Glaciers: Meanings and Mythologies - Livestream

An environmental historian, a geographer, and a glaciologist will discuss how glaciers loom large in both science and cultural expression. Not just sites of study, glaciers impact local and international power relations, and their fate is often intertwined with Indigenous communities. Home to plant, animal, and human life for millennia, glaciers offer commanding visual images that are frequently photographed and studied to illustrate the devastating effects of climate change.

As climate change remakes the planet, icescapes constitute crucial sites of examination. This program is the first in a two-part series of one-hour webinars offered by Harvard Radcliffe Institute focused on “Ice Humanities.”

Our paired programs explore the cultural, creative, and social dimensions of environmental ice in a time of rapid change and decay. Speakers will connect science and geography with art, music, photography, and history to help us better understand and contextualize the climate crisis.

Speakers: Danielle Inkpen, Mount Allison University (Canada); Jen Rose Smith, University of Washington; M. Jackson, glaciologist and geographer, moderator

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