Programme
"We are all astronauts"
The Image of the Space Traveller in Arts and Media
Heidelberg University, 22. – 25. October, 2015
Please note
Unfortunately, we received the sad news that Prof. Sobchack will for health reasons not be able to give the conference's opening lecture as advertised. Matthew H. Hersch, Harvard University (Cambrigde, Mass.), instead will give his talk on Redemptive Space: Duty, Death, and the Astronaut-Soldier, 1949–1969 on Thursday, Oct 22, 2015, 6 pm in the Alte Universität.
Thursday | 22. October 2015
Venue: Alte Universität, Aula, Grabengasse 1
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6.00 pm
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OPENING LECTURE Welcome address of the Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, Gerrit Kloss
Matthew H. Hersch (Cambrigde, Mass.) Redemptive Space: Duty, Death, and the Astronaut-Soldier, 1949–1969 |
| Afterwards: Reception at the "Bel Etage" of the Rectorate |
Friday | 23. October 2015
Venue: Institute of Psychology, Lecture Hall II, Hauptstraße 47-51
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9.00 am |
Henry Keazor (Heidelberg) Introduction |
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9.45 am |
Colleen Boyle (Melbourne) Through the Eyes of the Astronaut: Mediator of the Human Imagination |
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11.00 am |
Umberto Rossi (Rome) |
| Coffee Break | |
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12.30 pm |
Ansgar Oswald (Berlin) |
| Lunch Break | |
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3.00 pm |
Monica Rüthers (Hamburg) |
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4.15 pm |
Marc Blancher (Tübingen) "Let's discover Space!" Tintin and Other Characters of French-Belgian Comics as Astronauts |
| Coffee Break | |
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5.45 pm |
Jörg Hartmann (Karlsruhe) |
Saturday | 24. October 2015
Venue: Institute of Psychology, Lecture Hall II, Hauptstraße 47-51
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9.00 am
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Michael Iwoleit (Wuppertal) |
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10.15 am |
Martin Butler (Oldenburg) |
| Coffee Break | |
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11.45 am |
Bettyann Kevles (Yale) |
| Lunch Break | |
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2.00 pm |
Nils Daniel Peiler (Frankfurt am Main) |
| Coffee Break | |
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3.45 pm |
Sophia Hauk / Alexander Hauk (Berlin) Presentation of the "Protestonaut"-Project |
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4.15 pm |
FILM Dana Ranga, Story – I am a Space Person (Germany 2003) |
Sunday | 25. October 2015
Venue: Institute of Psychology, Lecture Hall II, Hauptstraße 47-51
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10.00 am
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Thomas Hensel (Pforzheim) Astronaut and Avatar: The Outer Space as a Space of Experimentation in the Computer Game |
| 11.15 am |
Marc Bonner (Köln) |
| 12.30 pm | Closing Remarks |
| 1.00 pm | Closure |
During the Saturday and Sunday of the conference the photographer Sophia Hauk and the political scientist Alexander Hauk, both from Berlin, will present their project “Protestonaut” in the context of a small exhibition. “Protestonaut” is an art project intending to draw attention to important socio-political challenges through photos and texts. The concept: Astronauts are explorers and they have to deal with many tasks. In space, they seem to float above the problems of the blue planet whereas in the “Protestonaut”-project they appear on Earth and face these issues. Anybody can be in the “Protestonaut”-costume: the shop assistant, the cashier, the local politician, the student, the manager, the workless, the teacher, the person of independent means …
http://protestonaut.de | protestonaut on vitruvianastronaut.tumblr.com
© Protestonaut/Sophia Hauk/Alexander Hauk
