Over the past half-century, human societies have successfully conquered Space, turning it into a new territory.
This Chair explores the new cultural, geostrategic and environmental issues revolving around the notion of space as a territory or common good for humanity.
Three objectives
- Develop cutting-edge multidisciplinary research
- Raise public awareness
- Train future researchers and decision-makers
Three main areas of research
- Uses and representations of Space
- Reconciling space as a common good and space as a sovereignty issue
- What sustainable uses of space
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A new interactive directory of Space researchers
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“Ruins, debris, dismantling: the modes of existence of technical remains”, a colloquium co-organized by Fanny Valeyre, post-doc at the Space Chair.
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Closing Seminar for the Young Researchers Workshop on April 8, 2026
An afternoon of reflection and discussion on the work of Sebastian Grevsmühl (Center for Historical Research, CNRS/EHESS) with Célestine Rabouam