Speakers
Angelo Adamo:
Looking the sky in the face: Recognizing constellations in a sky in which none are foreseen
Angelo Adamo:
Night is Sound: Concerts for starry nights and orchestra by John Cage
Angelo Adamo:
Where telescopes cannot (yet) see: Moon and Saturn as 'seen' by Scriven Bolton, Lucien Rudaux, Étienne Trouvelot, Chesley Bonestell
Segla D. Aimé:
Yoruba Cosmological incorporations ‘here and there’ in Fon Culture (West Africa)
Reza Assasi:
Mithraeum as a Symbolic Planetarium
Ari Belenkiy:
Easter 414 in Alexandria: Hypatia’s Murder Case Reopened
Catherine Blackledge:
When The Luminaries Meet
Daniel Brown:
Memories unlocked and places explored: Stellarium a canvas to explore the temporality of skyscapes
Nicholas Campion:
The Moral Philosophy of Space Travel
Howard Carlton:
Condensing from a fluid haze: John Pringle Nichol, the nebular hypothesis and nineteenth-century cosmogony
Liana De Girolami Cheney:
Galileo Galilei’s Commemorative Tomb in Santa Croce: Art, Light and the Stars
Christopher J. Corbally and Margaret Boone Rappaport:
When Hominins First Looked Up and Saw Constellations
Clive Davenhall:
Mars and the Mediums
Daniela de Paulis:
AstroArts: the Arts and Culture programme of Astronomers Without Borders
José Funes:
A Cosmic End: from the Earth to the Universe
Giangiacomo Gandolfi:
The Strange Case of Raphael’s Planetary Hours: How Astronomy and Iconography Reveal a Neoclassical Forgery
Deborah Garwood:
'The Stranger' and The Sun
Antonella Gasperini, Lapo Casetti and Paolo Tozzi:
Night Vision: from silent movies to contemporary astronomy
Michael Geffert:
The photographic plate archive as an inspiration for art projects
Rafael Gil Brand:
The Golden Mean, an Unexpected Rationale Underlying Ancient Astrological Patterns
Safari F. Grey:
Homer’s Odyssey: Astronomy and the influence of the Near East
Harald Gropp:
Prehistoric circles from Neolithic Times till Bronze Age: Was there pre-Euclidean geometry?
Duane Hamacher:
Dance machines and astronomy in contemporary Torres Strait Islander traditions
Lynda Harris:
Current understandings of the Milky Way: Scientific and Spiritual
John Hatch:
East Meets West: Shi Zhiying's Picturing of Italo Calvino's ‘Mr. Palomar’
Holly Henry:
Searching for Earth 2.0 among the Wild Geographies of Exoplanets
Chris Impey:
Dreams of Other Worlds
Frank Keim:
The astronomical meaning of Botticelli’s Birth of Venus
Marek Kukula:
Visions of the Universe & Astronomy Photographer of the Year: Science, beauty and public engagement at the Royal Observatory Greenwich
George Latura:
Zodiacal Light: Forgotten For A Thousand Years
Annette S. Lee:
The Cosmos As Viewed Through the Lens of a Native-American Astronomer-Artist
Mario Livio:
The Top Achievements of the Hubble Space Telescope
Michael Mendillo and Ethan Pollock:
Christ and the Celestial Sphere: A Unique Mosaic in St. Isaac’s Cathedral?
Paolo Molaro:
A new portrait of Galileo Galilei?
David Morgan:
Einstein, Galileo, and Kepler: The Operas of Philip Glass
Ian Morison:
Proving Einstein Right
Ronald Olowin:
Eureka! Cosmic Explorations of Archimedes, Alexander von Humboldt, and Edgar Allan Poe
Jay M. Pasachoff and Kevin J. Kilburn:
John Bevis's 18th-century Atlas Celeste: An Oft-Overlooked Treasure
Richard Poss:
The Cosmological Compass in Western Art
Nandivada Rathnasree:
Inspiration of celestial phenomena in the works of Kalidasa
Lord Rees of Ludlow:
A Cosmic Perspective: Four Centuries of Expanding Horizons
Stefano Sandrelli:
Cosmos as a permanent Utopia realm
Valerie Shrimplin:
Sir Christopher Wren: Architect-Astronomer
Rolf Sinclair:
Conference Summary and Conclusions
Tarja Trygg:
Invisible / Visible
Mark Van Stone:
Mysterious Maya Mathematics & Astronomy
Melanie Vandenbrouck:
Collecting cosmic aesthetics: contemporary art for the Royal Observatory Greenwich
Elizabeth Wallace:
Effect of an Astronomical Narrative on the Brain
Gary Wells:
Balla's 'Transit of Mercury' and the Modernist Sun