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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

Richard Powell is joining a Panel for the Explore Antarctica evening event at the Royal Society, London on the 28 March 2019. He will talk about the historical geographies of polar science, focusing on the Halley Bay station.

The team will make a Project Launch Presentation at 17.00 on Tuesday 6 November 2018 at the Scott Polar Research Institute, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1ER. The new team of Post Docs will talk about their research plans for