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May 31, 2023, 9am pdt/12:00 pm edt/18:00 CEST

Signs in Space

Host: Daniela de Paulis

Join “A Sign in Space” Artistic Director in a lively and thought provoking brainstorming session about the possible meaning of the simulated extra-terrestrial message created for the project. The workshop will start by reading some excerpts from Italo Calvino’s book “Cosmicomics” and will continue with a conversation with the workshop’s participants on possible forms of communication attempted by an extraterrestrial civilization with human and non-human life forms. Be prepared to draw and write if you wish.

REGISTER HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-sign-in-space-signs-in-space-workshop-tickets-637861780757

June 5, 2023, 9am pdt/12:00 pm edt/18:00 CEST

Electronic Literature

Hosts: Scott Rettberg and Joseph Tabbi

This workshop will be hosted by Professors Scott Rettberg and Joseph Tabbi of the Center for Digital Narrative will explore the potentialities of electronic literature (e-lit) for the reception and interpretation of extraterrestrial communication. The workshop will include inputs from four leading digital authors: Natalia Fedorova, Jason Nelson, Allison Parrish, and Rob Wittig. The workshop will conclude with the launch of a new “netprov” — a collectively written fiction that all workshop attendees can contribute to both during the workshop and after. We welcome up to 40 participants in the workshop.

REGISTER HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-sign-in-space-electronic-literature-tickets-637872763607

June 6, 2023, 9am pdt/12:00 pm edt/18:00 CEST

How to prepare for the possible discovery of Extraterrestrial Life

Host: The Rev. Pamela "Pan" Conrad

Join Episcopal priest and Mars Rover mission scientist Pamela "Pan" Conrad to discuss the potential implications of the discovery of extraterrestrial life at the intersection of spiritual and scientific approaches.

REGISTER HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-prepare-for-the-possible-discovery-of-extraterrestrial-life-tickets-642575900817

June 7, 2023, 9am pdt/12:00 pm edt/18:00 CEST

Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Islamic Thought

Hosts: Jörg Matthias Determann (Virginia Commonwealth University with Shoaib Ahmed Malik (Zayed University), Hamza Karamali (Basira Education) and Richard Playford (Leeds Trinity University)

Duration of the webinar: 60 minutes

One of the most influential heavenly messages in the history of humanity has been the Quran. The revelation received by Prophet Muhammad contains many references to intelligent beings from outside our world, including jinn, angels and God himself. This webinar discusses how extraterrestrial intelligence has been understood from an Islamic perspective.

REGISTER HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-sign-in-space-extraterrestrial-intelligence-and-islamic-thought-tickets-637881138657

June 12, 2023, 9am pdt/12:00 pm edt/18:00 CEST

The Ethics of X

Host: Chelsea Haramia

This is an opportunity to discuss our ideas about the future of contact with a philosophy professor and trained ethicist. We will think critically together about uncertain futures, unknown others, our sense of duty, our sense of wonder, and the effects that extraterrestrial prospects have on us and here and now.

REGISTER HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-sign-in-space-the-ethics-of-x-tickets-637886534797

June 14, 2023, 9am pdt/12:00 pm edt/18:00 CEST

WRETI: Writing in Response to ETI

Co-Hosts: Daniela de Paulis, Gregory BettsPanelists: Tracie Morris, Jaap Blonk, Christian Bök, and Luigi Serafini

The implications of A Sign in Space by Daniela de Paulis, using a wealth of literary experience to engage with the cultural resonances of this artwork. The four established writers on the panel (including Tracie Morris, Jaap Blonk, Christian Bök, and Luigi Serafini) all plan to offer their productive impressions of this project. How might we write about aliens? How to respond to alien writing? What are the limits of our language in the face of radical Otherness?

REGISTER HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-sign-in-space-wreti-writing-in-response-to-eti-tickets-637887698277

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