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SUMMARY:Cultural WG & Lunar Human Physiology & Biology WG webinar: Microgravity and Human Health
DESCRIPTION:Co-organised by Cultural Considerations WG &  Lunar Human Physiology & Biology WG \n\n\n\nWith\n\n\n\nElisa Raffaella Ferre\, Birkbeck University\, LondonThe Next Small Step: How Microgravity influences Brain and Behaviour \n\n\n\nThais Russomano\, Co-Founder & CEO\, InnovaSpace-UKSpace Medicine: Challenges and Achievements \n\n\n\nRegister for free to participate\n\n\n\n\nRegister on Zoom\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAbout\n\n\n\nSpace travel involves\, as is known\, considerable physical risks for those who undertake it. Long-duration missions have allowed scientists to thoroughly study the effects that prolonged stay in zero gravity\, with limited possibilities of movement and exposure to significant amounts of solar radiation\, has on the human body. Apart from the initial discomfort due to space adaptation syndrome (SAS)\, which involves nausea\, headache and lethargy for a few days\, the astronauts showed muscle atrophy\, osteopenia\, alterations in the production of red blood cells\, cardiovascular dysfunction\, reduction in effectiveness of the immune system\, sleep disorders\, etc. Moreover\, studies conducted in extreme environments on Earth have highlighted numerous possible psychological problems such as stress\, boredom and many other factors on safety\, efficiency and quality of life in space. This webinar intends to take stock of the progress made by medicine and neuroscience to overcome the serious physical and psychological imbalances associated with life in microgravity. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nProf Elisa Raffaella Ferre has completed a Bsc\, a Msc\, and a PhD in Psychology at the Università degli Studi di Pavia (Italy). She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London (UK)\, then she took up her first faculty position at Royal Holloway University of London (UK). In September 2021\, she joined Birkbeck University of London (UK)\, where she established the Vestibular Neuroscience Laboratory and presently holds the position of Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience. She holds the position of Co-Coordinator for the UK Space Life and Biomedical Sciences Association (UKSpaceLABS) and serves as the elected Secretary for the European Low Gravity Research Association (ELGRA). She is engaged in collaborations with ESA Education and with United Nations Space Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) Access to Space for All initiatives. She acts as mentor for the UNOOSA Space4Women initiative. \n\n\n\nProf Thais Russomano\, MD\, MSc\, PhD\, FRSA has +30 yr of experience in Aerospace Medicine\, Space Physiology\, Telemedicine & Digital Health. She is an MD from Brazil\, specialised in internal medicine\, has an MSc in Aerospace Medicine (USA) and PhD in Space Physiology from King’s College London (UK). She worked as a researcher at DLR\, Germany\, before establishing and coordinating the Microgravity Centre\, PUCRS for 18 years. She is academically linked to several universities\, is an Elected Academician of the International Academy of Aviation and Space Medicine and the International Academy of Astronautics (Board of Trustees). She is a Board Member of companies\, holds patents related to Space Sciences\, has numerous scientific publications and has acted as a voluntary Mentor for Space4Women\, an initiative of the UNOOSA. She is also Co-Founder & CEO of InnovaSpace-UK and the Chair of the recently established Lunar Human Physiology and Biology Working Group in MVA.
URL:https://moonvillageassociation.org/event/cultural-wg-lunar-human-physiology-biology-wg-webinar-microgravity-and-human-health/
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SUMMARY:Earth Day 2024 - Climate Action & Lunar Exploration
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Event co-organised with The Human Space Program and Cosmic Citizen Trainings\n\n\n\nRegister\n\n\n\nhttps://www.cosmiccitizen.training/space4earth \n\n\n\nLove it or hate it\, a new era of Lunar exploration is here. Join the conversation and influence its unfolding. \n\n\n\nAt the start of this new venture of a permanent presence on the Moon\, we aim to stimulate the alliance of Earth and Space environmentalists. Together\, let’s take a hard look at the ramifications of exploration and utilization of the Moon and create a roadmap to ensure this movement off world truly is of benefit for Earth and all Humankind. \n\n\n\nWith global interest in Lunar exploration and utilization\, we need to start to clearly define the modus operandi for activities on and around the Moon. The Moon Village Association has initiated the Global Expert Group on Sustainable Lunar Activities (GEGSLA). This group published a report that has inspired the United Nations to start this important discussion. \n\n\n\nNow is the time to define how to protect lunar environment and its link to the Earth environment. \n\n\n\nPanel 1What is “The Environment” in this New Space Age? \n\n\n\nPanel 2Can Lunar exploration help mitigate the Climate Crisis?
