session 2

Title: SETI 2: SETI and Society
type: oral
Description: All interdisciplinary aspects of SETI, in particular the social and societal consequences of detecting a signal, engaging with a very wide variety of human cultural pursuits - including art, language, education, science, anthropology, sociology, psychology, legal, political and institutional issues, interactions with the media, public outreach and risk communication.
Date: 2025-09-30
Time: 15:00
Room: Room C4.2

IPC members

Co-Chair: Ms. Kate Genevieve, University of Sussex, New Zealand;
Co-Chair: Dr. Rebecca Charbonneau, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, United States;

papers
Order	Time	Paper title	Mode	Presentation status	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
1	15:00	The case of the EQ Peg hoax 25 years ago: Would a replay in today's media landscape have the same result?	20		Dr. Carol Oliver	University of New South Wales	Australia
2	15:20	THE HISTORY OF THE IAA SETI PERMANENT COMMITTEE - 2000 to 2009	12		Ms. Lori Walton	Consultant	Canada
3	15:32	Patterns in Perception of a Simulated Message from Space	12		Ms. Daniela De Paulis	SETI Institute	United States
4	15:44	SETI Post-Detection Protocols: Progress Towards a New Version	12		Prof. Michael Garrett	University of Manchester	United Kingdom
5	15:56	The International Institute of Space Law SETI Working Group: Introduction, Overview, and Findings So Far	12		Prof. Andrea Harrington	Institute of Air and Space Law, McGill University	Canada
6	16:08	The Societal and Legal Consequences of Detecting Extraterrestrial Intelligence: A Governance Gap	12		Ms. Shrawani Shagun	National Law University, Delhi	India
7	16:20	Refiguring Communication in SETI: Cybernetics, Analogy, and Improvisation in the Search for Extraterrestrial Life	12		Ms. Kate Genevieve	University of Sussex	New Zealand
8	16:32	Space and Interstellar Travel and What We Want to be Remembered For – The Case for Indigenous Knowledges for Communication with Prospective ET’s and for Human spaceflight purpose and a Collective Earth Message	12		Dr. Sasha Alexander	Western Sydney University	Australia
9	16:44	A first contribution to the history of Italian SETI	12		Dr. Paolo Musso	InCosmiCon Research Center	Italy
10	16:56	New Cosmic Perspectives: Indigenous Knowledge and SETI	12	confirmed	Dr. Alvin D. Harvey	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States
11	17:08	Sustainability Puzzles and the Extraterrestrial Turn	12	confirmed	Dr. Chelsea Haramia	University of Bonn	Germany
12*	17:20	differences in linguistic cultural and moral values of a similarly intelligent extraterrestrial life-form	10		Mr. Nihaal Raphael Kerketta		India
*		A Single Sky: a new simulated First-Contact scenario engaging the global scientific SETI network, and integrating deep space technologies into SETI search.	10		Ms. Daniela De Paulis	SETI Institute	United States
*		Earth’s first encounter. Will making contact strengthen humanity or cause more harm than good, and if so, who makes the first move?	10	confirmed	Ms. Ellie Fox	Student	Australia
*		the role of consciousness in defining reality: a philosophical and scientific inquiry	10		Ms. Khadija Bayramova	Garabagh University	Azerbaijan
*		The Search for Meaning: The Social Impact of SETI and Its Influence on Humanity	10	confirmed	Ms. Raneem Alazzam	Jordan University of Science & Technology	Jordan

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