Programme

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME (SUBJECT TO CHANGE)


SATURDAY 27 JUNE



9.00 Registration and Refreshments

9.30 Professor Hilary Carey
Duke Humfrey and the art and science of astrology

10.15 Dr Claudia Rousseau
Astrological Imagery and Rulership Propaganda

10.45 Dr Liana De Girolami Cheney
The zodiac signs of Otranto Cathedral, Puglia: Signification of Vice and Virtue

11.15 TEA AND COFFEE

11.45 Dr Micah Ross
A Tale of Two Tails

12.15 Dr Reza Assasi, MA
A Bull-Slayer encompassed by zodiac signs: revisiting Mithraic Art

12.45 LUNCH (OWN ARRANGEMENTS). Many cafes, restaurants and sandwich bars nearby

2.15 Professor Annette Lee
Native Skywatchers - Reach for the Art in the Sky

2.45 Dr Suzanne Nolan
Dwarfs as an Ancient Maya Metaphor for the Stars

3.15 Dr Christel Mattheeuws
In memory of Razafindrabe: the difficult skill of astrologers in West Bezanozano, Central East Madagascar

3.45 TEA AND COFFEE

4.15 Dr Spike Bucklow
Lower Astrology and Silent Poetry

5.00 John Meeks
Astrological Symbolism in Wolfram von Esenbach's Parzifal

5.30 Dr Martin Gansten
Ars, techne, sastra, 'ilm: What's in a name?

6.00 UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS
A CELEBRATION WITH WINE AND NIBBLES TO CELEBRATE THE LAUNCH OF THEIR NEW SERIES, SOPHIA CENTRE STUDIES IN COSMOLOGY AND CULTURE


SUNDAY 28 JUNE



10.00 Dr Catherine Blackledge
Lilly and Art

10.30 Barbara Dunn
Joining 'arte and nature together':The Astrological Cosmology of Early Modern Astrologer-Physicians

11.00 Dr Thomas Lolis
Fluddean Art: An Inquiry into Visual Representations of the Cosmos

11.30 TEA AND COFFEE

12.00 Dr Richard Dunn
Picturing the practitioner: notes towards an iconography of astrological practice

12.30 Dr Bernadette Brady
The art of detachment, the role of the horoscope in the practice of astrology

1.00 LUNCH (OWN ARRANGEMENTS). Many cafes, restaurants and sandwich bars nearby

2.15 Ruth Clydesdale, MA
Seeing the World Soul: Ficino and Talismanic Art

2.45 Liesbeth Grotenhuis, MA
Twinkling voices from the Gods: Fernand Khnopff's use of stars as mystique guides

3.15 Dr Darrelyn Gunzburg
Motif and memory within the zodiac constellations in art: a 'pittura' franca

4.00 Close

POST-CONFERENCE RELAXATION
Join us at the popular All-Bar-One.




 
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