COSS Talks foreground cutting edge research and art practice concerning the critical study of Outer Space.
COSS TALKS series 2021-2022
VIRTUAL COSS talk: "Space Cannot Be the Place": a Black Nihilist Critique
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Florence Okoye presents a Black nihilist critique of the 100 Year Spaceship Project and materialising the spectacular.
28 October 2021, 7pm-8:30pm
VIRTUAL COSS talk: "Making a Beginning Together": Queer Storying in the Spacetime (Dis)Continuum
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18 November 2021, 7pm-8:30pm
VIRTUAL COSS talk: The Promise and Past of Space Science
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Osnat Katz explores the liberatory promise and troubling past of space science.
9 December 2021, 7pm-8:30pm