geography of the Open Polar Sea’, at Shaped by the Sea: Histories of Ocean Science, Medicine, and Technology, at the University of Manchester on 28 June 2019