Lecture program - Fall 2021
All lectures are online - links TBA
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Sunday, September 25
2:00 pm |
Olof Krarer the Eskimo Lady: One of America's Greatest Female Impostors
Dr. Inga Dora Bjornsdottir Olof Solvadottir was an Icelandic achondroplastic dwarf who emigrated to North America in 1876. She gave over 2,500 lectures in the US, presentding to be an Eskimo from Greenland called Olof Krarer and telling fantastic stories about the life and habits of the Eskimos. These tales were later included in a school textbook and shaped Americans' ideas about Eskimos for decades. |
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Sunday, October 24
2:00 pm |
Bodie: The Golden Years
Judy Daniel The town of Bodie in the Sierra Nevada was famous in the late 19th century for its fabulously rich mineral wealth, meals at all hours, and wild Saturday nights. Judy Daniel will take us back to its heydays through the life stories of some of its inhabitants. |
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Sunday, November 21
2:00 pm |
Finding, Weighing, and Imaging Giant Exoplanets
Professor Timothy Brandt, Physics Department, UCSB Imaging exoplanets is an incredible technical achievement. But by collecting photos from these worlds, we can learn about not just their masses and orbits, but about their atmospheres and chemistry. Professor Brandt will show how we look for giant planets around other stars and use the light collected in telescopes to understand what their atmospheres are like. The ability to detect these planets outside our solar system is one of the most exciting discoveries in astrophysics in the past two decades. |