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Mitteilungen 3/zoo8 Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung der Universität Bielefeld Heinz-Gerhard Haupt, Wilhelm He Barbara Kaletta und Andrea Ki Control of violence- A view on the concept of control Editorial When the cooperation group Public Health Genetics startedits work in October 2003, it was a pilot project of a new workingformatat the ZiF. organizingprojects of that kind was a response to the general desire to be able to invite interdisciplinarily-oriented scientists from outside and abroad not only on the basis of a one-year residence at the ZiF, but alsofor brief or moderate periods of time in order to support research cooperations already existing or still in the planning stage. Thetrial period of the first project-which was finished successfully aftersix months-was followed by furthercooperation groups: CommunicativeDescription and Clinical Representation of Anxiefy as well as Socio-Economic Modelling.In Octoberof this year,eventwo new cooperation groups are scheduled to start, which is evidence of the fact that it has now become an established workingformat. The cooperation group Transnationalisation and Development(s): Concepts and Venues for Research investigates bi- and multidirectional transfers of resources concerning financial and material matters or human capital in the light of so far not much flows suchas those from South to North or from East to West (e.9., the ). Thecooperation '.!n Professional Acting analyses what kind of interactive, linguist medical doctors and lawyers useto constitute a'case' the spotwhere expert knowledge (theory/method and mustbe linked. parallel to group Inte- grouP lective ident- I bounds. linguistic, used strategically , the two Americas K.M.

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Mitteilungen 3/zoo8

Zentrumfür interdisziplinäre Forschungder Universität Bielefeld

Heinz-Gerhard Haupt, Wilhelm H eBarbara Kaletta und Andrea KiControl of v io lence-A view on the concept of control

Editorial When the cooperation group Public Health Genetics started itswork in October 2003, it was a pilot project of a new working format at the ZiF.organizing projects of that kind was a response to the general desire to be ableto invite interdisciplinarily-oriented scientists from outside and abroad not onlyon the basis of a one-year residence at the ZiF, but also for brief or moderateperiods of time in order to support research cooperations already existing or stil lin the planning stage. The trial period of the first project-which was finishedsuccessfully after six months-was followed by further cooperation groups:Communicative Description and Clinical Representation of Anxiefy as well asSocio-Economic Modelling.In October of this year, even two new cooperationgroups are scheduled to start, which is evidence of the fact that it has nowbecome an established working format.The cooperation group Transnationalisation and Development(s): Concepts andVenues for Research investigates bi- and multidirectional transfers of resourcesconcerning financial and material matters or human capital in the light of so farnot much flows such as those from South to North or from Eastto West (e.9., the ).The cooperation '.!n Professional Acting analyses what kind ofinteractive, linguist medical doctors and lawyers use toconstitute a'case' the spot where expert knowledge

(theory/method andmust be l inked.

parallel togroup

Inte-grouP

lective ident-I bounds.l inguist ic,

used strategically, the two Americas

K . M .

Phi l ippe A i l le r i s (Noordwi jk )Jürgen P. Ar imond (Mülhe im

an der Ruhr)Debbora Battagl ia (South Hadley,

MA)Peter Becker (Linz)Thore Bjornvig (Kopenhagen)Thomas Brandstetter (Wien)Ra l f Bü low (Ber l in )Melody Burke (Berl in)Paul E. Ceruzzi (Washington, DC)Burghard Ciesla (Berl in)Ph i l ippe Cosyn (Brüsse l )Andreas Daum (Buffalo, NY)Peter Davidson (Edinburgh)Dorothee Dehnicke (Berl in)Steven J. Dick (Washington, DC)Kerrie Anne Dougherty (Haymarket)Oliver Dunnett (Nott ingham)Rainer Eisfeld (Osnabrück)James Farry (Manchester)Sebastian Grevsmühl (Paris)Heiko Hoos (Karlsruhe)Frank Hoppe (Ber l in )Henry Keazor (Frankfurt am Main)De Witt Douglas Ki lgore

