PRESENTATIONS & LECTURES
Disseminating our project
2021
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
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, 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
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
