Dear Jack,

Good to know you're on the SASM list. Wish I could attend this conference 
"across the pond," but have limited this years' conference presentations to 
local in California. New Directions in the Humanities 2010 Conference at 
UCLA has just concluded, so I'll report here that my interdisciplinary paper 
on Western Esotericism was well-received.

All Best for a successful Astrology conference!

Kathryn

Kathryn LaFevers Evans
http://independent.academia.edu/KathrynLaFeversEvans

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J Hunter" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 12:30 AM
Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] FW: Imagining Astrology : Conference 
July 10th and 11th 2010, Bristol


> 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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