PRESENTATIONS & LECTURES
Disseminating our project
2024
Elizabeth Walsh, 12 September 2024: “Objects in the Barrow and Peary collections”
Arctic Cultures Final Conference
Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge
Morgan Ip, 12 September 2024: “Game of Bones: Inugaq in Museum Collections”
Arctic Cultures Final Conference
Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge
Nanna Kaalund, 12 September 2024: “Narratives of Smith Sound – Inuit Voices and Scientific Competition”
Arctic Cultures Final Conference
Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge
Johanne Bruun, 12 September 2024: “Nordaustlandet and the ‘Invention’ of Ecology””
Arctic Cultures Final Conference
Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge
Mari Kleist, 11 September 2024: “The search for the origins of the Inuit and Ultima Thule”
Arctic Cultures Final Conference
Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge
Peter Martin, 11 September 2024: “The search for the origins of the Inuit and Ultima Thule”
Arctic Cultures Final Conference
Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge
John Woitkowitz, 11 September 2024: “The Open Polar Sea”
Arctic Cultures Final Conference
Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge
Richard Powell, 11 September 2024: “Arctic Cultures”
Arctic Cultures Final Conference
Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge
Elizabeth Walsh, 23 August 2024: “Expeditions and Exhibitions: The Legacies of two 19th century ethnographic collections from the North American Arctic.”
World Congress of Environmental History
Oulu, Finland
Elizabeth Walsh, 7 June 2024: “The Arctic, Encased: 19th Century Collections of Inuit Material Culture and their Legacies.”
Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Conference
Bodø, Norway
Elizabeth Walsh, 1 June 2024: “Museums of/in the Arctic: Imagining a Region from Within and Without.”
International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences XI
Bodø, Norway
Morgan Ip, 1 June 2024 “The Inuit Bone Game: Storytelling and Dwelling”
Arctic Congress Bodø 2024
Bodø, Norway
Morgan Ip, 25 March 2024: “Arctic Cultures: Sites of Collection in the Formation of the European and American Northlands”
Arctic Science Summit Week (poster)
University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Morgan Ip, 25 March 2024: “Game of Bones: Ossicular omission in museum collections?”
Arctic Science Summit Week (poster)
University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Morgan Ip, 24 March 2024: “Arctic Cultures: Sites of Collection in the Formation of the European and American Northlands”
Flash talk at the Arctic Science Summit Week
University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Morgan Ip and Elizabeth Walsh, 19 March 2024: “Arctic Cultures: Collections and Imaginations”
Talk and Guided Exhibition Tour as part of the Cambridge Festival
Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge
Morgan Ip and Elizabeth Walsh, 15 February 2024: “Arctic Museum Cultures: A Critical Perspective on Heritage Practices in/about the North”
Polar Humanities and Social Sciences (PHaSS) Workshop Seminar Series
Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge
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2023
Morgan Ip, 28 September 2023: “Game of Bones: Ossicular omission in museum collections?”
Department of Geography Research Day
Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge
Elizabeth Walsh, 3 May 2023: “The Interconnected Arctic: Contemporary Life at the Top of the World”
Public Outreach event, Polar Museum
Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge
Elizabeth Walsh, 13 April 2023: “Imagining the Arctic: A Geography Masterclass”
Year 12 Subject Masterclass
Pembroke College, Cambridge, UK
Morgan Ip, 28 February 2023: “Imaginaries of Urban Space in an Arctic Borderland: Kirkenes and Nikel”
Arctic Building and Construction (ABC) Webinar: Perspectives on Arctic Urban Space Design (virtual)
Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway
Elizabeth Walsh, 28 February 2023: “Climate Justice in the Circumpolar North“
BCG Executive Education Programme
Judge Business School, University of Cambridge
Elizabeth Walsh, 21 February 2023: “Climate Justice in the Circumpolar North“
BCG Executive Education Programme
Judge Business School, University of Cambridge
Morgan Ip, 16 February 2023: “Dwelling in/on the Arctic”
Polar Pint of Science
The Blue Moon Pub, Cambridge
Elizabeth Walsh, 8 February 2023: “Inuit Art and the Arctic Environment: Relations Among Human and Non-human Persons in a Changing Landscape”
Guest Talk, MSt Art History
Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge
Morgan Ip, 18 January 2023: “The Arctic Environment: A culturally-centred perspective”
