Haunted Shores online seminar series
3pm (UK time) 5 December 2024
Online (Zoom): link to be circulated ahead of seminar to registered attendees.
We are delighted to invite you to the Haunted Shores network’s next online research seminar. We will be joined by Dr Isabelle Gapp (Aberdeen), for a talk titled:
From Áltá to Amadjuak: Archiving Reindeer aboard the RMS Nascopie
Abstract: In 1913, Toronto’s Mail and Empire exclaimed a typical colonial view of Canada’s northernmost landscapes: “Will the great stretches of Arctic territory which Canada owns ever be real use to mankind?” Rendering reindeer as resource seemed a lucrative undertaking to export across Inuit homelands occupied by Canada. In 1921, the Hudson Bay Company icebreaker and supply ship the SS (later RMS) Nascopie transported 627 reindeer from Alta, Norway to Amadjuak, Qikiqtaaluk (Baffin Island) in Nunavut. In this talk, I discuss the reindeer and Sámi herders and their families transported aboard the Nascopie and the formative effect this had on ship-bound photography and on Inuit image-making in southern Qikiqtaaluk.
Please register for the seminar here.
For any questions, please email hauntedshoresinfo@gmail.com
We look forward to seeing you there!
HS
Bio: Dr Isabelle Gapp is an Interdisciplinary Fellow in the Department of Art History and associated with the Environment and Biodiversity Challenge Area. She is the author of A Circumpolar Landscape: Art and Environment in Scandinavia and North America, 1890-1930 (Lund Humphries, 2024)
She is a specialist in landscape and environmental art history from around the Circumpolar North and from 1800 to the present day. Her current research looks at the intersections between art and glaciology in the study of historic and contemporary printmaking, photography, and drawing made by Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists in the North American Arctic.