Category: downloads

• The pre-print of the White Paper available online

  I am happy to announce that the free preprint version of the “Astrobiology and Society in Europe Today” white paper is now available for download from the European Astrobiology Institute website, section documents. The White paper, edited by K.A. Capova, E. Persson, T. Milligan, D. Dunér, was recently published through the SpringerBriefs in Astronomy book series,…

  Klara Anna Capova

  October 10, 2018

  astrobiology, downloads, European Astrobiology Institute, publications, science policy, white paper

• Klara’s dissertation now available online

  The abstract and full-text of my doctoral dissertation, ‘The Charming Science of the Other: The cultural analysis of science in search for life beyond earth‘ is now available to download from Durham e-Theses. Abstract: This dissertation presents the cultural study of scientific search for extraterrestrial life conducted over the past sixty years by the scientific community.…

  Klara Anna Capova

  January 26, 2017

  charming science, doctoral research, downloads

  anthropology of outerspace, anthropology of science, astrobiology, cultural analysis, doctoral dissertation, exploring, listening, messaging, search for life

• Deathless Hopes: Reinventions of Afterlife and Eschatological Beliefs

  The ‘Deathless Hopes’ conference will examine the subject of eschatology in Jewish and Christian traditions from an international and interdisciplinary perspective. Issues such as the hope of resurrection, apocalyptic scenarios, and cosmic redemption have been a hotbed of religious invention, renewal, and innovation with significant social consequences. Hosted by Oranim Academic College of Education in Tivon,…

  Klara Anna Capova

  May 30, 2016

  downloads, talks

  afterlife, anthropology of science, cultural analysis, cultures of science, interdisciplinary research, scientific culture, STS, technoscience

• CLNR Summary published online: Heat Pumps

  The High Level Summary of Learning: Heat Pump Customers is now free to download (pdf). This summary presents the key messages from the final analysis of the domestic heat pump group in the Customer-Led Network Revolution (CLNR) monitoring trials. It presents outputs from the largest study of household electricity use in the UK and provides integrated…

  Klara Anna Capova

  January 4, 2015

  downloads, research reports

  energy practices, interdisciplinary research, social studies of science and technology, sociotechnical analysis, STS

• International Committee for the History of Technology reports on “Sounds of Space”

  Newsletter of the International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC) reports on the Sounds of Space workshop organized by William R. Macauley and the Emmy Noether Research Group “The Future in the Stars: European Astroculture and Extraterrestrial Life in the Twentieth Century.” The workshop gathered more than two dozen scholars at Freie Universität Berlin…

  Klara Anna Capova

  September 27, 2014

  conference reports, downloads, talks

  astroculture, European, history of science, social studies of science and technology, STS, technology

• Report to the IAA on the 5th “Search for Life Signatures” symposium held at UNESCO

  Report to the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) on the 5th “Search for Life Signatures” symposium held at UNESCO in Paris was written by Dr. Claudio Maccone IAA (Director for Scientific Space Exploration and Chair, IAA SETI Permanent Committee); the report is now available to download (PDF).

  Klara Anna Capova

  June 4, 2014

  downloads, talks

  astronautics, extraterrestrial life, life signatures, report, search for life, seti, unesco