URL:https://moonvillageassociation.org/event/earth-day-2024-climate-action-lunar-exploration/
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SUMMARY:Cultural Considerations WG webinar - Still as bright
DESCRIPTION:“Still as Bright blends scientific\, cultural and personal strands in an exploration of the Moon and its place in our lives and in mine. I come to know the Moon through my backyard telescope\, traversing its wild and sublime surface while contemplating place\, time\, childhood\, mortality—and the future of humans on the Moon. You’ll meet forgotten selenographers\, astronauts\, scientists\, artists and lunar bat-men (hint: they’re not real). You’ll witness a rocket launch\, my failed attempt at an occult lunar ritual (a bit icky) and join me at the eyepiece of the 60-inch reflector at Mt. Wilson\, California (like orbiting in a capsule).” (Christopher Cokinos) \n\n\n\nKey Speakers\n\n\n\nChristopher Cokinos\, author of the book Still as Bright: An Illuminating History of the Moon from Antiquity to Tomorrow.Francis French will add more background stories about Al Worden and other astronauts. \n\n\n\nIntroduction: Remo Rapetti \n\n\n\nComments and questions: Lisa Pettibone\, visual artistGiulio Prisco\, futurist\, cosmist\, author \n\n\n\nRegister to participate\n\n\n\n\nRegister on Zoom\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChristopher Cokinos is the author or coeditor of several books\, including The Fallen Sky: An Intimate History of Shooting Stars\, Hope Is the Things with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds\, and Beyond Earth’s Edge: The Poetry of Spaceflight. He is the winner of awards and fellowships from\, among others\, New American Press\, the Whiting Foundation\, the Rachel Carson Center in Munich\, and the National Science Foundation. His poems\, articles\, and essays have appeared in such venues as Scientific American\, High Country News\, Astronomy\, Discover.com\, and the Los Angeles Times. Having taught literature\, writing\, and science communication for more than three decades at three universities\, he again lives and writes in Utah. \n\n\n\nFrancis French has international experience in relating science\, engineering\, music\, astronomy\, art\, and wildlife to general audiences through classes\, workshops\, public speaking\, television and documentary productions. He is the author of numerous bestselling history books\, including a number of books with Apollo astronauts. In “The Light of Earth\,” he worked with Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden to uncover never-before-published poems written in the days and weeks after Worden’s return from the moon. His books are listed at www.francisfrench.com
URL:https://moonvillageassociation.org/event/cultural-considerations-wg-webinar-still-as-bright/
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SUMMARY:Cultural WG webinar - Alternative Visions of Space Exploration
DESCRIPTION:“The most important lesson we learned from our first forays beyond our thin atmosphere was that we are in this together. We overcame gravity by working collectively toward an aligned goal. That same force must now allow us to overcome political and policy differences that are driven by circumstances such as what we look like\, where we live\, and who we love. Keeping our shared goals in mind can give us the ability to explore space for the benefit of all.” \n\n\n\n(Lori Garver\, Foreword to Schwartz\, James S.J.; Billings\, Linda; Nesvold\, Erika. Reclaiming Space: Progressive and Multicultural Visions of Space Exploration\,  Oxford University Press.)  \n\n\n\nAgenda:\n\n\n\n\nIntroduction: Remo Rapetti\n\n\n\nJS Johnson-Schwartz: Reflections on “Reclaiming Space”.\n\n\n\nErika Nesvold: Culture on the Moon: The Practical and Ethical Value of Including Diverse Cultural Perspectives in Space Exploration.\n\n\n\nComments and questions: Giulio Prisco\, futurist\, cosmist\, author\n\n\n\n\nRegistration\n\n\n\n\nRegister on Zoom\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nJS Johnson-Schwartz is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Wichita State University where she teaches courses on the ethics of space exploration\, engineering ethics\, environmental ethics\, and logic. Her research focuses on the ethics of space exploration and the philosophy of disability. She is author of The Value of Science in Space Exploration (Oxford University Press\, 2020)\, and lead-editor of Reclaiming Space: Progressive and Multicultural Visions of Space Exploration (Oxford University Press\, 2023) and The Ethics of Space Exploration (Springer\, 2016). \n\n\n\nErika Nesvold is an astrophysicist who has worked as a researcher at NASA Goddard and the Carnegie Institution for Science. She is a developer for Universe Sandbox\, a physics-based space simulator; cofounder of the nonprofit organization the JustSpace Alliance; and the creator and host of the podcast Making New Worlds. She is also the author of Off-Earth: Ethical Questions and Quandaries for Living in Outer Space and co-editor of Reclaiming Space: Progressive and Multicultural Visions of Space Exploration.
