Bridges Lecture: Polar Projects - Conceptualizing and rendering arctic spaces

Wednesday, January 31, 2018 7:30 pm - 7:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)
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Ruxandra Moraru and P. Whitney Lackenbauer

Reserach team on snowmobiles near Labrador
The first Bridges lecture in 2018 will explore how humans have sought to make the Arctic legible (to borrow the phrase of James C. Scott), from pre-contact Inuit understandings of space and time, through the practices and instruments of European maritime explorers, through the introduction of aviation and the refinement of Arctic air navigation, to the age of satellites. By bringing history, geography, and geometry into dialogue, Professors Moraru and Lackenbauer will discuss how humans have measured, defined, and characterised space and time, and how mathematics continues to explain what is possible – and what is not.

Please note: Complimentary tickets and parking with refreshments following the lecture, but please register for this event.

Brought to you by St. Jerome's University, Faculty of Mathematics, Faculty of Arts, the Faculty of Science and the Fields Institute.

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Location Address: STJ - St. Jerome's University
290 Westmount Road North
Vanstone Lecture Hall
Waterloo, ON, CA  N2L 3G3
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Host: St. Jerome's University Event website: Register now Cost: Free