Speaking

Public talk: “Journeys in the History of Mountain Medicine,” British Mountain Medicine Society and University of Central Lancashire Winter Webinar Series, February 2024.

Interviewed by Abbey Collins on the Alpinist podcast, companion to Alpinist magazine, on episode 58: “Unpacking Packing with Sarah Pickman,” December 2023. Listen here

Interviewed by Nemo Martin on Below Decks, the nonfiction companion series to the audio drama Trice Forgotten (part of the Rusty Quill family of podcasts), on episode 3: “Nautical Collections in the Nineteenth Century,” September 2022. Listen here

Interviewed on the Highlander podcast, hosted by Chase Anderson for the Utah State University Outdoor Product Design and Development Program, on episode 121: “History of Gear Series: Sarah Pickman, Ph.D. Candidate,” June 2021. Listen here or watch the interview here

Commentator for “How to Turn Your Ph.D. into a Netflix Series,” 2021 Joseph H. Hazen Lecture featuring Latif Nasser of Radiolab and “Connected.” Presented online by the History of Science Society and Columbia University Center for Science and Society, April 2021. Watch here

Public talk: “An Illuminating History of the Magic Lantern,” Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. Presented as part of the Peabody Graduate Research Spotlight webinar series, February 2021. Watch here

Public talk: “Historic Inuit Women in Arctic Science,” co-authored with Nanna Kaalund (University of Cambridge), as part of the panel “Breaking the Ice Ceiling: Trailblazing Women in Arctic and Antarctic Science,” Smithsonian Institute “American Women of Science: Recovering History, Defining the Future” digital symposium, October 2020. Watch here

Flash talk: “Adventure Booklet,” presented as part of the “One More Thing” series of digital flash talks on material culture, Bard Graduate Center, May 2020. Watch here

Interviewed Prof. Michael Robinson for In Theory: The Journal of the History of Ideas blog podcast, on the topic of history and podcasting, February 2020. Listen here

Public talk: “Leaving the Comfort Zone: Mountain Men and the Trappings of a Wilderness Lifestyle,” presented as part of the Tesoro Cultural Center’s Historic Lecture Series at the Douglas H. Buck Community Center (Littleton, Colorado), Denver Public Library (Denver, Colorado), and the Tesoro Cultural Center (Morrison, Colorado), April 2018. Watch here

Interviewed on the Time to Eat the Dogs podcast hosted by Prof. Michael Robinson, on episodes 24 and 25: “The Biggest Exploration Exam Ever” and “Bonus Episode: Exploration Books,” March 208. Listen here

Public talk: “Gilded Age Glamour,” presented with Claire McRee at the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum (Bronx, New York), March 2016.

Public talk: “Fashion Flashback: 1914,” presented as part of the Bronx Centennial series at the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum (Bronx, New York), May 2014.

Public talk: “Ninety Years of Fashion History, 1890-1980,” presented as part of Open House NY/Historic House Trust Festival at the at the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum (Bronx, New York), October 2013.

Public talk: “Hunting for Vintage Treasures,” at the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum (Bronx, New York), May 2013.

“Unfreezing Our Narratives: New Directions in the History of Arctic Exploration,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, January 2024.

“‘Well-Found Ship, Full Equipment, and High Hopes’: Material Culture Studies and the Outfitting of Historic Antarctic Expeditions,” Society for Historical Archaeology annual conference (digital session), Lisbon, January 2023.

“Exploration Was Already a Joke When I Came to Canada: Archiving and Objects in the Making of a Scientific Legacy,” History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, November 2022.

“Next Door to the Promised Land: The Franklin Expedition and National Belonging from Richler to Rogers,” Terror Camp Digital Conference, September 2022.

“Whose Arctic Expertise? Vilhjalmur Stefánsson and the Reconstruction of Inuit Clothing,” C19, Miami, Florida, April 2022.

“Unfrozen from Time: Traders, Anthropologists, Indigenous Knowledge, and the Shifting Meanings of Arctic Fur,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting Digital Conference, February 2022.

“‘A Maximum of Nourishment with Minimum of Bulk”: Arctic Exploration, Experimental Failure, and the Pemmican Campaigns of Vihjalmur Stefansson,” Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science Annual Meeting Digital Conference, June 2021.

