Using historical maps and contemporary artworks from The North Atlantic Triennial, this FREE webinar will explore tensions between the concepts of the “real” and the “imagined” as it relates to landscapes and artistic practices of the North Atlantic and Arctic. Joining us for this panel discussion is Dr. Libby Bischof, Executive Director of the …
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Nivi Christensen, Museum Director of the Nuuk Art Museum (Nuummi Eqqumiitsulianik Saqqummersitsivik), will share the challenges that come with making a formerly private collection more diverse through strategic purchases. She will further discuss the museum’s acquisition and exhibition of contemporary Greenlandic artworks, like artist Pia Arke’s Arctic Hysteria, in contrast to the collection’s landscape paintings …
Dr. Darren Ranco, Professor of Anthropology and Chair of Native American Programs at the University of Maine, will discuss decolonizing partnerships and activities between UMaine and the Penobscot Nation. He will highlight the successes and challenges of digital repatriation of tribal cultural heritage items in the Fogler Library and the Hudson Museum, the signing of …
Aleksija Neimanis, Head of section for Research and Development, Department of Pathology and Wildlife Diseases, National Veterinary Institute, Sweden is a veterinary pathologist who works with wildlife health surveillance. She studies wildlife health issues and frames them within a One Health context, in which human, animal and ecosystem health are all connected. She worked with …
Astrida Neimanis is Associate Professor of Feminist Environmental Humanities at the UBC Okanagan, on unceded Syilx territory in Kelowna, BC. Her most recent book, Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology, explores the shared watery constitution of human bodies and all other planetary life, as a starting point for rethinking environmental ethics, aesthetics, and justice. Often …
Jill Pelto is an artist and scientist whose work focuses on communicating human-environment connections. By incorporating scientific research and data into watercolor paintings, she weaves visual narratives that reveal the benefits and costs of human impacts on this planet. Jill grew up in Massachusetts and currently resides in Maine. She has B.A. degrees in …
Dr. Jacquelyn Gill is an internationally recognized paleoecologist and an outspoken science communications advocate. She is Associate Professor of Paleoecology & Plant Ecology and the Climate Change Institute and she is also the Director of the BEAST Lab at the University of Maine. As an ecologist and bio-geographer, she is interested in how landscapes change …
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Jen Rose Smith (dAXunhyuu [Eyak, Alaska Native]) is an assistant professor in the Geography Department and American Indian Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her current book project Icy Matters: Race, Indigeneity, and Coloniality in Ice-Geographies, foregrounds an analysis of colonialism in relation to ice in Alaska and the Arctic. She serves on an all-Native …
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Bathsheba Demuth is an Assistant Professor of History and Environment and Society at Brown University and the author of the book Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait. She discussed how along the Bering Strait, on the edges of what is now Northwestern Alaska and Northeastern Russia, Inupiaq and Yupik have hunted bowhead …
