Category: News & Events

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

Nanna K. L. Kaalund is presenting a paper on ‘The Arctic Travels and Scientific Practices of Tookoolito and Ebierbing’, at the Shaped by the Sea: Histories of Ocean Science, Medicine, and Technology conference at the University of Manchester on

Nanna K. L. Kaalund and John Woitkowitz are presenting a paper on, ‘August Petermann, Elisha Kent Kane, and the Making of the Open Polar Sea’, at the Science Museum in London on 18th June 2019.

John Woitkowitz is presenting a paper on ‘Science, Networks, and Knowledge Communities: August Petermann and the Construction of the Open Polar Sea’, at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association in Vancouver on 5th June 2019.

Richard Powell is presenting to the IDG Summit on ‘Arctic Cultures and Geopolitics’ at the IDG Summit, Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge on 16 April 2019