Tag: anthropology of outerspace

• 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…

  Klara Anna Capova

  September 18, 2017

  outer space, talks

  anthropology of outerspace, future, life in space, sociocultural anthropology, space economy, space studies

• 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

• BBC 2 Portillo’s State Secrets

  Dr. Klara Anna Capova, social anthropologist working in science & technology studies, anthropology of outerspace, and the founder of Space Cultures, will be talking about social dimension of space exploration and search for life beyond earth tonight at 6:30 pm, BBC Two, in Portillo’s State Secrets. According to the official BBC Two Portillo’s State Secrets…

  Klara Anna Capova

  March 26, 2015

  documentaries, media appearances

  anthropology of outerspace, bbc, extraterrestrial life, Portillo’s State Secrets

• 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

• Universe Today: Report on the Communicating Across the Cosmos workshop Part 3 Bridging the Vast Gulf

  Paul Patton opens the third part of the report by saying: “If extraterrestrial civilizations exist, the nearest is probably at least hundreds or thousands of light years away. Still, the greatest gulf that we will have to bridge to communicate with extraterrestrials is not such distances, but the gulf between human and alien minds. In mid-November,…

  Klara Anna Capova

  November 27, 2014

  reviews

  anthropology of outerspace, anthropology of science, interstellar messages, seti, universe today, workshop

• Universe Today Reports on the Communicating Across the Cosmos Workshop

  Since it was founded in 1984, the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute in Mountain View, California, has been a principal American venue for scientific efforts to discover evidence of extraterrestrial civilizations. In mid November, the institute sponsored a conference, “Communicating across the Cosmos”, on the problems of devising and understanding messages from other worlds. The conference drew 17 speakers from numerous disciplines, including linguistics,…

  Klara Anna Capova

  November 21, 2014

  reviews

  anthropology of outerspace, extraterrestrial intellingence, extraterrestrial life, messaging, SETI Institute, workshop

• 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