(B loomington , lN)Karol in Konermann (Heidelberg)Steffen Krämer (München)Pierre Lagran ge (Paris)Benjamin Lazier (Stanford, CA)Marie Lottmann (Berl in)Wil l iam R. Macauley (Manchester)Sven Mesinovic (San Domenico

di Fiesole)Lisa Messeri (Cambridge, MA)James l . M i l le r (Dav idson, NC)Bernd Mütter (Mainz)Gonzalo Munevar (Southfield, Ml)Michael Neufeld (Washington. DC)Phil ip Pocop (Karlsruhe)

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Imagin ing Outer Space6. - 9 . Februar 2008Lei tung: Alexander C.T. Ceppert(Cambr idge, MA)

Weftraumimaginationen Wo ist er eigentlich, der Weltraum? Wie haben sich unsereVorstellungen von Kosmos und außerirdischem Leben zusammen mit seiner voranschrei-te n d en Ersch I i e ß u n g ve rän d e rt? W e I ch e W ech se I w i rku n ge n zw i sch e n We ltrau m i m agi n a-tionen und europäischer Kultur und Cesellschaft gibt es? Bei der Konferenz lmaginingOuter Space, 1900-2000 handelte es sich um die erste internationale Tagung, zur Kultur-geschichte des Weltraums im Europa des 20. Jahrhunderts. Vier Tage lang kamen mit groß-zügiger Unterstützung der Fritz Thyssen Stiftung fast 70 Wissenschaftler aus mehr alseinem Dutzend Länder am ZiF zusammen, um unter dem Oberbegriff des >Astrofuturismus<

de m Ko n n ex zw i sch e n We I trau m i m agi n ati o n e n u n d Zu ku nftsv o rste I I u n gen n achzu sp ü re nund die untergründige, aber durchgängige spirituell-transzendentale Aufladung dieser fürdie Modernität des 20. Jahrhunderts so zentralen diskursiven Formation aufzuarbeiten.Dabei gelang es, in einer hochkonzentrierten, geradezu aufgeregten Stimmung, ein inEuropa bislang kaum existierendes historiographisches Feld zu erschließen und in einenintensiven Dialog über Chancen und Probleme einer Historisierung des Weltraums einzu-treten. Bis das europäische Paradoxon von umfassender Weltraumbegeisterung bei iahr-zehntelanger Raumfahrtabstinenz hinreichend erklärt und die europäische Kulturgeschichtedes Weltraums adäquat in den Mainstream der Allgemeinen Ceschichte integriert wordenist, bedarf es indes noch gewaltiger Anstrengungen, die überhaupt nur in einem kombinierttransdisziplinären und transnationalen Zugriff zu leisten sind.

How has the idea of spacef l ight developed into a centra l e lement of European moder-n i ty? 'Where ' and 'what ' was outer space at which point in t ime? How was i t repre-sented and communicated, imagined and perceived? And in what way have Europeanconceptions of the cosmos and extraterrestrial l i fe been affected by the continuousexplorat ion of outer space? These were the p ivota l quest ions d iscussed at ' lmagin ingOuter Space, 1900-2000' , the f i rs t in ternat ional conference on the cul tura l h is tory ofouter space in twent ieth-century Europe, held at the ZiF. For four days, a lmost 70scholars f rom more than a dozen countr ies convened to h is tor ic ize outer space and toanalyze its significance in the European cultural imagination of the twentieth century.The symposium was generously sponsored by the ZiF and Fr i tz Thyssen St i f tung.

