North By Degree: Conference Schedule
| time | Title/Speaker |
|---|---|
| 12:00 - 1:00 pm | On-site registration, conference program, and name tag distribution |
| Nationalism and Identity | |
| 1:00 - 1:20 pm | Welcome, Introductions, Organizational Matters |
| 1:20 - 1:40 pm | “Robert E. Peary: The Making of an American Icon” Lyle Dick (Parks Canada) |
| 1:40 - 2:00 pm | “Frederick Cook: A Reappraisal” Michael F. Robinson (University of Hartford) |
| 2:00 - 2:20 pm | “An Early Twentieth-Century Canadian Culture of Arctic Exploration” Christina Sawchuk (Scott Polar Research Institute) |
| 2:20 - 2:40 pm | “U.S. Polar Imaginaries” Elena Glasberg (Princeton University) |
| 2:40 - 3:10 pm | Coffee Break |
| Culture Contact, Race, and Gender | |
| 3:10 - 3:20 pm | “To Be Black and American: The ‘Twoness’ of Matthew Henson and his Post-Pole Lecture Tour, 1909-1910” Emma Bonanomi (Loyola University) |
| 3:30 - 3:50 pm | “Furs and Satin: Understanding Inughuit Women’s Roles in Culture Contact Through Clothing” Genevieve LeMoine (The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum) and Christyann Darwent (University of California-Davis) |
| 3:50 - 4:10 pm | “’The Desolate Shores of a Frozen Zone’: American Whalers in an Arctic Homeland, 1851-1868” Karen Routledge (Rutgers University) |
| 4:10 - 4:30 pm | “Samuel J. Entrikin and the Peary Greenland Expedition of 1893-95: Gender, Race, and Society at the New American Frontier” Rob Lukens (Temple University/ Historic Yellow Springs Inc.) |
| 4:30 - 5:10 pm | Discussion of the day's papers |
| 6:00 - 7:00 pm | Reception and viewing of American Philosophical Society exhibit "Undaunted: Five American Explorers, 1760-2007" |
| time | Title/Speaker |
|---|---|
| 9:00 - 9:10 am | Organizational Matters |
| Culture of the Explorer | |
| 9:10 - 9:30 am | “Den Norske Skole (The Norwegian School)” Erik Sundholm (Harris Electric, Inc.) |
| 9:30 - 9:50 am | “In the Shadow of the North Pole: Josephine Peary and American Narratives of Arctic Discovery” Patricia Pierce Erikson (University of Southern Maine – Portland) |
| 9:50 - 10:10 am | “Russian Revisionism and Frederick A. Cook: Centennial Notes on the Race to the Pole” Russell W. Gibbons (Frederick A. Cook Society) |
| 10:10 - 10:30 am | “Congering the Past: The Books of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition (1881-1884)” David Stam (Syracuse University) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
| Technological Advancements | |
| 11:00 - 11:20 am | “Balloonacy: Commander Cheyne’s ‘Flight of Fancy’” Huw Lewis-Jones (Scott Polar Research Institute) |
| 11:20 - 11:40 am | “A ‘Radically New Method’: Balloon Buoy Communications of the Baldwin-Ziegler Polar Expedition, Franz Josef Land, June 1902” Peter J. Capelotti (Penn State University, Abington College) |
| 11:40 - 12:00 pm | “SS Roosevelt: A Technological Wonder or Just Another Ship?” Anne Witty (The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum) |
| 12:15 - 2:15 pm | Lunch and talk by Tori Murden McClure (meal included in registration fee) |
| Knowledge of the Natural World | |
| 2:30 - 2:50 pm | “Imaging the Arctic: Fridtjof Nansen as an Artist” Clarence Burton Sheffield, Jr. (Rochester Institute of Technology) |
| 2:50 - 3:10 pm | “‘The Advancement of Exploration Along Scientific Lines’: American Geographical Society Involvement in Arctic Exploration, 1851-1950” Frederick E. Nelson (University of Delaware) |
| 3:10 - 3:30 pm | “Nineteenth Century Natural History and Arctic Science: A Smithsonian Perspective on Nomenclature, Knowledge, and ‘Good-for-nothing-things’” Stephen Loring (Arctic Studies Center, Smithsonian Institution) |
| 3:30 - 4:30 pm | Discussion of the day's papers |
| 6:30 - 9:30 pm | Reception and Banquet (registered non-student: $15, registered student: Free) |
| time | Title/Speaker |
|---|---|
| 9:00 - 9:10 am | Organizational Matters |
| Popular Culture | |
| 9:10 - 9:30 am | “Icy Embellishments: Arctic Exploration and the Decorative Arts” Robert M. Peck (Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia) |
| 9:30 - 9:50 am | “The Polar Trek and the Children’s Book” Helen Reddick (Newcastle University) |
| 9:50 - 10:10 am | “Reversing a Tradition of Artistic and Cinematic Representation of the Arctic: Staffan Julien’s ‘The Prize of the Pole’” Lisa Bloom (University of California, San Diego) |
| 10:10 - 10:30 am | “Showmen and Explorer, Showmen on the Panoramic Stage: The Arctic in the American Imagination” Russell Potter (Rhode Island College) |
| 10:30 - 10:50 am | “Bridging Geographic and Cultural Divides: Donald B. MacMillan, Radio Broadcasts, Illustrated Lectures, Films, and Books” Susan A. Kaplan (The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum) |
| 10:50 - 11:10 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:20 - 11:40 am | Roundtable Discussion A panel reflects on conference themes, followed by an open discussion of future directions of Arctic exploration scholarship and possible collaborations that might advance peoples’ research agendas. |
| time | Event |
|---|---|
| 10:00 am - 12:30 pm | Arctic Exploration in Motion: A Film Festival Featuring Historic Arctic Footage Free and open to the public with museum admission (see Film Festival) |
