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Replay: The Biggest Exploration Exam Ever Feb 16, 2019

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Doctoral candidate Sarah Pickman talks about studying exploration for her Ph.D exams: specifically what it's like to read three hundred books and articles and then discuss them in front of a committee of professors.

Replay: Talking Exploration Books with Sarah Pickman Feb 16, 2019

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Sarah Pickman talks about the literature of exploration. She offers some picks for categories of exploration books not commonly seen in indexes and bibliographies.

Re-imagining People in Anthropological Photographs Feb 12, 2019

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Artist Chiadikobi Nwaubani talks about his efforts to find, restore, and publish photographs from the colonial archives of West Africa. He also talks about his work re-interpreting these photographs using art and photo-manipulation.

Replay: Project Vanguard Feb 09, 2019

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Dr. Angelina Callahan talks about the Naval Research Laboratory's Project Vanguard. While this satellite mission was part of the Cold War "Space Race," it also represented something more: a scientific platform for understanding the space environment as well as a test vehicle that would provide data for satellites of the future.

The Problem with Andrea Wulf's Biography of Humboldt Feb 06, 2019

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Andrea Wulf's book the The Invention of Nature tells the story of Alexander von Humboldt, one of the world's most important nineteenth-century explorers. Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra talks about some of the problems of the book, specifically how Wulf's view of Humboldt divorces him from the intellectual traditions of Central and South American scholars who helped Humboldt imagine the Americas for European and North American readers. Cañizares-Esguerra is a professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of many books including How to Write the History of the New World: Histories, Epistemologies, and Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World.

Replay: Do You See Ice? Feb 02, 2019

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Dr. Karen Routledge talks about Baffin Island's Inuit community as it comes into contact with western whalers and explorers in the nineteenth century. Even though the Inuit worked closely with outsiders, their views of the Arctic world, their ideas about the meaning of home, even their views of time itself remained different. Routledge is a historian with Parks Canada. Her new book, Do You See Ice?: Inuit and Americans at Home and Away has recently been published by University of Chicago Press.

The Galapagos Expedition that Vindicated Darwin Jan 29, 2019

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Matthew James talks about the 1905 Galapagos Expedition organized by the California Academy of Sciences. James is a professor of geology at Sonoma State University. He is the author of Collecting Evolution: The Galapagos Expedition that Vindicated Darwin.

Replay: The Journeys of Eslanda Robeson Jan 26, 2019

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Professor Annette Joseph-Gabriel talks about Eslanda Robeson who, in addition to being a political activist with her husband Paul Robeson, was a chemist, anthropologist, and epic traveler.

The Nazi Cult of Mobility Jan 22, 2019

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Andrew Denning talks about the Nazi cult of mobility, a set of ideas and practices that were crucial to its racist ideology. Denning is an Assistant Professor of Modern European History at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. He is the author the essay "'Life is Movement, Movement is life!' Mobility Politics and the Circulatory State in Nazi Germany," published in the American Historical Review.

Replay: The Rise of Women in Climbing Jan 19, 2019

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Noel Phillips discusses the growing popularity of climbing among women. Her article, "No Man's Land: The Rise of Women in Climbing" was recently published in Climbing Magazine.

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