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T Monica Rüthers (Fribourg)Diethard Sawicki (Paderborn)U l r i ke Schmi tzer (Wien)C laud ia Schmölders (Ber l in )Kai-Uwe Schrogl (Wien)Matthias Schwartz (Berl in)Angela Schwarz (Siegen)James Schwoch (Evanston, lL)A. Ingemar Skoog ( lmmenstaad)Maria Stuiber (Augsburg)Werner Suppanz (Graz)Gu i l laume de Syon (Read ing , PA)Johanna Töns ing (B ie le fe ld )He lmuth Tr isch le r (München)Dav id Va len t ine (Minneapo l is , MN)Jochen Viehoff (Paderborn)Michae l Vo lkmer (B ie le fe ld )Tristan Weddigen (Bern)Peter Weingart (Bielefeld)Bernd Weisbrod (Gött ingen)Chr is t ina Wesse ly (Ber l in )Jasmine Wohlwend (Bern)

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Representat ives of more than 15 d i f ferent d isc ip l ines were present . Speakers inc ludednumerous d is t inguished scholars, in par t icu lar Steven J. Dick (NASA), DebboraBat tagl ia (Mount Holyoke Col lege) , Rainer Eis fe ld (Univers i tä t Osnabrück) , p ierreLagrange (Centre nat ional de la recherche sc ient i f ique) , Michael J . Neufe ld (Nat ionalAi r and Space Museum), Claudia Schmölders (Humboldt-Univers i tä t zu Ber l in) . Kai -Uwe Schrogl (European Space Pol icy Inst i tu te) , James Schwoch (Northwestern Univer-s i ty) and Helmuth Tr ischler (Deutsches Museum). Also among the par t ic ipants weremany younger scholars, graduate students, nat ional and internat ional media represen-tat ives, and members and delegates of several in ternat ional organizat ions inc ludingthe European Space Pol icy Inst i tu te (ESPI) , the European Space Agency (ESA) and theInternat ional Academy of Astronaut ics ( lAA). wi thout any doubt , the most remark-able features of th is conference were i ts cooperat ive spi r i t and creat ive dynamic. Par-t ic ipants d iscussed the most controvers ia l issues across a l l d isc ip l inary, nat ional andgenerat ional boundar ies wi th great enthusiasm.The geographical focus was on Europe, in par t icu lar Western Europe, yet wi thoutneglect ing t ransat lant ic references and t ransnat ional in terdependencies. Despi te thei rd i f ferent d isc ip l inary provenances, a l l presentat ions approached thei r respect ive sub-ject mat ter f rom the perspect ive of cu l tura l h is tory or cu l tura l s tudies, broadly def ined.Nei ther d id th is conference concentrate on the inst i tu t ional or technological h is toryof the European space effort, nor was it centered on classical astropolit ics or present-day policy analyses. By focusing on prominent activists and specific sites, contact pointsbetween sc ience and f ic t ion, and s ingle h is tor ica l episodes and var ious case studies,contr ibut ions to the conference rather examined the cul tura l and societa l impact ofspace explorat ion and space t ravel on European cul ture and society at large. As a con-ceptual counterpar t to the more fami l iar term 'ast ropol i t ics ' , i t was suggested analyz-ing the cul tura l s igni f icance and imaginat ive repercussions of outer space, space t raveland space explorat ion under the new label 'ast rocul ture. '

The symposium pursued a threefo ld object ive. F i rs t , by br inging together membersof d i f ferent d isc ip l ines and inv i t ing them to enter a d ia logue on the opportuni t ies andproblems of h is tor ic iz ing outer space, i t sought to contr ibute to the development ofa f ie ld of research h i ther to unexplored. Moreover, the symposium was based on theassumpt ion that changing images of outer space and concept ions of ext raterrestr ia lcu l tures must a lso in a European context be read as expressions of h is tor ica l ly speci f icideas of the beyond and expectat ions for the future. In addi t ion to a general s t ructur-ing and t ransdisc ip l inary stock- tak ing of a nascent f ie ld of research, the conferenceaimed, second, at ident i fy ing a d is t inct ly European vers ion of a d iscurs ive format ionsomet imes labeled 'Astrofutur ism' . ls space explorat ion-s ince Apol lo 8 del ivered thef i rs t images of the ent i re g lobe-so cruc ia l to and inextr icably in ter twined wi th the pro-cess of g lobal izat ion that the in t roduct ion of an addi t ional , speci f ica l ly European levelof analys is would only prove of l imi ted heur is t ic va lue? Thi rd, the conference a imed toexplore the re lat ion between sc ience and f ic t ion in th is par t icu lar f ie ld of research.According to the standard argument , in october i957 the 'v is ionary ' or 'p ioneer ing '

