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2023 Spring Lecture Series: Arctic Environments
Wednesdays, 2:30-3:30 PM (Pacific)April 12 - May 17, 2023Online via Zoom
REGISTER HERE"How Do Different Disciplines Understand Arctic Environments?"
This is the question our speakers will address in this free, six-part lecture series, moderated by the University of Washington's 2022-2023 Fulbright Canada Visiting Chair in Arctic Studies, Jonathan Peyton.
We will hear from a wide range of perspectives on Arctic environments including social scientists, colleagues in the environmental humanities, art historians, environmental field scientists, policy and governance experts, and those working closely with communities.
- April 12: War and Energy: Mobilizing the Arctic Environment, 1938-1968Philip Wight, Assistant Professor, History and Arctic & Northern Studies, University of Alaska
- April 19: What can we learn from Ignorance? Knowing and Not Knowing the Arctic in the 1970sAndrew Stuhl, Associate Professor and Department Chair, Environmental Studies & Sciences, Bucknell University
- April 26: Diverse Labours on Northern LandRebecca Hall, Assistant Professor, Global Development Studies, Queen's University
- May 3: Future Perfect Ice: Colonialism, Temporality and the Anthropocene NorthBruce Erickson, Associate Professor, Environment and Geography, University of Manitoba
- May 10: The Politics of Uranium Mining and Environmental Assessment in NunavutWarren Bernauer, Postdoctoral Fellow, Natural Resources Institute and Department of Environment and Geography, University of Manitoba
- May 17: Ice in Motion and the Performative Arctic PanoramaIsabelle Gapp, Postdoctoral Fellow, Art History, University of Toronto
Click here to read more about the sessions and speakers.