Thu, Jul 31
|New York
Queer History: Polar Exploration
Save the date! We'll be talking about queer maritime history at the South Street Seaport Museum in July!
Time & Location
Jul 31, 2025, 6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. EDT
New York, 213 Water St, New York, NY 10038, USA
About the event
Learn all about queer maritime and polar history in this evening of free talks in this mini-symposium presented by the South Street Seaport Museum and the polar social club, Terror and Erebus Society.
Allegra Rosenberg, the founder and director of the Terror Camp virtual polar conference, will kick off the evening with a look into the true love story between naval officers on Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s 1910 Antarctic expedition, also known as the Terra Nova Expedition, which aimed to reach the South Pole to further scientific exploration. Dr. Seth Stein LeJacq, an assistant professor at Hunter College CUNY, will continue the dive into the the queer history of polar exploration with a presentation focusing on sexual and gender differences in the historical British Navy. And, Eva Molina, a PhD candidate at Princeton University, will close the evening with a discussion on how sexuality amongst Antarctic penguins became the subject…