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Namrata Goswami to address the 2026 Mars Convention
Goswami will speak on geopolitics, strategic culture and the future of human civilization beyond Earth at the international gathering in Los Angeles.
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Malvika Choudhary - Mon, 18, May 2026
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Namrata Goswami / LinkedIn/ Namrata Goswami
Indian origin professor Namrata Goswami will serve as a plenary speaker at the 2026 International Mars Society Convention, scheduled to be held from October 22-24 at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
During the convention, Goswami will deliver a featured presentation titled “Mars and the Return of Geopolitics: Strategic Culture and the First Civilization Beyond Earth,” focusing on the geopolitical, economic and cultural dimensions of future human settlements beyond Earth.
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Currently a Professor of Space Security with the United States Space Force’s Schriever and West Space Scholars Program at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University, Goswami is regarded as a prominent voice on spacepower, strategic competition in outer space and emerging technologies.
She also teaches space policy and international relations at the Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University and is affiliated with Arizona State University’s Interplanetary Initiative.
Goswami has advised U.S. defense and policy institutions and testified before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission in 2019, with her testimony later submitted to the U.S. Congress.
She is also associated with NATO’s Partnership for Peace Consortium Emerging Security Challenges Working Group and serves on the editorial board of the NATO PfPC journal “Connections.”
Her research spans international relations theory, geopolitics, space strategy, peace and conflict studies, hybrid warfare, counterinsurgency and ethnic identity.
She is the author of several books, including “Scramble for the Skies: The Great Power Competition to Control the Resources of Outer Space,” published in 2020, and “The Naga Ethnic Movement for a Separate Homeland: Stories from the Field,” published by Oxford University Press the same year.
Goswami has received several international fellowships and grants, including a Fulbright Senior Fellowship for research on China-India border issues, an Endeavor Research Fellowship from the Australian government, and a Minerva Research Initiative Grant from the U.S. Office of the Secretary of Defense to study great power competition in space.
In 2019, she was invited to speak at a TEDx event at the Rosa Parks Museum in Montgomery, Alabama, on her work in space policy and international security.
She obtained her Ph.D. in International Relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University, where her doctoral research examined humanitarian intervention and Just War Theory through the cases of India’s intervention in East Pakistan and NATO’s intervention in Kosovo.
She completed an executive education program in leadership and international relations at the Harvard Kennedy School.
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