Multi-Disciplinary Arctic Sea Ice Research Workshop

Understanding sea ice change around the Arctic and its impacts requires thinking beyond and across traditional disciplinary boundaries. While research into the physical science of sea ice often receives most of the attention, sea ice research is equally pervasive within the social sciences and humanities, e.g. anthropological studies of the role of sea ice in northern and Indigenous communities, economic and geopolitical analyses of the impact of sea ice loss, or arts and humanities investigations into how sea ice is depicted by Indigenous and non-Indigenous makers and within visual, material, and literary cultures. Moreover, Indigenous knowledge, creativity, and relationships to the land further disrupt disciplinary silos and indicate important local sites of experience. Engaging these diverse approaches presents an opportunity to improve our understanding of sea ice as a human and natural system and encourage cross-disciplinary and community collaboration.

This event is funded by From the Floe Edge: Visualising Sea Ice Change in Kinngait, Nunavut, a British Academy Knowledge Frontiers International Interdisciplinary Research Project award to I. Gapp (University of Aberdeen), S. Cooley (Duke University), and the West-Baffin Co-operative.

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Any questions should be directed to the organisers at: isabelle.gapp@abdn.ac.uk and/or sarah.cooley@duke.edu

The event is part of the activities of the UArctic Thematic Network on Circumpolar Archives, Folklore and Ethnography (CAFE).