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Joint Conference of the Humanities and Social Sciences Expert Group and the History Expert Group, 2017

Depths and Surfaces: understanding the Antarctic region through the Humanities and Social Sciences

5-7 July 2017, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmanina, Hobart

The booklet contains information about the conference, venue, related events, the schedule, details of the keynote speakers, and speaker abstracts and biographies.

Joint Conference of the Humanities and Social Sciences Expert Group and the History Expert Group, 2017

Depths and Surfaces: understanding the Antarctic region through the Humanities and Social Sciences

5-7 July 2017, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart

Conference Programme

Joint Conference of the Humanities and Social Sciences Expert Group and History Expert Group, 2017

Depths and Surfaces: understanding the Antarctic region through the Humanities and Social Sciences

5-7 July 2017, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmanina, Hobart

Session schedule

Conference of the Standing Committee on Humanities and Social Sciences (SC-HASS), 2019

Antarctic Connections at the End of the World: understanding the past and shaping the future

3-5 April 2019, Ushuaia, Argentina

List of Abstracts

Conference of the Standing Committee on Humanities and Social Sciences (SC-HASS), 2019

Antarctic Connections at the End of the World: understanding the past and shaping the future

3-5 April 2019, Ushuaia, Argentina

Conference Programme

Brief summary of the Standing Committee on Humanities and Social Sciences (SC-HASS) Business Meeting held virtually over two sessions on 30 July 2020.

Abstracts of the Joint Humanities Session at the SCAR XXXIII Open Science Conference 2014: Presence of the Past and Methods and Innovations in Polar Social Sciences

Abstracts of the Joint Workshop of the History EG and Social Sciences AG 2013

The workshop was co-sponsored by SCAR and BAS.

Proceedings of the workshop “Exploring Linkages between Environmental Management and Value Systems: The Case of Antarctica“, held at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand on 5 December 2011 by the SCAR Social Sciences Action Group

Edited by Daniela Liggett and Alan D. Hemmings
University of Canterbury Gateway Antarctica Special Publication Series Number 1301, published 2013, ISBN ISBN 978‐0‐473‐24852‐9

Report on the Joint History, Humanities and Social Sciences Conference 2015: Antarctic Wilderness: Perspectives from History, the Humanities and the Social Sciences

See also: Research Output Summary [ROS] – Wilderness

Report on the Joint Humanities Session at the SCAR XXXIII Open Science Conference 2014: Presence of the Past and Methods and Innovations in Polar Social Sciences

Report of the SC-HASS Ad Hoc Sub-Committee on Conference Organization

Peder Roberts, Elizabeth Leane, and Cristian Lorenzo

Prepared in December 2019, approved in July 2021

Online Panel held on 27 July 2020:

Online Panel held on 28 July 2020:

Antarctica is a continent of extremes and is often regarded as one of Earth’s best analogue environments for the isolation, confinement and challenges experienced during missions to outer space. Even today, Antarctica remains the most sparsely inhabited continent on the planet, with the number of people living at Antarctic research stations every year ranging from around 1,000 during the winter to around 4,500 during the austral summer. Most of the people who make parts of Antarctica their temporary homes come there to work.

While research exists about human performance in Antarctica, only very limited scholarly work focuses on the motivations for people to live and work in Antarctica, their experiences and challenges while residing there, their sense of
belonging and identity, their values, their connections to the continent or whether and why they desire to return to Antarctica in the future. This session will bring together a wide range of perspectives with a focus on facilitating knowledge-building and discussion about the socio-cultural, psychological, economic, political or environmental dimensions of living and working in Antarctica.

Online Panel held on 31 July 2020:

Six decades after the signature of the Antarctic Treaty and almost thirty years after the signature of the Protocol on Environmental Protection, it is timely to review how the Antarctic system has evolved and to inquire how it will continue to evolve into the future.

In this panel session, we critically interrogate the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS) and its capacity to confront present and future challenges like climate change, the sustained interest of some actors in Antarctica’s living and nonliving resources, and the latent but never forgotten territorial claims. Does the ATS have the legal tools to tackle these challenges successfully? What aspects are in need of revision (if any)? What could be improved or rethought regarding its structure and functioning?

To answer these questions, we invite contributions that focus on specific aspects of the Antarctic legal regime, governance, and political order—for example, CCAMLR’s integration of science and policy-making, or the history of CRAMRA and its legacy. We equally invite more general perspectives that assess contested concepts like sovereignty, legitimacy, and colonialism as well as hierarchy and their place in the Antarctic context.

SCAR Open Science Conference Panel Session Report 2014: Connecting the Past-present-future: Studies and Methods in History for Antarctic Research and Science

Joint panel session