Time to Eat the Dogs
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Replay: Do You See Ice?
In the 1800s, explorers and whalers returning home from the Arctic described a cold, desolate world, one that could swallow up expeditions without leaving a trace. But this did not describe the Arctic of the Inuit, who called this world their home. Dr. Karen Routledge tells the story of Baffin Island’s Inuit community as they came 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 meaning of home, even their concept of time itself remained very different from the men they encountered. Routledge is a historian for Parks Canada. Her book, Do You See Ice? Inuit and Americans at Home and Away is published by University of Chicago Press.
The Strange Journey of Ṣägga Krǝstos
Matteo Salvadore talks about the strange journey of Ṣägga Krǝstos and his impact on the Renaissance world. Salvadore is an Associate Professor of History at the American University of Sharjah. He’s the author of The African Prester John and the Birth of Ethiopian-European Relations, 1402–1555. Salvadore writes about Ṣägga Krǝstos in his essay “‘I Was Not Born to Obey, but Rather to Command’”: The Self-Fashioning of Ṣägga Krǝstos, an Ethiopian Traveler in Seventeenth-Century Europe”
Replay: Empires of the Sky
Alexander Rose talks about the history of airplanes and airships at the turn of the century, a time when the direction of aviation remained unclear. Rose is the author of Empires of the Sky: Zeppelins, Airplanes, and Two Men’s Epic Duel to Rule the World.
Alexander Rose
Time to Eat the Dogs Live Podcast!
I’ll be doing three live zoom interviews in May — on May 3rd, May 10th, and May 17th from 3:00-4:00pm EST– for students of the President’s College here at the University of Hartford. Anyone can register for the events and when you do, you can watch my interviews and ask your own questions at the end. I’ll be talking to Eric Berger about his new book Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days that Launched SpaceX and Kristina Newman-Scott, artist and arts director, about her journeys from Jamaica to Brooklyn where she is now the president of BRIC, one of the most important arts and media institutions of New York. Registration costs $60 and proceeds (including my honorarium) will go to supporting student fellowships here at the university. I hope you can join us! Register here.
Inventing the World
Meredith Small talks about the city of Venice and its importance to the history of travel and exploration. Small is professor emerita of at Cornell University and visiting scholar in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. She’s the author of Inventing the World: Venice and the Transformation of Western Civilization
