• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organiser: Dr. Karen Patricia Heath (Rothermere American Institute)
• Timing: Saturday 20 July 2019
• Web Address: https://www.rai.ox.ac.uk/event/lunar-we-look-to-the-moon
• Organising department: Rothermere American Institute

Saturday 20 July 2019 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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 )
• 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)
• 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)