Many Norths Seminar - May 8

In this two-hour seminar we will hear talks and have a roundtable conversation on the many ideas, visualities, and histories of north. See below for a full programme.

Please RSVP to catriona.mcara@abdn.ac.uk.

Many Norths

A collaboration between

The Centre for the North

The George Washington Wilson Centre for Art and Visual Culture

CB009, 50-52 College Bounds

2pm-4pm Friday 8 May 2026

2pm Welcome with coffees

Other Ideas of North

2.15pm Professor Peter Davidson (University of Oxford): Snowlight and Evening: The Elegiac North

2.25pm Katie Ione Craney (University of Alaska Fairbanks): Abundance and Paradox

2.35pm Dr Isabelle Gapp (University of Aberdeen): A Circumpolar North

2.45pm Comfort/Changeover

From Glasgow to Mars

2.55pm Dr Sam Ainsley RSA (Independent Artist): North by North East

3.05pm Sólveig Einarsdóttir (Independent Artist): Norður og niður (North and down)

3.15pm Dr Catriona McAra (University of Aberdeen): Textile strata

Roundtable: 3.25pm-4pm

We look forward to seeing you there!

Best wishes,

Isabelle and Catriona