Lecturer: Nicholas Campion is Director of the Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture, the only academic centre in the world to consider humanity's relationship with the sky. He is Programme Director of the University's MA in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology. His books include the two-volume History of Western Astrology (London: Continuum 2008/9), Astrology and Cosmology in the World's Religions (New York: New York University Press, 2012) and The New Age in the Modern West: Counter-Culture, Utopia and Prophecy from the late Eighteenth Century to the Present Day (London: Bloomsbury 2015) and his current projects include the six volume Cultural History of the Universe (Bloomsbury, forthcoming), for which he is General Editor.

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Lecturer: Karine Dilanian (Moscow, Russia) holds an MA in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology from the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK. She has organised International Astrological Conferences and Schools in Moscow since 1993. Karine has been teaching astrology since 1990 and is a cofounder of AGAM -professional astrology school in Moscow, an ISAR affiliated school, whose programs correspond to the international astrology educational standards. She teaches classical Western astrology with special focus on Hellenistic, Medieval, and Renaissance astrology. She is a co-founder of the Institute for the Study of Cosmology and Astronomy in History, Philosophy and Culture.

Lecturer: Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum is a tutor at the University of Wales Trinity St David. Her PhD from the Warburg Institute formed the basis of her book, The Daimon in Hellenistic Astrology: Origins and Influence (Leiden/Boston 2016). She has written articles for Blackwell's Encyclopedia of Ancient History and Springer's Handbook of Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy, and edited/co-translated the volume Kepler's Astrology (Lampeter, Wales 2010). Recent publications include (with co-editor Charles Burnett) From Masha' Allah to Kepler: Theory and Practice in Medieval and Renaissance Astrology (Lampeter, Wales 2015); and Eternity in the Astrology of Vettius Valens and Eternity: A History, ed. Yitzhak Melamed (Oxford 2016). Her article Porphyry of Tyre on the Daimon, Birth and the Stars will appear in A. Timotin and L. Brisson, eds, Neoplatonic Demons and Angels, Leiden/Boston.