A Circumpolar Landscape with Dr. Isabelle Gapp
Join us in the Massey College Upper Library for an engaging lecture by alumna Dr. Isabelle Gapp, celebrating the publication of her new book.
Dr. Gapp is an art historian whose teaching and research explore the intersections of landscape art history, environmental history, and climate change across the Circumpolar North. She is the author of A Circumpolar Landscape: Art and Environment in Scandinavia and North America, 1890–1930, which examines artistic responses to northern environments during a period of profound ecological and cultural change.
Dr. Gapp is also co-curator of the exhibition Arctic Fever: Image and Narrative in North Circumpolar Voyaging of the Long Nineteenth Century, which will be on view at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library from January 26 through April 2026.
We warmly invite you to attend this special event. The lecture will be followed by an opportunity for conversation, book signing, and light refreshments, generously provided by the Massey Alumni Association.
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Speaker
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Isabelle GappIsabelle is an Interdisciplinary Fellow in the Department of Art History and associated with the Environment and Biodiversity Challenge Area.
She is a specialist in landscape and environmental art history from around the Circumpolar North and from 1800 to the present day. Her current research looks at the intersections between art and glaciology in the study of historic and contemporary printmaking, photography, and drawing made by Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists in the North American Arctic.
Prior to joining Aberdeen, Isabelle was an Arts & Science Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto. She received her PhD from the University of York in 2019.
Isabelle is the PI for the British Academy funded project From the Floe Edge, in collaboration with Dr Sarah Cooley (Duke University) and the West Baffin Co-operative in Kinngait, Nunavut. She is also the co-lead for the Teaching Arctic Environments project with Dr Jonathan Peyton at the University of Manitoba, and in collaboration with Dr Nadine Fabbi at the University of Washington and Dr Penny How at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland.
Isabelle is an Editor for the Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE), where she also convenes the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series. She formally co-lead a working group under the same name through the Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto (2021-24). At Aberdeen, Isabelle is Co-Director for The Centre for the North and is affiliated with the Cryosphere and Climate Change Research Group
To date, Isabelle is the author of one book (2024) and has published more than eleven single-author/co-author papers and numerous public humanities essays. She has also co-authored an additional seven papers with colleagues in the fields of art and architectural history, environmental history, geography and glaciology.