URL:https://moonvillageassociation.org/event/cultural-wg-webinar-alternative-visions-of-space-exploration/
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SUMMARY:V Seminar on Space and Extreme Environment Research
DESCRIPTION:This webinar is part of th activities of the Lunar Human Physiology & Biology WG \n\n\n\n\nRegister to participate
URL:https://moonvillageassociation.org/event/v-seminar-on-space-and-extreme-environment-research/
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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SUMMARY:Cultural Considerations WG webinar - Artists on the Moon: Lessons from an All-Artist Analog Lunar Surface Mission
DESCRIPTION:The webinar will tell the experience of the four artists who lived a week in The Space Analog for the Moon & Mars at the University of Arizona: the sense of isolation\, the difficulties of cohabitation\, the simulation of reduced gravity\, and the influence that these extreme conditions had on their artistic production. \n\n\n\nSpeakers:Christopher Cokinos\, poet and authorElizabeth George\, dancer and choreographerJulie Swarstad Johnson\, poet and archivistIvy Wahome\, textiles artist and costume designer \n\n\n\nIntroduction:Remo Rapetti \n\n\n\nComments and questions:Lisa Pettibone\, artistCristina Luna Santos\, anthropologist \n\n\n\nRegistration \n\n\n\n\nRegister on Zoom\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nChristopher Cokinos is the author or coeditor of several books\, including The Fallen Sky: An Intimate History of Shooting Stars\, Hope Is the Things with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds\, Beyond Earth’s Edge: The Poetry of Spaceflight and Still as Bright. An Illuminating History of the Moon from Antiquity to Tomorrow. He is the winner of awards and fellowships from\, among others\, New American Press\, the Whiting Foundation\, the Rachel Carson Center in Munich\, and the National Science Foundation. His poems\, articles\, and essays have appeared in such venues as Scientific American\, High Country News\, Astronomy\, Discover.com\, and the Los Angeles Times. Having taught literature\, writing\, and science communication for more than three decades at three universities\, he again lives and writes in Utah. \n\n\n\nElizabeth George is an Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Advisor in the School of Dance at the University of Arizona. She is a former dancer of the Dayton Ballet where she was a part of the Cleveland Phoenix Project (a collaborative venture between the Ohio Ballet and Dayton Ballet.) She has performed works by such choreographers as Dermot Burke\, James Clouser\, Amy Ernst\, Luis Fuente\, Bella Lewitsky\, Stephen Mills\, and David Nixon to name a few. \n\n\n\nJulie Swarstad Johnson is the author of Pennsylvania Furnace (2019)\, editor’s choice selection for the Unicorn Press first book series\, and co-editor of Beyond Earth’s Edge: The Poetry of Spaceflight (University of Arizona Press\, 2020). She has served as Poet in Residence at Lowell Observatory and at Gettysburg National Military Park\, which led to the chapbook Orchard Light (Seven Kitchens Press\, 2020). She lives in Tucson and works as an archivist and librarian at the University of Arizona Poetry Center.    \n\n\n\nIvy Wahome is a Kenyan-born costume designer and seamstress with over 10 years of experience designing and producing costumes for theater and dance at the University of Arizona\, Broadway in Tucson (nationally touring Broadway shows)\, and community theaters. Innovative textile artist incorporating Black and African perspectives and history into diverse projects\, including functional and decorative materials for a simulated lunar mission\, she is co-founder of the Space Suit Lab at the University of Arizona.