“‘The most durable manner with every attention to warmth’: British Rubber, Waterproof Fabric and Exploration in the Long Nineteenth Century,” Adventures in Chemistry and Technology: Exploring the Legacy of 19th Century Innovation in Textiles, Jewelry and Materials Digital Symposium, De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom, September 2020. Watch here

“‘Extreme Portability’: Circulating Medical Knowledge to and from Britain with Burroughs Wellcome, 1890-1940,” Colonial Knowledges Conference, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, February 2021.

“Using Society Archive Collections: A Researcher’s Perspective,” Charleston Conference for Libraries, Charleston, South Carolina, November 2019. Read a synopsis here

“Anticipating Dark Futures: Perspectives from History,” Anticipation 2019, Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Oslo, October 2019.

“Darkness Falls: Arctic Darkness and the Meanings of Normative Time,” co-authored with Tess Lanzarotta, Island Dynamics: Conference on Darkness, Longyearbyen, Norway, January 2019.

“Self-Fashioning: Clothing Technology, Ethnoscience, and the Arctic Expertise of Vilhjálmur Stefánsson,” History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Seattle, November 2018.

“Canadian Arctic Exploration as Military Strategy: Vilhjálmur Stefánsson’s Provisioning Expertise,” Nordic Association for Canadian Studies Triennial Conference, University of Akureyri, Akureyri, Iceland, August 2018.

“Objects at the Edge: Negotiating the Extreme Environment Through Material Culture,” Center for Material Culture Studies Symposium for Emerging Scholars, University of Delaware and Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library, Newark, Delaware, April 2018.

“Transposed Places, Mountain Faces: Local Knowledge and British Mountaineering in the Alps and Himalayas, 1821-1938,” History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Toronto, November 2019.

“Polar Exploration and Clothing: Thinking Through Many Layers,” Fashion, Science, and Exploration Symposium, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, New York, September 2017. Watch here

“Cold Comfort: The History of the ‘Eskimo Hall’ at the American Museum of Natural History, New York,” Polar Museums Network Bi-Annual Meeting, Fram Museum, Oslo, October 2016.

“‘Not a Trouser Button Must Be Missing’: Dress, Image, and Cultural Encounter in the Heroic Age of Polar Exploration,” Bard Graduate Center Qualifying Paper Symposium, Bard Graduate Center, New York, New York, May 2015.

Panelist on “Science, Extraction, and Extreme Environments: Pasts, Presents, and Futures,” American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting, Denver, April 2024.

Panelist on “Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North,” NiCHE and the Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto, April 2023. Watch here

Commenter on “Lofty Imaginings: Histories of Mountain Lands,” American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting, Boston, March 2023.

Panelist on “Playing with Nature: How Outdoor Recreation Has Linked Nature, Culture, and Commerce,” Society for the History of Technology Annual Meeting, New Orleans, November 2022.

Presenter: “Warranted Not to Waste its Sweetness on the Desert Air”: Canned Meat, Expeditions, and Consumer Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century, Digital Materialities Zoom Seminar, Laboratoire de Recherche sur les Cultures Anglophones - Université de Paris, May 2022. Watch here

Panelist on “Perspectives on the Discovery of the Endurance,” Virtual HistSTM Network, March 2022.

Panelist on “Beyond ROI: How Historians Use Archives to Tell Stories,” Outdoor History Summit, Utah State University, September 2021. Watch here

Panelist on “Future Directions for Post Graduate Researcher Assistance: How Can Academic Societies Support Postgraduates and Early Career Researchers?,” British Society for the History of Science Postgraduate Conference, April 2021.

Presented “Views from/of the North,” as part of the roundtable “Is Deep History White?,” History of Science Society/Society for the History of Technology Virtual Forum, October 2020.

Panelist on “Vital Conversations: Visual and Structural Legacies of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries,” Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Colloquium Graduate Student Workshop, Department of Art History, Yale University, November 2020.

Panelist on “What or Who is Your Travelling Companion?” panel, held in conjunction with “Travelling Companions” exhibition, CRASSH (Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities) at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, March 2020. Watch here

Panelist on “Keywords in the Environmental Humanities: Infrastructure, Extremity, and Temporality” panel, Yale University-Whitney Humanities Center, New Haven, Connecticut, January 2020.