advancing the study of unidentified anomalous phenomena through interdisciplinary dialogue
Varieties & Trajectories of Contemporary UAP Studies
SUAPS Annual Conference
Summer 2024
16 - 18 August | An Online-Only Event
Event Opens: 9 am PDT/12 pm EDT/18:00 CEST
Please note: general registrations for the conference provide tickets granting access to all main auditorium lectures, plus access to both the networking lounges and exhibition booths. Workshop access is only given to invited participants.
Conference Speakers
Understanding Through Dialogue
Our conference speakers represent a broadly international coalition of scholars who approach UAP from a variety of academic disciplines, each focused on one aspect of the subject. We have humanists, together with social and physical scientists all working out the complex landscape of understanding required of such a richly complex phenomenon. They reflect the Society's desire to reintegrate our knowledge of self and world that has over the centuries become divided in the contemporary university.
Keynote
Sociology & Philosophy
Independent Researcher & Steering Committee, L'Institut métapsychique international (France)
"The Problem of Elusiveness"
Plenary
Physical Science (Planetary Physics)
Whitehead Associate Professor of Critical Thought and Associate Professor of Astronomy, Wellesley College (U.S.A.)
"Detection and Characterization of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) Using Ground-based Observatories and Satellite Imagery"
Plenary
Astronautical Engineering
Deputy Chief Scientist of the Acquisition Innovation Research Center, Stevens Institute of Technology
"Data Integrity and Chain of Custody Architectures for Scientific UAP Studies"
Plenary
Information Sciences
Asst. Professor in the School of Information, Florida State University (U.S.A.)
"Information and Communication Ecosystems of UAP Studies"
Plenary
Philosophy
Chair of Philosophy & Religious Studies, Concordia University of Edmonton (Canada)
"Understanding UAPs: Surveying Some Non-Naturalist Ontologies"
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Plenary
Experimental Particle Physics
Associate Professor of Physics, State University of New York at Albany (U.S.A.)
"The Latest Scientific News From UAlbany and UAPx"
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Plenary
History
Associate Professor, University of Houston
"A UFO over the Planetarium: Public Communication of Science and Debates about Extraterrestrial Contact in the Cold War USSR"
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Theoretical Physics
Professor, State University of New York, Albany
"Simulating the characteristics of extra-terrestrial civilizations that encounter Earth"
Concurrent Workshops
Scholarship on the subject of UAP requires not only interdisciplinary dialogue, but also more focused disciplinary work that provides a solid scholarly foundation for that dialogue to be productive. Here are this year's workshops which serve as a forum within which ideas and suggestions for future research can be presented, and feedback obtained from colleagues. Workshops are the incubators of progress in any area of study, and the Society is happy to provide a place for this to happen.
Please Note: conference workshops are by invitation only, and general registration for the conference does not necessarily grant access.
Conference Agenda
The Society's first annual conference follows its successful conference organized on behalf of its journal, Limina. The conference will unfold over the course of three days. On the first two days, several keynote and plenary speakers will surround a series of concurrent workshops, where scholars will gather in a more intimate setting to discuss their ideas and research proposals in UAP Studies. On the last day of the conference, workshop representatives will present a short synopsis of what unfolded during the workshops in an effort to spark a wider discussion among all conference participants. A final plenary lecture will round out the event and conclude the conference.
Exhibitors
Invited UAP research and data-gathering organizations with virtual booths at this event
