Cryo-History: Histories of Cold Places

Harvard FAS

This seminar provides a comprehensive introduction to “cryo-history”, a field that centers cold places (polar, alpine, and industrially refrigerated environments) and their human and nonhuman inhabitants in historical inquiry. It is conducted with a specific aim to foreground Indigenous and Eurasian knowledges that shaped global empires, colonialism, capitalism, socialism, urbanization, war, as well as modern Earth science, technology, and medicine.