Programme

Provisional programme

SATURDAY 13 JULY

Time

Name

Topic

8.30-9.00

Registration

9.00-9.15

Welcome

9.15-9.45

Kim Malville

The Cosmogony of Darkness and Light

9.45-10.15

Géza Kulcsár

Fiat lumen: from primordial light to daylight

10.15-10.45

Joanna Popielska-Grzybowska

Sides of creation - the role of light and shadow in the Pyramid Texts

10.45-11.15

Tea and Coffee

11.15-11.45

Nick Campion

Dawn: Exploring Sunrise

11.45-12.15

Frank Prendergast

Shadow Casting Phenomena at Newgrange: a postscript 30 years on

12.15-12.45

David Stevenson

Optics and Cosmology: from Ptolemy to Freud

12.45-14.00

Lunch

14.00-14.30

Tina Burchill

Dark Fire: Dimensions of Luminosity in the Chthonic

14.30-15.00

Valerie Shrimplin

Shadows in Renaissance Painting: 'Standing between Darkness and Light'

15.00-15.30

Tamzin Powell

Night and Day in the Valley: An Ethnography of Witchcraft and Magical Practices in the Welsh Borders

15.30-16.00

Tea and Coffee

16.00-16.30

Bernadette Brady

The Role of Light in Welsh Cistercian Abbey Churches

16.30-17.00

Natalie Marr

Meeting the night halfway: Dark Sky Place as creative milieu

17.00-17.30

Panel discussion

17.30

Closing Comments

Call for Papers

Conference Speakers

Conference Programme

Booking the conference

Travelling to Lampeter

Accommodation around Lampeter

Sophia Centre Conference Publication

MA in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology

Lampeter Campus

University of Wales Trinity Saint David
Lampeter Campus
Ceredigion SA48 7ED
Tel: 01570 422351
Website: www.uwtsd.ac.uk

London Campus

University of Wales Trinity Saint David
London Campus, Winchester House
11 Cranmer Road
London, SW9 6EJ
Tel: 0207 566 7600
Website: www.uwtsdlondon.ac.uk

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