Race in Space Conference

The conference is a first of its kind event that seeks to explore the issues of race, culture and nationality in the colonization of space stations, planets, and stars in space. It will highlight astronauts, researchers, artists and authors who have studied both the realities and imaginative events involving the dynamics of race and space settlements. There will be four panels taking place throughout the day: Speculative Fiction: Space Settlements Under Conditions of Ethnic Diversity; STEM Fields in Space; Rayla 2212: Afrofuturism, Space and the Imagination; and Logistics of Space Exploration (Specific Planets) and Space Travel.