“The Arctic Environment—Why We Should Care” Panel Discussion
Grimshaw Architects, London
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2022
Elizabeth Walsh, 12 November 2022: “Extracting the Wilderness: Indigenous Sovereignty, Settler Imaginaries, and Arctic Oil Development“
American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting
Seattle, WA
Elizabeth Walsh, 20 October 2022: “Climate Justice in the Circumpolar North“
BCG Executive Education Programme
Judge Business School, University of Cambridge
Elizabeth Walsh, 23 September 2022: “Indigenous Environmental Knowledges and Extractive Economies“
‘Indigenous studies in the United Kingdom and Europe: pasts, presents and futures’ conference
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities, University of Cambridge
Johanne Bruun, 31 August 2022: “On birds and beetles: animal archives and the making of ‘Arctic ecology’”
RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2022
Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), Newcastle University
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2021
Richard Powell, 4 November 2021: Keynote Lecture, “Sustaining Arctics? Between Climate Change and Decolonising in Northern Research”
Annual Meeting of Finnish Geographers (Maantieteen päivät)
University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
Richard Powell, 1-3 November 2021: Guest Professor on PhD Course, “(Re)Searching for Sustainable Solutions”
Annual Meeting of Finnish Geographers (Maantieteen päivät)
University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
Peter Martin, 2 November 2021: “The ‘Origins of the Inuit’: Indigenous Marginalisation within a Transnational Debate”
‘Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics’ Research Seminars
Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge
Richard Powell, 28 October 2021: “Cultures and Politics of a Changng Circumpolar North”
COP26 Forum (virtual)
Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
Peter Martin, 20 October 2021: “The Cartography of Kallihirua: Inughuit Abduction and Indigenous Map Making”
3rd Barry Lawrence Ruderman Conference on Cartography: Indigenous Mapping (virtual)
David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford University, Stanford, USA
Peter Martin, 2 September 2021: “Anthropogeography in the Arctic: Hans Peder Steensby, Material Culture and the Search for the ‘Origins of the Inuit'”
RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2021 (virtual)
Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers), London
Peter Martin, 1 July 2021: “Arctic Silence in Circulation: Mediating Inuit Geographical Knowledge”
‘Inequalities of Knowledge Production in Political Geography’ workshop (virtual)
RGS-IBG Political Geography Research Group Biannual Workshop
Nanna Kaalund, 20 June 2021: “Technologies of Travel: Situating the Embodied Experience of Nineteenth-Century Euro-American Exploration in Northern Greenland”
10th International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (virtual)
Northern Arctic Federal University, Arkhangelsk, Russia
John Woitkowitz, 19 June 2021: “The Open Polar Sea”
10th International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (virtual)
Northern Arctic Federal University, Arkhangelsk, Russia
Peter Martin, 19 June 2021: “The Search for the ‘Origins of the Inuit'”
10th International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (virtual)
Northern Arctic Federal University, Arkhangelsk, Russia
Nanna Kaalund, 19 June 2021: “Narratives of Smith Sound”
10th International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (virtual)
Northern Arctic Federal University, Arkhangelsk, Russia
Richard Powell, 19 June 2021: “The Arctic Cultures project”
10th International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (virtual)
Northern Arctic Federal University, Arkhangelsk, Russia
Peter Martin, 17 June 2021: ‘‘’The Irrepressible Naukum’: Arctic Indigenous Intermediaries and William Healey Dall’s Search for the ‘Origins of the Inuit'”
10th International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (virtual)
Northern Arctic Federal University, Arkhangelsk, Russia
John Woitkowitz, 15 June 2021: “Taking the Long View: History, Science, and Diplomacy in the Making of German Arctic Research”
10th International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (virtual)
Northern Arctic Federal University, Arkhangelsk, Russia
John Woitkowitz, 11 June 2021: “Mission Stations and Meeting Places: Samuel Petrus Kleinschmidt and the Transimperial Science of the Second German Arctic Expedition, 1869-1870”
Greenland-Denmark 1721 + 300 = 2021 (virtual)
Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark
