Conference Schedule
Saturday 28 June |
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9.15 |
Juan Antonio Belmonte (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (Tenerife, Spain)) ‘Cosmic landscapes in ancient Egypt: a diachronic perspective’ |
10.00 |
Joanna Popielsa-Grzybowska (Head of Department of Ancient Cultures, University of Warsaw) ‘The Sky in Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts’ |
10.30 |
Cheryl Hart (University of Wales Trinity Saint David) ‘Sacred or Secular? An Analysis of the Rosette Motif within the Iconographic Repertoire of the Near East, Egypt and the Aegean’ |
11.30 |
Gerardina Antelmi (University of Split (Croatia) ‘Poetry Creation as a Space of Union between Natural and Supernatural: A Reading of The House of Fame’ |
12.00 |
Faisal Al-Doori (University of Aberystwyth/ Tikrit University, Iraq) ‘The Image of the Marriage of Heaven and Earth in W. B. Yeats’ poem “Chosen”’ |
12.30 |
Shon Hopkins (Assistant Professor of Religious Education at Brigham Young University) ‘The Joining of Heaven and Earth in Mormon Temples and Sacred Texts’ |
14.30 |
Edina Eszenyi, (University of Kent) ‘Thunderbolt: Shaping the image of Lucifer in the Cinquecento Veneto
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15.00 |
Alexander Cummins (Independent Scholar) ‘The Faces of the Heavens: Early Modern Astrological Image Magic’ |
15.30 |
Bożena Józefów-Czerwińska (Head of Department of Anthropology, Institute of Anthropology and Archaeology, Pultusk Academy of Humanities) ‘Signs in the Sky - Beliefs in Polish Folk Culture’ |
16.30 |
J. McKim (Kim) Malville (Professor Emeritus, Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado) ‘The Parallelism of Heaven and Earth in Andean Cultures’ |
17.15 |
Harold H. Green (Research Associate of the Maya Exploration Center) ‘Zenith Sun as Organizing Principle in the Constructed Sacred Space and Calendrics of Central Mexico’ |
17.45 |
Stanislaw Iwaniszewski, (Professor of Archaeology, Department of Postgraduate Studies in the National School of Anthropology and History, Mexico City) ‘Communicating with the Ancestors in the Spiritual Landscape at Yaxchilan, Chiapas, Mexico’ |
Sunday 29th June |
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10.00 |
Tore Lomsdalen (Independent Scholar) ‘Cult, ritual, sacred space and the sky in the prehistoric temples of Malta’ PowerPoint (pdf) |
10.30 |
Liz Henty (University of Wales Trinity Saint David) ‘Tomnaverie Recumbent Stone Circle: Earthly Window to the Sacred Sky’ MP3 PowerPoint (pdf) |
11.00 |
Patrick McCafferty (Queens University, Belfast) ‘The Union of Heaven and Earth in the Boyne Valley, Ireland’
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12.00 |
Scott E. Hendrix (Associate Professor of History, Carroll University, U.S.A) ‘From the Margins to the Image of ‘The Most Christian Science’: Astrology, Theology, and St. Peter’s Basilica’. |
12.30 |
Rathnasree Nandivada (Director, Nehru Planetarium, New Delhi, India) ‘The evolution of representations of the Navagrahas in Indian temples and their changing identification with celestial bodies on the ecliptic’ |
14.15 |
John David Mooney (Artistic Director of the John David Mooney Foundation) ‘Sacred Geography, Sacred Sky, and Sacred Geometry’ |
14.45 |
Jim Cogswell (Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and Professor of Art, University of Michigan) ‘Jewelled Net of the Vast Invisible: a multi-media experience of cosmological space’ Conversation/interview with the collaborative team |
15.15 |
Nicholas Campion (Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture, School of Archaeology, History and Anthropology, University of Wales Trinity Saint David) The Marriage of Heaven and Earth in Twentieth-Century Art: Mysticism, Magic and Astrology in Surrealism |
16.00 |
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