URL:https://moonvillageassociation.org/event/cultutal-considerations-wg-webinar-artists-on-the-moon-lessons-from-an-all-artist-analog-lunar-surface-mission/
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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SUMMARY:Cultural Considerations WG Webinar - Afro-Futurism and Space Law
DESCRIPTION:It is not only Western culture that sees space research as an opportunity for knowledge\, improvement of living conditions and satisfaction of the spirit of adventure that has characterized the progress of humanity over the millennia. Even cultures not currently directly involved in the development of space projects have always looked towards the sky and have elaborated theories and legends that have served to keep people’s interest in the stars alive. With this webinar we intend to investigate the special relationship that African artistic creativity has with space and how contemporary artists use their traditions to collaborate on a more just and shared space research. \n\n\n\nFree registration: \n\n\n\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_P6lnl0eiRp2IT8uko2cTHw \n\n\n\nAgenda \n\n\n\n\nRemo Rapetti: Introduction\n\n\n\nJacque Njeri\, African Futurist\, Artivist & Graphic Designer: Afro-Futurism in Space Culture.\n\n\n\nDr Saskia Vermeylen\, Reader in Law at the University of Strathclyde\, Scotland: Cultural storytelling for the protection of outer space.\n\n\n\nLisa Pettibone: Comments and questions.\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nJacque Njeri is a multifaceted artist and designer currently based in Nairobi\, Kenya\, with a Bachelor of Arts in Design from the University of Nairobi. Her work blends afro-futurism\, culture\, and advocacy\, addressing themes of governance\, youth\, inequality\, and gender justice through a futuristic lens. Globally recognized\, her art has been featured by CNN and BBC and exhibited at events like the Other Futures Festival in Amsterdam and the Kikk Festival in Belgium. Jacque’s practice challenges societal norms and inspires creativity as a tool for meaningful change. \n\n\n\nDr Saskia Vermeylen\, a Reader in Law at the University of Strathclyde\, Scotland\, is a phenomenologist and legal anthropologist whose interdisciplinary research explores the interplay of law\, space\, and cultural expression\, offering a unique perspective on space governance informed by arts theory and practice. She curated the exhibition “EXTR-Activism”\, which highlights artistic critiques of the commercial space race and its focus on mineral extractivism. Dr Vermeylen’s research challenges traditional understandings of space law by elevating artistic practices and theories as critical contributions to jurisprudence. Through her numerous publications\, she addresses key gaps in space governance and critiques the dominance of Eurocentric perspectives within the field.
URL:https://moonvillageassociation.org/event/cultural-considerations-wg-webinar-afro-futurism-and-space-law/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250324T160000
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SUMMARY:Neurological changes in Space Mission - Lunar Human Physiology & Biology WG webinar
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Neurological changes in Space Mission \n\n\n\nTime: Mar 24\, 2025 04:00 PM GMT \n\n\n\nFree participation on Zoomhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86235276128
URL:https://moonvillageassociation.org/event/neurological-changes-in-space-mission-lunar-human-physiology-biology-wg-webinar/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250509T170000
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SUMMARY:LAST WG webinar - Growing Beyond: Lessons from the Moon for Earth’s Future Farming
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an eye-opening exploration into how plants adapt to life beyond Earth—and what that reveals about the future of food on our own planet. From sealed lunar greenhouses to cosmic radiation challenges\, discover how cultivating crops on the Moon is teaching us to grow smarter\, more resilient food back home. \n\n\n\nWe’ll dive into the science of space agriculture\, uncover breakthroughs in crop sustainability\, and explore how the harshest environments can inspire solutions for climate resilience and food security on Earth. \n\n\n\nIf we can grow food on the Moon—imagine what we can do on Earth. \n\n\n\nRegister on Zoom to participate \n\n\n\n\nRegister \n\n\n\n\nFurther information on Moon Village Association Agriculture working group
URL:https://moonvillageassociation.org/event/last-wg-webinar-growing-beyond-lessons-from-the-moon-for-earths-future-farming/
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SUMMARY:Cultural WG webinar - Latin America In Outer Space
