BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//eluceo/ical//2.0/EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:fd8f60a6e47b8278b7673c29f30f472f DTSTAMP:20260909T072621Z SUMMARY:Is UAP research (finally) welcome into the academic warmth? DESCRIPTION:Contact: anders.warell@design.lth.se\n\nGuest lecture by Dr. Mi chael CifoneScience philosopher Michael Cifone\, Ph.D.\, \;is the foun ding director of \;SUAPS (Society of UAP Studies) and the founder of t he peer review scientific journal Limina\, which publishes research on the UFO phenomenon. Dr. Michael Cifone’s research focuses on Non-Human\, ex traterrestrial Intelligence (NHI) and how to achieve scientific progress w hich has been largely lacking throughout the \;80-year modern history of the phenomenon.Michael Cifone argues that scientific progress requires starting not from the objects of investigation\, but from the conditions u nder which the investigation of them has failed to develop into a cumulati ve science. He describes three analytically domains: \;the institution al and political conditions that have thus far structured UAP research\;&n bsp\;the empirical challenges faced by any serious observational programme \; \;the deeper formal and conceptual dimension that the most intracta ble cases eventually demand. \;Academic interest in this field has his torically been discouraged\, but a clear shift is underway. Today there ar e research groups at leading universities such as Stanford University\, th e University at Albany\, Harvard University\, the University of Würzburg\ , and Durham University. \;The hosts: ASG Anomalous AgendaThe interdis ciplinary research group at the Pufendorf Institute for Advances Studies\, the Advanced Study Group Anomalous Agenda\, is the first of its kind in S weden and aims to develop transparent\, scientifically based knowledge in order to understand and explain the UFO phenomenon and its societal and ep istemological implications. ASG coordinators are Anders Warell\, a profess or in the Department of Design Sciences\, and Melina Tsapos\, Ph.D. at the Department of Philosophy. \;Read about the Advanced Study Group on th e Pufendorf IAS' websiteAnomalous Agenda | The Pufendorf Institute for Adv anced StudiesRegistration no later than 4 SeptemberPlease let Anders Warel l know that you are attending by sending an e-mail to him no later than 4 September 18.00. anders.warell@design.lth.se \;A hot topic in the USAA lthough the phenomenon is truly global with tens of thousands of reported incidents every year\, much progress has taken place in the USA. In 2017\, an article in The New York Times revealed that the U.S. Department of Def ense and intelligence agencies have been investigating UFO cases for decad es and have established programmes aimed at collecting materials\, entitie s\, and craft\, as well as replicating the technology that has been gather ed. Since 2022\, four congressional hearings have been held in which whist leblowers have corroborated the existence of these programmes and illustra ted how the subject has been discredited and suppressed in public discours e. Legislation to protect whistleblowers and informants has been enacted t hrough several congressional resolutions with the aim of increasing transp arency and oversight of these classified programmes.\n\nMore information a bout the event: https://www.staff.lu.se/calendar/uap-research-finally-welc ome-academic-warmth DTSTART;TZID=GMT:20260907T081500 DTEND;TZID=GMT:20260907T093000 LOCATION:Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies\, Biskopsgatan 3\, Lund ( Lecture Hall) END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR