Arctic Speaker Series – Julie Cruikshank will discuss “Melting Glaciers and Emerging Histories in America’s Far Northwest”

“Melting Glaciers and Emerging histories in America’s Far Northwest” Memories of the Little Ice Age in northwestern North America remain vivid in oral histories transmitted in indigenous communities near the Alaska-Yukon border. Enlarged glaciers in the Saint Elias Range provided travel routes for Aboriginal traders crossing from coastal Alaska to the interior Yukon Plateau. Melting glaciers are now revealing material evidence that reinvigorates longstanding oral traditions about human history and environmental change. Recent discoveries and collaborations among Aboriginal peoples and scientists reinvigorate discussions about science, politics, and how local knowledge is co-produced in such encounters. Bio: Julie Cruikshank, Professor Emerita at the University of British Columbia, taught anthropology and also held the McLean Chair in Canadian Studies, 2001-2003. For a decade, she lived in the Yukon Territory where she recorded life stories with indigenous women. Her books include Life Lived Like a Story (in collaboration with Angela Sidney, Annie Ned and Kitty Smith, 1990), Reading Voices (1991), The Social Life of Stories (1998) and Do Glaciers Listen? (2005). For more information please visit: http://arctic.ucalgary.ca/files/arctic/JulieCruikshank_Poster_Feb2014.pdf

Location:

Science B 148

Speaker:

Julie CruikshankProfessor Emerita, University of British Columbia

More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/arctic-speaker-series-julie-cruikshank-will-discuss-melting-glaciers-and-emerging-histories