UCL Centre for Outer Space Studies

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Talk: Space Hauntings. Golden Records, Hope and Regrets in a Tender Time 13 Nov 5-7pm Bo Reimer (Malmö University) will discuss the uncanniness of the Golden Records and how the Tender Time project works on the production of haunted future memories. ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-a…

Exoplanets & the Ariel Mission - Searching for signatures of life on strange worlds, this Thursday 31st Oct, 5:30pm, online 🪐🛰️🎃 Our next 'Adventures in Planetary Science' public outreach event features the following line-up of fantastic experts... 👇👇

Dr Thandi Loewenson will discuss the work of the Development Touts Azimuts space programme, who have revived experiments with rocketry and satellites in the Democratic Republic of Congo & examine how they operate with an emancipatory, counter logic to those which have come before

Talk: Space Hauntings. Golden Records, Hope and Regrets in a Tender Time 13 Nov 5–7pm Prof Bo Reimer (Malmö Uni) will discuss the uncanniness of the Golden Records and how the Tender Time project works on the production of haunted future memories. ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-a…

⚠️Reminder: 21 Oct 7pm @UCL_IAS & online Space Debris Anthropologists Luděk Brož & Makar Terëshin have conducted ethnographic research with communities affected by space debris in Altai Republic (RU) & in Arkhangelsk Oblast (RU) & Ulytau Region (KZ) ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-a…

Space Debris: Luděk Brož and Makar Terëshin in Conversation 21 October 2024, 7:00 pm–9:00 pm Register at coss-space-debris.eventbrite.co.uk

🎨🎭We are looking for artists to create a site-responsive public-space performance, event, intervention or exhibition, at UCL East Marshgate for World Space Week 2025 ✨🚀 Submit Expression of Interest by 10am, 4th September ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/world…

🚨 HYBRID EVENT 🚨 🗓️ 24th June 2024 ⏰ 18:30-20:30 (UK time) ⏳ Sowing and Trekking Through Time is an event co-hosted by @LSFRC_ & @UCLOuterSpace which will include readings from Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. ⛓️ DM us for the link!

HYBRID 'Sowing & Trekking Through Time: Science Fiction Imagines a Revolutionary 2024' 24 June 6:30pm A roundtable discussion between creatives, theorists & activists, incl readings from Octavia Butler’s 'Parable of the Sower' & Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-a…

Sowing & Trekking Through Time: Science Fiction Imagines a Revolutionary 2024 24 June 18:30 UCL & Zoom @Spidernautics Roundtable with creatives, theorists & activists, incl readings from Octavia Butler’s 'Parable of the Sower' & Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-a…

Cosmic Magic: Astronomy, Astrology & Graeco-Aegyptian Cultural Interactions 3-4 June @GrandLat Egyptian society in Hellenistic & Roman periods was a unique mix of Egyptian, Near Eastern & Greek influences, which impacted the period's astronomy & astrology ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-a…

Join us for a special FREE film screening of 'Whetū Mārama - Bright Star' and Q&A with Director Toby Mills @UCLEast! See this inspiring documentary connecting us with Māori wayfaring traditions and the art of star voyaging✨ 📅 29 May 18.15-20.30 Book: bit.ly/3wDbe6X

ARCHIVE AD ASTRA Exhibition @YurisNightLDN 10 May 2024, 6:30–9:30 pm You are invited to a special evening viewing of the exhibition ARCHIVE AD ASTRA, which will also mark the final chance to see the exhibition before it closes. ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-a…

My exhibition ARCHIVE AD ASTRA, a collaboration with the many incredible people I've met throughout my research, will be at @YurisNightLDN next Friday, May 10!! This is the very last chance to see it, so please come help me give it a proper farewell! yurisnight.net/london/tickets

Yuri’s Night London launches in T-3 weeks! 🪐May 10, 18:30-00:30 🪐Dockland Vaults, East London Celebrate all things space with fellow enthusiasts, artists, musicians, scientists, engineers, industry leaders & more. Early bird tickets LIVE NOW 🚀 yurisnight.net/london/tickets

My student colleagues at Leicester are organizing the Preserving the Cultural Skyscape Conference (May 8) about Indigenous space, with an academic paper call. Here are submission details - and how to get information about the honorarium. April 29th Deadline @ArchAncHistLeic

LAST CHANCE. DEADLINE TODAY! 💰IAS Octagon Small Grants Fund 💰supports UCL-based early-career researchers, including research students, from @ArtsHumsUCL and @UCLSocHistSci Up to £1,500 per application. Apply by 8th April. ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-a…

💰IAS Octagon Small Grants Fund💰 supports UCL-based early-career researchers, including research students, from @ArtsHumsUCL and @UCLSocHistSci Up to £1,500 per application ⏰Deadline for 2024 applications: 8 April ⏰ ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-a…

Transplanetary Ecologies Reading Group 27 March 2024, 4pm-5pm Our text this month will be “Atomic Visions from Outer Space: The Tunguska Nuclear Hypothesis in Soviet Technological Imagination” by Andy Bruno. ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-a…