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X-WR-CALDESC:Exploring the Northern World
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SUMMARY:On the Horizon: Scotland, the Sea, and the Northern World
DESCRIPTION:The Society is set to host its annual conference on Saturday 21 November. The event, titled ‘On the Horizon: Scotland, the Sea, and the Northern World‘ will take place virtually this year, using Zoom. Consisting of four papers and a brief panel discussion, the conference will highlight current cross-disciplinary research on the northern world and its wide-ranging connections.\nThe full conference programme is as follows (times in GMT):\n14.00 – 14.10  Arrival\n14.10 – 14.15  Welcome\n\n14.15 – 14.50  Dr Lizanne Henderson (University of Glasgow)\n‘”Some valuable notices of the habits of the animals”: Perceptions and Observations of Animals by Nineteenth-Century Scottish Arctic Explorers’\n14.50 – 15.25  Dr Matthew L. McDowell (University of Edinburgh)\n‘Surfing and the Reimagining of the North of Scotland’\n\n15.25 – 15.35  Break\n\n15.35 – 16.10  Dr Patrick Jolicoeur (University of Toronto)\n‘Peoples of the Polar Sea: Encounters and Exchange in the Eastern North American Arctic at the Start of the Second Millennium AD’\n\n\n16.10 – 17.00  The Hermann Pálsson Memorial Lecture\nProf. Astrid E.J. Ogilvie\n(Stefansson Arctic Institute, Akureyri / CU Boulder / University of the Highlands and Islands)\n‘Weather as Magic and Metaphor in the Sagas of Icelanders’\n\n17.00 – 17.05 Break\n\n17.05 – 17.30 Discussion Panel\n\n17.30  Wrap-up / End\n
URL:https://www.ssns.org.uk/events/2020conference/
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