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Transplanetary Ecologies Workshop 1: Virtual Edition
06 June 2023, 11:00 am–5:00 pm
Join us virtually for The Transplanetary Ecologies Workshop: 1, part of the Centre for Outer Space Studies (COSS) Space Week at UCL
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All | UCL staff | UCL students
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Rachel Hill and Makar Tereshin
“The interplay between natural and social phenomena in the highly contested yet vastly open-ended Universe gave rise to an ecology of (trans)planetary systems – biological, technological and intellectual”
(Vidmar, 2020, EASST.net).
Workshop
The Transplanetary Ecologies workshop focuses on outer space studies, asking questions such as: how do the various infrastructures of space science exact their own ecological tolls? What do increasing calls for space sustainability mean in practice? How do contemporary configurations of (neo)colonial power, engendered by progress-oriented visions of contemporary space industries, shape our understanding of extraterrestrial environments? What forms of (trans)planetary ecologies are needed to account for the imaginaries, materialities and entanglements wrought by space science? How can our scholarship encompass these long promised cosmic futures and fast approaching space-based realities?
Join us virtually as we consider these and related questions in the Transplanetary Ecologies Workshop 1. This virtual workshop accompanies the in-person Transplanetary Ecologies workshop that takes place on June 7th 2023. You are welcome to attend both.
Links for more information
- Event info and sign-up for the Transplanetary Ecologies Workshop 1: Virtual Edition: https://transplanetary-workshop1.eventbrite.co.uk
- Event info and sign-up for the Transplanetary Ecologies Workshop 2: In-Person Edition: https://transplanetary-workshop2.eventbrite.co.uk
The Transplanetary Ecologies workshops are part of Space Week organised by the Centre for Outer Space Studies (COSS). To sign up for other COSS Space Week events see the Off_Earth Atlas events: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-off-earth-atlas-workshop-territories-tickets-570831401087
Organisers: Rachel Hill and Makar Tereshin on behalf of the Centre for Outer Space Studies (COSS). COSS was founded in 2019 to promote research and teaching related to the social study of Outer Space and our relationship to the cosmos and the planet. Read more about the Centre for Outer Space Studies (COSS): https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/centre-outer-space-studies