Ice and Sky 2015|89 min|France Directed by Luc Jacquet
Followed by panel discussion moderated by Kate Auty (Vice Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Melbourne) and with Victoria McKenzie-McHarg (Australian Conservation Foundation), Dr Liz Conor (Climate Guardians), A/Prof Malte Meinshausen (Australian-German College / The University of Melbourne)
Presented by
“The European Union Centre on Shared Complex Challenges is co-funded by the European Commission and the University of Melbourne”.)
A beautiful journey back to the historic moment where we first found evidence of a human footprint in climate change.
Ice and Sky follows the story of Antarctic explorer and scientist Claude Lorius, whose research into ice core drilling has played a pivotal role in establishing the scientific basis of global warming. In this visually stunning and meditative film, Lorius, now in his 80’s, returns to the frozen continent with Luc Jaquet (the Oscar winning Director of March of the Penguins) to deliver a warning to humanity.
Dr Liz Conor in an ARC Future Fellow and Chief Investigator on the Graphic Encounters : Prints of Indigenous Australians project at La Trobe University. She is editor of the Aboriginal History Journal, a columnist at New Matilda, founder of the Climate Guardians and Co-Founder (with Deborah Hart) of ClimActs.
Her PhD was published as The Spectacular Modern Woman: Feminine Visibility in the 1920s, by Indiana University Press in 2004. She has completed an Australian Research Council postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Culture and Communications at the University of Melbourne from which she wrote Skin Deep: Settler Impressions of Aboriginal Women [UWAP forthcoming 2016].
She is former editor of Metro Magazine and Australian Screen Education and has published extensively on colonial and modern visual and print history. Her freelance essays and editorials have appeared in The Age,The Drum, Crikey.com, and Arena and her blog has been archived by the National Library of Australia.
Liz is a community campaigner, founding and convening the Coalition Against Sexual Violence Propaganda (1990) on media portrayal of sexual violence, the Stick with Wik (1997) campaign on native title, the Mother’s of Intervention (2000) campaign on maternity leave, and the guereilla theatre troupe The John Howard Ladies’ Auxiliary Fanclub (with Zelda Da, 1996).
A/Prof Malte Meinshausen is the Director of the Australian-German College at The University of Melbourne and is affiliated with Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany.
He holds a Ph. D. in “Climate Science & Policy”, a Diploma in “Environmental Sciences” from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and an M.Sc. in “Environmental Change and Management” from the University of Oxford, UK.
Before joining the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in 2006, he was a Post-Doc at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.
He has been contributing author to various chapters in the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC AR4). Until May 2011, he was leading the PRIMAP (“Potsdam Real-Time Integrated Model for probabilistic Assessment of emission Path”) research group at PIK before relocating to Melbourne.
Since 2005, he is a scientific advisor to the German Environmental Ministry related to international climate change negotiations under the UNFCCC. Since 2014, he investigates methods to derive future climate targets for Australia in the context of a Future Fellow ARC project. –
Victoria McKenzie-McHarg is the Climate Campaign Manager at the Australian Conservation Foundation, Australia’s leading environment organisation.
Victoria has led community driven campaigns for government action on climate change and sustainable transport, including campaigns to stop a new coal export industry in Victoria, put a price on pollution nationally, and against fossil fuel subsidies.
In 2012, Victoria was listed as one of The Age Melbourne Magazine’s top 100 most influential, inspirational, provocative and creative Victorians for her work leading a legal and community campaign against a proposed new coal-fired power station – a campaign that was ultimately won.
Kate is a Vice Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Melbourne and a Victorian Barrister. She has recently been appointed as an ‘ambassador’ to the City of Melbourne’s Future City reporting program.
Kate attended the 2015 Paris climate talks to attend the launch the Urban Climate Change Research Network’s Summary for Leaders as she is one of the lead authors of a chapter on climate change governance.
Kate has held a diverse range of appointments: Victorian Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability, Magistrate in the Western Desert and Magistrate in Victoria where together with Aboriginal people she set up the first Koori Court. She currently chairs and sits on a number of Boards concerned with sustainability, cities and collaborative technology. Kate is a member of local environmental organisations in the north east of Victoria.
Kate is also involved with the Strathbogie Voices youtube channel, which features videos from 2015 Euroa Environment Series “Watershed Year for Climate Change”.
