SCHEDULE of EVENTS for CONTACT XII/95
FRIDAY · 3/10
9:30-10:00 Welcome and Introductions - Jim Funaro
10:00-Noon SYMPOSIUM 1: "Exploration of the Universe: Status Report"
Chair: Chris McKay
Dave Morrison - Science: What do we know about where we're going?
Larry Lemke: Technology: How do we get there, what is possible, when?
Mal Cohen - Human: Human survival and adaptation in space
Jim Funaro : Culture: How far have we come, how far do we have to go?
10:00-11:30 : WORKSHOP: COTI Mundi - Epona Today
Martyn Fogg on Planetology
Wolf Read on Biology
12:00-1:00 WORKSHOP : COTI Mundi
1:00-2:30 SYMPOSIUM 2: "Contact" (1)
Al Harrison: Human Response To ET Contact: Lessons From History
Ctein: Confounding Questions About Contact
Dick Haines: A Review of Multiple Aerial Phenonema Cases
2:30-4:00 SYMPOSIUM 3: Contact (2)
Bruce Damer: Our Contact with Soft Life, the First "Exo-Terrestrials"
Keith Ferrell: Making CONTACT With Non-CONTACT Audiences
Don Marshall - Marines in Space: The Role of the Military in Contact
2:30-4:30 WORKSHOP : COTI Mundi
4:00-5:30 WORKSHOP: Virtual Board Critiques & Tweaks SolSys Timeline
4:00-4:45 REPORT: Cultures of the Imagination
4:45-5:30 REPORT: COTI Mundi
7:00-8:00 WELCOME PARTY: NO HOST BAR
8:00 onward SPECIAL EVENING PRESENTATIONS
Richard Johnson: Space Colonies, Twenty Years and Still Holdling
Joel Hagen: Deutschland to Disneyland: En route to Mars
Takashi Nakamura: Report on Contact Japan 1
SATURDAY · 3/11
9:00-10:30 SYMPOSIUM 4: "What Does It Mean To Be Human" Part
II
Paul Bohannan - Drive and Overdrive
Dennis Rohatyn - So Inhuman an Animal
Lyn Miles & Rob Schumaker - What Is A Person?
Discussants: Phil DeVita, Keith Ferrell, Jim Funaro, Jim Moore
10:30-Noon SYMPOSIUM 5: "What Does It Mean To Be Human" Part
II
Michael Sims - Intelligence in humans, robots, etc. part II
Chris McKay - Will there be intelligence on other worlds
Seth Shostak - The Search for Intelligence on Earth and Elsewhere
Discussants: Phil DeVita, Keith Ferrell, Jim Funaro, Jim Moore
9:00-12:00 WORKSHOP : COTI Mundi
1:00-2:30 SYMPOSIUM 6: "Humans in Space"
Ken Koenig - We Are Never Alone: New Approaches to Human Motivation
Doug Raybeck - Weightlessness, Stress And Calcium Deficiency
Don Scott - Science And Myth
1:30 - 4:30 - WORKSHOP : COTI Mundi
2:30-4:00 SYMPOSIUM 7: "Educating for the Future"
Chair: Reed Riner
Elizabeth Viau & Christian Jones: World Builders--Hands-on Planet
Design
Wendy Schultz: Creating Alternative Futures: Workshop Scenario-Building
4:00-5:30 - WORKSHOP : Creating Scenarios for Human Futures
Panel: Chris Jones, Reed Riner, Jim Dator, Wendy Schultz
4:00-4:45 REPORT: Cultures of the Imagination
4:45-5:30 REPORT: COTI Mundi
7:00-8:30 Banquet & "Veteran of CONTACT" Address - Larry
Niven
8:30-11:00 Entertainment on the 12-String Guitar - Paul Butler
SUNDAY · 3/12
9:30-10:30 SYMPOSIUM 8: Worlds Real and Imagined
Steve Gillett: Worldbuilding: How an Earthlike planet works.
Gerald Nordley: Surface Gravity: Implications for Habitability and Evolution
10:30-Noon COTI Mundi
1:00-3:00 COTI Team: Cultures of the Imagination Final Session
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