None of whom were able to attend
About that history conference where out of 30 speakers a mere 30 were men…
In organizing the recent Applied History conference, we invited a number of distinguished female historians to give papers, none of whom was able to attend. In the end, just under 24% of conference participants were women.
— Niall Ferguson (@nfergus) March 15, 2018
I’ve heard that before. What you do then is ask more.
https://twitter.com/drleatongray/status/974396073128222721
https://twitter.com/avoiding_bears/status/974385606381002752
https://twitter.com/drleatongray/status/974394574880890881
To historians at that!
https://twitter.com/KELoveland/status/974406096550006784
So many they forgot to ask.
Well I didn’t get a call?! Ladies? @bettanyhughes @wmarybeard @sixteenthCgirl @alexvtunzelmann @HallieRubenhold @SarahRoseCrook @sarahchurchwell @FernRiddell @katemond @KateWilliamsme @AmberButchart @Amanda_Vickery @theAliceRoberts @19Averil @HelenhCarr @carolinepennock no space https://t.co/KHmCjnW14U
— Prof Janina Ramirez (@DrJaninaRamirez) March 15, 2018
So many more… @ClerkofOxford @caitlinrgreen @hrcastor @RobertaStellon @Joanne_Paul_ @Hannah_Greig @DrLindseyFitz @Emma_J_Wells @TheDiasporaDiva @eeleach @SarahEBond @DrLindseyFitz @helenczerski @jackyklein28 @Lucy_Worsley @OlivetteOtele @RebeccaRideal. We were obvs all out.
— Prof Janina Ramirez (@DrJaninaRamirez) March 15, 2018
The academic equivalent of “I can’t be racist; some of my best friends are black!”
Maybe they all had to wear those sweaters with the leather elbow patch-thingies and smoke pipes. Nothing says “distinguished” like a pipe.
What is the history being applied to, anyhow?
Men, appaz.
Well, now that Tillerson’s out, Ivanka is apparently taking State Department meetings (at least with the South Koreans). So, that’s…one for women?
Seth, it’s more like…for one woman.
“we invited a number of distinguished female historians to give papers”
This is perhaps not fair of me, but I can’t but think of the line from the Simpsons; “Zero. Zero is a number!”