Frank White has authored or coauthored numerous books on topics ranging from space exploration to climate change to artificial intelligence. His best-known work,The Overview Effect: Space Exploration and Human Evolution, is considered by many to be a seminal work in the field of space exploration. A film called "Overview," based largely on his work, has had nearly 8 million plays on Vimeo. White considers himself to be a "space philosopher," and has long advocated developing a new philosophy of space exploration. His book on this topic, The Cosma Hypothesis: Implications of the Overview Effect, has been recently published. In it, he asks the fundamental question, "What is the purpose of human space exploration? Why has the evolutionary process brought humanity to the brink of becoming a spacefaring species?" In the book, he shares the idea of "the Human Space Program" as a "central project" that will engage all of us in the process of becoming "Citizens of the Universe."
Annahita Nezami: Annahita is a senior chartered psychologist providing consultation, training, and therapy. She is a systems thinker, international speaker, and researcher advocating for positive social change. Her areas of interest include space health and the Overview Effect, individual, societal and planetary well-being, neuroscience, stress and trauma, performance, and altered states of consciousness. Annahita serves as an advisor to multiple organizations and was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce (RSA). She has been a guest lecturer at various establishments such as Kepler Space Institute, Deakin University, Central St Martin’s, and University College London (UCL), invited to talk about mental health and the Overview Effect on BBC Radio 4 and TEDx. She is an active researcher and published papers and articles with Springer and other media outlets.
Marie-Luise Heuser: Studies of philosophy, history, physics and mathematics. Doctorate at the Heinrich-Heine-University of Düsseldorf with a thesis on ""The Productivity of Nature. Schelling's Philosophy of Nature and the Paradigm of Self-Organization in the Natural Sciences"". Research and teaching at the Universities of Düsseldorf, Stuttgart, Heidelberg and Braunschweig. At TU Braunschweig, head of the transdisciplinary space group in the Institute of Philosophy and subsequently head of the Department of Culture and Space at the Institute of Space Systems. Head of the Space Philosophy Laboratory of the Space Renaissance Academy. Founder and Executive Director of the Society for Space Culture www.space-culture.eu. Numerous publications on the philosophy of space travel since antiquity, especially on Plato, Giordano Bruno, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Romanticism, the avant-garde of the 1920s, and Günther Anders.
AGENDA
Remo Rapetti: Introduction
Giuseppe Reibaldi and Bernard Foing: Welcome address
Frank White: The Universal Insight and the Overview Effect
Annahita Nezami: Going boldly where no human has gone before: The impact of space exploration and habitation on human psychology and the well-being ecosystems required to support this transition
Marie-Luise Heuser: Creatio ex zero. The Vacuum and the Blackness of the Universe in Philosophy and Art
Arthur Woods: Q& A session
Adriano Autino: Closing remarks
The webinar will last approxiamately 90 minutes.
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