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Alexander C.T. Geppert @actgeppert.bsky.social · 25d

Just in case somebody happens to hang out in the Emirates on 6 October 2025

Alexander C.T. Geppert @actgeppert.bsky.social · 25d

Coming up on Tuesday, 16 Sept. 2025: a roundtable in honor of the great Martin Collins, featuring John Krige, Teasel Muir-Harmony, James Schwoch, James Merle Thomas, Heidi Voskuhl and myself.

For details and to register ➔ space.talks.com
#spacetalks #astroculture #spacehistory #airandspacemuseum

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Alexander C.T. Geppert @actgeppert.bsky.social · Sep 9

It was such a pleasure to have you among the contributors, Asif. Here is the special issue 'Rocket Stars: Astrocultural Genealogies in the Global Space Age,' a special issue of the British Journal for the History of Science: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The British Journal for the History of Science: Volume 58 - Rocket Stars: Astrocultural Genealogies in the Global Space Age | Cambridge Core

Cambridge Core - The British Journal for the History of Science - Volume 58 - Rocket Stars: Astrocultural Genealogies in the Global Space Age

www.cambridge.org

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Alexander C.T. Geppert @actgeppert.bsky.social · Sep 9

Out now: 'Rocket Stars: Astrocultural Genealogies in the Global Space Age.' Seven contributions to this special BJHS issue chart the genesis, appeal and afterlives of technocelebrities in Sri Lanka, China, India, East and West Germany and Cuba.

➡️ tinyurl.com/2p5aekmu

#astroculture #spacehistory

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Alexander C.T. Geppert @actgeppert.bsky.social · Jul 17

A roundtable in honor of Martin Collins, cosmic imaginaries in China, adaptation strategies in post-Soviet Russia and multiplanetarity in contemporary US astroculture – the NYU Space Talks lecture series goes into its tenth season.

➡️ www.space-talks.com 🚀

#spacetalks #astroculture #spacehistory

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European Space Agency @esa.int · May 1

🎉 We’re celebrating our 50th birthday on 30 May! For half a century, we’ve been serving Europe, inspiring its citizens and exploring the cosmos. Check out our #50YearsOfESA web site for stories, archive images and details of events coming up in the year.

🔗 esa.int/About_Us/50_...

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Alexander C.T. Geppert @actgeppert.bsky.social · May 19

Tomorrow!

Alexander C.T. Geppert @actgeppert.bsky.social · May 11

Final NYU Space Talk of the spring 2025 season coming up on 20 May 2025: "Space on Display", a conversation with Doug Millard (Science Museum), Aron Schöpf (Deutsches Museum) and Margaret Weitekamp (Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum).

For details and to register ➔ space.talks.com

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Alexander C.T. Geppert @actgeppert.bsky.social · May 11

Final NYU Space Talk of the spring 2025 season coming up on 20 May 2025: "Space on Display", a conversation with Doug Millard (Science Museum), Aron Schöpf (Deutsches Museum) and Margaret Weitekamp (Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum).

For details and to register ➔ space.talks.com

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Alexander C.T. Geppert @actgeppert.bsky.social · Apr 10

Really devastated. Long-time editor of History and Technology, widely-read critical intellectual and just a lovely, if rather private human being. I shall miss you, dear Martin. Rest in peace.

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · Apr 9

Saddened to hear of the passing of Martin Collins. Martin was a curator and historian at the National Air and Space Museum. He wrote histories of the RAND Corporation as well as the Iridium satellite network.

📁🗃️📂

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Alexander C.T. Geppert @actgeppert.bsky.social · Apr 8

Third NYU Space Talk of the spring 2025 season coming up on 15 April: Laurence Guignard (Paris) on 'The Société Astronomique de France: A Global Popular Astronomy Network in the Belle Époque'

For details and to register ➔ space.talks.com
#spacetalks #astroculture #spacehistory #astronomy

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Alexander C.T. Geppert @actgeppert.bsky.social · Mar 27

Bielefeld calling!

Alexander C.T. Geppert @actgeppert.bsky.social · Feb 15

geschichten: Die Produktion historischen Wissens.”

