Konferencer

Kina, 2024, 6-8. juni

Conference: The Spirit of Space Exploration in China and the West

Paper: Transcendence of Time and Space: Outer Space Religion as a Transcultural Phenomenon.

Venue: Duke Kunshan University, Kunshan, Jiangsu Province, China.

Conference report.

Berlin, 2023, 19.-21. juli

Conference: Thinking Outer Space: Philosophy, Astroculture and the Histories of Planetarity

Paper: The Milky Way Can Wait: Scandinavian Planetization of Earth, 1956-1982.

Venue: New York University, Berlin, Kulturbrauerei, Berlin.

Conference Report 1.

Conference Report 2 (NASA History News and Notes).

2021, 21.-25. juni

Conference: Europe’s Past, Present, and Future: Utopias and Dystopias

Paper: Outer Space and the Cosmos in Environmental Poetry, 1970-1990

Venue: CES (Council for European Studies) Virtual 27th International Conference of Europanists

London, 2019, 29.-30. marts

Conference: Memories of the Future

Paper: A Moment of Transcendence Lost in Time: Remembering Humanity’s Future in Outer Space

Venue: Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory, Advanced Study University of London

London: 2018, 14.-15. september

Conference: Sublime Cognition: Science Fiction and Metaphysics

Paper: The Star Maker and the Extraterrestrial Mysticism of John C. Lilly

Venue: Birbeck, University of London

Conference report

Canterbury, 2017, 9. december

Conference: 2017: A Clarke Odyssey

Paper: Leaving the Cradle: Transcendence and Childhood’s End

Venue: Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, UK

Berlin, 2016, 18.-19. marts

Conference: Futuring the Stars: Europe in the Age of Space

Paper: Is There a Common Mythology of the Twentieth-Century European Space Age? 

Venue: Henry Ford Building, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin.

Conference Report.

Berlin, 2012, 19.-21. april

Conference: Envisioning Limits: Outer Space and the End of Utopia

Paper: Unlimited Play in a World of Limits: The LEGO Classic Space Theme, 1978-80

Venue: Harnack Haus, Freie Universität Berlin.

Conference Report.

Exeter, 2011, 14.-17.  juli

Conference: British Society for the History of Science Annual Conference

Paper: Of CETI and Dolphins: John C. Lilly and the Intelligent Universe

Holdt som del af Methods & Resources-panelet “Where Were They?: The Science and Culture of Extraterrestrial Intelligence, 1945-175”, hvor også Alexander CT Geppert, Robert Poole og William R. Macauley holdt oplæg.

Venue: University of Exeter, England.

Hven, 2011, 27.-28. april

Conference: The History and Philosophy of Astrobiology

Paper: A Trip to Mars: Astronomy and Mysticism in the Silent Movie (and Novel) Himmelskibet

Venue: Lund University, Hven.

Notice.

Bielefeld, 2008, 6.-9. februar

Conference: Imagining Outer Space, 1900-2000

Paper: Transcendence of Gravity: Arthur C. Clarke and the Apocalyptic of Weightlessness

Venue: Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZiF), Bielefeld, Tyskland.

Conference Report.

Conference Report 2 (NASA News and Notes).

Conference Report 3.

2007, 23.-25. august

Conference: Religion and Identity Politics: “Acceptable” Religion and its Negative Others

Paper: Science and Religion in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

Venue: Syddansk Universitet, Odense.

2007, 31. maj-2. juni

Conference: Symbolization in Religion, Cognition and Culture

Paper: Earth Seen From Space: A Symbol of Salvation

Venue: Aarhus University.

2006, 28.-29. april

Conference: Religion og beskyttelse (Chaos-symposium)

Paper: UFOer, Religion og the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

Venue: Universitetet i Bergen.