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SYMPOSIUM: Extra-terrestrial ethnographies: Fieldwork for the new space age
18 and 19 September 2023
In-person at @UCLanthropology, London
Co-hosted by @ETHNOISS and @ssosnetwork
Register and find further info below 🛰️
@UCLOuterSpace @UCLSpaceDomain
ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advan…
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🚨Fully funded Ph.D.&Post-Doc vacancies in my #ERC project #FutureSpace @STSvienna! Join us to explore the relations btw. infrastructures, Europ. integration & envisioned space futures🚀Apply: June 15! #STS #SocialStudiesOfOuterSpace #Ariane6. More info:sts.univie.ac.at/einzelansic…
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Third and penultimate NYU Space Talk of the spring 2023 season coming up on Wednesday, 19 April 2023: anthropologist Denis Sivkov on amateurs and children in space. To register 📷space-talks.com
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Extra-terrestrial ethnographies: Fieldwork for the new space age
18 and 19 Sept 2023
Symposium hosted by ETHNO-ISS at @UCLanthropology in conjunction with @ssosnetwork
250-word abstracts due 23 June to Giles Bunch
ethnoiss.space/cfp-sept-symp…
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A photo direct from the historic #SpaceportCornwall @SpaceCornwall #launch, taken by Dr Alexander R. E. Taylor @alexretaylor from @ExeterComms, who has been conducting fieldwork on the transformation of the South West into a space hub #StartMeUp #LaunchUK #LaunchCornwall
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On 9th November 2022, 12:30 – 14:00 GMT, I will be chairing this talk which takes a theological perspective on space law and technology. Register @spaceinafrica1 @officialesss @SANSA7 @ssosnetwork @SpaceAgencyKE @SpaceX @spacegovuk @S_D_O_S @IntDev_OU @OU_EEE
🎥 @OpenUniversity Webinar
🗓️ 9 November 2022
🕕 12:30 - 14:00 (GMT)
Speaker: Jessica Giles from @OU_Law
Chair: @fchemura from @OU_FASS
This fascinating webinar will explore how space exploration, theology and human rights law intersect.
Everyone welcome
eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-theolog…
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📡Transceiver - Oct 2022📡
How do post-Soviet nations use space tech to cultivate their identity, and what effects are Russia's recent aggressions having on those efforts?
Join @nbekus (@UniofExeter) at 12pm ET on Oct 13 to learn more:
yesterdaystomorrows.splashth…
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On 18 May I will be chatting to Steven J. Dick (former Chief Historian @NASA @NASAhistory) & Fiona Williamson @FionaWi62576268 (@sgSMU) about reconnecting the history of astronomy with maritime history & the environment. Join us online @RMGreenwich: rmg.co.uk/whats-on/online/sk…
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🚀Perhaps of interest for social studies of outer space - #CFP for Space Policy Workshop 'Visions for Space – new ideas, new horizons and the final frontier' @ESSCA_Ecole & @ISUnet. 9-10 June 2022. Abstract submission date 8 April 2022. More info: mailchi.mp/dce443de62f2/find…
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Space Science in Context is BACK in 2022! Our event will take place on *21st October* and full registration opens on 31st August. #SSiC2022
We are grateful to @RoyalAstroSoc for funding us this year!
Register your interest and save the date: forms.gle/iBBuery3AgZyD5vd6
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With #WorldRadioDay upon us, @alexretaylor, a Lecturer in Communications @ExeterComms, shares some of the research on #Radio and #SpaceWeather he has been conducting as the Marconi Fellow in the History and Science of Wireless Communications @bodleianlibs and @HSMOxford (1/12)
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An unknown object in the Milky Way 'has been observed to release a huge burst of radio energy for a full minute every 18 minutes. Objects that pulse energy in the universe are often documented [but] something that turns on for a minute is highly unusual' bbc.com/news/world-australia…
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'Space Cannot Be the Place': a Black Nihilist Critique - a talk by Florence Okoye @FINOkoye on 28 October 2021 from 19:00-20:30pm BST hosted by @UCLOuterSpace. Registration and further details here: coss-space-cannot-be.eventbr…
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NYU Space Talk by Natalija Majsova: 'Playing Utopia, Performing Nostalgia? The Contemporary Appeal of Space Race Science Fiction Cinema'. This Thursday 21 Oct from 19:00-20:30 BST. More info here: space-talks.com/
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CfP hybrid panel #AAG2022: Un-Earthing the Environmental Humanities. Deadline for abstracts: 12 October 2021. Organised by @alexretaylor, @EllieTheElement, @chakadojani and Tamara Alvarez! Submission details here: jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-ji…
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#JeffBezos exiting #NewShepard today, perpetuating the mythos of the cowboy astronaut with his cowboy hat exit costume, further tying the #SiliconValley #SpaceRace together with 'Right Stuff' masculinity and 'new frontier' expansionism #BlueOriginLaunch #BezosLaunch
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‘Space exploration is not a “new colonialism”, in the common understanding of the term, because at least within our solar system, anywhere we settle will be devoid of complex life’ - interesting article from @nemocentric @guardian theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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@SenBillNelson @UNOOSA @esa @nasa @ClimateEnvoy @Astro_CabanaBob @DARPA @BBCScienceNews @spacegovuk @csa_asc @canada_arm2 @SpaceX @ Here is the likely best solution to solve the Space Junk dangerous growing problem before reaching a point of no return.
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Believe it or not, but there is too much junk in outer space! In our new STHV paper "Troubled orbits, Earthly concerns", Michael Chlormann & I explore how space experts visualize & care for space debris #sts @STSvienna @ssosnetwork @SichTRaum @drspacejunk journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…
ALT Visualization of space debris as "orbital cloud", credit: ESA
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'European Space Futures, Real and Imagined' - Planetary Poetics and Politics in Post-War Europe - a symposium on 24 June 2021 from 10-11:30 EDT as part of #CESConf @CES_Europe. Feat. @RichardToye, @actgeppert, @NinaWormbs, @Thore_Bjoernvig, among others: ces-columbia.secure-platform…
