Program
WEDNESDAY, 6 February 2008
15:00 Welcome Reception and Opening Remarks
Ipke Wachsmuth and Alexander C.T. Geppert
16:00 Introduction
Alexander C.T. Geppert: European Astrofuturism, Cosmic Provincialism. Historical Problems and Historiographical Perspectives
16:30 Keynote Lecture
Steven J. Dick: Space, Time and Aliens. The Role of Imagination in Outer Space
17:30 Coffee
18:00 Feature Presentation I
Philip Pocock: SpacePlace. Art in the Age of Orbitization
20:00 Dinner Downtown
THURSDAY, 7 February 2008
09:00 Panel I: Theorizing Outer Space
Chair: De Witt Douglas Kilgore
Debbora Battaglia: Galaxies of E.T. Discourse. An Anthropologist's First Contact with the Science of Weird Life
Thomas Brandstetter: Imagining Inorganic Life. Crystalline Aliens in Science and Fiction
Benjamin Lazier: The Globalization of the World-Picture. Towards a History of Earth and Artifact in Twentieth-Century Thought
11:00 Coffee
11:15 Panel II: Personalizing Outer Space
Chair: Bernd Weisbrod
Christina Wessely: Cosmic Spectacular. Rocketry, Weltanschauung and the Quest for Cosmic Ice in Weimar Germany
Thore Bjørnvig: Transcendence of Gravity. Arthur C. Clarke and the Apocalyptic of Weightlessness
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Panel III: Localizing Outer Space
Chair: Andreas W. Daum
Kerrie Anne Dougherty: Spaceport Woomera
Sven Mesinovic: Inner Space and Outer Space. Similarities, Differences and Connections
16:00 Coffee
16:15 Panel IV: Screening Outer Space
Chair: Peter Becker
Burghard Ciesla: Outer Space, Inner Fear. Cold War SF-Films in East and West
Henry Keazor: A Stumble in the Dark. Gerry Anderson's Space 1999
Werner Suppanz: Nazis in Space. Distant Worlds as Projection Screen of Cultural Memory
18:00 Feature Presentation II
Jürgen Ast/Burghard Ciesla: Screening of Historical Films
18:30 Dinner at ZiF
FRIDAY, 8 February 2008
09:00 Panel V: Fictionalizing Outer Space
Chair: Angela Schwarz
Claudia Schmölders: Unwriting Heaven. Tunguska Region, June 30, 1908
Steffen Krämer: Ancient Heroes and Early Christian Ascetics. Archetypes of Modern Science Fiction
Rainer Eisfeld: Projecting Landscapes of the Human Mind on Another World. Changing Faces of an Imaginary Mars
11:00 Coffee
11:15 Panel VI: Visioning Outer Space
Chair: Alexander C.T. Geppert
Pierre Lagrange: A 'Symmetrial' Explanation for Flying Saucers
James I. Miller: Encountering Aliens in the French Countryside. UFOs and the Fabrication of a New World in Quarouble, France, 1954
13.00 Lunch
14:00 Panel VII: Politicizing Outer Space
Chair: Kai-Uwe Schrogl
Monica Rüthers: Outer Space, Children's Material Culture and Soviet Imagery after Sputnik
Michael J. Neufeld: Smash the Myth of the Fascist Rocket Baron. East German Attacks on Wernher von Braun in the 1960s
16:00 Coffee
16:15 Panel VIII: Communicating Outer Space
Chair: Ralf Bülow
Guillaume de Syon: Between the Bubble and the Moon. Visions of Space Travel in Francophone Comic Strips
Bernd Mütter: Per Media Ad Astra? Outer Space in West Germany's Media 1957-1987
20:00 Dinner Downtown
SATURDAY, 9 February 2008
09:00 Panel IX: Automatizing Outer Space
Chair: Paul Ceruzzi
James Schwoch: Short, Nasty, and Brutish. The Curious Life of Telstar, 10 July 1962 - 21 February 1963
Gonzalo Munevar: Self-Reproducing Automata and the Impossibility of SETI
11:00 Coffee
11:15 Panel X: Designing Outer Space
Chair: Peter Davidson
William R. Macauley: Inscribing Scientific Knowledge. Interstellar Communication, Universal Laws and Contact with Cultures of the Imagination
Tristan Weddigen: Alien Spotting. Damien Hirst’s Beagle 2 Mars Lander Calibration Target and the Exploitation of Outer Space
13:00 Snack
14:00 Conclusion
Chair: Steven J. Dick
Helmuth Trischler: General Commentary
