Monday, November 6, 2006 7:30pm FREE
Hart House, Library (7 Hart House Circle)

Join Jack Whyte, author of Uther and The Eagle, as he brings us his latest book, Knights of the Black and White—the first in a dramatic historical trilogy about the rise and fall of the Knights Templar, and talks with SPACE producer, Mark Askwith.

Jack Whyte, who was recently awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters (D. Litt.) for his contribution to Canadian popular fiction, was born in Scotland and emigrated to Canada in 1967. He is an actor, orator, singer and poet. Five titles have been published in his critically acclaimed Dream of Eagles series: The Skystone, The Singing Sword, The Eagles’ Brood, The Saxon Shore and The Sorcerer, which was published in two volumes: The Fort at River’s Bend and Metamorphosis. Uther and Clothar the Frank are companions to this series.

Thursday, October 26, 2006 7:30pm FREE
Hart House, Reading Room (7 Hart House Circle)

Hervé Fischer, author of Digital Shock, exposes the relationships between human beings and digital technology and examines our response to the myths and promises of the digital revolution.

Like TiVos and Game Boys, iPods have rapidly gained popularity, but is an entire generation shutting itself off from the rest of the world? In his latest book, iGeneration, Jason Logan has created a series of poignant illustrations and captions chronicling his observations of this revolutionary culture.

Hervé Fischer, a multi-media artist and philosopher, is the author of numerous critically acclaimed books, including The Hyper Planet, The Decline of the Hollywood Empire, and Couleurs et sociétés. He was awarded the first Leonardo Makepeace Tsao Award by the International Society for the Arts, Science and Technology (MIT Press). He is an associate professor at the Centre interuniversitaire des arts médiatiques (CIAM), Université de Québec à Montréal, and a researcher-artist at the Hexagram Québec Media Lab.

Jason Logan is a freelance illustrator who has done work for The New York Times and Maclean’s. He is the author and illustrator of If We Ever Break Up, This Is My Book.

Monday, November 13, 2006 7:30pm FREE
Hart House, Library (7 Hart House Circle)

George Monbiot, author of Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning, is interviewed by Linda McQuaig, journalist and author of It’s the Crude, Dude.

We know that climate change is happening. We know it could, if the worst predictions come true, destroy the conditions which make human life possible. Only one question is now worth asking: can it be stopped? In Heat, George Monbiot shows that it can.

George Monbiot is one of Britain’s foremost thinkers and activists. He has been named by the Evening Standard as one of the twenty-five most influential people in Britain, and by the Independent on Sunday as one of the forty international prophets of the twenty-first century. He writes a weekly column for the Guardian, and his website, currently receives some 40,000 hits a month. In 1995 Nelson Mandela presented him with a United Nations Global 500 Award for outstanding environmental achievement.

Journalist and bestselling author Linda McQuaig has developed a reputation for challenging the establishment. Winner of a National Newspaper Award for uncovering the Patti Starr affair in 1989, she has written for The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, Maclean’s magazine, and the National Post. She now writes a weekly political column on the op-ed page of the Toronto Star.