People of the North: The Arctic and Pacific Northwest Coast with Dr. George Scheper, PhD

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Lifelong Learning LogoCourse Title: People of the North: the Arctic and Pacific Northwest Coast

Instructor: Dr. George Scheper

Brought to you by Odyssey  

August 26, 2025 - September 30, 2025 (6 Sessions) 

Tuesday,  6:00PM ET - 8:00PM ET 

Virtual via Zoom

 

Course Description: A cultural history of the peoples of the Arctic, from Greenland, Nunavut in Canada, to Alaska,  and of the First Nations of the Pacific Northwest.  This course of study will include archival sources, life-ways, customs, beliefs, story-telling and ceremonial life. Each class will be richly illustrated with historic photographs and films, and art and artifacts of the peoples of the North.

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ABOUT George L. Scheper, PhD
Senior Lecturer, Advanced Academic Programs, Johns Hopkins University

George L. Scheper (Ph.D., Princeton) is Senior Lecturer in Liberal Arts and former Director of the Odyssey Program (lifelong learning and educational enrichment for adults) at Johns Hopkins University. His interdisciplinary humanities teaching focuses on Pre-Columbian and Native American Studies, and on urban cultural histories, especially of NYC and of turn-of-the-century culture circa 1900. He has directed fifteen National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institutes for college and university faculty on Pre-Columbian and Native American topics, convened onsite in the U.S., Mexico, and Central and South America. His publications include many articles and reviews on cultural studies; a survey of British Literature text for a tele-course by Maryland Public Broadcasting; a bio-critical study of Oxford don and detective fiction writer J. I. M. Stewart.

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 Event Date
Starts:
Tuesday, August 26, 2025
6:00pm EDT

Ends:
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
8:00pm EDT

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