Programme

The programme is provisional and subject to change.

SATURDAY 8 JULY

Time

Name

Topic

09.30-10.00

Registration

10.00-10.15

Conference Opening

10.15-11.00

Nick Campion

New Light on Space and Time: Celebrating Twenty One Years of the Sophia Centre

11.00-11.30

Tea/Coffee

11.30-12.00

Laura Andrikopoulos

Dane Rudhyar's conception of the wisdom contained within the stars

12.00-12.30

Pamela Armstrong

The Cotswold Severn long barrows and their connection to the sun, moon and stars

12.30-13.00

Wendy Stacey

Matariki; United Under the Stars of Aotearoa

13.00-14.00

Lunch

14.00-14.30

Chris Mitchell

The Beginning of Wisdom: how medieval astrology opened the door to modern science

14.30-15.15

Ulla Koch

Divine stars - an aspect of Mesopotamian celestial divination

15.15-15.45

Giuseppe Cuscito

From Angels to Aliens: the Reinterpretation of the Vigilants in 1 Enoch

15.45-16.15

Tea/Coffee

16.15-17.00

Steven Vanden Broecke

What was astrology? Challenges in historicizing a ‘wretched subject’

17.00-17.45

Jeffrey Kotyk

Understanding Sexuality in East Asian Astrology: The Lot of Eros

17.45

Close of Saturday

SUNDAY 9 JULY

10.00-10.45

Fabio Silva

The Forgotten Stars: a critical look at the (lack of) stars in archaeoastronomy

10.45-11.15

Tore Lomsdalen

How Temple Location and Orientation Reflected the Worldview and Belief of Maltese Settlers

11.15-11.45

Tea/Coffee

11.45-12.15

Ilaria Cristofaro

Sirens and Stars: The Wisdom of the Pleaides in Ancient Campania

12.15-13.00

R. Hakan Kırkoğlu

Whispers of an Ottoman chief astrologer, the yearly judgments of Fethiyeli Halil Efendi

13.00-14.00

Lunch

14.00-14.30

Karine Dilanian

Victory over the Sun – a Russian avant-garde’s vision of the wisdom of the skies

14.30-15.00

Darrelyn Gunzburg

Richard Fitzjames and the Stained Glass window horoscope of Merton College, Oxford: charlatanism or an expression of the wisdom of astrology?

15.00-15.30

Bernadette Brady

The Moon in Ancient Egypt: A journey from a henchman to a king-maker, to finally a god-enabler

15.30-16.00

Tea/Coffee

16.00-16.45

Nick Campion

Modern Western Astrology as Indigenous Thought and Practice

16.45

Conference Close