/ PROGRAM
Wednesday, 19 July 2023
14:00–14:45
Welcome and Introduction
Alexander Geppert (New York/Shanghai) and Rory Rowan (Dublin): Outer Space and the Thinking of a Planet
15:00–16:00
Panel I: A Planetary Turn?
Chair: Bronislaw Szerszynski (Lancaster)
Alexander Geppert (New York/Shanghai) and Brad Tabas (Brest): Planetization: Five Theses
Coffee
16:30–18:00
Panel II: Proto-Planetarians
Chair: Laurence Guignard (Paris)
18:00–21:00
Conference buffet
Thursday, 20 July 2023
9:30–10:30
Panel III: Cosmic Philosophies
Chair: Helmuth Trischler (München)
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
Coffee
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
Lunch
15:30–16:30
Panel VI: Narrating Astroculture
Chair: Michèle Matetschk (Berlin)
17:00–18:00
Panel VII: Exploring Inner Space
Ben Van Overmeire (Kunshan): Inner and Outer Space in the Thought of the Buddhist Modernist Alan Watts
Beer garden
Friday, 21 July 2023
10:00–11:00
Panel VIII: Planetarity after the End of History
Chair: Bernd Weisbrod (Göttingen)
James Lowder (Glasgow): Beyond Solar Catastrophe: The Post-Earth Futures of Jean-François Lyotard and Carl Sagan
Coffee
11:30–12:30
Panel IX: Ethnographies of the Planetary Present
Chair: Piero Messina (Paris)
Anna Szolucha (Krakow): Rescuing the Planetary for Ethnographic Research: Philosophical Meanings and Research Application
Lunch
14:00–15:00
Concluding Discussion
Chair: Rory Rowan (Dublin)
Alexander Geppert (New York/Shanghai)
Brad Tabas (Brest)
N.N.
16:00
Farewell drinks