Early Career Workshop for ‘Polar Social Scientists’
Thursday 8 September 2011
Mansfield College, Oxford
0900-0915 – Introduction (Dr. Richard Powell, Oxford)
0915-1015 – Plenary: Publishing Polar Research (Prof. Klaus Dodds, Royal Holloway)
1015-1100 – Session 1 (two speakers):
– The UK and the Shifting Geopolitics of the Arctic (Duncan Depledge, Royal Holloway and RUSI)
– Quantifying Cooperation in a Polar Clique (Elizabeth Deheza, RUSI)
1100-1130 – Coffee
1130-1300 – Session 2 (four speakers):
– Nano-particles and icebergs (Michael Dangerfield, Oxford)
– On ice: politics, history and legal status (Corine Wood-Donnelly, Brunel)
– Making sense of multiple governance in Nunavut (Jackie Price, Cambridge)
– Representations and readings of Argentine territorial nationalism: the case of the southwest Atlantic and Antarctic territories (Dr. Matt Benwell, Liverpool)
1300-1345 – Lunch
1345-1500 – Plenary: Comparative research on Arctic resources? (two speakers)
– Lessons from Sakhalin? (Prof. Michael Bradshaw, Leicester)
– Resource Extraction in Canada (Dr. Michael Bravo, Cambridge)
1500-1530 – Session 3 (one speaker):
– (Mis)interpreting Russia’s Arctic Policy (Dr. Drew Foxall, Queen’s, Belfast)
1530-1600 – Tea
1600-1630 – Closing Discussion
