ANTHROPOLOGY OFF EARTH
How Terrestrial Exploration and Scientific Imagination
Shape Our Relation to Outer Space and Extraterrestrial Life
4 June 2019
Collège de France
Salle 2
11, place Marcelin Berthelot
Paris 5e
5 June 2019
Observatoire de Paris
Salle du Conseil
77, Avenue Denfert-Rochereau
Paris 14e
Online registration required on: https://forms.gle/JchYSNiCUeDaPvty7
Organisers: Perig Pitrou (CNRS/Collège de France/Paris Sciences et Lettres University), Régis Ferrière (École Normale Supérieure/Paris Sciences et Lettres University & University of Arizona), Istvan Praet (University of Roehampton, London).
Organisers of the doctoral and post-doctoral session: Joffrey Becker (IRIS-OCAV/Paris Sciences et Lettres University), Elsa De Smet (IRIS-OCAV/Paris Sciences et Lettres University).
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CONFERENCE PROGRAM
4 June 2019
Collège de France
Salle 2
Morning Session
9:30
Welcome
10am
Perig PITROU
LAS – IRIS-OCAV/Paris Sciences et Lettres University
Anthropology of Life, On Earth & Off Earth
10:40
Denis SIVKOV
Institute for Social Sciences / RANEPA Moscow
Space Exploration at Home: Amateur Cosmonautics in Contemporary Russia
11:20
Break
11:40
Aaron PARKHURST, David JEEVENDRAMPILLAI
University College London, NTNU
Making a Martian Feel at Home: Finding Humans on Mars Through Utopian Architecture
12:20
Roundtable
Familiarizing the Extraterrestial / Making our Planet Alien
Discussion led by
Istvan PRAET
University of Roehampton
1pm
Lunch Break
Afternoon Session
2:30
Elie DURING
Paris Nanterre University
Zero-G as Expanded Gravitational Experience
Scientific Imagination in Orbital Perspective
3:10
Istvan PRAET
University of Roehampton
The Ancient Earth as an Alien Planet
Astrobiological Models and the Installation of Discontinuities
3:50
Break
4:20
Luis CAMPOS
University of New Mexico
Soviet Astrobotany: Early Experiments in Earthly Analogues for Martian Life
5pm
Roundtable
New Ecologies
Discussion led by
Régis FERRIÈRE
ENS – UMI Iglobes
6pm
Cocktail Reception
Lunch Seminar College de France
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5 June 2019
Observatoire de Paris
Salle du conseil
Keynote Session
9:30am
Welcome
9:45
Valerie OLSON
UC Irvine
Making Sense of Post-terrestrial Ecosystems
10:45
Break
11am
Lisa MESSERI
Yale University
Outer Space on Earth: Terrestrial Analogues for Imagining Other Worlds
12pm
General discussion
Led by
Perig PITROU, Ludovic JULLIEN, Stéphane MAZEVET
LAS – IRIS-OCAV/Paris Sciences et Lettres University, SU – ENS/Paris Sciences et Lettres University, Observatoire de Paris/Paris Sciences et Lettres University
12:35
Lunch Break
Doctoral & Post Doctoral Session
2:15
Elsa DE SMET, Joffrey BECKER
IRIS-OCAV/Paris Sciences et Lettres University
Introduction
2:30
Tamara ALVAREZ
The New School for Social Research
The Moon as Nature
2:45
Benjamin POTHIER
Plymouth University / The Explorers Club
Astronauts On I.C.E: Lessons Learnt From Field Research During Analog Astronaut Trainings and Life Experiences in [I.C.E] Isolated, Confined and Extreme Environments
3pm
Gabriela RADULESCU
Humboldt University of Berlin / University of Iceland
The Outer Space Imaginary Shaped During the Cold War by the Soviet Project of Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CETI)
3:15
Julien WACQUEZ
EHESS Paris / CEFRES
How Does Science Fiction Literature Shape Scientific Imagination?
3:30
Break
3:45
Valentina MARCHESELLI
University of Milan, La Statale
Welcome to planet Mars: Analogy-making and space exploration
4pm
Meredith ROOT-BERNSTEIN
Instituto de Ecología y Biodiversidad, AgroParisTech, Center of Applied Ecology and Sustainability, Santiago, Chile
Things That Are Not Alive, But That May Be Alive, in A Certain Way
4:15
Siri LAMOUREAUX, James MERRON
Max Planck Institute, University of Basel
Ghana’s Radio Astronomy Observatory and the Scientific Imagination
4:30
Alexander TAYLOR
University of Cambridge
Space Weather Security in the Data Centre Industry
4:45
General Discussion
Led by
Istvan PRAET, Régis FERRIÈRE, Elsa DE SMET, Joffrey BECKER
University of Roehampton, ENS-UMI Iglobes, IRIS-OCAV/Paris Sciences et Lettres University
4 June 2019
Collège de France
Salle 2
11, place Marcelin Berthelot
Paris 5e
5 June 2019
Observatoire de Paris
Salle du Conseil
77, Avenue Denfert-Rochereau
Paris 14e
Online registration required on: https://forms.gle/JchYSNiCUeDaPvty7
Organisers: Perig Pitrou (CNRS/Collège de France/Paris Sciences et Lettres University), Régis Ferrière (École Normale Supérieure/Paris Sciences et Lettres University & University of Arizona), Istvan Praet (University of Roehampton, London).
