Speakers

Keynote Speakers

Professor Charles Burnett

Warburg Institute

Johannes Borotin as student and teacher of the science of the stars in fifteenth-century Prague.

 

Professor David Pankenier

Professor of Chinese, Lehigh University, Pennsylvania

On Chinese Astrology's Impermeability to External Influences

 

Professor Michael York

Former Professor of Cultural Astronomy and Astrology, Bath Spa University.

Religion versus Science; Science versus Religion: Whither Astrology; Whithersoever?

 

Speakers

Audrius Beinorius

Director of the Center of Oriental Studies, Vilnius University, Lithuania

Transformations of the Social and Religious Status of Indian Astrology at the Royal Court

 

Bernadette Brady
Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture, University of Wales Trinity Saint David

Aristotle’s idea of ‘place’ within contemporary astrology

 

Kristina Buhrman
Department of History, University of Southern California

Ptolemy and Sima Qian in 11thCentury Japan: Combining Disparate Astrologies in Practice

 

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

 

Michael Grofe
Maya Exploration Project

Eternity in an Hour: the astronomical symbolism of the Era as the Maya agricultural year

 

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

 

Helen R. Jacobus
University College London.

The Zodiac Calendar in the Dead Sea Scrolls (4Q318) in relation to Babylonian Horoscopes

 

David W. Kim
University of Edinburgh

A Sethian Iconography:The Astrology of Tchacos Judas

 

Ulla Koch

Carsten Niebuhr Institute, University of Copenhagen

The Meaning of Time: Calendar Divination

 

Christel Mattheeuws
Department of Anthropology, University of Aberdeen.

The Journey of Calendars, Wind and Life in the Indian Ocean

 

Micah Ross
Kyōto Sangyō University

A Study in the Early Iconography of Gemini

 

Micah Ross and Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum

Various renderings of pinax in Greek and Demotic in the Medînet Mâdi ostraca

 

Liana Saif

Astrology: Homocentric Science in a Heliocentric Universe

 

Gustav-Adolf Schoener
Leibniz University of Hanover

The Difference between Methods of Natural Sciences and Methods of Religious Studies on Modern Astrology.