2023 Program
Terror Day - Saturday, December 9
Panel A: Primary Sources
8:00 PST / 11:00 EST / 17:00 CET (in my timezone)
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"old Harvey (a mulatto)": Sailors of Colour on British Arctic Expeditions (1848-1859), Edmund Wuyts
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"Do attend to your orthography": spelling as history in Franklin Expedition Letters, Reg
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Relic or Artefact; an Analysis of Polar Artefacts in Museum Catalogues, Ash
Panel B: Historical Persons
9:20 PST / 12:20 EST / 18:20 CET (in my timezone)
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Thomas Holloway: Pills, Palaces, and The Accursed Bears, Verity Holloway
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"Scarface" Charley Tong Sing: A Chinese-American on the Jeannette, In the Papers, and Afterwards, Han
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Failsons of Hudson Bay, Jas Bevan Niss
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“Nor will it yield to Norway or the Pole”: Roald Amundsen as Shakespearean Tragedy, Ireny
Panel C: Cultural Understandings and the Arctic
10:50 PST / 13:50 EST / 19:50 CET (in my timezone)
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How Fares the Raft of the Medusa?: Mutiny, Cannibalism, and the Portrayal of History, Brianna Lou
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“This Place Wants Us Dead”: The Terror and Folk Horror, Allison Raper
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Icebound, Not Down, Hester Blum
Saturday Keynote
The heart of Terror Camp is and will always be right there in the name. To cap off a full day of presentations on Arctic and Franklin Expedition-related topics, we are thrilled to welcome stars of AMC's The Terror, Nive Nielsen (Silna) and Paul Ready (Harry Goodsir).
12:30 PST / 15:30 EST / 21:30 CET (in my timezone)
Nive Nielsen
Paul Ready
Erebus Day - Sunday, December 10
Panel D: Death and Narratives of Death
8:00 PST / 11:00 EST / 17:00 CET (in my timezone)
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"Known to all the youth of the Nation": Scott's Sacrifice in Children's Literature, Branwell
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Quest, Caitlin Brandon
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Funny to think of it as coming home: football, exploration, and the stories we tell ourselves, Rach
Panel E: The Allure of the Antarctic
9:20 PST / 12:20 EST / 18:20 CET (in my timezone)
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From the South Pole to the Stars, Emma
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The Feminine(?) Antarctic, Sam Botz
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There and Back Again: In the Antarctic with Ross and Crozier, Phil Mikulski
Antarctic Roundtable
10:50 PST / 13:50 EST / 19:50 CET (in my timezone)
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Out of the Rookery: An exploration of science and survival on Shackleton's Endurance, with Rebecca, Meg, and Avery
Sunday Keynote
For our Erebus Day keynote conversation, Terror Camp is thrilled to welcome Francis Spufford, award-winning author of I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination, and Sarah Airriess, writer and illustrator of the Worst Journey in the World graphic novel. Together we’ll discuss Antarctica’s enduring hold on how we think, dream, and live.
12:30 PST / 15:30 EST / 21:30 CET (in my timezone)
Writer & Illustrator
Sarah Airriess
"Sarah trained as an animator in Canada and has worked in Vancouver, Los Angeles, Silicon Valley, and London. At 26, she heard a radio dramatisation of The Worst Journey in the World, which led her to throw away her career and move to England to make the graphic novel. She went to Antarctica in 2019 with the NSF’s Antarctic Artists and Writers Program, and is currently an Institute Associate at the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge." (Source)
Writer
Francis Spufford
"Francis Spufford began as the author of four highly praised books of nonfiction. His first book, I May Be Some Time, won the Writers’ Guild Award for Best Nonfiction Book of 1996, the Banff Mountain Book Prize, and a Somerset Maugham Award. It was followed by The Child That Books Built, Backroom Boys, and Unapologetic. With Red Plenty in 2012 he switched to the novel. Golden Hill won multiple literary prizes on both sides of the Atlantic; Light Perpetual was longlisted for the Booker Prize. In England he is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Historical Society." (Source)
Posters will be presented asynchronously in our digital poster alley.
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An examination of novel and conceptual metaphors in first-hand accounts of polar exploration, Reece Dutton
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Artistic Movements of the Victorian Era Pertaining to the Age of Discovery, Zadie
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Doomsday Tourism: The Last Place on Earth Anyone Should Go, Jenna A. Lamphere (with Elizabeth Nyman and Marissa Palmer)
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For Glory and Good Puddings: Food and Drink of the Franklin Expedition, Ren Jackson
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Frank Hurley's "Endurance" Photographs, Shane Murphy
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Glory And (Graham) Gore, Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Show, Lady M
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Let's Get Meta- With It: Current Methods in Polar Microbiome Research, Julianne Peralta
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Virtual Visits and Interactive Narratives: Polar Stories through Digital Gaming, Elizabeth Nyman
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Which Cold Boys Were On Which Boat?: Careers of the Franklin Expedition, Tristan