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University of Wales Trinity Saint David

Faculty of Humanities and the Performing Arts

The Sophia Centre

Annual Conference 1-2 July 2017

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME (SUBJECT TO CHANGE)




SATURDAY 1 JULY

8.30
Registration and Refreshments

9.30

Opening
Cultural Astronomy and Sky Myths


Stellar Myths

10.00

Darrelyn Gunzburg
The Summer Triangle and the Stymphalian Birds

10.30

Claudia Rousseau
Love, Triumph, Immortality: The Mythic and Pictorial Tradition of the Corona Borealis

11.00
Coffee



Greek and Roman myths
11.30

Johann Hasler
Plato's Myth of Er as the founding myth of the tradition of the Harmony of the Spheres

12.00

Faya Causey
Astra Planeta in the British Museum

12.30

Magda El-Nowieemy *
The Various Voices of the Talking Sky in the Myth of Phaethon in Ovid's Metamorphoses

13.00
Lunch (own arrangements). There are many cafes, restaurants and sandwich bars nearby



Norse and Celtic Myths
14.30

Signe Cohen
What Do the Gods Call the Sky? Naming the Celestial in Old Norse

15.00

Anna Estaroth
Seasons, light and fire

15.30

Geoffrey Dean and Arthur Mather
Can cosmological myths survive in today's materialist world?

16.00
Coffee



Cosmic Myths
16.30

Lindsay Gladstone
The Mythology of Cosmic Orientation

17.00

Ben Rovers
The pivotal role of air in water cycle mythology

17.30

Ben Pestell
The Sun Within: A psychic star in the fiction of Wilson Harris and J. G. Ballard

18.00

Kirsten Hoving
Joseph Cornell's Cosmos: An Artist's Modern Interpretations of Ancient Myths

18.30

Wine and Cheese Gathering




SUNDAY 2 JULY

9.00
Registration and Refreshments



Astrology

09.30

Jenn Zahrt
The Transneptunian Planets of the Hamburg School: A Modern Sky Myth?

10.00

Laura Andrikopoulos
Myth, enchantment and psychological astrology

10.30

Frances Clynes
Solar Deities in Irish Mythology

11.00
Coffee



Considering Sky Narratives
11.30

Astrid Leimlehner
Sky myths retold: An exploration of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince

12.00

Morag Feeney-Beaton
Altair and Vega, The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, an analysis of a living sky myth

12.30

Gerardina Antelmi *
Interstices of Silence. What the Sky Does Not Narrate

13.00

Lunch (own arrangements). There many cafes, restaurants and sandwich bars nearby



Angels, modern and classical
14.00

Maria Nita
Angels, 'Raptured Ready' Bodies and Marvel Heroes: Modalities of Relating to the Sky in Western Culture

14.30

Edina Eszenyi
Python and the Angels: Greek Mythology Lost and Found in the Cinquecento Veneto



Methodology
15.00

Bernadette Brady
The Role of the Constant Sky in the pursuit of the Restoration of Sky Myths

15.30

End




Post-conference relaxation
Join us at the popular All Bar One.


* These speakers do not wish to be broadcast or recorded and thus their lectures will not be part of the online conference.





Images from the conference 2016








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Contact Us

Dr. Nick Campion, n.campion@uwtsd.ac.uk, (University of Wales Trinity Saint David) Chair

For queries about technical issues or the website:
Dr. Frances Clynes, frances.clynes@sophia-project.net (University of Wales Trinity Saint David)