era of spacef l ight was superseded by ' real 'spacef l ight , and 'sc ience f ic t ion 'was sub-sequent ly subst i tu ted by 'sc ience fact ' . However, assuming such a te leological l inei s na i ve . A rec t i l i nea rdeve lopmen t f rom ' f i c t i on ' t o ' sc ience 'does no t ex i s t . ' s c i encef ic t ion 'and'sc ience fact 'over lap and cont inue to af fect each other ; yet , one has never

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)Steven J . D i ck , Che fh i s t o r i ke r de rUS- Raumfah r t behö rde NASA, e rö f f -nete mit seinem öf fent l ichen VortragSpace, Time and Al iens. The Role oflmagination in Outer Space die Kon-ferenz. Alexander C. T. Ceppert ,M i t g l i ed im Z iF : Nachwuchsne t zwe rk ,begrüßte als Tagungslei ter d ie Tei l -nehmer i nnen und Te i l nehmer rmnahezu vol l besetzten Plenarsaal .

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,,Ein Flug insAllwäre klasse"INTERVIEW: Alexander Geppert über Verschwörungstheorien, AuJ3erirdische und die Liebe zum Weltraumf Bielefeld, Ein Blick in denSternenhimmel macht unsklar: Der Weltraum ist groß.Unendlich groß. Der Ex-Biele-felder Alexander Geppert un-tersucht an der Elite-Uni Har-vard (USA), warum uns das Allso fasziniert. Äz dreas Blockhatrnitihm gesprochen.

Herr Geppert, gJauben Sie an Au-lSerirdßche?ALEXANDER GEPPERT: WiTHistoriker sind ja ziemlich kon-servativ. Deshalb müsste ich ei-gentlich sagen: nein. Aufder an-deren Seite fasziniert mich dreVorstellung, dass es außerird,-sches Leben gibt. Das würde dreWelt auf den Koof stellen. Fürmeine Arbeit muss ich eiseneWünsche aber ausblenden.

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Ihre Arbeit bexhaftigt sich mitUFOs, Aliens und Wundern. Et-gentlich hab en Si e in Bi elefeld G e -schichte studiert. Wie passt das zu-sammen?GEPPERT: Vielleicht kommtmeine Begeisterung daher, dassmeine Eltern am Tag der erstenMondlandung geheiratet ha-ben. Aber im Ernst: Es ist garnicht so ungewöhnlich, dass sichHistoriker mit der Raumfahrt be-schäftigen. Schon 1958 hat dieNASA ein eigenes Büro zu demThema gegründet. Die Chefswussten wohl schon. dass siemal Geschichte schreiben.

Geschichte schrieben die Astro-nauten der USA dann mit der an-gesprochenen Mondlandung1969. War diese Mission daswich-tigste Ereignß der Raumfahrt?GEPPERT: Nein. Viel wichtigererscheint mir im Nachhinein dieMission der Apollo 8. Die Besat-zung umkreis?e den Mond undfotografierte von dort aus dieErde, die am Mondhorizont auf-ging. Zum ersten Mal war allenMenschen klar: Wir sind an die-sen einen Planeten gebunden,der im All schwebt. Die,Ikonedes schützenswertäfi 'orüSldt€n

Planeten" entstand.

