– PROGRAM –
THURSDAY, 19 April 2012
09.00 Introduction
Alexander C.T. Geppert, William R. Macauley and Daniel Brandau (all Berlin): The 1970s, Western Europe and the Delineation of Space
09.30 Feature Presentation I
Martin Collins (Washington, DC): Ambiguities of the 1970s. Spaceflight and the Problem of Historically Interpreting the In-Between Decade
11.00 Panel I: Transitions
Chair: Paul Nolte (Berlin)
Andrew Jenks (Long Beach, CA): Transnational History and Human Space Flight
Doug Millard (London): Were the 1970s a Period of Transition for the History of Britain's Exploration of Space?
I4.00 Panel II: Pictures
Chair: Thomas P. Weber (Brussels)
Robert Poole (Lancaster): '2001: A Space Odyssey.' Space Travel and the Ends of Progress
Ralf Bülow (Berlin): The X Files. Reading a West German Sci-Tech Magazine from 1969 to 1973
16.00 Panel III: Laws
Chair: Peter Becker (Vienna)
Luca Follis (Lancaster): Beyond Law's Frontier. The Normative Imaginary of Outer Space
Virgiliu Pop (Timisoara): The Moon Agreement and the Beginning of Utopia
19.00 Feature Presentation II
Agnes Meyer-Brandis (Berlin): Space Traveling. A Performance-Lecture Examining Real Utopian Aspects of Interplanetary Exchange of Idea and Matter
FRIDAY, 20 April 2012
09.00 Feature Presentation III
Chair: William R. Macauley (Berlin)
John Krige (Atlanta, GA): Blowback, Lift Off. The Rise of Ariane and the Decline of US Monopoly of Access to Space in the 1970s
10.15 Panel IV: Politics
Chair: Etienne Benson (Berlin)
Matthew H. Hersch (Philadelphia, PA): 'On the Edge of Forever.' 1972 and the New American Space Consensus
Neil M. Maher (Brunswick, NJ): Ground Control. Space Technology, Environmentalism, and Détente Across the Developing World
13.00 Panel V: Texts
Chair: Matthias Schwartz (Berlin)
Florian Kläger (Münster): Reading into the Stars. Cosmology and Self-Reflexivity in the British Novel of the 1970s
Aleksandra Idzior (Abbotsford): Images of Extraterrestrial Life and Designs for 'Out-of-Space' in Poland during the 1960s and 1970s
15.00 Panel VI: Aesthetics
Chair: Claudia Schmölders (Berlin)
Christina Vatsella (Paris): Artworks in Orbit. The Satellite Art Projects
Thore Bjoernvig (Copenhagen): Unlimited Play in a World of Limits. The Lego Classic Space Theme, 1978-80
17.00 Panel VII: Prospects
Chair: Debbora Battaglia (South Hadley, MA)
Philippe Ailleris (Noordwijk): Red Soil, Phonograph Records and United Nations Resolution 33/426. Our 1970s Extraterrestrial Heritage
Janet Vertesi (Princeton, NJ) and Lisa Messeri (Philadelphia, PA): The Greatest Mission Never Flown. Mars Sample Return, Terrestrial Planet Finder, and the Limits of Utopia
SATURDAY, 21 April 2012
09.00 Panel VIII: Habitats
Chair: Thomas Brandstetter (Basel)
W. Patrick McCray (Santa Barbara, CA): Gerard O'Neill's Visioneering of the 'High Frontier'
Gonzalo Munevar (Southfield, MI): Space Colonies and their Critics
11.00 Panel IX: Transcendence
Chair: Helmuth Trischler (Munich)
Peter J. Westwick (Los Angeles, CA): From the Club of Rome to Star Wars. The Era of Limits, Space Colonization, and the Origins of the Strategic Defense Initiative
Roger D. Launius (Washington, DC): Human Spaceflight as Religion in the Aftermath of the Space Race
14.00 Conclusion
Chair: Alexander C.T. Geppert (Berlin)
David A. Kirby (Manchester): General Comment
16.00 End