Please join us on Tuesday, April 19 at 4 p.m. via Zoom for “Polar Voyaging and the Humanities” with Hester Blum, PhD, Professor of English at Penn State.
In the summer of 2019 Blum was the lone humanities scholar on a scientific expedition tracking climate change in the Northwest Passage. Drawn from her experience on the Arctic icebreaker (and on an Antarctic expedition), as well as her research on nineteenth-century polar expeditions, Blum's talk offers a meditation on ice as a measure for visualizing, writing about, mourning, and mediating the state of the climate in an age of ecological and institutional crisis.
This event is offered in support of Falvey Memorial Library’s current exhibit "That Fairyland of Ice": Polar Exploration in Mind and Memory and is included alongside Earth Week events.
This ACS-approved event is co-sponsored by Falvey Memorial Library, the Office of Sustainability, the Department of Geography and the Environment, the Albert Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest, and the Department of English. It is free and open to all!
