Society for UAP Studies - 2024 Conference

Introduction

According to their website:

"The Society for UAP Studies is a nonprofit 501 (c) (3) organization that seeks to bring together serious thinkers (both academics and professionals) who are committed to advancing the study of the UAP through rigorous scholarly engagement...While we are in conversation with classical 'ufology,' as an organization we do not align ourselves specifically with this tradition..."

Conference 2024

The Society will hold its annual conference, on-line, between 16-18th August 2024. It is titled "Varieties & Trajectories of Contemporary UAP Studies." The following provides details of the speaker and the title of their presentation. Each hyperlink will take you to an abstract of that presentation. 

Keynote speaker - Dr. Brenda Denzler, Independent Researcher and Board of Advisors, Society for UAP Studies (U.S.A.) "The Discovery of OIL -Other Intelligent Life."

Dr. Bertrand Meheust, Independent Researcher & Steering Committee of L'Institute Metapsychique International (France.) "The Problem of Elusiveness."

Dr. Wesley Watters, Whitehead Associate Professor of Critical Thought and Associate Professor of Astronomy, Wesley College (U.S.A.) "Detection and Characterization of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) using Ground-Based Observatories and Satellite Imagery." 

Dr. Douglas Buettner, Deputy Chief Scientist of the Aquisition Innovation Research Center, Stevens Insitute of Technology. "Data Integrity and Chain of Custody Architecture for Scientific UAP Studies."

Dr. Gretchen Stahlman, Associate Professor in the School of Information, Florida State University (U.S.A.) "Information and Communication Ecosystems of UAP Studies."

Dr. Travis Dumsday, Chief of Philosophy & Religious Studies, Concordia University of Edmonton (Canada.) "Understanding UAPs: Surveying Some Non-Naturalistic Ontologies."

Maya Cowan, Ph.D. student in Anthropology, State University of New York at Binghamton (U.S.A.) "Observatories & Experiencers."

Dr. Matthew Szydagis, Associate Professor of Physics, State University of New York at Albany (U.S.A.) "The Latest Scientific News from UAlbany and UAPs."

Dr. Alexey Golubev, Associate Professor, University of Houston. (U.S.A.) "A UFO Over the Planetarium: Public Communication of Science and Debates about Extraterrestrial Contact in the Cold War USSR."

Dr. Kevin Knuth, Professor State University of New York at Albany (U.S.A.) "Simulating the characteristics of extraterrestrial civilizations that encounter Earth."

All in all, it promises to provide an excellent, detailed, look at what academics from a range of disciplines are thinking about, and discussing in relation to UAP studies.