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Dr Isabelle Gapp

@issygapp.bsky.social
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Environmental Art Historian (she/her), University of Aberdeen | A CIRCUMPOLAR LANDSCAPE (2024) | Editor for NiCHE Canada | PI: From the Floe Edge & Teaching Arctic Environments ❄️ | isabellegapp.com

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Allison MacDuffee @studiousgal.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
This came up in my philatelic email notifications. Posting it for the good environmental arthistorians at @nichecanada.bsky.social www.ebay.ca/itm/40584280...
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1919 QUEBIC CANADA HANDPAINTED ENVELOPE WITH ARCTIC WALRUS TO BRUNSWICK MAINE | eBay
Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for 1919 QUEBIC CANADA HANDPAINTED ENVELOPE WITH ARCTIC WALRUS TO BRUNSWICK MAINE at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many pr...
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Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The Amsterdam Maritime Museum has just announced a round of fellowships for PhD holders, PhD candidates, and Master students to conduct research in their collections. It's a fantastic museum with very rich collections, and also Amsterdam... www.hetscheepvaartmuseum.com/collection/r...
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Apply to the Warnsinck and Crone Fellowships
The National Maritime Museum - Register for the Warnsinck and Crone Fellowships 2024
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Dr Isabelle Gapp @issygapp.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Polar bear tracks, sea ice, art-making and sunsets. Still processing everything after two amazing weeks back in Kinngait ❄️
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Hester Blum @hesterblum.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
And the whole series is wonderful, featuring work by @sprucehen.bsky.social, Gail Baikie, @miagen.bsky.social, @zacharycudney.bsky.social, Matt Dyce, Bruce Erickson, @issygapp.bsky.social, Patricia Johnston, Jonathan Peyton, Chase Puentes, and James Wilt www.teachingarcticenvironments.com/seriesone
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Series One — Teaching Arctic Environments
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Hester Blum @hesterblum.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
I wrote a short essay for Teaching Arctic Environments, an excellent pedagogical and scholarly project led by @issygapp.bsky.social. Keywords: Inuit knowledge sovereignty, cultural heritage, archaeology, artifacts, Arctic humanities. www.teachingarcticenvironments.com/seriesone/lo...
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Look At It, Leave It, Report It — Teaching Arctic Environments
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Sarah Pickman @sarahmpicks.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Excited to share that the edited volume "Other Everests" is now available open access from University of Manchester Press! It was wonderful to be part of this project taking fresh looks at the history of the world's most famous mountain ⛰️ Please share! www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
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Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
So excited to see the positive comments about @issygapp.bsky.social's new book in the December issue of @choicereviews.bsky.social! '... turns to the shared geographical areas and natural environments of Scandinavia and Canada to address a new ecocritical history of art. ... Highly recommended.'
Book cover of A Circumpolar Landscape, by Isabelle Gapp; cover image is mainly blue and green, reproducing a painting by Anna Boberg of the orthern Lights.
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Read @issygapp.bsky.social and Jonathan Peyton's introduction to Part IV of Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North here: niche-canada.org/2024/10/10/p... #envhist #envhum #arthistory
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Part IV - Encountering Extractivism in Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North
Jonathan Peyton introduces part four of our Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series, which will highlight all things related to "extraction."
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Our most recent NiCHE Conversation with our editor @issygapp.bsky.social is now available to watch on YouTube! Gapp joined @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social to chat about the 4th part of our Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar north series on the theme of extraction. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykEv...
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NiCHE Conversations 5.3: Visualizing Extraction & Teaching Arctic Environments with Isabelle Gapp
YouTube video by Network in Canadian History & Environment - NiCHE
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Dr Isabelle Gapp @issygapp.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Thank you so much @sprucehen.bsky.social for this thoughtful essay! Honoured and delighted for this to be available for others to read, enjoy, and learn from as part our ongoing Teaching Arctic Environments project.