DESCRIPTION:Agenda\n\n\n\n\nRemo Rapetti: Introduction\n\n\n\nAnne Warren Johnson: Latin American Engagements with Outer Space: Contradictions and Alternatives\n\n\n\nUmbriel López Avalos: Connections to the Moon: Perspectives from Indigenous Communities in Mexico\n\n\n\nAlejandro Viadas Loyo: Mexico and the Moon in the Future\n\n\n\nComments and questions: Lisa Pettibone\, artist\,& Cristina Luna\, anthropologist\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration\n\n\n\n\nRegister on Zoom\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nAnne W. Johnson is a Professor in the Graduate Social Anthropology Program of the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City\, where she teaches classes on science and technology\, the anthropology of futures\, and material culture. She has a Ph.D. in social anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin. Her publications about outer space include articles in the Revista Colombiana de Antropología (2023) and Acta Astronautica (2021)\, as well as chapters in the edited works Exploring Ethnography of Outer Space (Routledge\, 2025)\, Space Feminisms (Routledge\, 2024)\, The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Social Studies of Outer Space (Routledge\, 2023)\, and Southern Space Studies (Springer\, 2002).  Her book From the Cosmic Race to the Space Race on Mexican engagements with outer space is forthcoming with the University of Arizona Press. \n\n\n\nUmbriel López Avalos is the head of the Citizen Participation Department at the Instituto Electoral del Estado de Guanajuato. He holds a B.A. in social anthropology from the Universidad de Guanajuato and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in political analysis at the Division of Law\, Politics\, and Government at the same institution. Since 2019\, he has worked at the Electoral Institute of the state of Guanajuato\, where he currently serves as the head of the Citizen Participation Department\, leading programs focused on addressing the needs of youth in the state of Guanajuato. He is a member of the National Electoral Professional Service\, and his academic research topics focus on the impact of non-institutionalized youth participation in the state’s democratization process\, youth in democracy\, political engagement during adolescence\, systems of political value transmission\, and mechanisms for citizen participation. \n\n\n\nAlejandro Viadas Loyo has a B.A. in International Relations with a focus on Political Analysis from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in political analysis at the Universidad de Guanajuato. He is the co-founder and coordinator of the Center for Global Order Studies (CESOG)\, where he conducts research on Mexico’s role in the aerospace value chain\, the Mexican space program\, and new trade routes within a multipolar globalization. He was also a jury member of the Mexican experimental rocketry contest (ENMICE) in 2024.
URL:https://moonvillageassociation.org/event/cultural-wg-webinar-latin-america-in-outer-space/
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SUMMARY:Cultural Considerations WG webinar - Moon: Religion and Ritual
DESCRIPTION:Since the dawn of time\, the Moon has attracted the devoted attention of Earth’s inhabitants. It has been attributed divine powers\, magical abilities\, and significant influences on our daily lives\, from bottling wine to sowing seeds to cutting hair. With this webinar\, we intend to explore how primitive beliefs led to the Moon being seen as the first step toward the conquest of space. \n\n\n\nFree registration on Zoom\n\n\n\n\nRegister\n\n\n\n\nAgenda\n\n\n\n\nRemo Rapetti: Introduction\n\n\n\nDeana Weibel: “The Once-Distant Moon: From a Sacred Light to a Human Domain”\n\n\n\nCarolyn Kennett: “Moonlit Monuments”\n\n\n\nLisa Pettibone: Comments and Questions.\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nDr. Deana L. Weibel is Professor of Anthropology at Grand Valley State University (USA)\, jointly appointed in GVSU’s Religious Studies program in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies. Her research focuses on the intersections of religion\, science\, and space exploration\, including how astronauts’ subjective experiences in space are used in spirituality and meaning-making. She is the author of The Ultraview Effect: What We Can Learn from Astronauts About Awe\, Humility\, and Exploring the Unknown (University of California Press\, forthcoming May 2026). \n\n\n\nCarolyn Kennett is an archaeoastronomer\, astronomer\, and author. She serves as Chair of the Society for the History of Astronomy and is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. Her research and writing explore topics ranging from planetary science to Cornish prehistory. Carolyn has appeared on BBC Sky at Night and is a regular contributor to regional television and radio programmes. She has presented her work at conferences around the world.
