Friday, February 20th, 2026

8:30am EST TBA (Zoom)

Title: TBA (Coming soon!)

9:30am EST  Kevin Birth, Professor of Anthropology at Queens College of the City University of New York (CUNY). (Zoom)

Title: Will My Luxury Mechanical Watch Work in Space: Proper Time and the Cultural Choices behind Coordinate Time

10:30am EST Brett Bolen, Associate Professor of Physics at Grand Valley State University (Zoom)

Title: TBA (Coming soon!)

11:30am EST Keith Snedegar, Professor of History at Utah Valley University (Zoom)

Title: The Afropast, Afropresent, and Afrofuture of Space Science across the Mother Continent

12:30pm EST Break for Lunch

1pm EST Paul Gabor, Vice Director, Vatican Observatory and Affiliate Faculty, University of Arizona (Zoom)

Title:  Time, Science & Society

2pm EST Amanda Stark, Aerospace Engineer, NASA Langley Research Center (Zoom)

Title: Mars Transit and the MARVL Project

3:30pm-7:30pm EST -  In-person events at GVSU's Pew Campus, DeVos Center

3:30pm EST - Live panel discussion on how the Moon, Sun, and stars shape calendars and seasons across cultures. (in-person at GVSU's Pew Campus, DeVos Center's Loosemore Auditorium)

Title: "Celestial Rhythms"

4:00pm EST - Workshop event #1: (in-person at GVSU's Pew Campus, DeVos Center)

Title: TBA (Coming soon!)

4:00pm EST - Workshop event #2: (in-person at GVSU's Pew Campus, DeVos Center)

Title: TBA (Coming soon!)

5:30 pm EST – Reception and Viewing of Design That! Design Challenge Entries (in-person at GVSU's Pew Campus, DeVos Center)

6:30pm EST – Astronaut Jeanette Epps, PhD. (ret.) (in-person at the Loosemore Auditorium, GVSU Pew Campus, DeVos Center)

Title: Launch Your Curiosity: Igniting a Love for STEAM



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