Auf Ap ollo 8 folgte b ald Ap ollo 1 1mit NeilArmstrong. Bisheute brzweifelnviele, dass er wirklich denMond betreten hat. Sie halten al-les filr ein S chauspiel der U SA.GEPPERT: Diese Verschwö-rungstheorien entstehen immerdann, wenn die Menschheit amFernseher zuschauen kann. Ge-nau wie beim 11. September200 t - und eben bei der Mqnd-landung. Die NASA selb.St istnur noch genervt von demThema. Oft sind die Theorien so

Außerirdisch: DerWeltraumistspannend-beiderMondlandungoderimFilm,,E.7.". lroNrecr,seppvanv

Wasmanauchanderungebroche- GEPPERT: Das hat mich einenen Popularitöt von Filmen wie Kollegin letztens auch gefragt.

Natürlich wäre ein Shuttle-FlugStarWars sieht.GEPPERT: Das stimmt. Sci- toll. Wer würde nicht gerne dieence-Fiction hat schon immer ei- Erde aus dem Weltall sehen? Ichnen großen Einfluss "uf aie häbeää.koliegin geantworteurRaumfahrt gehabt. Lange bevor Klar möchte ich ins All. Aber da-es die ISS gab, habe4 Aqtqrf,"nJ ,fiir hane ich wohl nicht Ge-über Raumstationen seschrie- schichte*ftätHürtif&rfen.

Der torscher und seine KonferenzI Alexander Geppert (37) USA. Vom 6. bis 9. Februarkommt aus Mülheim an der kommt er zurück an die UniRuhr. Seine Forscherkarriere Bielefeld.Geppertleiteteinein-begann in Bielefeld, wo er ab .ternationale Konferenz des199i Geschichte, Philosophie Zentrums fürinterdisziplinäreund Psychologie studierte. Forschung (ZiF). Experten,,Eine unglaublich tolle Zeit", sprechen über Geschichte undschwärmt er noch heute vom Zukunft des Weltraums. MitStudium in OWL. Anschlie- dabei: Steven l. Dick, Chefhis-ßend arbeitete er vor ailem in toriker der US-Raumfahrtbe-Berlin,zurzeitforschterinden hördeNASA. (ab)

lrdisch:, Alexander Gep-p ert hat in OWL.: siudiot.

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verrückt, dass man sie gar nichtwiderlegenkann.

Sie können uns also versichern,das s di e Mo n dlandu n I sta ttgfu n-denhat?GEPPERT (lacht): Ia. Daranhabe ich nach welnveiter Recher-che in Archiven überhauptkeine Zweifel. So viele Quellenkann niemand fälschen.

Als Wissenschaftler hslten Siewohl ohnehin wenig von UFOsu nd angeb Iich e n W un dern, oder?GEPPERT: Natürlich müssensich seriöse Wissenschaftler vonUFO-Meldungen distanzieren.

Sonst werden sie unseriös. Aberspannend ist das Thema trotz-oem, es glDr Ja sogar erne u ru-Meldestelle. Dort standen dieTe-lefone vor allem in den 70er Jah-ren nicht still, angefeuert durchMedien wie die Bild.

Sie erforschen nicht nur die Ge-schichte der Raumfahrt, sondernauch unsere ZukunftsfantasierWic haben sich die Menschen vor50 Jahren das Jahr 2008 vorgestellt?GEPPERT: Vor 50 Jahrenwarenfast alle sicher: Spätestens imlahr 2000 können wir ayfdemMond oder Mars leben. DiiEterOptimismus in die Zukunft istleider verlorengegangen. Un-sere Fantasie ist etwas ausge-trocknet, Iangweilig geworden.Wetlcinn sich heute schon nochvorstellen, in 50 Iahren auf ei-nem anderen Planetdir zu leben?Niemand. Auch UFOs werdenkaum noch gesichtet.

Eines Ihrer Seminare als Dozentan der Universitöt heil3t,,W e h ( t) riiu me". T riium e n K i n-der heute noch davon, Astronau-tenzuwerden?GEPPERT: Ich glaube zu beob-achten, dass der Weltraum zur-

zeit nicht Ziel Nummer eins ist.Unternehmen wie,,Playmobil"verkaufen offensichtlich immerweniger Spielzeug zur Raum-fah rt. Das ist aber kein Pauschal -ur te i l . Für v ie le Kinder und Iu-gendliche ist das All immer nochfaszinierend.

ben. Auch die NASA-Raum-fähre Enterprise wurde nachdem gleichnamigen Schiff aus,,Star Trek" benannt.

