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Lift France 11 Speaker Profile: Roger Malina
April 12, 2011 - 21:00 — Sarah Suter
In the run up to Lift France 11 we'll be profiling our speakers to give you a preview of what to expect at this year's conference. Have a look at our program here and grab your super early bird ticket price of EUR 350 before April 17th. And if you want to get a free ticket, read about our viral ticketing!
Roger Malina will be speaking during the closing session of Lift France 11, and will give us an overview of his key takeaways from the conference.
Malina is an astronomer, with a specialty in space telescopes and observational cosmology. He is currently director of the Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille, and Acting Director for the Observatoire Astronomique de Marseille Provence. For 25 years he has been the Editor of the Art-Science publication Leonardo at MIT Press and an Executive Editor of the Leonardo Book Series at MIT Press. He is the President of the Association Leonardo in Paris, and a member of the board of Leonardo/International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology in San Francisco.
Malina is particularly interested in promoting the cultural appropriation on contemporary sciences and technology and new ways of creating conditions for art-science collaboration.
Check out his blog here or this short video where Roger Malina explains the Leonard Organization.
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