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There is more to space than rocket science. Historians, diplomats, economists, law students, political scientists and sociologists, all have contributed to our understanding of the space age and its impact on
our societies over the past decades.
60 years on from the placing of the first man-made object in orbit around the Earth, space is now an integral part of our daily lives and space science and technology is a project for the whole of humanity reaching
not just beyond Earth’s atmosphere but also beyond our Solar System.
While the technological and scientific challenges of working, living and travelling through space motivate students to pursue such studies, the impact that space activities have on our lives on Earth and on relations
among nations, players and our collective recent history, provides fertile ground for students and scholars in the humanities to take up space-related subjects.
The European Space Agency (ESA), the 22-nation-strong intergovernmental organisation created in 1975 and headquartered in Paris, France, is launching the latest phase of the ESA History Project (EHP). Building
on the success of the previous phases, this new endeavour is marked by an opening out to other domains within the humanities, while continuing to take a historical perspective and write the history of space activities, especially in and by Europe, with a view,
notably, to supporting present and future decision-making.
To mark the launch of this new phase, an international conference is being planned for 23–24 November 2017 in Padua, Italy in cooperation with the University of Padua and its
Giuseppe Colombo University Centre for Space Studies and Activities (CISAS).
We are calling on
early career scholars (generally up to the age of 35) and Master’s level and onwards university students from all over the world writing on subjects related to space activities to submit their work to be considered for presentation at the Conference
and to enter the competition for an award for best paper.
In order to enter, please submit, by
30 July 2017 the following to the email address
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Those selected will be notified by 30 August 2017 and the following should be submitted by 30 September 2017:
For those young scholars invited to present their paper at the Conference in Padua a certain amount of travel support will be provided upon request.
The winner of the prize will be offered a trip to Europe’s spaceport, the Guiana Space Centre (CSG), in Kourou, French Guiana and/or the publication of his/her paper.
Looking forward to your contributions and we stand ready to answer all your queries.
The European Space Agency’s History Project (EHP)
Paris, 6 June 2017
Doug Millard
Deputy Keeper, Technologies & Engineering
Science Museum
London SW7 2DD
UK
+44(0)20 7942 4212
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