Sie denken täglich über den Welt-raum nach und haben Kontaktezur NASA - würden Sie nichtauch selbst gerneins Allreisen?

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been fu l ly absorbed by the other . Thus, contr ibut ions to the conference were anxiousto balance carefu l ly both perspect ives when analyz ing the contexts of product ion andthe sociocul tura l ef fects of these 'sc ient i f ic f ic t ions ' in var ious conf igurat ions.Additional characteristics of a field of historical research sti l l in statu nascendi becameapparent dur ing these four days. 'Astrofutur ism' proved indeed a sui table umbrel laconcept to themat ize in teract ions between representat ions of outer space and chang-ing concept ions of the future, and to analyze thei r s t rong, yet a l l too of ten h idden,connect ion to re l ig ion, t ranscendenta l bel ie fs , and the spi r i tua l beyond. Civen theoveral l s tate of research at present , i t proved a much more chal lenging task to ident i fyand character ize the speci f ica l ly European e lement wi th in twent ieth-century astrocul -ture, and to draw a c lear d iv id ing l ine to Amer ican or Russian concept ions of the cos-mos. Assuming, however, that these were exclus ively d iscussed among the socia l e l i tesis s imply incorrect and not conf i rmed by the source mater ia l . Qui te to contrary, thepresence of ext raterrestr ia ls in the cul tura l l i fe of our t imes has long been undisputedand is anyth ing but an epiphenomenon of postmoderni ty . A l iens as cul tura l ar t i factshave a lways been subject to sociocul tura l f luctuat ions that can at least be t raced backto Ciovanni Schiaparel l i 's d iscovery of 'canals 'on Mars in the fa l l o f 1877.Fur thermore, i t became c lear that f ie lds of h is tor ica l research usual ly t reated separate-ly , such as the h is tory of ext raterrestr ia l l i fe and sc ience f ic t ion on the one hand, thehistory of spacef l ight , rocketry and sate l l i te technology on the other , must necessar i lybe taken together i f the a im is to produce a h is tory of non-sc ient i f ic forms of knowl-edge. Visual aspects p layed a centra l ro le in the imaginat ion of outer space, in terms ofboth supply and demand. Hardly a s ingle presentat ion could do wi thout a carefu lanalys is of the enormously r ich v isual mater ia l , be i t drawings, photographs and f i lmsor postcards, comic books and v ideo c l ips. Also f rom a h is tor iographical perspect ive,the conference of fered abundant points of contact to other sub-branches of h is tor ica lresea rch go ing fa r beyond theh i s to ryo f sc ienceand techno logy .These inc ludedno tonly the h is tory of phi losophy, the h is tory of l i terature and mi l i tary h is tory, but a lsothe h is tory of consumpt ion, of media and communicat ion, and of co lonia l ism.For a long t ime af ter 1945, Europe's act ive contr ibut ion to the physical explorat ion ofouter space was at best secondary. Nonetheless, as the fasc inat ing contr ibut ions toth is conference test i f ied in a var iety of ways, the sociocul tura l impact of outer spacehas been t remendous, and i t remains so. Qui te obviously , i t wi l l requi re enormousef for ts unt i l th is 'European paradox ' of comprehensive space enthusiasm concomitantwi th a decades- long abst inence f rom actual spacef l ight is adequate ly expla ined andthe cul tura l h is tory of European outer space proper ly in tegrated in to mainstream histo-r iography. l t is a lso obvious that such a chal lenge can only be met by choosing a com-bined t ransdisc ip l inary and t ransnat ional approach. However, in what way an in tegra-t ion could be accompl ished, and to what extent th is would at a l l be desi rable, are twoof the few ouest ions that remained undiscussed in Bie lefe ld.

