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SUMMARY:Antarctica by proxy - The maintenance of ASTEP: gesture and tempor
 ality of a Concordia telescope.  - Emilie Pillon\, PhD candidate\, Univers
 ité Paris Nanterre\, LAA
DTSTART:20241024T130000Z
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CONTACT:Emilie Canova
DESCRIPTION:From the metropolitan laboratory up to the research station\, 
 all the scientific and technical gestures surrounding Antarctica are part 
 of maintenance work. They contribute to maintaining Antarctica as a place 
 of science\, to hold it in its authenticity (Denis and Pontille\, 2022:247
 )\, to preserve its intrinsic values (Summerson and Tin\, 2018). How does 
 the scientific infrastructure maintain Antarctica as a territory-laborator
 y?\nFor this presentation\, we propose to focus on an ongoing fieldwork st
 arted in March 2024 alongside ASTEP\, an exoplanet observation program fro
 m Concordia. Since the first wintering of the French-Italian Station\, ast
 ronomy has been developed in Concordia\, taking advantage of the character
 istics of the place. The all-day night and the quality of the sky allows c
 ontinuous observation that aren't achievable from earth\, but require a lo
 t of on-site and by distance maintenance. Following a winter-over observat
 ion campaign\, this presentation will try to explore the relations develop
 ing between the scientist\, the telescope\, the data and the place as a te
 rritory-laboratory.
LOCATION:Hybrid: Seminar room\, SPRI &amp\; Zoom - email organiser for det
 ails
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