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I am a PhD fellow at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Ilisimatusarfik/the University of Greenland, and Nunatta Katersugaasivia Allagaateqarfialu (The National Museum and Archives of Greenland), where I am also physically based. My research investigates the cultural encounters between Inuit and the Moravian Brethren, a German Protestant Church that missioned in Greenland between 1733-1900. The aim … Continue reading Kirstine Møller

My name is Catherine Hirst. I am a postdoctoral researcher in project WeThaw at Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium. We are “permafrost detectives” and our work in the Arctic is focused on understanding the vast landmass that currently remains frozen for much of the year, but is under severe threat from amplified climate change. … Continue reading Catherine Hirst

I grew up in Western Norway and moved east when I started school. I have always been rootless and moved further and further north; first to Trondheim, where I got my degree in journalism, then onwards to Bodø, a small city on 67 degrees north. I live here with my 17-year old daughter, a partner … Continue reading Siri Gulliksen Tømmerbakke

I am a historian whose research focuses on the history of science in Antarctica. I received my PhD in 2018 from the University of California, Irvine for research on the Ross and Falkland Islands Dependencies during the International Geophysical Year (1957-58), a project that I am currently revising into a book. Besides this book project, … Continue reading Daniella McCahey

Over the last five decades I have painted the land and its inhabitants as traditional landscapes, as surrealistic icons and as metaphorical images of time.  In 2016 I started with my first site-specific installation: TORN-ADO which was about surviving disasters. Since them my installations have been about humans reactions to community and  within the environment:  … Continue reading Barbara Crawford