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Mon14Dec2020Thu17Dec20208:00 amOnline via Zoom
The Society for Social and Conceptual Issues in Astrobiology
The Society for Social and Conceptual Issues in Astrobiology (SSoCIA 2020)
This conference was originally schedule for this past Spring (See SSoCIA2020) but has now been rescheduled as a virtual conference, which will run from Mon 12/14 to Thu 12/17 from 8 am until noon or so, CST.
Neil Manson, Professor of Philosophy here at UM, is the main organizer of this year's conference.
Program Draft 5.0
SSoCIA 2020: To the Internet and Beyond!
Note: all times listed are EST (London minus 5 hours)
MONDAY 12/14
- 9:00-9:20 Welcome (please be sure to attend)
- SETI and METI I
- 9:20-9:40 Julia DeMarines The Morality of Interstellar Messaging
- 9:40-10:00 Carlos Santana We come in peace(?): On the ethics of interstellar diplomacy
- 10:00-10:20 Chelsea Haramia Seeking Shared Values while searching for ETI Imaginary
- Planetary Protection I
- 10:35-10:55 William Kramer Environmental Assessment and Outer Space Actions
- 10:55-11:15 Alan Johnson Half-Earth, the 1/8 Principle, & Ethics of Collective Restraint
- 11:15-11:35 Nick Nielsen Conservation Ethics for Spacefaring Civilization
- 11:35-11:55 Robert Lodder Predicting the Effects of the Outer Space Treaty on Lunar Mining
- 12:10-1:10 Poster Session
- Klara Capova, et. Al
- Ryan Fortenberry
- Erik Hom and Alex Penn
- Caleb Hylkema
TUESDAY 12/15
- SETI and METI II
- 9:00-9:20 William Alba From Monologue to Dialogue
- 9:20-9:40 Douglas Estes The Assertive/Interrogative Divide in METI
- 9:40-10:00 John Traphagan SETI, Cultural Evolution, and the Star Trek
- Astrobiology and Education
- 10:15-10:35 David DeGraff Using Aliens to Teach Evolution
- 10:35-10:55 Erik Persson Lessons learned from Socratic Dialogue in astrobiology education
- 10:55-11:15 Astrid Modera A relational definition of life for Astrobiology
- Planetary Protection II
- 11:30-11:50 Linda Billings Planetary protection: an idea whose time is gone?
- 11:50-12:10 Douglas Capper Protecting Our Moon with Multipurpose Nature Reserves
- 12:10-12:30 Pauli Laine Human Mars exploration vs planetary protection
- 12:30-12:50 Doan vu Doc The precautionary Principle and Space Exploration
WEDNESDAY 12/16
- Offworld Settlements
- 9:00-9:20 Abhik Gupta Life in space colonies: can ecocentrism help?
- 9:20-9:40 Joseph Gottlieb Psychological Impediments to Collective Space Colonization
- 9:40-10:00 Sherri Wells-Jensen Why Humans with Disabilities Will Colonize Space
- 10:00-10:20 James Schwartz Against Human Enhancement as a Default for Space Societies
- Biology I
- 10:35-10:55 Lucas Mix Can Astrobiology Transcend Biology?
- 10:55-11:15 Andrew Kennedy The Coincidence Number of a Universe & Implications for Life
- 11:15-11:35 Tomislav Janovic Directionality, Contingency, and Extraterrestrial Life
- 11:45-1:20 Public showing of He Painted The Future
a film about legendary space artist Chesley Bonestell
THURSDAY 12/17
- Space Art
- 9:00-9:10 Kelly Smith Why a session on art?
- 9:10-9:30 Sabina Heinz Art meets science
- 9:30-9:50 Daniella DePaulis ‘COGITO in Space’
- Biology II
- 10:05-10:25 Nathalie Gontier Mode & tempo of evolution of life on earth and possibly elsewhere
- 10:25-10:45 Carlos Mariscal Universality in/of Evolution
- 10:45-11:05 John Malloy Beyond Metabolism and Genetics
- Moral and Social Theory
- 11:20-11:40 Ted Peters An Astroethics of Responsibility and Care
- 11:40-12:00 Jason Howard Finitude as the Lingua Cosmica of the Universe
- 12:00-12:20 Flora Dutra Agriculture, permaculture and terraforming
- Miscellaneous
- 12:35-12:55 Robert Kennedy Projected Interstellar Mission Capacity
- 12:55-1:15 Brig Klyce Some Things are Simply Given