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UPCOMING EVENT:
The 2008 Biennial Conference, Chicago
October 30 - November 2, 2008, The Westin O'Hare Hotel
Film & Science:
Fictions, Documentaries, and Beyond
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Event Details:
The 2008 biennial Film & History Conference is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Film and History.
Distinguished speakers will include founder John E. O'Connor and editor Peter C. Rollins (in a ceremony to celebrate the transfer to the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh); Wheeler Winston Dixon, author of Visions of the Apocalypse, Disaster and Memory, and Lost in the Fifties: Recovering Phantom Hollywood; and Charles Howard Candler Professor of Physics Sidney Perkowitz (Emory University), author of Empire of Light: A History of Discovery in Science and Art and Hollywood Science: Movies, Science, & the End of the World.
We are proud to have Roger Launius--Senior Curator in the Division of Space HIstory at the National Air and Space Museum (Smithsonian) and Chief Historian of NASA (1990-2002)--present our keynote address.
Bridging the humanities and the sciences, Dr. Launius is an eminent scholar who has written or edited more than twenty books on aerospace history, including Robots in Space: Technology, Evolution, and Interplanetary Travel (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008); Societal Impact of Spaceflight (NASA SP-2007-4801, 2007); Critical Issues in the History of Spaceflight (NASA SP-2006-4702, 2006); Space Stations: Base Camps to the Stars (Smithsonian Books, 2003), which received the AIAA’s history manuscript prize; Reconsidering a Century of Flight (University of North Carolina Press, 2003); To Reach the High Frontier: A History of U.S. Launch Vehicles (University Press of Kentucky, 2002); Imagining Space: Achievements, Possibilities, Projections, 1950-2050 (Chronicle Books, 2001); Reconsidering Sputnik: Forty Years Since the Soviet Satellite (Harwood Academic, 2000); Innovation and the Development of Flight (Texas A&M University Press, 1999); Frontiers of Space Exploration (Greenwood Press, 1998, rev. ed. 2004); Spaceflight and the Myth of Presidential Leadership (University of Illinois Press, 1997); and NASA: A History of the U.S. Civil Space Program (Krieger Publishing Co., 1994, rev. ed. 2001).
Dr. Launius served as a consultant to the Columbia Accident Investigation Board in 2003 and presented the prestigious Harmon Memorial Lecture on the history of national security space policy at the United States Air Force Academy in 2006. He is frequently consulted by the electronic and print media for his views on space issues and has been a guest commentator on National Public Radio and all the major television-network news programs.
The Center for the Study of Film and History
The Center and the Journal have moved to Wisconsin. We may be reached at our at our new address:
Center for the Study of Film and History
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, Polk 305
Oshkosh, WI 54901
Telephone: (920) 424-0976
FilmandHistory@uwosh.edu
We are developing our new Web site, but take some time to browse our pages, and plan to attend the 2008 international conference in Chicago.
Our office hours are 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., Monday - Friday
For more information regarding the center or the journal, you may contact our program assistant,
Carol Lassila, at lassilac@uwosh.edu.
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