Gender on Ice (great title) is an upcoming conference at Barnard College, New York (Nov. 20-21) focusing on “the intersection of science, policy, race, and gender in the way the Arctic and Antarctic are studied, represented, inhabited, and imagined.” Participants come from an unusually wide array of disciplines — photography, women’s studies, astronomy, filmmaking, philosophy, art history, geography, environmental studies, science writing — so it looks to be an interesting conversation at the very least.
The conference kicks off with a screening of True North, a film about Matthew Henson, the first African-American to explore the Arctic with Robert Peary in 1909. For more information, check the Gender on Ice website.
Listen, my irreverent self (because sense of humor is SO important in this life!) immediately wants to say “Gender on Ice? That makes me think of the Ice Capades…remember? Teddy Ruxpin on Ice? Disney on Ice?”
Sorry ladies. I just had to. 🙂