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Dr Isabelle Gapp

@issygapp.bsky.social

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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Well this is very cool! Thank you for the photo Peter 😀

12.05.2025 19:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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...

This came up in my philatelic email notifications. Posting it for the good environmental arthistorians at @nichecanada.bsky.social

www.ebay.ca/itm/40584280...

12.05.2025 18:25 — 👍 18    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 1
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Apply to the Warnsinck and Crone Fellowships The National Maritime Museum - Register for the Warnsinck and Crone Fellowships 2024

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...

25.03.2025 18:47 — 👍 23    🔁 24    💬 0    📌 2
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Polar bear tracks, sea ice, art-making and sunsets. Still processing everything after two amazing weeks back in Kinngait ❄️

24.03.2025 20:35 — 👍 12    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you!! 😊😊

15.01.2025 14:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Series One — Teaching Arctic Environments

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

15.01.2025 14:48 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Look At It, Leave It, Report It — Teaching Arctic Environments

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...

15.01.2025 14:42 — 👍 48    🔁 18    💬 4    📌 1

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...

07.01.2025 23:31 — 👍 31    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 1
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.

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.

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.'

18.12.2024 21:36 — 👍 15    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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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."

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

09.12.2024 21:41 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
NiCHE Conversations 5.3: Visualizing Extraction & Teaching Arctic Environments with Isabelle Gapp
YouTube video by Network in Canadian History & Environment - NiCHE NiCHE Conversations 5.3: Visualizing Extraction & Teaching Arctic Environments with Isabelle Gapp

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...

09.12.2024 21:23 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

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.

26.11.2024 10:12 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A snow covered sunrise 🌄

21.11.2024 08:26 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Circular blue Logo with Collective Atmospheres conference information

Circular blue Logo with Collective Atmospheres conference information

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...

20.11.2024 19:21 — 👍 27    🔁 16    💬 0    📌 0

I can't wait for this! Come join @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social & I over on Instagram this Wednesday.

16.11.2024 20:21 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

I'm mostly over on Instagram nowadays (@isabellegapp) but will do my best to keep showing up here 💙☁️

16.11.2024 20:00 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Here for your viewing pleasure: a starter pack of Arctic and Antarctic historians. Let me know who I've missed! ❄️🐻‍❄️🐧🇦🇶 go.bsky.app/5wCpeBA

14.11.2024 02:16 — 👍 40    🔁 21    💬 8    📌 2
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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...

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/...

16.11.2024 19:55 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

This is so great! Could I possibly be included? Thanks.

16.11.2024 19:49 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Thinking of extend my Cambridge trip in the new year, as right now I miss this by 3 days (!!).

16.11.2024 19:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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.

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...

16.11.2024 17:27 — 👍 47    🔁 18    💬 1    📌 4
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Greenland feels like a lifetime ago, but it's only been two weeks! So here is some ice to brighten things up 🧊

16.11.2024 19:45 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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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...

"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

14.11.2024 16:29 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

Thanks for the shout out @nichecanada.bsky.social! I also have a whole chapter on the aurora in art in my book. Excited to see this exhibition in the new year!

16.11.2024 19:40 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

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!

15.11.2024 04:17 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Thanks @arnkeeling.bsky.social, there's always next time!

(What are you signing me up for @nichecanada.bsky.social 🤣)

16.11.2024 19:39 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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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...

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...

07.11.2024 16:26 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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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.

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...

30.08.2024 06:02 — 👍 6    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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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.

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...

22.08.2024 20:27 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
From the Floe Edge: Visualising Local Sea Ice Change in Kinngait, Nunavut | The School of Divinity, History, Philosophy & Art History | The University of Aberdeen

We have a project website! ❄️ www.abdn.ac.uk/sdhp/researc...

16.08.2024 11:53 — 👍 10    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

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