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Dr Isabelle Gapp @issygapp.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
A snow covered sunrise 🌄
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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Check out the CFP, and calls for panels, for the ASLE 2025 Biennial Conference "Collective Atmospheres" July 8-11, 2025 at Univ of Maryland. Deadline for submissions is Jan. 3, 2025. Please share! #envhum #environmentalhumanities www.asle.org/conference/b... www.asle.org/conference/p...
Circular blue Logo with Collective Atmospheres conference information
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Dr Isabelle Gapp @issygapp.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I can't wait for this! Come join @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social & I over on Instagram this Wednesday.
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Dr Isabelle Gapp @issygapp.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I'm mostly over on Instagram nowadays (@isabellegapp) but will do my best to keep showing up here 💙☁️
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Tina Adcock @tinaadcock.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Here for your viewing pleasure: a starter pack of Arctic and Antarctic historians. Let me know who I've missed! ❄️🐻‍❄️🐧🇦🇶 go.bsky.app/5wCpeBA
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Dr Isabelle Gapp @issygapp.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
The new issue of the Journal of Canadian Studies is out now! My paper "All Aboard the Nascopie: Image-Making, Colonial Modernity, and Coastal Memory in the Canadian Eastern Arctic" can be found here and in wonderful company. utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/...
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All Aboard the Nascopie: Image-Making, Colonial Modernity, and Coastal Memory in the Canadian Eastern Arctic | Journal of Canadian Studies
Between 1912 and 1947, when it sank, the icebreaker the RMS Nascopie, a British-made vessel commissioned by the HBC to be used as a supply ship, serviced the eastern Canadian Arctic. For an eight-year...
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Hester Blum @hesterblum.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
This is incredible--I wish I were near SPRI to see the exhibition of Sophus Tromholt's work: @scottpolar.bsky.social www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Northern Lights images from 140 years ago on show in Cambridge
Images from the 1880s by the scientist Sophus Tromholt will feature at the Cambridge Polar Museum.
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Dr Isabelle Gapp @issygapp.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Greenland feels like a lifetime ago, but it's only been two weeks! So here is some ice to brighten things up 🧊
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
"Industrial Complex" by Hilary McDonald is the sixth post in Part IV of the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series edited by @issygapp.bsky.social w/ Jonathan Peyton niche-canada.org/2024/11/14/i... #envhist #envhum #extraction
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Industrial Complex
"We Haven’t Yet Said Thanks" explores the deep, often conflicting relationship between extractive mining and the natural world, personifying rock as a living being whose sacrifice for economic gain ra...
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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
This has been such a great series to follow. Congrats to @issygapp.bsky.social and Jono P for pulling to together. Feeling regretful I didn't get something together for it myself!
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
Today we have "‘Some token of being there’: Visuality and the Inuit Body in Early Modern England" by Alister Wedderburn This is the 5th post in Part IV of the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series edited by @issygapp.bsky.social w/ Jonathan Peyton niche-canada.org/2024/11/07/s...
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‘Some token of being there’: Visuality and the Inuit Body in Early Modern England
Jamasee Pitseolak’s carving of Martin Frobisher as a mechanical excavator critiques the exploitative model of European colonialism in the Arctic, capturing Frobisher’s extraction of resources and Inui...
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Dr Isabelle Gapp @issygapp.bsky.social · 30/08/2024
Today is the last day to get in your abstract for @nichecanada.bsky.social series 'Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North,' on the theme Arctic extraction. niche-canada.org/2024/08/05/c...
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Call for Submissions: Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North Part IV
Arctic Extraction is the theme of Part Four of our popular Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series.
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Dr Isabelle Gapp @issygapp.bsky.social · 22/08/2024
If you can't make it to our #wceh2024 sessions tomorrow (Friday) on "Visual Cultures of Arctic Extraction," why not contribute to our NiCHE series instead? One week to go until the proposal deadline (Aug 30th)! niche-canada.org/2024/08/05/c...
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Call for Submissions: Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North Part IV
Arctic Extraction is the theme of Part Four of our popular Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series.
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Dr Isabelle Gapp @issygapp.bsky.social · 16/08/2024
We have a project website! ❄️ www.abdn.ac.uk/sdhp/researc...
