If any of you are attending this. I will be the one selling books over
the course of the event. It would be good to meet some of you.
All the best.
Jack Hunter
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On 4 July 2010 14:08, Khem Caigan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Imagining Astrology: Painted Schemes
> and Threads of the Soul
>
> A Two-Day International Conference
> at the University of Bristol
>
> Supported by the Bristol Institute for Research
> in the Humanities and Arts and the Centre for
> Medieval Studies
>
> July 10th and 11th 2010
>
> Organized by Darrelyn Gunzburg and Liz Greene
>
> See the webpage for pg bursary information :
> http://tinyurl.com/23hfx7g
>
> Conference abstract:
>
> Astrology as a way of understanding the world
> has woven its thread into cultures since
> Mesopotamian times. Along with its technical
> descriptions of calculation and interpretation,
> whether written on clay tablets or vellum, using
> stylus, quill or printing press, it has also
> taken form in sculpture, mosaics and painting,
> as well as inhabiting such esoteric bodies of
> knowledge as Kabbalah, alchemy and magic.
> Modern scholarship, viewing astrology from the
> outside, pays little attention to the language
> incorporated in such esoteric lore and has
> assigned it solely a cultural meaning, assuming
> astrology to be a form of divination, shaped by
> Aristotelian cosmology and Neo-Platonic philosophy.
> In so doing the Academy has failed to understand
> that astrology forms a lingua franca stitching
> together multiple paradigms of thinking. These
> fall beyond cultures, and bind, underpin and
> flow through them, reflective of and inherently
> part of human experience.
>
> Speakers:
>
> Ronald Hutton
> Professor of History,
> The University of Bristol
> 'The Strange History of Astro-Archaeology'
>
> Elliot Wolfson
> Abraham Lieberman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies,
> New York University
> 'Theosis, Vision, and the Astral Body
> in Medieval German Pietism and the Spanish Kabbalah'
>
> Kocku von Stuckrad
> University of Groningen
> (from September 2009)
> 'Jewish Astrological Imagery in Late Antiquity'
>
> Roger Beck
> Professor Emeritus,
> University of Toronto
> 'Imagery and narrative in an ancient horoscope:
> P. Lond. 130 (Greek Horoscopes no. 81)'
>
> Peter Forshaw
> Assistant Professor in Western Esotericism,
> University of Amsterdam
> 'Astronomia Inferior et Superior:
> Some Medieval and Renaissance Instances
> of the Conjunction of Alchemy and Astrology.
>
> Geoffrey Shamos
> Postgraduate research student,
> University of Pennsylvania
> 'Astrology as Sociology:
> Depictions of the "Children of the Planets,"
> 1400-1600'
>
> Liz Greene
> Postgraduate research student,
> University of Bristol
> 'The magical astrology of the
> British occult revival, 1885-1939'
>
> Bernadette Brady
> Postgraduate research student,
> Bath Spa University
> 'The visual cartography of the sky
> since Mesopotamian times'
>
> Darrelyn Gunzburg
> Postgraduate research student,
> University of Bristol
> 'Medieval frescoes and sculptures
> as astrological documents'
>
> More information and registration form:
> University of Bristol
> http://tinyurl.com/23hfx7g
>
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