URL:https://moonvillageassociation.org/event/cultural-considerations-wg-webinar-religion-and-the-moon/
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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SUMMARY:Cultural WG webinar - Sci-Fi Moon Visions
DESCRIPTION:Free registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_bQIMo87bRUOODuFqWzEaqg \n\n\n\nAGENDA \n\n\n\nRemo Rapetti: Introduction \n\n\n\nChristopher Cokinos: Long Before Rockets: Imagination’s Voyages to the Moon \n\n\n\n“As we return to the Moon with Artemis\, we should return to the many imaginary voyages we’ve taken to the Moon\, from Chinese folk tales to pioneering science fiction. These leaps of creative vision are more than nostalgic trifles. They tell us about ourselves and our attitudes toward places we explore and might settle. Imagination’s voyages to the Moon are one foundation for policy. They give us ethical trajectories to consider as competing interests aim for the ice-rich lunar south pole. Plus\, some of them are great fun.” \n\n\n\nErika Nesvold: Today’s Lunar Stories\, Tomorrow’s Lunar Challenges \n\n\n\n“Science fiction uses unearthly settings to explore humanity’s greatest fears and propose dreams for our future. Today’s stories set on the Moon are no exception: lunar science fiction films\, television shows\, novels\, and short stories imagine the Moon as a threat\, a resource\, or a home for humans in the not-so-distant future. Most frequently\, these stories portray the Moon as an extension of the Earth\, a secondary host to humanity’s ongoing struggles and conflicts. What cautionary tales can we find in these lunar stories\, and how can we apply their lessons to urgent questions of space policy as we prepare to turn science fiction into reality in the comingdecades?” \n\n\n\nLisa Pettibone: Comments and questions \n\n\n\nChristopher Cokinos is the author or coeditor of several books\, including The Fallen Sky: An Intimate History of Shooting Stars\, Hope Is the Things with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds\, and Beyond Earth’s Edge: The Poetry of Spaceflight. His new book —Still as Bright: An Illuminating History of the Moon from Antiquity to Tomorrow–came out in 2024  and has garnered praise from Booklist\, Kirkus Reviews\, Sky & Telescope and the Toronto Globe & Mail. He is the winner of awards and fellowships from\, among others\, New American Press\, the Whiting Foundation\, the Rachel Carson Center in Munich\, and the National Science Foundation. His poems\, articles\, and essays have appeared in such venues as Scientific American\, High Country News\, Astronomy\, Discover.com\, and the Los Angeles Times. Having taught literature\, writing\, and science communication for more than three decades at three universities\, he again lives and writes in Utah. \n\n\n\nErika Nesvold is an astrophysicist who has worked as a researcher at NASA Goddard and the Carnegie Institution for Science. She is a developer for Universe Sandbox\, a physics-based space simulator; cofounder of the nonprofit organization the JustSpace Alliance; and the creator and host of the podcast Making New Worlds. She is also the author of Off-Earth: Ethical Questions and Quandaries for Living in Outer Space and co-editor of Reclaiming Space: Progressive and Multicultural Visions of Space Exploration. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n.
URL:https://moonvillageassociation.org/event/cultural-wg-webinar-sci-fi-moon-visions/
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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SUMMARY:Cultural Considerations WG webinar - What is the philosophy of space and why is it important? 
DESCRIPTION:Free Regisatration \n\n\n\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8SDw6NSwQ4e5QsIhPCNzgg \n\n\n\nAgenda\n\n\n\n\nRemo Rapetti: Welcome address\n\n\n\nChristopher Cokinos: Introduction\n\n\n\nRebecca Lowe: The Philosophy of Space: Opportunity\, Value\, and Obligation\n\n\n\n\n“How should property ownership work in space? How should human space experience be regulated? What obligations do humans have to non-human life in space? These three questions offer a route into conceiving of space as a special source of philosophical enquiry.” (Rebecca Lowe) \n\n\n\nRebecca Lowe is Philosophy Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center\, where she is also Director of Emerging Scholars. She is working on two books: ‘Freedom in Utopia’\, and ‘Speaking Freely’. She writes a Substack called ‘the ends don’t justify the means’\, and hosts a podcast called ‘Working Definition’. She often writes about space\, and until recently served as Consulting Space Philosopher for a strategic space advisory firm. Her space publications include an article on the value of space activity for Economic Affairs\, a follow-up piece for the American Philosophical Association blog on the value of private space activity\, and a paper for the Adam Smith Institute on lunar property rights. Other highlights have included appearing on the Planetary Society’s podcast\, and giving a keynote talk for the Flight Software Workshop at Johns Hopkins.
URL:https://moonvillageassociation.org/event/cultural-considerations-wg-webinar-what-is-the-philosophy-of-space-and-why-is-it-important/
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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