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From the Floe Edge: Visualising Local Sea Ice Change in Kinngait, Nunavut | The School of Divinity, History, Philosophy & Art History | The University of Aberdeen
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Dr Isabelle Gapp @issygapp.bsky.social · 16/08/2024
Any advice for supporting an international student with visa/NHS/relocation costs to the UK? Asking for a young woman from Kazakhstan accepted onto a fully-funded PhD programme at Aberdeen.
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Christian Drury @cjdrury.bsky.social · 14/08/2024
You can now read this online, although you need to be a member: www.history.org.uk/publications...
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Glacier Tours in the Northern Playground
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 05/08/2024
The CFP for the FOURTH part of our very popular Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series is out! Editors @issygapp.bsky.social and Jonathan Peyton are looking for your blog posts proposals related to "arctic extraction" by August 31st! niche-canada.org/2024/08/05/c... #envhist #arthistory
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Call for Submissions: Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North Part IV
Arctic Extraction is the theme of Part Four of our popular Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series.
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Iain Sarjeant @iainsarjeant.bsky.social · 07/08/2024
A Circumpolar Landscape - Art and Environment in Scandinavia and North America, 1890-1930. This from @issygapp.bsky.social looks fantastic! www.lundhumphries.com/products/a-c...
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Dr Isabelle Gapp @issygapp.bsky.social · 15/08/2024
Returning to this platform with a photo of the hill behind our house!
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Dr Isabelle Gapp @issygapp.bsky.social · 28/02/2024
It's real! Less than two months to go until publication day (April 15th in UK & Europe; July in Canada/USA). Excited for this to be out in the real world!
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Dr Isabelle Gapp @issygapp.bsky.social · 21/02/2024
One year ago today. Sunrise over Iqaluit and -46°C.
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Dr Isabelle Gapp @issygapp.bsky.social · 19/02/2024
Fascinated by the use of marble in the newly-unveiled Shackleton memorial! I have a short paper coming out later this year on bronze and Carrara marble in memorialising the Scott expedition. shackleton.com/en-lk/pages/...
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Dr Isabelle Gapp @issygapp.bsky.social · 16/02/2024
A beautiful read! "I never considered the possibility that the cracks would be so large I wouldn’t know they were cracks. That its movements, even when viewed up close, would seem static. [...] I never considered that collapse could appear so still." emergencemagazine.org/essay/glacia...
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Glacial Longings – Elizabeth Rush
Aboard the first shipbound expedition to the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica, writer Elizabeth Rush puts her ear to this massive body of ice. But can something so large, so vast, so ancient, ever reall...
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Dr Isabelle Gapp @issygapp.bsky.social · 09/02/2024
Gutted to be missing Carol Payne's talk to our Jackman Humanities Institute working group 'Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North' later today (ironically I'll be mid-flight to Toronto), but had to share this virtual exhibition she & Augatnaaq Eccles co-curated. www.josephidloutphotographs.ca/en
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Home | JosephIdloutPhotos
Photographs in the exhibition, Ajjiliurlagit: The Photographs of Joseph Idlout, are organized thematically around Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit (IQ) principles. We highlight seven of the eight key IQ principles.
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 20/12/2023
Get Inspired by the IHOPE Art and Environment Ice Seminar Videos featuring @issygapp.bsky.social and Bjark Bragason niche-canada.org/2023/12/20/g... #envhist #envhum #arthistory #art #ice
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Get Inspired by the Art and Environment Ice Seminar Videos
Watch two seminars on the intersection of ice and art.
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Catherine Sheard @sheardcat.bsky.social · 24/11/2023
PhD funding available! Based at the University of Aberdeen, with me, Isabella Capellini, Daniel Pincheira-Donoso, and Justin Travis, come combine anthropology and evolutionary biology to study the international pet trade! 🦜🐒🦎 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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QUADRAT DTP: Trait-based and cultural dimensions of the global vertebrate pet trade at Aberdeen Univ...
