Speakers and Abstracts
The Talking Sky: Myths and Meaning in the Celestial Spheres
Laura
Andrikopoulos
Myth, enchantment and psychological astrology
Gerardina
Antelmi
Interstices of Silence. What the Sky Does Not Narrate
Bernadette
Brady
The Role of the Constant Sky in the pursuit of the
Restoration of Sky Myths
Faya
Causey
Astra Planeta in the British Museum
Frances
Clynes
Solar Deities in Irish Mythology
Signe Cohen
What Do the Gods Call the Sky? Naming the Celestial in
Old Norse
Geoffrey
Dean and Arthur Mather
Can cosmological myths survive in today's materialist
world?
Magda
El-Nowieemy
The Various Voices of the Talking Sky in the Myth of
Phaethon in Ovid's Metamorphoses
Anna
Estaroth
Seasons, light and fire
Edina
Eszenyi
Python and the Angels: Greek Mythology Lost and Found
in the Cinquecento Veneto
Morag
Feeney-Beaton
Altair and Vega, The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, an analysis
of a living sky myth
Lindsay
Gladstone
The Mythology of Cosmic Orientation
John
Grigsby
The Giant's Daughter: Neolithic Cosmology in Celtic
myth?
Darrelyn
Gunzburg
The Summer Triangle and the Stymphalian Birds
Johann
Hasler
Plato's Myth of Er as the founding myth of the tradition
of the Harmony of the Spheres
Kirsten
Hoving
Joseph Cornell's Cosmos: An Artist's Modern
Interpretations of Ancient Myths
Astrid
Leimlehner
Sky myths retold: An exploration of Antoine de
Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince
Maria
Nita
Angels, 'Raptured Ready' Bodies and Marvel Heroes:
Modalities of Relating to the Sky in Western Culture
Ben
Pestell
The Sun Within: A psychic star in the fiction of Wilson
Harris and J. G. Ballard
Claudia
Rousseau
Love, Triumph, Immortality: The Mythic and Pictorial
Tradition of the Corona Borealis
Ben
Rovers
The pivotal role of air in water cycle mythology
Jenn Zahrt
The Transneptunian Planets of the Hamburg School: A Modern
Sky Myth?



Images from the conference in 2016













