JUNE 4, 2019 

Collège de France

11, place Marcelin Berthelot Paris 5e

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, ENS-UMI Iglobes, IRIS-OCAV/Paris Sciences et Lettres University

JUNE 5,  2019

Observatoire de Paris

77, Avenue Denfert-Rochereau Paris 14e

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