Reminder Call for Abstracts

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The Futures of Space Exploration: an Arts & Humanities Symposium

30 September - 1 October 2008
2008 International Astronautical Congress, SEC, Glasgow,
Scotland

Abstract Submission Deadline: 11 March 2008
(approx. 300 words and short bio)

For further information, please go to:
http://www.lessremote.org

or contact: Flis Holland
E-mail: info@lessremote.org
+44 (0)114 242 3244

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The Futures of Space Exploration: an Arts & Humanities Symposium

An international symposium to run parallel to the 2008
International Astronautical Congress (IAC).

This symposium will offer a forum in which specialists from
many disciplines will be invited to consider the future of
space exploration in the context of our current
understanding of social, economic and technological
imperatives. One of the aims of the symposium is to foster a
dialogue and exchange between the cultural and space
communities.

Speakers from the arts & humanities and space science &
engineering communities will present keynote lectures on
space exploration and its possible futures. Papers are also
invited from the broad constituency of interest among
artists, cultural analysts and historians that has examined
the wider implications of the scientific exploration of
space for the better part of a century.

(For more information on the 2008 IAC, please visit
http://www.iac2008.co.uk)

Practitioners, scholars and postgraduates in any relevant
discipline are invited to submit abstracts that explore the
following strands:

Cultures and Space
Highlighting the multiplicity of cosmologies that currently
hold sway in the world, and considering the consequences of
a tacit consensus on the range of opportunities for future
space exploration.

The Introspective Urge
Focusing on humankind’s image of itself as a determinant of
space technology, and the impact of a changing self-image –
for example as a consequence of ubiquitous global
communications - on future space science.

Leaving a Trace
Technical and ethical debate on the impact we have already
had on the local solar system, and how our views will affect
the possible future of space science and engineering.

Living Space
Consideration of the continuity between the needs of humans
on earth and the possible demands of spacefarers in remote
and often hostile environments.

Advisory Committee: Flis Holland (Chair), Nicola Triscott &
Rob La Frenais (The Arts Catalyst), Annick Bureaud (Leonardo
/ OLATS), Stephen Dick (IAA Commission VI), Roger Malina
(IAA Commission VI), Michael Punt (Leonardo), Sundar
Sarukkai (Centre for Philosophy, Indian National Institute
of Advanced Studies)

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

An abstract (300 words max) and a short bio (200 words max)
must be submitted by 11 March 2008, via email to
abstracts@lessremote.org

A poster session will also take place during the symposium.
Please indicate on your application if a poster presentation
is acceptable.

Submissions accepted and presented at the conference will be
published in the IAC conference proceedings.