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Talk: Space Hauntings. Golden Records, Hope and Regrets in a Tender Time.13 Nov 5-7pm.Bo Reimer (Malmö University) will discuss the uncanniness of the Golden Records and how the Tender Time project works on the production of haunted future memories.

RT @UCL_CPS: Exoplanets & the Ariel Mission - Searching for signatures of life on strange worlds, this Thursday 31st Oct, 5:30pm, online 🪐….

Dr Thandi Loewenson will discuss the work of the Development Touts Azimuts space programme, who have revived experiments with rocketry and satellites in the Democratic Republic of Congo & examine how they operate with an emancipatory, counter logic to those which have come before

Talk: Space Hauntings. Golden Records, Hope and Regrets in a Tender Time.13 Nov 5–7pm.Prof Bo Reimer (Malmö Uni) will discuss the uncanniness of the Golden Records and how the Tender Time project works on the production of haunted future memories.

⚠️Reminder: 21 Oct 7pm @UCL_IAS & online.Space Debris.Anthropologists Luděk Brož & Makar Terëshin have conducted ethnographic research with communities affected by space debris in Altai Republic (RU) & in Arkhangelsk Oblast (RU) & Ulytau Region (KZ).

Space Debris: Luděk Brož and Makar Terëshin in Conversation.21 October 2024, 7:00 pm–9:00 pm.Register at

🎨🎭We are looking for artists to create a site-responsive public-space performance, event, intervention or exhibition, at UCL East Marshgate for World Space Week 2025 ✨🚀.Submit Expression of Interest by 10am, 4th September.

RT @LSFRC_: 🚨 HYBRID EVENT 🚨. 🗓️ 24th June 2024.⏰ 18:30-20:30 (UK time). ⏳ Sowing and Trekking Through Time is an event co-hosted by @LSFRC….

HYBRID 'Sowing & Trekking Through Time: Science Fiction Imagines a Revolutionary 2024'.24 June 6:30pm.A roundtable discussion between creatives, theorists & activists, incl readings from Octavia Butler’s 'Parable of the Sower' & Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

Sowing & Trekking Through Time: Science Fiction Imagines a Revolutionary 2024.24 June 18:30 UCL & Zoom @Spidernautics.Roundtable with creatives, theorists & activists, incl readings from Octavia Butler’s 'Parable of the Sower' & Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

Cosmic Magic: Astronomy, Astrology & Graeco-Aegyptian Cultural Interactions.3-4 June @GrandLat .Egyptian society in Hellenistic & Roman periods was a unique mix of Egyptian, Near Eastern & Greek influences, which impacted the period's astronomy & astrology.

RT @UCL_SCCI: Join us for a special FREE film screening of 'Whetū Mārama - Bright Star' and Q&A with Director Toby Mills @UCLEast!. See thi….

ARCHIVE AD ASTRA Exhibition @YurisNightLDN .10 May 2024, 6:30–9:30 pm.You are invited to a special evening viewing of the exhibition ARCHIVE AD ASTRA, which will also mark the final chance to see the exhibition before it closes.

RT @adryonsk: My exhibition ARCHIVE AD ASTRA, a collaboration with the many incredible people I've met throughout my research, will be at @….

RT @YurisNightLDN: Yuri’s Night London launches in T-3 weeks!. 🪐May 10, 18:30-00:30.🪐Dockland Vaults, East London. Celebrate all things spa….

RT @howellspace: My student colleagues at Leicester are organizing the Preserving the Cultural Skyscape Conference (May 8) about Indigenous….

RT @UCL_IAS: LAST CHANCE. DEADLINE TODAY!.💰IAS Octagon Small Grants Fund 💰supports UCL-based early-career researchers, including research s….

RT @UCL_IAS: 💰IAS Octagon Small Grants Fund💰 supports UCL-based early-career researchers, including research students, from @ArtsHumsUCL an….

Transplanetary Ecologies Reading Group.27 March 2024, 4pm-5pm.Our text this month will be “Atomic Visions from Outer Space: The Tunguska Nuclear Hypothesis in Soviet Technological Imagination” by Andy Bruno.