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		JOIN OUR MAILING LIST ** APOLOGIES FOR ERROR LISTING IN OUR EBULLETIN: THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS HAS PASSED ** LESS REMOTE The Futures of Space Exploration: an Arts & Humanities Symposium 30 September - 1 October 2008 2008 International Astronautical Congress, SEC, Glasgow, Scotland For further information, please go to: http://www.lessremote.org or contact: Flis Holland E-mail: info@lessremote.org +44 (0)114 242 3244 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * LESS REMOTE The Futures of Space Exploration: an Arts & Humanities Symposium An international symposium to run parallel to the 2008 International Astronautical Congress (IAC). This symposium will offer a forum in which specialists from many disciplines will be invited to consider the future of space exploration in the context of our current understanding of social, economic and technological imperatives. One of the aims of the symposium is to foster a dialogue and exchange between the cultural and space communities. Speakers from the arts & humanities and space science & engineering communities will present keynote lectures on space exploration and its possible futures. Papers are also invited from the broad constituency of interest among artists, cultural analysts and historians that has examined the wider implications of the scientific exploration of space for the better part of a century. (For more information on the 2008 IAC, please visit www.iac2008.co.uk) Organised by Flis Holland and The Arts Catalyst, in association with Leonardo, OLATS and the University of Plymouth. Co-sponsored by IAA Commission VI. Advisory Committee: Flis Holland (Chair), Nicola Triscott & Rob La Frenais (The Arts Catalyst), Annick Bureaud (Leonardo / OLATS), Stephen Dick (IAA Commission VI), Roger Malina (IAA Commission VI), Michael Punt (Leonardo), Sundar Sarukkai (Centre for Philosophy, Indian National Institute of Advanced Studies)