“Tragedy was not our business”: Individual emotional experience and the Terra Nova Expedition

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• Deb Wood, PhD candidate and Sarah Airriess, research associate, Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge University
• Thursday 26 October 2023, 14:00-15:00
• Hybrid: Seminar room, SPRI & Zoom - email organiser for details.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Emilie Canova.

The narrative of Scott’s Terra Nova Expedition has been repeatedly reworked and mythologised throughout the past century into several starkly different forms. From the ‘tragic heroism’ of the long 19th Century to the cynical revisionism of the 1980s, the story has been shaped to fit into a variety of archetypes. However, these reductions of a multifaceted story into a simple, single-focus narrative often misses the granular emotional experience of the individuals directly involved with this expedition, through which the course of events is best understood. The expedition is, fundamentally, its people. This talk will untangle the layers of culturally-informed legacy building to reveal the nuanced human beings whose personalities, histories, and psychology influenced both the expedition’s events and outcomes, and the publications that committed them to historical record. The zoom link will be sent closer via email closer to the date.

This talk is part of the Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop series.

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• Hybrid: Seminar room, SPRI & Zoom - email organiser for details
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