Category: talks
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Towards an Anthropology of Space Workshop
Many thanks to workshop organisers for inviting me to London to be a respondent to Session 2 – Life in Space, Towards an Anthropology of Space: Orientating Cosmological Futures workshop. The event took place September 18th and was supported by the UCL Institute of Advanced Studies and the UCL Institute of Advanced Studies Octagon Fund. Workshop…
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24th Image Symposium, Madrid, 20 – 22 June
Looking forward to delivering a keynote lecture and taking part in the Image Symposium 2017 in CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo in June. 24th Image Symposium – Glitch Futures. Data Speculation, Technocosmology and Dispossession in Times of Accelerated Capitalism, 20 − 22 JUNE 2017 The temperature of viscous Miami swamps rose as high-risk…
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Astrobiology Conference AbSciCon 2017 in Mesa, Arizona
Excited to be at the Astrobiology Conference AbSciCon 2017 in Mesa, Arizona and ready to present my recent work during the poster session. Many thanks to the Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies, Lund University for making this trip possible. A PDF of the AbSciCon Program is available online. Conference Information AbSciCon 2017 is the next in…
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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,…
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Talks from the 1st ORIGINS Astrobiology Conference
All talks from the 1st ORIGINS Conference Habitability in the Universe: From the Early Earth to Exoplanets held in Porto in March are now available to watch online. Enjoy!
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Grand Challenges Seminar, Oxford University
Oxford Talks, part of: Grand Challenges Seminar Series University of Oxford, T. S. Eliot Lecture Theater Are We Alone? Discourse on extraterrestrial research 26 January 2016, 17:00 ‘Are We Alone?’ is a public seminar on the existence of extraterrestrial life, and the implications for our society. Questions posed during ‘Are We Alone?’ will include: is…
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Frontiers of Life: Terrestrial and Extra-Terrestrial Prospections
I am very much looking forward to giving a talk at Frontiers of Life Terrestrial and Extra-Terrestrial Prospections workshop in London tomorrow! Confirmed speakers: Gisli Pálsson (University of Iceland), Sophie Houdart (Université Paris X Nanterre), Jane Calvert (University of Edinburgh), David Dunér (Lund University), Klara Anna Capova (Durham University), Perig Pitrou (Laboratoire d’Anthroplogie Sociale/ Collège…
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2nd Conference on History and Philosophy of Astrobiology
Aim of the meeting is to deal with the transition of non-living to living matter, how chemical processes evolve into biological ones and the onset of biological evolution as well as the tree of life. Scientists and students from humanities and natural sciences will convene to discuss these questions that engaged mankind since centuries. The…
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Habitability in the Universe Conference in Porto
Just delivered a talk on Astrobiology in the Age of Social Media: The ‘science of the unknown’ and the sociocultural dimension of transformative ideas to the participants of Habitability in the Universe: From the Early Earth to Exoplanets conference in Porto, Portugal. It’s a priviledge to be here. This conference is the first Conference and…
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