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The Sophia Centre
for the study of Cosmology in Culture
Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Wales, Lampeter
‘Cosmologies’
Annual Conference, Saturday 6-Sunday 7 June 2009
At the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institute, 16-19 Queen Square, Bath BA1 2HN
£30 to attend one day / £45 to attend both days (incl.
vegetarian lunch and refreshments)
The question which the Sophia Centre addresses is how do
we human beings relate to the cosmos? This year’s speakers address this problem
from a variety of perspectives. The conference will be chaired by Nicholas
Campion, Liz Greene, Bernadette Brady and Patrick Curry, and will include an interdisciplinary
roundtable discussion on ‘Culture and Cosmology: Developing Definitions and Methodologies
Applicable to all Types of Cultures and Cosmologies’.
Speakers and subjects will include (subject to alteration):
- Ronald Hutton (University of Bristol) ‘The Wheel of the Year: The Major Traditional Festivals of Britain’.
- Peter Forshaw (University of Cambridge) ‘Astronomia Inferior et Superior: Some Medieval and Renaissance Instances of the Conjunction of Alchemy and Astrology’.
- Martin Gansten (Lund University, Sweden) ‘Reshaping Karma: Indic Metaphysical Paradigms in Traditional and Modern Astrology’.
- Mark Williams (Peterhouse, Cambridge) ‘Druidic Cloud-divination in Medieval Irish Literature’.
- Jane Ridder-Patrick (University of Edinburgh) ‘Astrology in Early Modern Scottish Universities, ca. 1560-1700’.
- Jenny Blain (Sheffield Hallam University) ‘Northern European Cosmologies of the Tree and the Well’.
- Helen Jacobus (University of Manchester) ‘Calendars and Divination in the Dead Sea Scrolls: The Case of 4Q318 Zodiac Calendar and Brontologion’.
- Elizabeth Reichell (University of Wales, Lampeter) ‘The Landscape in the Cosmoscape: Cosmology, Ethnoastronomy & Socio-environmental Sustainability Among the Tanimuka and Yukuna, N/W Amazon’.
- Lionel Sims (University of East London) ‘Stonehenge decoded: the conflation of winter solstice sunset with the southern minor standstill moonsets’.
- Jarita Holbrook (University of Arizona) ‘A & A in “the Sky in Our Lives” Survey’.
- Pauline Bambrey (University of Wales, Lampeter) ‘The Beltane Fire Festival’.
- Glenford Bishop (University of Wales, Lampeter) ‘Decoding the Intertextual Literary Strata of the Mummers Play: Some Unexpected Astronomical Themes and a Pagan Fingerprint – Continuity or Reconstruction?’
- Frances Clynes (University of Wales, Lampeter) ‘Cyberspace and the Sacred Sky’.
See www.lamp.ac.uk/sophia/events for programme updates
Advance booking is required as spaces are limited. Please send the booking form below together with payment to: Dr Nick Campion, Sophia Conference, Sophia Centre, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Wales, Lampeter, Ceredigion, Wales, SA48 7ED, UK, or email enquiries to n.campion@lamp.ac.uk
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Saturday 22 November 2008, 10am-5pm
Connaught Hall, 36-45 Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9EX
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