Nanna Kaalund, 11 June 2021: “Publishing ‘Danish Greenland’: Hinrich Rink and the making of an international community of researchers”
Greenland-Denmark 1721 + 300 = 2021 (virtual)
Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark
Peter Martin, 11 June 2021: “Anthropogeography in the Arctic: H.P. Steensby and study of the Inughuit”
Greenland-Denmark 1721 + 300 = 2021 (virtual)
Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark
Richard Powell, 11 June 2021: “Introduction to Arctic Cultures”
Greenland-Denmark 1721 + 300 = 2021 (virtual)
Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark
Richard Powell, 10 June 2021: Keynote Lecture, “Making Arctics: Sociality and Science in the Circumpolar North”
Greenland-Denmark 1721 + 300 = 2021 (virtual)
Royal Academy of Science and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark
John Woitkowitz, 8 June 2021: “Measuring the Arctic: Transimperial Science and the Polar Geography of August Petermann, 1839-1878“
Modern European History Research Seminar (virtual)
Faculty of History, University of Cambridge
John Woitkowitz, 12 May 2021: “Measuring and Mapping the Arctic: Cartography and the Legacies of Nineteenth-Century Arctic Science”
APECS International Conference (virtual)
Association for Polar Early Career Scientists, AWI, Potsdam, Germany
Peter Martin, 16 February 2021: “Arctic Silence in Circulation: Mediating Inuit Geographical Knowledge”
London Group of Historical Geographers Seminar (virtual)
Institute of Historical Research, University of London
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2020
Nanna Kaalund, 19 November 2020: “Josephine D. Peary’s constructions of humanity and environment in the high Arctic”
‘The Anthropocene’ Reading Group (virtual)
Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge
Johanne Bruun, 4 November 2020: “Archiving Arctic ecologies in the early twentieth century: the field and its archival prostheses”
‘Geographies of Knowledge’ Seminar (virtual)
Department of Geography, University of Cambridge
Johanne Bruun, Nanna Kaalund, John Woitkowitz with Peter Martin and Richard Powell, 3 November 2020: Panelists and Chairs for “North Pole: Author Meets Critics”
‘Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics’ Research Seminar (virtual)
Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge
Nanna Kaalund (and Sarah Pickman), 27 October 2020: “Breaking the Ice Ceiling: Trailblazing Women in the Arctic and Antarctic Science”
American Women of Science: Recovering History, Defining the Future (virtual)
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
John Woitkowitz, 30 September 2020: “Ein unaufhaltsames Streben nach Erkenntnis’: Modernity, Science, and the Imperial Arctic Geography of August Petermann, 1852-1879”
44th Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association (virtual)
German Studies Association
Peter Martin, 21 September 2020: “‘Kalli on the Ship’: Indigenous Intermediaries and the Production of Arctic Knowledge”
Be Inspired Lecture (virtual)
Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers), London
Richard Powell, 17 September 2020: “Fin de Siècle Method in Arctic Anthropology and Geography“
RAI2020 Anthropology and Geography: Dialogues Past, Present and Future (virtual)
Royal Anthropological Institute, London
Peter Martin, 16 September 2020: “The Cartography of Kallihirua: Inughuit Abduction and Indigenous Map Making”
RAI2020 Anthropology and Geography: Dialogues Past, Present and Future (virtual)
Royal Anthropological Institute, London
Johanne Bruun, 15 September 2020: “Post-war Varsity Masculinities and the Arctic Field”
RAI2020 Anthropology and Geography: Dialogues Past, Present and Future (virtual)
Royal Anthropological Institute, London
Peter Martin, 17 July 2020: “Indigenous Intermediaries and the Production of Arctic Knowledge“
Fitzwilliam College Postdoctoral Society Conference (virtual)
Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
Nanna Kaalund, 8 July 2020: “Erasing and Creating the Arctic: the Function of Visual Culture in the ‘British Arctic Expedition’ of 1875-1876”
Global Digital History of Science Festival (virtual)
British Society for the History of Science
Nanna Kaalund (with Roland Jackson and Rachel Hewitt), 9 June 2020: “The Playground of Europe, Forbes, Tyndall and Le Blond”
Alpine Clubcast (virtual)
Alpine Club, London
Johanne Bruun, 30 April 2020: “Researching the field from home: The field and its doubles”
Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop (virtual)
Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge
Richard Powell and Peter Martin, 30 April 2020: “Objects at the Polar Museum”
‘Legacies of Colonialism and Empire’ Workshop (virtual)
University of Cambridge Museums Network
Nanna Kaalund, 27 February 2020: “’The Admiralty has been keeping its pictures’: Visual Culture, George Nares, and the ‘British Arctic Expedition’ of 1875-1876”
