Rothermere American Institute

10:30 - The Seeing Eye: Spaceflight as Religious Experience
Kendrick Oliver is Professor of American History at the University of Southampton. He is the author of three books, including To Touch the Face of God: The Sacred, the Profane and the American Space Program, 1957-1975 (2013).
Prof Kendrick Oliver (University of Southampton)
Lunar Activity Day
11:30 - What temperature is the surface of the Moon and why should I care?
Neil Bowles is an Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford. He is a Co-Investigator as part of NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission. His lunar research interests include analysing the Moon’s surface composition from lunar satellite observations and mapping and understanding its temperature properties for future robotic and human exploration.
Dr Neil Bowles (Department of Physics)
Lunar Activity Day
12:30 - The Moon is Feminist Art
Merve Emre is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Oxford. She is the author of Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America (2017), Collective Criticism (2019), and The Personality Brokers (2018), which was selected as one of the best books of 2018 by The New York Times, The Economist, and The Spectator. Her work has appeared in The New York Review of Books, Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, and London Review of Books.
Dr Merve Emre (Faculty of English, University of Oxford)
Lunar Activity Day
13:00 - Contested Meanings of Lunacy in Nineteenth-Century Asylums
Mark Lee is a postdoctoral researcher on a multidisciplinary project based at Wolfson College, University of Oxford, that looks at experiences of illness and medicine across cultures and time periods. He is currently working on a book that explores the experience, interpretation and treatment of religious forms of madness and melancholy in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world.
Dr Mark Lee (Faculty of History, University of Oxford)
Lunar Activity Day
13:30 - An All-Star Event: Athletes, Astronauts, & Nixon’s Moon Landing
Rivers Gambrell is a DPhil candidate in Modern History at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on the history of professional sports and presidential politics. She holds an MA from Duke University in Liberal Studies and International Development Policy, and is currently the recipient of a fourth year doctoral scholarship in American history at the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford.
Rivers Gambrell (Kellogg College Oxford )
Lunar Activity Day
14:00 - Art in Outer Space
John R. Blakinger is the 2018-2019 Terra Foundation Visiting Professor of American Art at the University of Oxford. His book Gyorgy Kepes: Undreaming the Bauhaus was published by The MIT Press in June.
Dr John R Blakinger (Terra Foundation Visiting Professor in American Art)
Lunar Activity Day
15:00 - The Origin of the Moon
Jon Wade is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford. His research revolves around the chemical process of planetary formation and habitability.
Dr Jon Wade (Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford)
Lunar Activity Day