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Organized by ESPI

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Speaker: Peter Habison, Director Planetarium/Observatories Vienna – Bio

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Astronomy and space related issues are appealing to a great number of people. That is why there are rich opportunities for the scientific community to reach out to the public. Education and science communication are the principle areas for stimulating the interest and imagination of people of all ages and backgrounds.

In his presentation at the ESPI conference “European identity through space”, Peter Habison explains the communication process and talks about some best practice examples of science communication. He shows children from primary school, looking at the stars in observatories and the Astronomy night at the White house. In his conclusion Dr. Habison emphasizes the need for professional communication and the use of new ways of communication like the social media networks to communicate with the interested public.
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13. 11. 09 – European Space Policy Institute, Vienna
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Speaker: Mathias Spude, EADS Astrium – Bio

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What constitutes a European identity? Mathias Spude, Director Communications of EADS Astrium, looks at diffent paths to grasp the concept of identity.

At first, he points to the European institutions which have been creating an identity for many years now. After that, Spude gives a fresh insight into the work of EADS Astrium, a leading space manufacturer in the fields of aerospace, defence and related services, in order to analyse the influence of the Corporate identity to the European spirit. Finally, he looks into different fields like politics, language, national states and participation to find out what it means to be European.

13. 11. 09 – European Space Policy Institute, Vienna

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Organized by ESPI
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Speaker: Sally Jane Norman, Newcastle University – Bio

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The Arts provide us with a new perspective on space and identity. Sally Jane Norman shows some fresh and inspiring pieces of art, which relate to European space activities. There is extraterrestrial art like figures moved by Russian cosmonauts in space and there are earthbased installations like the sonification of solar natural radio. In addition to that, Norman presents some European art institutions, dealing specifically with space in the arts for decades.
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See more Space Art @ the ESA’ financed Space Art Database:

http://www.spacearts.info/

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Literature: Zero Gravity Art by Daniel Canogar / Sally Jane Norman:

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Daniel Canogar (born Madrid 1964) lives and works in Madrid. He studied visual communications and received his Master’s in photography from New York University and the International Centre for Photography in 1990. Daniel Canogar’s work has long dwelt on issues of immersion and realism, of corporeal images and sensations, of light instrumentalized to reveal figments and traces of visual matter. His consistent use of photography undermines and transcends simple questions of photographic realism, through play with variable scales, obsessive pseudo-repetition and disconcerting projection procedures and surfaces.

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Speaker: Thomas Ballhausen, Filmarchiv Austria/University of Vienna – Bio

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Europe has a long history of literature, poetics and film, which generally aim at the public. Thomas Ballhausen presents some of this work, especially linked to the fantastic, in his lecture and encourages the space community to use the humanities as a partner and as a possibility to increase interest and awareness towards European space related activities.

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13. 11. 09 – European Space Policy Institute, Vienna

Thomas Ballhausen, Filmarchiv Austria/University of Vienna – Bio