This annual international symposium for the Social Studies of Outer Space is now running in its fifth year, with previous editions hosted in Vienna, Krakow, London, and Trento. The next edition (2026) is set to be held at Leuphana University Lüneburg in Germany.
You can find details of the previous symposiums below →
Ethnographies of Outer Space: Imaginaries, Infrastructures and Interventions
University of Vienna, 25–26 September 2025
Read the full symposium programme here.
Ethnographies of Outer Space: Unveiling the Hidden Social Worlds of Space Exploration
Jagiellonian University, Kraków, 12–14 September 2024
Read the full symposium programme here.
Extra-terrestrial Ethnographies: Fieldwork for the new space age
University College London, 18–19 September 2023
Read the full symposium programme here.
Ethnographies of Outer Space: Methodological Opportunities and Experiments
University of Trento, 1–2 September 2022
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