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 …
North Atlantic Triennial: Down North – The Real and the Imagined Read More »
July 28, 2021 Join us for a panel discussion featuring Jennifer Brewer and Katherine Duderstadt from the University of New Hampshire in conversation with Steven Mentz from St. John’s University. Human settlements have faced the ocean since prehistory and will continue into the future. This panel will explore how ideas about the human relationship with …
June 23, 2021 Join us for a panel discussion featuring Dr. Jacquelyn Gill, paleoecologist and Assistant Professor of climate science at the University of Maine, and Jill Pelto, a visual artist and a science communicator. In this panel, each presenter will share how they’ve approached the often elusive task of effectively communicating climate change to …
May 26, 2021 Join us for a conversation featuring two sisters, Astrida Neimanis and Aleksija Neimanis, whose respective careers as a feminist cultural theorist and a wildlife pathologist have found a strange confluence at sea. Albeit from very different perspectives, both dedicate themselves to trying to understand the conjoined fate of human and ocean life …
November 30, 2020 Join us for two presentations that examine Beringia and Alaska as a contextual framework to explore the dynamic relationships between humans, cetaceans, oceans, and landscapes within the slippery milieu of icy geographies. View the Video Presenters
October 7, 2020 Join us for two presentations that examine how museums and cultural institutions in Greenland and Maine are revisiting their permanent collections to begin new dialogues and experiences that address processes of decolonization, representation and ethics. Dr. Darren Ranco, Professor of Anthropology and Chair of Native American Programs at the University of Maine, …
Unsettled Archives: Museum Interventions for Shifting Perspectives Read More »
July 28, 2020 Join us for two presentations that examine how the North—variously conceived as the Arctic, Canada, and even upstate New York and northern New England—was a “topography of the imagination”: visually stunning and emotionally powerful but also marked with personal and cultural values. Dr. Donna Cassidy presents a talk that suggests the dual, …
April 29, 2020 In response to uncertain times during the beginning of the pandemic, we changed this already scheduled in-person event to a virtual environment. This became our new ‘normal’ way of presenting the series of events we titled, MNAI Convenes. Join us to learn more about how artists and scientists shape public perception of …
