Past Resources - 2008 Lecture Series - ICE

Introduction

NLC’s program on ICE takes place midway during the International Polar Year, a large scientific programme focused on the Arctic and the Antarctic from March 2007 to March 2009. More at www.ipy.org or www.ipy-api.gc.ca. ArcticNet website

Lectures

To order Pauline Couture’s “Ice: Beauty. Danger. History” or Robert McGhee’s “The Last Imaginary Place: A Human History of the Arctic World” call:

• In Cobourg: Avid Reader Magazines and Books at (905) 372-7233
• In Port Hope: Furby House Books at (905) 885-7296’s
  

March 27, 2008 Ice: Beauty. Danger. History
Pauline Couture, Toronto journalist and author of a recent book about ice

Pauline Couture biography
Her book: “Ice: Beauty, Danger, History”

April 3. 2008 The Physics of Ice
Dr Dennis Klug, Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences National Research Council, Ottawa

Profile of Dennis Klug;
Biography of Dennis Klug;
Full Abstract;
“Ice 9” by Richard Longley

April 10, 2008 Ice in the Climate System
Dr Richard Peltier, Director Centre for Global Change Science, University of Toronto

Richard Peltier Biography
His Website
Selected Publications
“The Great Warming” - an Interview with Richard Peltier:
Richard Peltier awarded Milutin Milankovic Medal
“Will oceans surge 59 centimetres this century - or 25 metres?”
Earth Doctor

April 17, 2008 Ice and the Peopling of Arctic North America
Dr Robert McGhee Curator, Western Arctic Archaeology, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Ottawa

Robert McGhee Biography
Book: “The Last Imaginary Place: A Human History of the Arctic World”
About Robert McGhee

April 24, 2008 Inuit Knowledge and Use of Sea Ice in a Changing Environment
Dr. Gita Laidler, Department of Geography, University of Toronto

Website
Franklin Griffiths, “Camels in the Arctic?" Climate change as Inuit see it: “from the inside out” in The Walrus, November 2007.

May 1, 2008 Ice in Industry and Literature
Julian Bayley, Vice-President, Iceculture Inc., Hensall, Ontario

Website
Julian Bayley Biography
Iceculture Inc, background
Iceculture Inc, company story
Iceculture’s 3-D ice carving machine, the only one of its kind in the world
An ice industry resource site

Helen Humphreys, Author, Kingston, Ontario

Helen Humphreys is the author of Leaving Earth, a New York Times Notable Book and winner of the City of Toronto Book Award; Afterimage, winner of the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize; and The Lost Garden, finalist for the CBC's 2003 Canada Reads competition. Wild Dogs was one of NOW Magazine's Top Ten Fiction books of 2004. The Frozen Thames was a #1 national bestseller. She lives in Kingston, Ontario.

Introduction to “The Frozen Thames:” In its long history, the river Thames has frozen solid forty times. Helen Humphreys’s national bestseller The Frozen Thames contains forty vignettes based on events that actually took place each time the river froze between 1142 and 1895. Her beautiful prose acts like a photograph, capturing a moment and etching it forever on our imaginations. She deftly draws us into intimate scenes, transporting us through time so effectively that we believe ourselves observers of the event portrayed. Whether it’s Queen Matilda trying to escape her besieged castle in a snowstorm, or lovers meeting on the frozen river in the plague years, or a simple farmer persuading his oxen the ice is safe, the moments are fleeting and transformative for the characters – and for the reader too.