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Alexandre Simon-Ekeland

@asimonekeland.bsky.social
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Academic librarian at the University of Oslo and historian of exploration in the 19th and 20th centuries, particularly interested in the polar regions, the history of celebrity and the history of emotions

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Alexandre Simon-Ekeland @asimonekeland.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
My book feels "really real" now that it's a physical object: take a look if you're interested in polar history, the history of celebrity, or French history.
Book: Celebrity and Polar Exploration. Making French Polar Explorers, 1860s-1930s, by Alexandre Simon-Ekeland
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
ICYMI: Appel à communications – [Ant]Arctique en objets : fabrique de l’imaginaire du voyage vers les pôles DATE LIMITE D’ENVOI DES PROPOSITIONS — le lundi 09 février 2026 niche-canada.org/2025/12/23/a... #envhist #envhum #arctic #polarstudies #visualculture #arthistory
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Appel à communications - [Ant]Arctique en objets : fabrique de l'imaginaire du voyage vers les pôles
Colloque interdisciplinaire sur objets, images et imaginaires des voyages polaires, du XIXe siècle à aujourd’hui, croisant recherche, enjeux coloniaux, environnementaux.
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Ben Schmidt @bschmidt.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Google quietly updated their ngrams viewer again this year. The books used appear to be extremely different yet again--the rate of the words "she said" are about 60% what they were in the 20th century compared to the 2019 release, and just 20% compared to 2009. But there's a catch:
Four line charts showing the same words -- 'she said' plotted in four different corpora on the google ngrams viewer. The words are much less common in the 2019 and most recent version through the 20th century, and spike up sharply after 2000.
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Christian Drury @cjdrury.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Call for Abstracts - ‘Epistemic Frontiers’? Geoscientific Knowledge, Authority, and Politics of Participation in Arctic and African Exploration - Oslo, 22–24th April 2025: www.hf.uio.no/iakh/english... #histsci
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Call for Abstracts - ‘Epistemic Frontiers’? Geoscientific Knowledge, Authority, and Politics of Participation in Arctic and African Exploration - Department of Archaeology, Conservation and H...
Read this story on the University of Oslo's website.
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Lene Liebe Delsett @leneliebedelsett.bsky.social · 09/07/2024
How did the natural history museums in Paris, Bergen and Copenhagen build their whale collections 1860s-1910s? New publication lead by @asimonekeland.bsky.social in Nordic museology🥳🧪🐳 journals.uio.no/museolog/art...
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Whales as a Nordic speciality: Collecting cetaceans for Natural History Museums (1860s–1910s) | Nordisk Museologi
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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 07/01/2024
Next Friday, 12 January 2024, I discuss Games and Environmental History with @scoutblum.bsky.social in the ASEH Connects series. While based in environmental history, the boardgames crowd is more than welcome! Zoom link in poster. #envhist #envhum
Poster for Games and Environmental History event.
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