{"id":3553,"date":"2018-01-15T18:15:42","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T01:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/2018\/01\/15\/international-mountain-day-2017\/"},"modified":"2018-12-21T13:09:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T20:09:08","slug":"international-mountain-day-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/2018\/01\/15\/international-mountain-day-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"International Mountain Day 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"kMp0We OcVpRe\">\n<div id=\"xDetDlgWhen\" class=\"NI2kfb \">\n<div>Dr. Colleen Skidmore\u2014author of\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uap.ualberta.ca\/titles\/894-9781772122985-searching-for-mary-schaffer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Searching for Mary Sch\u00e4ffer<\/a>: Women Wilderness Photography\u2014<\/em>gave a talk about the subject of her new book\u00a0at the University of Alberta&#8217;s Mountain Festival on December 7, 2017. The event was hosted by Dr. PearlAnn Reichwein, author of the award-winning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uap.ualberta.ca\/titles\/184-9780888646743-climbers-paradise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Climber&#8217;s Paradise<\/em><\/a>.\u200b<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Mary Sch\u00e4ffer was a photographer, writer, botanical painter, and mapmaker from Philadelphia, renowned for her travels in the Canadian Rockies at the turn of the 20th century. Sch\u00e4ffer\u2019s own themes\u2014women and wilderness, travel and science\u2014shape this critical exploration of her work amid Philadelphia\u2019s science and photography communities, and the scientific, tourist, and Indigenous societies of the Rocky Mountains of Canada.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"xDetDlgWhen\" class=\"NI2kfb \">\n<div>Professor Colleen Skidmore is a photo historian at University of Alberta, whose work has been featured at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whyte.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies\u200b<\/a> in Banff\u200b. Her previous \u200bwork\u200b,\u200b \u200b<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uap.ualberta.ca\/titles\/135-9780888644664-this-wild-spirit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This Wild Spirit<\/a>: Women in the Rocky Mountains of Canada<\/em>\u200b, \u200bwas \u200bexhibit\u200bed\u200b in \u200bat galleries in \u200bEdmonton in concert with the publication of the book in 2006\u200b, and again in Edmonton and Jasper in 2016\u200b. \u200bT\u200bhe exhibit was \u200bthen \u200bmounted in \u200bBanff in the summer of 2017, as part of Canada&#8217;s 150th anniversary celebrations. It will be shown again \u200bthis winter at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jaspermuseum.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jasper-Yellowhead Museum and Archives<\/a>, alongside another\u200b \u200bshow about Mary Sch\u00e4ffer\u200b&#8217;s photography\u200b.<\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/holeinthebucket.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/12\/wp_20171207_15_51_33_pro.jpg?w=300\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/holeinthebucket.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/12\/wp_20171207_16_02_45_pro.jpg?w=300\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/holeinthebucket.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/9781772122985.jpg?w=225\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/holeinthebucket.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/0888644663am.jpg?w=208\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Colleen Skidmore\u2014author of\u00a0Searching for Mary Sch\u00e4ffer: Women Wilderness Photography\u2014gave a talk about the subject of her new book\u00a0at the University of Alberta&#8217;s Mountain Festival on December 7, 2017. The event was hosted by Dr. PearlAnn Reichwein, author of the award-winning Climber&#8217;s Paradise.\u200b Mary Sch\u00e4ffer was a photographer, writer, botanical painter, and mapmaker from Philadelphia, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3553"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6719,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553\/revisions\/6719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}