FS 3.138: Mountain Echoes beyond Boundaries

This panel will focus on multiple and varied topics in mountain history across boundaries of class, gender, region, and nation. From exploring women in mountain film festivals to women’s Olympic ski jumpers, ski resort growth in the Rockies, mountain travel writing, and the history of mountain landscapes these new topics in mountain history research move across boundaries of class, gender, region, and nation. We propose to convene approximately four to six presentations followed by a commentator and a panel discussion. Mountain voices echo in art, mountaineering and skiing from the Alps to the Rockies in transnational, globalized, and cross-cultural perspectives. We are looking forward to a conversation about our current research in progress, hoping to open ideas, writing, and archival finds on how we read mountain voices and their transnational echoes. This panel is a joint collaboration between two research groups at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) and the University of Alberta (Canada). Reference for submitted image: Swiss Alpine Museum (ALPS) Archives, Collection Eleonor Stücker.