CURRENT and UPCOMING ANTARCTIC EVENTS

Included here are notices of exhibits, lectures, conferences and other gatherings or events of Antarctic interest. Current and closest to the present usually listed first. Go to PAST EVENTS for those that have already happened.

Last updated: 11 June 2009.

Accessed at least many times since 17 April 2007.


Current & Continuing Antarctic Events:



ART OF EXPLORATION: THE POLAR VISION OF SIR WALLY HERBERT

Cafe, Discovery Point, Dundee. See http://www.rrsdiscovery.com/index.php?pageID=183
30 May - 30 August 2009.
Grenna Museum, Grenna, Sweden.
June-September 2010.
"This stunning exhibition captures the spirit of the Polar World, as never seen before—through the eyes of a man who is the bridge between the heroic age of exploration and modern adventure; a visionary who has walked in the footsteps of all the greatest explorers, and learned the art of survival from the Inuit themselves.
This superb collection, reproduced from the late Sir Wally Herbert's paintings and drawings, echoes his experiences in the Polar World and his connection with the polar pioneers of the past.
The exhibition is not only a celebration of polar life and landscapes rarely visited by man, but it is also a journey into the very heart of the last of the great polar pioneers. This exhibition will give its audience an insight into the experience of the polar wilderness."
—From http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum/exhibitions/polarworld/tour/
(14 February 2009)


Upcoming Antarctic Events:


SPRI MICHAELMAS TERM LECTURES

3, 17, 31 October, 28 November 2009 at Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Cambridge. 8 pm.
Details to be forthcoming.
(10 May 2009)


9th ANNUAL SHACKLETON AUTUMN SCHOOL

Bank Holiday weekend, Friday-Monday, 23-26 October 2009 at Athy Heritage Centre, Athy, Co Kildare, Ireland.
Details to be forthcoming.
(15 March 2009)


JAMES CAIRD SOCIETY—AGM AND MEMBERS' EVENING.

Friday, 6 November 2009, Dulwich College, London.
Details to be forthcoming.
(14 February 2009)


FRIENDS OF SPRI—AGM

The AGM of the Friends is scheduled for Saturday, 14 November 2009 at BMS theatre (chemistry), Cambridge, UK. From 5 pm.
Details to be forthcoming.
(10 May 2009)


"IMAGINING ANTARCTICA"

4-6 September 2008, Christchurch, New Zealand and Hobart, Tasmania in 21-23 June 2010.

"Gateway Antarctica and the English programme at the Univeristy of Canterbury, together with the School of English, Journalism and European Languages at the University of Tasmania, will host a conference examining Antarctica from a cultural perspective. Drawing on the arts, social sciences and humanities, the conference will focus attention on the ways in which we perceive and represent the southernmost continent. This will be followed by a second conference in Hobart, Tasmania, in 2010."

"Call for conference papers

In September 2008 Gateway Antarctica and the English Programme at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, together with the School of English, Journalism and European Languages at the University of Tasmania, will host a conference examining Antarctica from a cultural perspective. Drawing on the arts, social sciences and humanities, the conference will focus attention on the ways we perceive and represent the southernmost continent. This will be the first Humanities-based Antarctic studies conference and will be followed in 2010 by another at the University of Tasmania in Hobart. Keynote speakers will include: Francis Spufford and Margaret Mahy.

Papers of twenty minutes with 10 minute question times are invited. Topics might include:
• Narrating Antarctica
• Antarctica in literature, art and film
• Visualising Antarctica
• Rethinking the heroic era
• Antarctic masculinities
• Postcolonial Antarctica
• Antarctic spatiality
• Antarctic gothic
• Antarctic travel
• Antarctic disasters
• Domestic Antarctica
• Environmental Antarctica
• Antarctic archives and artifacts
• Human-animals relations in Antarctic
For information: www.engl.canterbury.ac.nz/extra/imagining_antarctica.shtml

Email: mark.williams@canterbury.ac.nz

Source: http://www.engl.canterbury.ac.nz/extra/imagining_antarctica.shtml
(11 March 2007)

UPDATE: The dates for "Imagining Antarctica" have been tentatively set for 21-23 June 2010.
(29 March 2009)


SCOTT AND THE AGE OF ANTARCTIC TRAVEL

"The Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery (Drake Circus, Plymouth, Devon, UK) is working towards a temporary exhibition in 2012 to commemorate the centenary of Scott's death; currently entitled 'Scott and The Age of Antarctic Travel.' This will be accompanied by a related public events programme."
—Thanks to 'Bergy Bits,' the Newsletter of the Friends of Antarctica, No. 27.
(14 February 2009)



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