-Amanda Boetzkes, University of Guelph, Canada

PART 1: Staging Ice and Ice Stages in Science, Science Communication and Aesthetic Experience.- 1. Communicating Loss: Ice Research, Popular Art and Aesthetics: Introduction.- 2. Ice Stages and Staging Ice.- 3. Movies on Ice: An ArtSci Perspective on Communicating Antarctic Ice in the Climate Emergency.- 4. Here Be Science Show Dragons: Ice, Icons and Metaphoric Approaches to Climate Change Communication.- PART 2 :Ice Exploration: Heroism, Art and Imaginaries.- 5. Ethnography as Racialised Womanhood in the Arctic Writings of Josephine Diebitsch-Peary.- 6. Materiality of Time: Polar Ice as a Medium for Ecological Art for the Tempered Zones.- 7. Sensing Polar Ice Bodies.- 8. Antarctic Science on the Musical Stage.- 9. Icy Love: Performing Affect and Emotion Feeling About Climate Change.- PART 3: Pop Cultural Meanings of Ice in Visual Fiction and Film.- 10. Frozen Balloons: Aeronautic Heroism and Scientific Knowledge Production.- 11. Hard Ice, Soft Snow? Transnationalism, Spectatorship and the Arctic Sublime in Chasing Ice (2011) and Silent Snow (2011) .- 12. Frozen-Ground Cartoons-Revealing the Invisible Ice.- 13. On the Visual Narratives of Ice in Popular Culture: Comics on Ice, Icy Villains and Ice Science.- 14. Melt for Me: Communicating Ice Empathy Through the Plasticity of Disney.- 15. On the Aesthetic Facets of Ice Urgency: Some Final Reflections.