To celebrate the centenary of Captain Scott's Final Birthday Dinner

SCOTT 100: PLYMOUTH CONFERENCE
4 /5 /6 June 2011
SPONSORED BY ORION EXPEDITION CRUISES

based at the Roland Levinsky building, University of Plymouth

Booking is now open via the event website - and early booking is strongly recommended

Please log on to this website to book https://estore.plymouth.ac.uk


Planned events:

* Civic Reception by the Lord Mayor of Plymouth (for invited guests)

* Talks by expert speakers on historical and scientific topics:

Dr David Wilson, Reassessing Scott's Last Expedition
Dr Isobel Williams, Seaman Edgar Evans
Michael Smith, Captain Oates
Dr Huw Lewis-Jones, Scott in Pictures
Robert Headland, 100 Years of the Cape Evans hut
Mike Tarver, The SS Terra Nova and other polar exploration ships
Dr Max Jones, The Legacy of Captain Scott
Meredith Hooper, The Northern Party
Sara Wheeler, Cherry Garrard and Worst Journey
Dr Henry Guly, Polar Medicine in the Heroic Age
Nick Owens, Climate Change and the work of BAS
John Brotherhood, The Human Response to Cold
Cmdr Andrew Swain. Navigation in Scott's Era
Stig Andersen, Roald Amundsen
Antony Jinman, The International Scott Centenary Expedition
Charles Lagerbom, The Fifth Man: Birdie Bowers
Paul Davies, Plymouth's Polar Connections
Prof Stephen de Mora, Polar Science at Plymouth Marine Laboratory


* Play: A Father for my Son with Jenny Coverack as Kathleen Scott

* Historical Display by Polar re-enactors, The Antarctic Adventurers

* Scientific demonstrations from Plymouth Marine Laboratories, British Antarctic Survey Medical Unit and the University of Plymouth

* Student musical performance

* Displays of art and historical artefacts

* Display by Plymouth polar explorer Antony Jinman, a member of the International Scott Centenary Expedition http://www.isce2012.co.uk

* Visits to local Polar sites in Plymouth and to Royal Navy ships and the Dockyard

* Black tie dinner for invited guests at HMS Drake hosted by the Royal Navy and with a Royal Navy band concert (to be held on the centenary of Scott's last birthday dinner in the Cape Evans hut on the evening of 6 June 2011)

* Conference Dinner at the Jury's Inn, Plymouth on Saturday 4 June


For further information visit:

www.plymouth.gov.uk/scott100

email: scott100@plymouth.ac.uk

or telephone +44 (0)1752 586 005

or book direct on the University's estore website https://estore.plymouth.ac.uk