Events

February 17–24, 2023

Vienna, Austria

 

Audio-Visual Exhibition

Arctic Women’s Voices: Standing Strong in the Face of COVID-19

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University of Vienna

Universitätsring 1
1010 Vienna

The central foyer, 2nd floor, next door to the famous "Großer Festsaal."

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This exhibition presents women's voices from Alaska and northern Iceland. Among them were small business owners, scientists, healthcare providers, farmers, social workers, educators, government officials. Inspired by their lives and stories of empowerment and resilience, we invited these women to share with us so we can better understand the COVID-19 pandemic's complex gendered impacts on the Arctic communities and think about  lessons that can be learned.

 

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The exhibition is organized in cooperation with the COVID-GEA project, and is a part of the Arctic Science Summit Week-2023.

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Exhibition curator:

Marya Rozanova-Smith (The George Washington University).

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Poster designers:

Laura Goodfield, Sophie Rosenthal, Polina Saburova, and Marya Rozanova-Smith.

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Promo video/audio producer:

Emily Frisan.

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Acknowledgements:

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First and foremost, we express our sincere appreciation to all exhibition contributors who shared their stories with us. Our deep gratitude goes to Polina Saburova (Indiana University Bloomington) for video editing and guidance on exhibition design and Emily Frisan (GWU) for producing the promo video and audio. Special thanks go to the COVID-GEA project Iceland partners Embla Eir Oddsdóttir and Sveinbjörg Smáradóttir (IACN), Alaska partner Charlene Apok, Andrey Petrov (UNI), and the COVID-GEA team members Riya Bhushan, Laura Goodfield, and Sophie Rosenthal (GWU).

We are very grateful to Gerlis Fugmann (IASC) and all the ASSW-2023 organizers, especially Olga Povoroznuk and Khaled Hakami (University of Vienna), for their valuable support. We also acknowledge funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation and overall support of the Department of Geography (GWU).

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