Antarctica by proxy - The maintenance of ASTEP: gesture and temporality of a Concordia telescope.

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• Emilie Pillon, PhD candidate, Université Paris Nanterre, LAA
• Thursday 24 October 2024, 14:00-15:00
• Hybrid: Seminar room, SPRI & Zoom - email organiser for details.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Emilie Canova.

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-laboratory? For this presentation, we propose to focus on an ongoing fieldwork started in March 2024 alongside ASTEP , an exoplanet observation program from Concordia. Since the first wintering of the French-Italian Station, astronomy has been developed in Concordia, taking advantage of the characteristics of the place. The all-day night and the quality of the sky allows continuous observation that aren’t achievable from earth, but require a lot of on-site and by distance maintenance. Following a winter-over observation campaign, this presentation will try to explore the relations developing between the scientist, the telescope, the data and the place as a territory-laboratory.

This talk is part of the Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop series.

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