HIS2335 - Autumn 2010

Undervisningsplan

DatoUndervises avStedTemaKommentarer / ressurser
07.09.2010Robert Marc Friedman  Seminarrom 810 Niels Treschows hus   Orientation, presentation of themes, practical matters.   
14.09.2006Robert Marc Friedman  Seminarrom 810 Niels Treschows hus   THE RISE OF A POLAR COMPONENT IN NORWAY’S NATIONAL IDENTITY  Into the Ice, pp. 7 – 116  
21.09.2010Robert Marc Friedman  Seminarrom 810 Niels Treschows hus   A HEROIC POLAR IDENTITY TAKES FORM: O. SVERDRUP & AMUNDSEN  Into the Ice, pp. 195 – 279 
28.09.2010Robert Marc Friedman  Seminarrom 810 Niels Treschows hus  AMUNDSEN AND THE NORWEGIAN METHOD OF EXPLORATION  Roland Hundford, Scott and Amundsen: The Last Place on Earth, 161-170, 359-410, 425-433, 437-459,491-507, 515-555 
05.10.2010Robert Marc Friedman   Seminarrom 810 Niels Treschows hus   MASCULINITY AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE POLAR HERO  Roald Berg, “Gender in polar air: Roald Amundsen and his aeronautics,” Acta Borealia (2006), 130-144.

Michael R. Robinson, The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture (2006), 83-86, 94-164. 

12.10.2010Robert Marc Friedman  Seminarrom 810 Niels Treschows hus  Work on independent reading & writing assignment. (ca. 100 pages)  NB! NEW TIME AND PLACE WILL BE SET 
19.10.2010Robert Marc Friedman  Seminarrom 810 Niels Treschows hus  MAKING PROFITS AND SEEKING A POLAR EMPIRE: Norwegian commercial exploitation of the polar regions & quest for territory pre-1940  Into the Ice, pp. 121-193, 281-315

Guest lecture (tentative): WHALING AND SCIENCE IN THE ANTARCTIC: British and Norwegian Strategies for Commercial and Territorial Conquest in the Antarctic. Dr. Peder Roberts (KTH, Stockholm & Strasbourg) (Author of A Frozen Field of Dreams: Science, Strategy, and the Antarctic in Norway, Sweden, and the British Empire, 1912-1952. Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University (2010))  

26.10.2010Robert Marc Friedman   Seminarrom 810 Niels Treschows hus   WORLD WAR AND COLD WAR  To Be Announced & Into the Ice 
02.11.2010Robert Marc Friedman  Seminarrom 810 Niels Treschows hus   NORWAY & INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT OF THE POLAR REGIONS  To Be Announced & Into the Ice

ESSAYS DUE 

09.11.2010Robert Marc Friedman  Seminarrom 810 Niels Treschows hus   REVIVAL OF THE POLAR IN NATIONAL AFFAIRS AND SELF-UNDERSTANDING  To Be Announced & Into the Ice 
16.11.2010Robert Marc Friedman   Seminarrom 810 Niels Treschows hus   POLAR MEMORIES: CULTURAL-POLITICS OF ‘THE POLAR NATION’  To Be Announced & Into the Ice

RESUBMISSION OF ESSAYS 

23.11.2010Robert Marc Friedman   Seminarrom 810 Niels Treschows hus  NORWAY’S POLAR FUTURE AS SEEN FROM ITS PAST  To Be Announced & Into the Ice

NB! NEW TIME AND PLACE WILL BE SET 

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