PhD Project - QUADRAT DTP: Trait-based and cultural dimensions of the global vertebrate pet trade at Aberdeen University, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Dr Isabelle Gapp @issygapp.bsky.social · 24/11/2023
Are you looking for an interdisciplinary PhD project that engages with glaciology, art history & #envhist? Fully-funded opportunity @aberdeenuni, open to UK and international applicants! Deadline Jan 17th. Please get in touch with any questions ❄️ www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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QUADRAT DTP: Frozen fieldwork: an archival analysis of Danish expeditions to the Greenland Ice Sheet...
PhD Project - QUADRAT DTP: Frozen fieldwork: an archival analysis of Danish expeditions to the Greenland Ice Sheet in the 19th century at Aberdeen University, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Dr Isabelle Gapp @issygapp.bsky.social · 23/11/2023
Looking forward to speaking as part of this exciting series of events in a few weeks time ❄️
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 22/11/2023
Wanda Nanibush’s sudden departure from the Art Gallery of Ontario raises community questions after a pro-Israel group complained about her social media posts.
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Questions Arise as Indigenous Curator Suddenly Departs Toronto Museum
Art Gallery of Ontario curator Wanda Nanibush’s departure came after a pro-Israel group complained about her social media posts.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
Published today, online open access and in print: Global Goods and the Country House: Comparative perspectives, 1650-1800, Edited by Jon Stobart: www.uclpress.co.uk/products/210...
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Dr Isabelle Gapp @issygapp.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
Ice forming on the lake at home ❄️
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Timothy C. Baker @timothycbaker.bsky.social · 08/11/2023
Sat in on a brilliant first-year lecture by my new colleague @issygapp.bsky.social this morning on Indigenous Arctic Coastlines, and am quite smitten with the icon paintings of Linda Infante Lyons. www.lindainfantelyons.com
Painting of a young Alutiiq woman in the style of a religious icon, holding a baby seal. Both human and seal have halos.
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Dr Isabelle Gapp @issygapp.bsky.social · 05/11/2023
A weekend of sunshine and autumn colours in Aberdeenshire. View of the River Dee in Aboyne.
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Dr Isabelle Gapp @issygapp.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
For anybody in Copenhagen Dec 1st, I'm going to be speaking (in English) on 'The Problem of Wilderness in Canadian Collections' as part of the exciting seminar 'At åbne landskabet: Museumssamlingerne genbesøgt' at SMK. www.smk.dk/event/semina...
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Seminar: At åbne landskabet | SMK – Statens Museum for Kunst
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Dr Isabelle Gapp @issygapp.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
One month at the University of Aberdeen! It's flown by. 🍁
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Dr. Jessica M. DeWitt @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
Today marks the launch of our annual @nichecanada.bsky.social fundraising campaign. This year we are doubling our goal. If you appreciate what we do for the #envhist / #envhum globally, please consider supporting us. We do so much with very little $$$ niche-canada.org/2023/11/01/n... #cdnhist
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November for NiCHE - 2023 Fundraising Campaign
November is NiCHE's fundraising month, and this year we are doubling our goal to $16,000!
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Dr Isabelle Gapp @issygapp.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
New publication 🎉 My paper "Coastal Narratives and Baltic Ecotones: Painting Beaches and Boulders at the Water’s Edge" is out now and open-access in Coastal Studies & Society. #coastalhistories #coastalstudies journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Jonathan Westaway @jonwestaway.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
JULIAN GRATER: ARCTIC MIRAGE 20 October 2023 – 3 February 2024 Southampton City Art Gallery, UK. southamptoncityartgallery.com/whats-on/jul... #VisualCulture #CircumpolarArctic ICYMI @issygapp.bsky.social
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Dr Isabelle Gapp @issygapp.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
First book layouts 😍
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 22/10/2023
Check this out, IHOPE is starting up their online Art and Environment Seminar series, and you're welcome to join! We're especially excited for the Ice Seminar with NiCHE editor @issygapp.bsky.social in December! niche-canada.org/2023/10/20/o... #envhist #envhum
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Online Event - Art and Environment Seminar Series
2 November 2023 - 7 December 2023 - 18 January 2024 - Join Integrated History and Future of People on Earth (IHOPE) international research network for their new Art and Environment online seminar seri...
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