2025 Program
Friday, December 5
9:00am PST / 12:00pm EST / 6:00pm CET
Opening Remarks
9:05am PST / 12:05pm EST / 6:05pm CET
Panel 1: Polar Narratives
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Shaking the Brown Study: Walton, Crozier, and the Byronification of the Polar Explorer - Persephone Roy
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“Man vs Arctic” How Narrative Framing Affects Risk in the Northwest Passage -Arkyn Kornell and Léa Baubant
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Bullies with Big Eyebrows: Badly Behaved Arctic ‘Explorers’ in their Narratives, Journals, and Photographs - Eavan O'Dochartaigh
10:30am PST / 1:30pm EST / 7:30pm CET
Workshop: Captain’s Log of HMS Terror: Handwriting in the Terror and in Victorian Times
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with Teddy McMillan
12:30pm PST / 3:30pm EST / 9:30pm CET
Friday Keynote: Careers in Polar Humanities
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Paul Clammer, Guidebook Editor for Swoop Adventure
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Elizabeth Leane, Professor of Antarctic Studies at the University of Tasmania
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Katie Marx, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tasmania
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Nina Rodet, MPhil Student at the Scott Polar Research Institute
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Claire Warrior, Senior Curator at the National Maritime Museum
Saturday, December 6
7:00am PST / 10:00am EST / 4:00pm CET
Opening Remarks
7:15am PST / 10:15am EST / 4:15pm CET
Icebreakers (Lightning Talks)
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Exploration and exploitation: Whaling in the Ross Sea - Iona Anderson
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A Study of the Twitter Terror Script Bot: Statistics and Scrutiny - Dan Ramos Lay
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Five Things About Greenland Sharks (And How We Know Them) - Morell
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Polar Exploration in Songs - Jayjay Colley
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Four Franks in four minutes: A whistle-stop tour of Heroic Age guys called Frank - Gene
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Arctowski, Colonialism and Democratising Polar Science - Maksymilian Rębisz
8:30am PST / 11:30am EST / 5:30pm CET
Panel 2: Survival and Death
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Relics of Hubris: Objects and Images of Survival in 1846 - Sienna Weldon
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"I don’t want to be the first to say the word, Sir John" – or everything you always wanted to know about scurvy, but were afraid to ask - Milena Malcharek
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Ghosts at the End of the Earth - Eliza Glina
9:45am PST / 12:45pm EST / 6:45pm CET
Panel 3: Inuit Texts
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The View From Kablunaaqhiuvik: Inuit Texts, Knowledge Making, and the Qallunaat They Met Along the Way -Thomas Gurinskas
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Sanaaq by Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk - The first Inuktitut-language novel - Inga
11:00am PST / 2:00pm EST / 8:00pm CET
Saturday Keynote: Inside Amundsen's House with Anders Bache
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Archaeologist Anders Bache takes Terror Camp for a tour of the historic home of legendary polar explorer Roald Amundsen in Svartskog, Norway.
Sunday, December 7
7:00am PST / 10:00am EST / 4:00pm CET
Opening Remarks
7:15am PST / 10:15am EST / 4:15pm CET
Panel 4: Non-Human Life and the Arctic
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Frozen Histories: An Introduction to Ice Cores - Olivia Williams
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Cool for cats: Ship’s cats and dogs in polar exploration - Millie
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Franklin’s Gull: eponyms, the legacy of polar expeditions in ornithology, and decentering colonial perspectives in science - Emily Burt
8:45am PST / 11:45am EST / 5:45pm CET
Panel 5: Indigenous Knowledge, Artefacts, and Exploitation in Polar Exploration
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Lady Jane Franklin and Sophia Cracroft Visit Səl̓ilw̓ət - Ashley Smith
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"All Kinds of Words Against Me": Narratives of Ada Blackjack - Sadie MacDonald
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Shamanic Masks from the North, Siberia, and the Russian Far East - Joe Starwalker and Tatiana
10:15am PST / 1:15pm EST / 7:15pm CET
“When We Meet Next”: Investigating Franklin Men and Their Families
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with Kaitlyn Gorsalitz
11:15am PST / 2:15pm EST / 8:15pm CET
Panel 6: Polar Utopias
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Liberation, Utopia, Homophobia, and Censorship: Queer Pasts and Futures in Historical Naval Adventure Fiction - Seth Stein LeJacq
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Frontier Masculinity: polar exploration and techno-libertarianism - Shelley Yang
12:45pm PST / 3:45pm EST / 9:45pm CET
Sunday Keynote
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Details TBA!
PLEASE NOTE: TC V schedule, programming, and timing may be subject to change prior to December 5, 2025.
New for 2025: Polar Parties
One of the most special things about Terror Camp is its global reach and the accessibility of the flagship conference. Terror Camp’s main event will always be online and free to attend for anyone. But the joy of real-life community is something powerful, irreplaceable, and more important than ever.
Terror Campers from around the world will be hosting regional meetups during the conference weekend (December 5-7, 2025).