‘The Frozen Deep: Voices from the Nineteenth-Century Arctic’ Symposium
Royal Holloway, University of London
Richard Powell, 27 February 2020: “Fin de Siècle Method in Arctic Anthropology and Geography”
‘History of Arctic Anthropology’ Workshop
Royal Anthropological Institute, London
Peter Martin, 27 February 2020: “‘Kalli on the ship’: Inughuit Abduction and Disciplinary Formations”
‘History of Arctic Anthropology’ Workshop
Royal Anthropological Institute, London
John Woitkowitz, Nanna Kaalund and Peter Martin, 10 January 2020: “Practical Sessions: Maps, Objects and Images of Arctic Formations”
Arctic Cultures Project Workshop 1: ‘Knowledge Formations and Colonial Encounters in the Arctic’
Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge
Richard Powell, 9 January 2020: Keynote Lecture, “Framing a ‘Natural Region‘ and Forming ‘Arctic Cultures‘”
Arctic Cultures Project Workshop 1: ‘Knowledge Formations and Colonial Encounters in the Arctic’
Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge
Nanna Kaalund, 9 January 2020: “Observing the Observers: Suersaq‘s Ethnography“
Arctic Cultures Project Workshop 1: ‘Knowledge Formations and Colonial Encounters in the Arctic’
Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge
Peter Martin, 9 January 2020: “‘Kalli on the Ship’: Inughuit Abduction and Disciplinary Formations“
Arctic Cultures Project Workshop 1: ‘Knowledge Formations and Colonial Encounters in the Arctic’
Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge
2019
Richard Powell, 22 October 2019: Keynote Lecture, “Arctic Cultures“
Cambridge Festival of Ideas
Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge
Nanna Kaalund, 11 October 2019: “Who is a (Scientific) Explorer? Reconsidering the Arctic Research of Tookoolito and Ebierbing”
‘Decolonising Science Narratives’ Conference
Science Museum, London
John Woitkowitz, 28 June 2019: “August Petermann and the Speculative Geography of the Open Polar Sea”
‘Shaped by the Sea: Histories of Ocean Science, Medicine, and Technology’ Conference
University of Manchester
Nanna Kaalund, 27 June 2019: “The Arctic Travels and Scientific Practices of Tookoolito and Eibierbing”
‘Shaped by the Sea: Histories of Ocean Science, Medicine, and Technology’ Conference
University of Manchester
Johanne Bruun and Nanna Kaalund, 24 June 2019: “Historisising Arctic Science and Politics”
Model Arctic Council Summer School (NOMAC University)
Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge
Richard Powell, 19 June 2019: “Arctic Cultures and Social Sciences”
‘The Changing Canadian Arctic’ Workshop
UKRI, London
Nanna Kaalund and John Woitkowitz, 18 June 2019: “August Petermann, Elisha Kent Kane, and the Making of the Open Polar Sea”
Science Museum Research Seminar Series
Science Museum, London
John Woitkowitz, 5 June 2019: “Science, Networks, and Knowledge Communities: August Petermann and the Construction of the Open Polar Sea”
Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association
Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Richard Powell, 16 April 2019: “Arctic Cultures and Geopolitics”
IDG Summit
Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge
Richard Powell, 28 March 2019: Panelist
Explore Antarctica
Nanna Kaalund, 27 February 2019: “Transnational History of (Arctic) Science”
‘Geographies of Knowledge’ Seminar
Department of Geography, University of Cambridge
Richard Powell, 20 February 2019: “ARCTIC CULT”
Departmental Seminar
Department of Geography, University of Cambridge
Richard Powell, 12 February 2019: “ARCTIC CULT”
Departmental Seminar
Department of Geography, University of Sheffield
Richard Powell, 10 January 2019: “Writing the North?”
‘Arctic Politics’ Seminar Series
Aalborg University and University of Copenhagen, Denmark
2018
Richard Powell, 30 November 2018: “Brexit and the Arctic”
Danish Institute for International Studies
Copenhagen, Denmark
Nanna Kaalund, 29 November 2018: “A tale of Terror and Erebus: international collaboration and competition in the search for Franklin’s lost expedition”
Darwin College Sciences Group
Darwin College, University of Cambridge
Richard Powell, Johanne Bruun, Nanna Kaalund, Mari Kleist and John Woitkowitz, 6 November 2018: “ERC ARCTIC CULT Launch Presentation”
Scott Polar Research Institute Research Seminar
Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge
Richard Powell, 24 January 2018: “Arctic Cultures”
‘Geographies of Knowledge’ Seminar
Department of Geography, University of Cambridge
Richard Powell, 12 January 2018: “Social Sciences and Humanities Research at the Scott Polar Research Institute”
‘Development of the UK-Russia Arctic Research and Collaboration Network’ Workshop
University of Cambridge
