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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.

Peter is presenting a paper on ‘Arctic Silence in Circulation: Mediating Inuit Geographical Knowledge’ at the London Group of Historical Geographers seminar series at 17:30-18:30, Tuesday 16 February 2021.

Johanne is talking on ‘Archiving Arctic ecologies in the early twentieth century: the field and its archival prostheses’ at the ‘Geographies of Knowledge’ lunchtime seminar series at 13:00-14:00, Wednesday 4 November 2020.

On 3 November 2020, members of the Arctic Cultures team participated in the first of the HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) cluster’s Research Seminars for this year.

Nanna, together with her colleague Sarah Pickman, is presenting in the “Breaking the Ice Ceiling: Trailblazing Women in the Arctic and Antarctic Science” panel at the Smithsonian Institution on 27 October 2020.

John Woitkowitz is presenting a paper, ‘Ein unaufhaltsames Streben nach Erkenntnis: Modernity, Science, and the Imperial Geography of August Petermann, 1852-1879’, at the 44th Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association at 09.30, Wednesday 30 September 2020.

Peter Martin is giving a virtual ‘Be Inspired’ lecture entitled ‘Kalli on the ship’ to the Fellows and Members of the RGS-IBG at 14:30-15:30, Monday 21 September 2020.

John completed his term as a Herzog-Ernst-Fellow at the Gotha Research Centre at the University of Erfurt, Germany during August 2020.