Organisers of the doctoral and post-doctoral session: Joffrey Becker (IRIS-OCAV/Paris Sciences et Lettres University), Elsa De Smet (IRIS-OCAV/Paris Sciences et Lettres University).
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CONFERENCE PROGRAM
4 June 2019
Collège de France
Salle 2
Morning Session
9:30
Welcome
10am
Perig PITROU
LAS – IRIS-OCAV/Paris Sciences et Lettres University
Anthropology of Life, On Earth & Off Earth
10:40
Denis SIVKOV
Institute for Social Sciences / RANEPA Moscow
Space Exploration at Home: Amateur Cosmonautics in Contemporary Russia
11:20
Break
11:40
Aaron PARKHURST, David JEEVENDRAMPILLAI
University College London, NTNU
Making a Martian Feel at Home: Finding Humans on Mars Through Utopian Architecture
12:20
Roundtable
Familiarizing the Extraterrestial / Making our Planet Alien
Discussion led by
Istvan PRAET
University of Roehampton
1pm
Lunch Break
Afternoon Session
2:30
Elie DURING
Paris Nanterre University
Zero-G as Expanded Gravitational Experience
Scientific Imagination in Orbital Perspective
3:10
Istvan PRAET
University of Roehampton
The Ancient Earth as an Alien Planet
Astrobiological Models and the Installation of Discontinuities
3:50
Break
4:20
Luis CAMPOS
University of New Mexico
Soviet Astrobotany: Early Experiments in Earthly Analogues for Martian Life
5pm
Roundtable
New Ecologies
Discussion led by
Régis FERRIÈRE
ENS – UMI Iglobes
6pm
Cocktail Reception
Lunch Seminar College de France
*
5 June 2019
Observatoire de Paris
Salle du conseil
Keynote Session
9:30am
Welcome
9:45
Valerie OLSON
UC Irvine
Making Sense of Post-terrestrial Ecosystems
10:45
Break
11am
Lisa MESSERI
Yale University
Outer Space on Earth: Terrestrial Analogues for Imagining Other Worlds
12pm
General discussion
Led by
Perig PITROU, Ludovic JULLIEN, Stéphane MAZEVET
LAS – IRIS-OCAV/Paris Sciences et Lettres University, SU – ENS/Paris Sciences et Lettres University, Observatoire de Paris/Paris Sciences et Lettres University
12:35
Lunch Break
Doctoral & Post Doctoral Session
2:15
Elsa DE SMET, Joffrey BECKER
IRIS-OCAV/Paris Sciences et Lettres University
Introduction
2:30
Tamara ALVAREZ
The New School for Social Research
The Moon as Nature
2:45
Benjamin POTHIER
Plymouth University / The Explorers Club
Astronauts On I.C.E: Lessons Learnt From Field Research During Analog Astronaut Trainings and Life Experiences in [I.C.E] Isolated, Confined and Extreme Environments
3pm
Gabriela RADULESCU
Humboldt University of Berlin / University of Iceland
The Outer Space Imaginary Shaped During the Cold War by the Soviet Project of Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CETI)
3:15
Julien WACQUEZ
EHESS Paris / CEFRES
How Does Science Fiction Literature Shape Scientific Imagination?
3:30
Break
3:45
Valentina MARCHESELLI
University of Milan, La Statale
Welcome to planet Mars: Analogy-making and space exploration
4pm
Meredith ROOT-BERNSTEIN
Instituto de Ecología y Biodiversidad, AgroParisTech, Center of Applied Ecology and Sustainability, Santiago, Chile
Things That Are Not Alive, But That May Be Alive, in A Certain Way
4:15
Siri LAMOUREAUX, James MERRON
Max Planck Institute, University of Basel
Ghana’s Radio Astronomy Observatory and the Scientific Imagination
4:30
Alexander TAYLOR
University of Cambridge
Space Weather Security in the Data Centre Industry
4:45
General Discussion
Led by
Istvan PRAET, Régis FERRIÈRE, Elsa DE SMET, Joffrey BECKER
University of Roehampton, ENS-UMI Iglobes, IRIS-OCAV/Paris Sciences et Lettres University
