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Easter Term 2009
| 7th Mary 2009 2pm, Department of Geography Seminar Room |
George Tombs: 'The Secret History of Amundsen's Polar Expeditions'. This original research project was inspired by George's chance meeting with Amundsen's great-great-grandson, the talented Inuk carver Damian Iquallaq, in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, last year. The talk will consider cross-cultural relations and their scientific, exploratory, and personal implications. It will be vividly illustrated by photographs from George's personal collection, and should be of general interest. |
Michaelmas 2008
| 9 October | Dr Michael Bravo (CHiPP), Introductory session |
| 16 October: | Evelyn Landerer (CHiPP), 'Fieldwork in Irkutsk Taiga' |
| 23 October | Jackie Price (CHiPP) introduced the John Houston film Diet of Souls and led a discussion after the screening about Inuit culture and spirituality. |
| 29 October | Dominique Henri (Oxford), 'Managing Natures, Managing Cultures: Science and Experts in the Northwest Territories, Canada'
Erin Freeland (Oxford), 'Resource Development and the Fostering of Youth Participation in Development Dialogues' |
| 6 November | Christina Sawchuk (CHiPP), 'An Early Twentieth-Century Canadian Culture of Arctic Exploration' |
| 13 November | Marionne Cronin (CHiPP/Oxford), 'Pole Seeking: To the North Pole By Air' |
| 20 November | Louise Watling (CHiPP), 'Labour and Class in Polar Exploration' |
| 27 November | Sean Maher (CHiPP), 'Enframing the Athabasca' |
| 4 December | Johan Schimanski and Ulrike Spring (University of Tromsø), 'Explorers' Bodies in Arctic Mediascapes: Celebrating the Return of the Austro-Hungarian Polar Expedition in 1874'
Peder Roberts (Stanford), '"What Has All This Got To Do With Science?" The Rhetoric of Scientific Devotion in British Government Plans for the International Geophysical Year (1957-58)' |