Author Talk: Heart of Ice - Joy McCann

Schedule

Wed Jul 22 2026 at 02:00 pm to 03:30 pm

UTC+10:00
Location

The Theatre, Australian National Maritime Museum | Sydney, NS

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Moisture, temperature, gravity. These are the ingredients that create the life story of the driest of Earth’s continents.
About this Event

Heart of Ice takes the reader on a compelling journey across space and time, navigating entangled stories of ice and rock, humans, animals and other species, through the prism of Antarctica’s ice. Joy McCann – author of the internationally acclaimed Wild Sea – eloquently draws on a vast body of scientific and historical research to explore how Antarctica’s ice sheets, its glaciers, ice shelves and sea ice, have been imagined, inhabited and invested with meaning over time. She invites readers to see this vast icy realm in a different way – as a vibrant, storied, multispecies environment and a powerful agent that has shaped (and continues to shape) our history and our planet.


About the Author

Joy McCann is an Australian environmental and public historian who explores the interwoven histories of people, places, ideas and the nonhuman world. Recipient of a 2026 National Library of Australia Fellowship, Joy is an adjunct associate professor at the University of Tasmania and the author of Wild Sea: A History of the Southern Ocean and Ice Bound: The Australian Story of Antarctica.

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The Theatre, Australian National Maritime Museum, 2 Murray Street, Sydney, Australia

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