Venue
American Association for the Advancement of Science Auditorium
1200 New York Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20005
Phone: 202-326-6400

Agenda

Thu, 04/05/2007 - 13:05 — Administrator
10/22/2007 - 00:30
10/23/2007 - 17:00
Etc/GMT-4


"Remembering the Space Age: 50th Anniversary Conference"
Sponsored by NASA HQ History Division and NASM Division of Space History


October 22-23
American Association for the Advancement of Science Auditorium,
Washington, D.C.

Program

Day 1 National and Global Dimensions of the Space Age
Has the Space Age fostered a new global identity, or has it reinforced distinct national identities? How does space history connect with national histories and with the histories of transnational or global phenomena such as the Cold War or the rise of global markets or global satellite communications?
8:30 Opening Remarks Steven J. Dick (NASA) and Roger D. Launius (NASM)
9:00 Keynote John Robert McNeill (Georgetown U) Gigantic Follies? Human Exploration since the Paleolithic
9:30-11:30 Session 1 Invited Papers and Commentary (Steven Dick, Chair)
30 min Asif Siddiqi (Fordham) National Aspirations on a Global Stage: Fifty Years of Spaceflight
30 min John Krige (Georgia Institute of Technology) Building National Capability Through Regional and International Collaboration: The European Experience
Commentator 30 min John Logsdon (George Washington U)
Panel/Q&A 30 min Moderator – Steven J. Dick (NASA)
11:30-1:00 Lunch (local restaurants)
1:00-3:00 Session 2 Contributed Papers
Michael Neufeld (NASM) Creating a Memory of the German Rocket Program for the Cold War

Monique Laney (U. Kansas)

“Operation Paperclip” in Huntsville, Alabama
James Hansen (Auburn) China's Human Spaceflight Program and Chinese National Identity
Dwayne Day (SSB/NRC) The Central Intelligence Agency and Freedom of Space
Andrew Butrica The 'Right' Stuff: The Impact of the Reagan Revolution and the Conservative Space Agenda on the U. S. Space Program
Jonathan Coopersmith (Texas A&M) The Railroad and the Space Program: A View from the 21st Century
3:30-5:00 Roundtable

Moderator – Steven J. Dick (NASA) - Participants: Walter McDougall (U. Penn), Robert MacGregor (Princeton), Hans Mark (U. Texas), Roger Pajak (CSNR/NRO), Sylvia Kraemer (INDEPENDENT POLICY RESEARCH)

Day 2 Remembrance and Cultural Representation of the Space Age
How is the historical record of the Space Age collected, preserved, displayed, and interpreted around the world, especially in the US, Russia, the European Union, Canada, and China? What purpose do space museums serve and what message do they convey? How accessible are space archives? How do the "official" versions of events square with the document trail and with eyewitness accounts? How is the Space Age represented in the arts, in the media, in the movies, in propaganda discourse, and so on.
9:00 Keynote

Emily Rosenberg

Far Out: The Space Age in American Culture
9:30-11:30 Session 1 Invited Papers and Commentary (Roger Launius, Chair)
30 min Constance Penley (UCSB) Film, Arts, and the Media
30 min Martin Collins (NASM) A Second Nature Rising: Spaceflight in a Time of Representation
Commentator 30 min Slava Gerovitch (MIT)
Panel/Q&A 30 min Moderator – Roger D. Launius (NASM)
11:30-1:00 Lunch (local restaurants)
1:00-3:00 Session 2 Contributed papers
Amy Nelson (Va Tech) Lost in Space: Global Echoes of Sputnik 2
Cathy Lewis (NASM) Cosmonaut Nostalgia in Film
James Oberg Cosmonauts and Cosmo-NOTS: Image falsification in the Soviet manned space program
Michael Soluri Discovering the Iconic in Space Exploration Photography
Bettyann Holtzmann Kevles Space Art and Art in Space
Robert Kennedy Robert Heinlein's Influence on Spaceflight
3:30-4:30 Roundtable Moderator – Linda Billings - Participants: Bettyann Kevles (Yale University), Constance Penley (UCSB), Paul Smith (GMU), Margaret Weitekamp (NASM)
4:30-5:00 Closing Keynote Roger Launius (NASM) American Spaceflight History's Master Narrative and the Meaning of Memory