Mapping the past, exploiting the future: cartographies and understandings of the Arctic
Friday and Saturday, 21-22 July 2017
Lecture Theatre, National Maritime Museum
Royal Museums Greenwich will host an interdisciplinary conference which aims to interrogate the processes and products of mapping the Arctic, to coincide with the opening of a major new exhibition, Death in the Ice: the shocking story of Franklin’s final expedition, about the Franklin voyage in search of a North-West Passage, and the searches which followed. At a moment when the story of Franklin’s 1845 expedition is being exploited by various commercial and political interests, we seek to broaden and deepen our understanding of voyages of exploration, surveying and mapping practices, and their subsequent narration.
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Friday and Saturday, 21-22 July 2017
Lecture Theatre, National Maritime Museum
Programme
Friday, 21 July
09.30-10.00 Registration and refreshments
10.00-11.30 Knowing the Arctic
Tales of the farthest North: memoirs of Hans Hendrik, the Arctic traveller – Nanna Kaalund, York University
Spirit maps, clairvoyance, and the ghostly search for the Franklin Expedition – Shane McCorristine
The Arctic map resources at the Scott Polar Research Institute – Peter Lund, Scott Polar Research Institute
11.30-12.00 Coffee & tea
12.00-13.00 Military spaces
In the name of science: Nobile’s airship expeditions to the North Pole and the co-operation between science and the military – Dr Vanessa Cirkel-Bartelt, Bergische Universitat, Wuppertal
Paper title to be confirmed – Jeremy Michell, Royal Museum Greenwich
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.30 Geology, space and time
What lies beneath: seismic sounding and the vertical mapping of the Greenland ice sheet – Dr Jean de Pomereu
Negotiation of temporality and geopolitics in geological maps from Greenland – Stine Alling Jacobsen, University of Oslo
The last piece of the jigsaw: fitting the Arctic into the Global Plate Tectonic Map – Dr Andrew Hopkins, University College, London
15.30-16.00 Coffee & tea
16.00-17.00 Keynote lecture: Adriana Craciun, University of California, Riverside
17.00-17.30 Discussion and Q&A
17.30-19.30 Reception and private view of the exhibition ‘Death in the Ice: the shocking story of Franklin’s final expedition’
Saturday, 22 July
10.00-10.30 Arrival and refreshments
10.30-12.00 Mapping, expeditionary knowledge
Historical imaginations of an Open Polar Sea within the work of August Heinrich Petermann – Stephan Pietsch, Leipzig Institute for Regional Geography
The Danmark Expedition: consequences and mythologies – Iben Bjornsson, Danish Arctic Institute
August Petermann and the Third Wave of Arctic Exploration in the 19th century – Imre J. Demhardt, The University of Texas at Arlington
12.00 Lunch
12.40-13.20 Archive and object session with Megan Barford and Mike Bevan, National Maritime Museum*
13.20-14.00 Archive and object session with Megan Barford and Mike Bevan, National Maritime Museum*
14.00-15.00 Contemporary cartography
Arctic Sovereignty: mapping the cosmos – Dr Corine Wood-Donnelly, Scott Polar Research Institute
Mapping the Arctic seafloor: an atlas of submarine glacial landforms – Professor Julian Dowdeswell, Scott Polar Research Institute
15.00-16.00 Closing remarks and discussion with Dr Michael Bravo, Scott Polar Research Institute
For more information and a booking form please contact research@rmg.co.uk or call 020 8312 6716
Conference fee: £75. Concessions: £60 (people over 60 and students)
