Antarctica Day 2025: Encountering Antarctica

9.00 - 9.30

9.30 – 9.40am

Doors open & coffee

Welcome

Acknowledgement of Country

Panel #1
Encountering Antarctica from Hobart

• Travis Prins (Antarctic Tasmania)
• Lara Colrain (Mawsons Huts Foundation)
• Margo Adler (Beaker Street and Hobartica)

Keynote: "Antarctica: Encounters through practice and presence".

• Annalise Rees (introduced by Ellie Leane)

Panel #2
Encountering narratives of Antarctic exceptionalism: Antarctic Geopolitics

• Evan Bloom (IMAS)
• Jeff McGee (IMAS)
• Indi Hodgson-Johnson (IMAS)

11.00 – 11.20am

Morning tea – IMAS Salamanca Flex Space

Panel #3
Encountering the ice: Operating in Antarctica

• David Souter (AAD)
• Katie Marx (UTAS)

Project Updates and Methodology:
Encountering the Continent through Research

Introduction by Hanne Nielsen

• Creative Antarctica (Carolyn Philpott)
• Antarctic Tourism Research Programme (Ellie Leane)
• Hurtigruten Expeditions/UTAS short course (Jeff Morgan)
• SOOS (Alyce Hancock)
• ACEAS (Matt King)
• AAPP (Delphine Lannuzel)
• HDR Survey (Katie Marx)
• Antarctic Women’s Network (Karen Rees)
• AYC/ COALAR (Katia Macías-Díaz)

PhD Lightning Talks

• Branwell Roberts
• Hin Fong Leong
• Farhad Azimi Yancheshmeh
• Sherrie-Lee Evans
• Clément Astruc-Delor
• Yu Wang
• Vaibhavi Dwivedi
• Kanyanat Wilaiwat

Wrap up

1:00 – 1.30pm

Lunch – IMAS Salamanca Flex Space

Careers Panel : Encountering Antarctica into the future

• Travis Prins (Antarctic Tasmania)
• Ben Arthur (CSIRO)
• Katie Marx (UTAS)
• Jodi Fox (IMAS)

2.30 – 2.45pm

Afternoon Tea – IMAS Salamanca Flex Space

2.45 – 4pm

Antarctic Youth Coalition Activity