| Dates |
Topics |
Readings Selected From: |
| Jan 23 |
Introduction and Overview, Why IPY? |
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| Jan 28, 30 |
Fridtjof Nansen |
Farthest North |
| Feb 4, 6 |
Nansen |
Farthest North |
| Feb 11 |
Frederick Cook and Robert Peary |
My Attainment of the Pole; The North Pole; The Coldest Crucible; Suffering for Science |
| Feb 13 |
Josephine Peary, Matt Henson |
My Arctic Journal: A Year Among Ice-Fields and
Eskimos, A Negro Explorer at the North Pole |
| Feb 18 |
Guest: Elizabeth Hutchinson, historical artistic representations
of the Arctic |
Cosmos: a sketch of a physical description of the Universe, Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful |
| Feb 20 |
Guest: Sabine Marx, Psychology of Risk and Decisions |
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| Feb 25 |
Prize of the Pole film, 6 PM, with Lisa Bloom
(info here
) |
North Pole Legacy: Black, White and Eskimo, Inuit entertainers, Ota Benga |
| Feb 27 |
Guest: Lisa Bloom |
Gender on Ice, Film `True North' |
| Mar 3, 5 |
Robert F Scott and Roald Amundsen |
The Last Place on Earth; The Coldest March |
| Mar 10 |
Scott and Amundsen |
The Last Place on Earth; The Coldest March |
| Mar 12 |
AMNH Class trip |
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| Mar 17, 19 |
NO CLASS |
Spring Break |
| Mar 24 |
Finish South Pole race |
Last Place on Earth, Last Great Quest, Science and Writing |
| Mar 26 |
Ernest Shackleton |
Endurance |
| Mar 31, Apr 2 |
Shackleton |
Endurance |
| Apr 7 |
Guest: Elena Glasberg (NSF Antarctic Artists and Writers Program) |
Sur, Antarctic Traveller |
| Apr 9, 14 |
Guest: Robin Bell, LDEO, Polar Science |
Bell, Ehrlich, Kolbert |
| Apr 16 |
Guest: Anne Aghion (NSF Antarctic Artists and Writers Program) |
BC Alum discusses her new film `Ice People' |
| Apr 21 |
Polar Geopolitics |
Silent Snow; oil, treaties, recent claims by Russia, Britain, etc |
| Apr 23, 28 |
Start Final Project |
`Footsteps' expeditions, Psychological studies of isolated groups |
| Apr 30 |
Group Presentations |
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| May 5 |
Course Wrap-up |
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