#122 The Arctic w/ Heidi Bohaker & Alison Smith

The Road to Now

Benjamin Sawyer

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

When most of us think of the earth, we imagine going "north" as going "up." Modern maps, however, obscure many geographic realities, including the existence of an Arctic world, which unites the US, Canada, Russia, Norway, Greenland and other countries into a distinct geographic sphere. In this episode, Bob and Ben are joined by historians Heidi Bohaker and Alison Smith to discuss their work developing a course on the history of the Arctic at the University of Toronto. The conversation covers the diversity of indigenous groups in the region, the conquest of the Arctic by modern states, and the many ways that climate change may impact the world. As it turns out, there's a lot to learn from a "top down" history of the earth.

Dr. Heidi Bohaker is Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto, whose specialties are Native American history and digital history. She has a broad interest in the types of archives and categories of information both states and non-state societies kept and keep about their people.

Dr. Alison Smith is Professor History at the University of Toronto and a specialist in the history of the Russian Empire. She has published several articles and two books, the most recent of which is For the Common Good and Their Own Well-Being: Social Estates in Imperial Russia(Oxford University Press: 2014). You can read her series of blog posts on "The Case of the Dead Cheese Master" at the Russian History Blog.

The Road to Now is part of the Osiris Podcast Network. For more on this and all other episodes, visit our website: www.TheRoadToNow.com.

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2:42.0	I'm Bob Crawford.
2:44.4	And I'm Ben Sawyer, and we are the future of influenza.
2:49.1	We are, this is the road to now and we're dealing with
2:53.0	nagging colds as you may be as well yeah we hope you're not uh we both have young children
2:59.2	that we sent off to wherever petri dish they live in and they bring us home all types of presents
3:03.6	sometimes hand drawn sometimes uh biological, so here we are.
3:08.9	And you know what the best place to go is?
3:11.1	Speaking of the cold.
3:12.8	Oh, it's Antarctica.
3:15.2	No.
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