Jubiläumstagung des Arbeitskreises Geschichte und Theorie (AG+T) am Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZIF) der Universität Bielefeld, 27.-29. März 2025

www.uni-bielefeld.de/einrichtunge...

geschichte-und-theorie.de/geschichten

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H-Soz-Kult @hsozkult.bsky.social · Feb 28

Konf: geschichten: Die Produktion historischen Wissens

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-153533

Bielefeld, 27.03.2025-29.03.2025, Arbeitskreis Geschichte + Theorie (AG+T); Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZiF), Universität Bielefeld

www.hsozkult.de

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Alexander C.T. Geppert @actgeppert.bsky.social · Mar 10

Second NYU Space Talk of the spring 2025 season coming up on 18 March : Robert Poole on 'Where Were They? The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence in the First Space Age'

For details and to register ➔ space.talks.com
#spacetalks #astroculture #spacehistory #seti #aliens

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Alexander C.T. Geppert @actgeppert.bsky.social · Feb 22

Studentische:r Mitarbeiter:in in Berlin gesucht! Bewerbungsschluss 15. März 2025. Deutlich übertarifliche Bezahlung. Details unter www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-1....

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European University Institute @eui-eu.bsky.social · Feb 14

🎉The European Space Agency is celebrating its 50th anniversary!

Did you know the Historical Archives of the European Union is an important site for the preservation of Europe’s space history? 📂

🚀 Find out why the EUI & @esa.int agreed to host certain ESA archives at the HAEU!

➡️ loom.ly/GWY-SHo

35 years preserving the European Space Agency legacy

Just over 35 years have passed since the European Space Agency and the European University Institute signed a deposit agreement for the preservation of the Ag

www.eui.eu

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Alexander C.T. Geppert @actgeppert.bsky.social · Feb 15

geschichten: Die Produktion historischen Wissens.”

Jubiläumstagung des Arbeitskreises Geschichte und Theorie (AG+T) am Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZIF) der Universität Bielefeld, 27.-29. März 2025

www.uni-bielefeld.de/einrichtunge...

geschichte-und-theorie.de/geschichten

Alexander C.T. Geppert @actgeppert.bsky.social · Feb 12

‪Alexander C.T. Geppert‬ ‪@actgeppert.bsky.social‬

First NYU Space Talk of the spring 2025 season coming up on Tuesday, 18 February: Tonio Savina on China's space program.
See www.space-talks.com for details and to RSVP

#astroculture #spacetalks #spacehistory #planetaryhistory

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Alexander C.T. Geppert @actgeppert.bsky.social · Jan 9

Space in China, early SETI, astronomy in turn-of-the century France, and a conversation among museum curators — the NYU Space Talks lecture series goes into its ninth season. The spring 2025 program starts on 02/18/25. www.space-talks.com

#astroculture #spacetalks #spacehistory #planetaryhistory

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Alexander C.T. Geppert @actgeppert.bsky.social · Jan 3

Thank you — will indeed drop by!

Alexander C.T. Geppert @actgeppert.bsky.social · Jan 1

If you are interested in temporality, the problem of ‘decadology’ and every historian’s bread-and-butter, periodization, join us for the ‘Ages in History’ panel at #AHA25 on Monday, 6 January 2025, at 9am.

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H-Soz-Kult @hsozkult.bsky.social · Feb 2

Vorl: NYU Space Talks: History, Politics, Astroculture

http://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-141686

New York City, 21.02.2024-08.05.2024, New York University/NYU Shanghai

NYU Space Talks: History, Politics, Astroculture

www.hsozkult.de

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H-Soz-Kult @hsozkult.bsky.social · Oct 31

Tagber: Thinking Outer Space: Philosophy, Astroculture and the Histories of Planetarity

http://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/fdkn-139615

Berlin, 19.07.2023-21.07.2023, Alexander C.T. Geppert, New York University / NYU Shanghai; Rory Rowan, Trinity College Dublin

Thinking Outer Space: Philosophy, Astroculture and the Histories of Planetarity

www.hsozkult.de

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Alexander C.T. Geppert @actgeppert.bsky.social · Nov 30

Final NYU Space Talk of the fall 2024 season coming up on 4 December 2024: NASA Chief Historian Brian Odom on 'New Directions in NASA History.'

For details and to register ➔ space.talks.com

#spacetalks #astroculture #NASA #spacehistory

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