Space: The final frontier

Speakers: Abbie MacKinnon, Keri Elmsly, Carlos Frenk, Catherine Heymans and Stephanie Flanders (chair)

Is there anybody out there? As we hurtle through the 21st century, grabbing at new inventions and technologies that forever change the way we think and behave, our speakers consider the bigger questions of the day.

With Astronomer Royal for Scotland Catherine Heymans, cosmologist Carlos Frenk and global curator Keri Elmsly, our panel asks where our knowledge, gleaned from our own small blue planet, fits in the vastness of an ever-expanding universe. The session, featuring a keynote address by Abbie MacKinnon, Curator of Space Technology at the Science Museum in London, is chaired by Stephanie Flanders, head of Economics and Government at Bloomberg News.

Keynote: 10.30am to 11.15am

Panel: 11.30am to 12.45pm

This event is part of the Festival Focus series ‘From Brownfield to Blue Sky’ presented in partnership with York Central. You may also be interested in ‘’ on Thursday 4 June from 1.45pm to 4pm. (hyperlinks to add)

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