Programme

The programme is provisional and subject to change.

SATURDAY 13 JULY

Time

Name

Topic

09.30-10.00

Registration

10.00-10.15

Welcome

10.15-11.00

Nick Campion

Confessionalisation and the Great Comet of 1618

11.00-11.30

Tea/Coffee

11.30-12.00

Itziar Azkona

Everything, Everywhere, All at Once

12.00-12.30

Izabela Podlaska-Konkel

The Horoscope as an Image of the Sky in the Practice of the Hellenistic Astrologers

12.30-13.00

Wade Caves

Finding Fortuna: a technical mirroring of the mind

13.00-14.30

Lunch

14.30-15.15

Fabio Silva

Heaven and Earth are not Two, or how to make a case for celestial alignments

15.15-15.45

George Coutts

What’s Natural: A Considered Reading of Ptolemy’s On the Diseases of the Soul

15.45-16.15

Nicole Montag-Keller

In what ways does the ceiling in the Goetheanum exhibit the hermetic requirements of ‘As Above, So Below’ and in what ways would it fulfil the second part of the phrase ‘As Below, so Above’?

16.15-16.45

Tea/Coffee

16.45-17.30

Dawn Collins, Margaux Crump and Jake Eshelman

Water Moves: Exploring the Sky, Geography, and Deep Ecology of Sacred Springs in Wales

17.30

Close of Saturday

SUNDAY 14 JULY

10.00-10.45

Luis Ribeiro

A Science of Correlations: connecting the celestial and the earthly

10.45-11.15

Graeme Tobyn

Culpeper our English Paracelsus?

11.15-11.45

Tea/Coffee

11.45-12.15

Anupam Suman

"Fate (Daiva) from above, Freewill (Puruṣakāra) from below" : Decoding the Philosophical Compatibilism of Indian Jyotiḥśāstra with Varāhamihirian Texts

12.15-12.45

Dorian Greenbaum

‘As thou daily conversest with the heavens, so instruct and form thy minde according to the image of Divinity’: Lilly's Remark and the Divinatory Mode in Astrology

12.45-13.15

Alejo Lopez

‘As above, so below’ in movies: exploring the cinematic sunset symbolism in films

13.15-14.15

Lunch

14.15-14.45

John Murray

A Benedictine Science of the Stars – the Cosmology and Astrology of Hildegard of Bingen as Revealed in a Twelfth-Century Manuscript Fragment

14.45-15.30

Ulla Koch

The Babylonian Diviner's Manual

15.30-16.00

Tea/Coffee

16.00-16.45

Nick Campion

The Awe and Wonder of the Sky: Experiencing the Above Below

16.45

Conference Close