Astrology in Time and Place
Saturday 23-Sunday 24 June 2012
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institute, 16-19 Queen Square, Bath BA1 2HN
£45 one day / £65 both days
Sponsored jointly by The Sophia Centre, Culture and Cosmos and the Sophia Centre Press
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME (SUBJECT TO CHANGE)
SATURDAY 24 JUNE
8.30 Registration and Refreshments
9.20 Welcome
9.30 Bernadette Brady (University of Wales Trinity Saint David)
Aristotle's idea of 'place' within contemporary astrology
10.00 Gustav-Adolf Schoener (Leibniz University of Hanover)
The Difference between Methods of Natural Sciences and Methods of Religious Studies on Modern Astrology.
10.30 Johann Hasler (Departamento de Música, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia)
The
sounding zodiacs in Western musical theory: an overview of proposals
for musical interpretation of astrological data from Ptolemy to the late
20th century
11.00 TEA AND COFFEE
11.30 Charles Burnett
(Professor of the History of Islamic Influences at the Warburg Institute of the University of London)
Johannes Borotin as student and teacher of the science of the stars in fifteenth-century Prague
12.30 LUNCH (OWN ARRANGEMENTS
2.00 David Pankenier(Department of Modern Languages & Literature, Lehigh University)
On Chinese Astrology's Impermeability to Western Influences
3.00 Kristina Buhrman (University of Southern California)
Ptolemy and Sima Qian in 11thCentury Japan: Combining Disparate Astrologies in Practice
3.30 TEA AND COFFEE
4.00 Ulla Koch (Carsten Niebuhr Institute, University of Copenhagen)
The Meaning of Time: Calendar Divination
4.30 Michael Grofe (Maya Exploration Centre)
Eternity in an Hour: the astronomical symbolism of the Era as the Maya agricultural year
5.00 Christel Mattheeuws (Department of Anthropology, University of Aberdeen)
The Journey of Calendars, Wind and Life in the Indian Ocean
7.00 CONFERENCE DINNER OPA RESTAURANT (Separate Booking)
SUNDAY 25 JUNE
9.30 Micah Ross and Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum (Kyōto Sangyō University; University of Wales Trinity Saint David)
Various renderings of pinax in Greek and Demotic in the Medînet Mâdi ostraca
10.00 Helen R. Jacobus (University College London)
The Zodiac Calendar in the Dead Sea Scrolls (4Q318) in relation to Babylonian Horoscopes
10.30 David W. Kim (University of Edinburgh)
A Sethian Iconography: The Astrology of Tchacos Judas:
11.00 TEA AND COFFEE
11.30 Micah Ross (Kyōto Sangyō University)
A Study in the Early Iconography of Gemini
12.00 Matthew Kosuta (College of Religious Studies, Mahidol University, Thailand)
The relationship between Theravada Buddhism and astrology with an emphasis on the modern period and Thailand.
12.30 LUNCH
2.00 Mario Friscia (University of La Sapienza, Rome)
Astrology
and its ritual applications: Propitiation of the planet Saturn within
the Sun temple at Suriyanar Koyil (Tamil Nadu, India). A case-study from
contemporary Tamil Shaivism
2.30 Audrius Benorius (Director of the Center of Oriental Studies, Vilnius University, Lithuania)
Transformations of the Social and Religious Status of the Indian Astrologer at the Royal Court
3.00 Michael York (Former Professor of Cultural Astronomy and Astrology, Bath Spa University)
Religion versus Science: Science versus Religion: Whither Astrology: Whithersoever?
4.00 CLOSE
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