Alexander C.T. Geppert
Wednesday, 19 July 2023
14:00–15:00
Welcome and Introduction
Alexander Geppert (New York/Shanghai) and Rory Rowan (Dublin): Outer Space and the Thinking of a Planet
15:15–16:15
Panel I: A Planetary Turn?
Chair: Bronislaw Szerszynski (Lancaster)
Stefan Pedersen (Sussex): The Earth System, Cosmology and Planetary Politics
Alexander Geppert (New York/Shanghai) and Brad Tabas (Brest): Planetization: Five Theses
16:45–18:15
Panel II: Proto-Planetarians
Chair: N.N.
Vladimir Brljak (Durham): The Stars and the Angels: The Cosmos of a Nineteenth-Century Clergyman
Oliver Dunnett (Belfast): Alexander von Humboldt and his Influence in Planetary Thinking since 1845
Ian Klinke (Oxford): Panpsychism, Space Colonization and the Origins of Astropolitics
Thursday, 20 July 2023
09:30–10:30
Panel III: Cosmic Philosophies
Chair: Helmuth Trischler (Munich)
Michael Hagemeister (Bochum): Russian Cosmism
Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko (Copenhagen): Spiritual Universalisms and the Invention of the Fragile Planet: Theosophy, the Occult and the Race towards Heaven and Earth
11:00–12:30
Panel IV: The Juridification of Outer Space
Chair: Christoph Conrad (Geneva)
Gabriela Radulescu (Berlin): Metalaw: Regulating Relations between all Beings in the Universe at the Dawn of the Space Age
Stephen Buono (Cambridge, MA): Metalaw: Philosophy and the Birth of a Discipline
François Rulier (Toulouse): Planetizating International Space Law for a Pacifist Space Exploration
14:00–15:00
Panel V: Poetics of Planetization
Chair: Haitian Ma (Amsterdam)
Helen Ahner (Berlin): Feeling Outer Space: Planetariums as Sites of Epistemic Emotions
Thøre Bjørnvig (Copenhagen): The Milky Way Can Wait: Scandinavian Planetization of Earth, 1956–1982
15:30–16:30
Panel VI: Narrating Astroculture
Chair: Michèle Matetschk (Berlin)
Jörg Kreienbrock (Chicago): The Philosophy of Science Fiction: Gotthard Günther in Outer Space
Arthur Z. Wang (Philadelphia): Escape Velocity: Black Scientists and Life Writing in Outer Space
17:00–18:00
Panel VII: Exploring Inner Space
Chair: N.N.
Greg Eghigian (University Park): UFOs and the Inner Space of Outer Space
Ben Van Overmeire (Kunshan): Inner and Outer Space in the Thought of the Buddhist Modernist Alan Watts
Friday, 21 July 2023
10:00–11:00
Panel VIII: Planetarity after the End of History
Chair: Bernd Weisbrod (Göttingen)
Olga Dubrovina (Padua): Gorbachev’s New Thinking in Space: The Universe as a Common Home
James Lowder (Glasgow): Beyond Solar Catastrophe: The Post-Earth Futures of Jean-François Lyotard and Carl Sagan
11:30–12:30
Panel IX: Ethnographies of the Planetary Present
Chair: N.N.
Anna Szolucha (Krakow): Rescuing the Planetary for Ethnographic Research: Philosophical Meanings and Research Application
Julie Patarin-Jossec (London): Thinking Ecological Resilience: Inuit Cosmology and Space Debris Mitigation
14:00–15:00
Concluding Discussion
Chair: Rory Rowan (Dublin)
Alexander Geppert (New York/Shanghai)
Brad Tabas (Brest)