Category: talks

• Should we stay or should we go …. to Mars?

  I’ve always wanted to be an astronaut ever since I was in first grade. I’ve always wanted to have the same view of the Earth as seen by the Apollo 17 crew traveling toward the moon. Yet, in the debate held at the Durham Union Society on Friday the 13th February 2015 I spoke against the motion “This House (as a student) would…

  Klara Anna Capova

  February 4, 2015

  talks

  mars, space exploitation, space exploration, space settlements, space travel

• Klara’s Talk at a SETI Workshop

  Would humans be able to decode information-rich signals from another planet? Could we create a “universal language” that would be meaningful to an independently evolved civilization? To help answer these questions, on November 10-11 the SETI Institute will convene a multidisciplinary, international workshop at its headquarters in Mountain View, California. Speakers from six countries will…

  Klara Anna Capova

  December 3, 2014

  seti, talks, videos

  anthropology of outerspace, anthropology of science, extraterrestrial intellingence, interstellar messages, universal language

• SETI Institute: Communicating Across the Cosmos Final Summary

  For over a half century, astronomers involved in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) have scanned the skies for signals from distant civilizations. Would humans be able to decode information-rich signals from another planet? Could we create a “universal language” that would be meaningful to an independently evolved civilization. iWhile the two-day workshop was closed…

  Klara Anna Capova

  December 1, 2014

  talks, videos

  anthropology of outerspace, extraterrestrial intellingence, interstellar messages, seti, universal language

• NASA History Program Office’s Quarterly Newsletter: Second Quarter 2013

  The NASA History Program Office’s Quarterly Notes & News published in 2013, Volume 30, Number 2. The Sound of Space workshop report ‘The Sonic Dimension of Outer Space, 1940–1980’ including a note about my presentation is available from the News & Notes: the NASA History Program Office’s Quarterly Newsletter.

  Klara Anna Capova

  October 3, 2014

  reviews, talks

  anthropology of outerspace, history of science, nasa

• 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