Tagungsbeiträge Contributions

lntroductionAlexander C.T .Gepper t European As t ro fu tu r ism, Cosmic Prov inc ia l i sm. H is to r ica l Prob lems and H is to r iograph ica l

Pe rs pecti vesKeynote Lecture (open to the public)

Space , T ime and A l i ens . The Ro le o f lmag ina t i on i n Ou te r Space

tDas Fo to ze ig t e i nen Te i l von Ph i l i pPococks Instal lat ion SpacePlace,d i e auch h i e r : www.o rb i t . z km.dee inzusehen i s t .

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Feature Presentation IPh i l i p Pocock SpacePlace. Art in the Age of Orbi t izat ion

Panel l : Theorizing Outer SpaceDebbora Battagl ia Galaxies of E.T. Discourse. An Anthropologist 's First Contact with the Science of Weird

LifeThomas Brandstetter lmagining Inorganic Life. Crystal l ine Al iens in Science and Fict ionBenjamin Lazier The Clobalization of the World-Picture. Towards a History of Earth and Art i fact in Twen-

t ieth-Century ThoughtPanel l l : Personalizing Outer Space

Christ ina Wessely Cosmic Spectacular. Rocketry, Weltanschauung and the Quest for Cosmic lce in Weimar

Thore BjornvigCermanyTranscendence of Cravity. Arthur C. Clarke and the Apocalyptic of Weightlessness

Panel l l l : Local iz ing Outer SpaceKerr ie Anne Dougherty Spaceport WoomeraSven Mesinovic Inner Space and Outer Space. Simi lar i t ies, Di f ferences and Connect ions

Panel lV: Screening Outer SpaceBurghard CieslaHenry KeazorWerner Suppanz

Pierre LagrangeJames l . M i l le r

Outer Space, Inner Fear. Cold War SF-Fi lms in East and WestA Stumble in the Dark. Cerry Anderson's Space 1999Nazis in Space. Distant Worlds as Projection Screen of Cultural Memory

Feature Presentat ion l lScreening of Histor ical F i lms

Panel V: Fict ional iz ing Outer SpaceClaudia Schmölders Unwri t ing Heaven. Tunguska Region, June 30, '19O8

Stef fen KrämerRainer Eisfe ld

lmaginary MarsPanel Vl : Vis ioning Outer Space

Ancient Heroes and Ear ly Chr ist ian Ascet ics. Archetypes of Modern Science Fict ionProiect ing Landscapes of the Human Mind on Another World. Changing Features of an

A 'Symmetrical ' Explanation for Flying SaucersEncountering Al iens in the French Countryside. UFOs and the Fabrication of a NewWorld in Quarouble, Ftance, 1954

Panel Vl l : Pol i t ic iz ing Outer SpaceMonica Rüthers Outer Space, Children's Material Culture and Soviet lmagery after SputnikMichael J. Neufeld Smash the Myth of the Fascist Rocket Baron. East Cerman Attacks on Wernher von

Braun in the 1960sPanel Vl l l : Communicating Outer Space

Cuil laume de Syon Between the Bubble and the Moon. Visions of Space Travel in Francophone Comic Str ipsBernd Mütter Per Media Ad Astra? Outer Soace in West Cermanv's Media 1957-1987

Panel lX: Automatizing Outer SpaceJames Schwoch Short, Nasty, and Brutish. The Curious Life of Telstar, 1O July 1962-21 February 1963Conzalo Munevar Self-Reproducing Automata and the lmpossibi l i ty of SETI

Panel X: Designing Outer SpaceWi l l iam R. Macau ley Inscr ib ing Sc ien t i f i c Knowledge. In te rs te l la r Communica t ion , Un iversa l Laws and Con-

tact with Cultures of the lmaginationTristan Weddigen Alien Spotting. Damien Hirst's Eeagle 2 Mars Lander Calibration Target and the

Exploitat ion of Outer SpaceConc lus ion

HelmuthTr isch le r Cenera lCommentarv

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