Ice (St)Ages 2: Heroes on Ice? Conquests and Doomsday Visions

The online symposium explores the Western and gender-specific shaping of polar heroes on ice as a performative and highly-unstable construction. This idea is accompanied by an investigation of national, economic and ecological interests performed with ice by using its visual and sensual qualities.
Overwhelming aesthetics, immersion effects and doomsday scenarios are rooted in a culture of spectacles, which will be investigated from the 19th century to its emergence in scientific communication, arts and popular culture. The aim is to investigate the use of ice – but also its agency – as a dynamic staging strategy for global (i.e. ecological, historical and cultural) change.

Ice (St)Ages 2 is hosted by the SFB 948 “Heroes – Heroizations – Heroisms” at the University of Freiburg, Germany.

Programme

Wednesday 28 July 2021

8.00-8.15am CEST, 4.00-4.15pm AEST
Curtain Up
Anne Hemkendreis (SFB 948, University of Freiburg, Germany) & Anna-Sophie Jürgens (Australian National University, Australia)

8.45-9.15am CEST, 4.45-5.15pm AEST
Antarctica and the Contemporary Sublime in Feminist Art Practices
Lisa Bloom (University of Berkeley, USA)

9.15-9.35am CEST, 5.15-5.35pm AEST
Discussion

9.35-9.45am CEST, 5.35-5.45pm AEST
Break (online)

9.45-10.15am CEST, 5.45-6.15pm AEST
Walking the Wide White Stage: Antarctica in the Theatre
Hanne Nielsen (University of Tasmania, Australia)

10.15-10.45am CEST, 6.15-6.45pm AEST
Hyperathletic Artistry: Nathan Chen and Yuzuru Hanyu Performing Asian Masculinity and Heroism on Ice
Michelle H. S. Ho (National University of Singapore, Singapore), Lim Wesely (Australian National University, Australia)

10.45-11.15 CEST, 6.45-7.15pm AEST
Discussion and Wrap Up

Thursday 29 July 2021

8.00-8.10am CEST, 4.00-4.10pm AEST
Short welcome
Anne Hemkendreis and Anna-Sophie Jürgens

8.10-8.40am CEST, 4.10-4.40pm AEST
Un-shaming the Greenlandic female body. The Indigenous Nude in Performance Art
Kirsten Thisted (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

8.40-9.10am CEST, 4.40-5.10pm AEST
Heroes in Miniature: Denmark’s Mythical Thule
Anne Hemkendreis (SFB 948, University of Freiburg, Germany)

9.10-9.30am CEST, 5.10-5.30pm AEST
Discussion

9.30am-9.45am CEST, 5.30-5.45pm AEST
Break (online)

9.45-10.15am CEST, 5.45-6.15pm AEST
Flying over Arctic Ice in Nineteenth-Century Culture
Shane McCorristine (Newcastle University, UK)

10.15-10.45am CEST, 6.15-6.45pm AEST
Artist Talk: There is Always Something more Important
Mariele Neudecker (Artist, Bath Spa University, UK)

10.45-11.15am CEST, 6.45-7.15pm AEST
Discussion and Wrap Up

The Event Series is a collaboration of the SFB 948, the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg in Greifswald, Germany and the Australian National Centre of the Public Awareness of Science (ANU) in Canberra, Australia.

Organizers: Dr. Anne Hemkendreis and Dr. Anna-Sophie Jürgens

Registration: icestagessfb948.uni-freiburg.de