The Chairs of Ancient History, Contemporary History and Stellar Astrophysics at the University of Potsdam, Germany, organize in the winter term 2023-2024 a cycle of lectures on the topic "Finding Our Ways in Space and Time. Perceptions of the Universe".
All lectures will take place (with one exception, see below!) on Tuesdays at 4.15 pm CET. All lectures will also be streamed online (via Zoom). If you wish to attend online, please register by sending an email to [log in to unmask]
The universe fascinated and puzzled human beings ever since they walked on this planet. Initially, the alien world visible in the night sky was imagined as the home of gods and late ancestors. It served as the anchor of humans to find their ways in space and time. It served as the first laboratory to reveal the laws of nature and the exploration of the universe led to regular revolutions in our way of thinking. Today, mankind reaches out to outer space not just for exploration. The world beyond becomes an economic factor and a new arena for conflict and war.
In this interdisciplinary series of lectures inspired by the BMBF science year "Our Universe", we will have a look at different perceptions of the universe all across the globe from the very beginning to the modern world spanning a wide range of topics.
17.10.23 Christoph Pfrommer (Potsdam), From the Big Bang Until Today: Our Modern Understanding of Cosmology
24.10.23 Duane Hamacher (Melbourne), The First Astronomers: How Indigenous Elders Read the Stars (online)
01.11.24 (WEDNESDAY!!!) David Barrado Navascués (Madrid), The Expansion of the Astronomical and Geographical Horizons: the Roots of the Scientific Revolution
07.11.23 Clive Ruggles (Leicester), Sighting the Sun (and Moon) at Stonehenge (online)
14.11.23 Giulio Magli (Milan), The Light in the Temples: Archaeoastronomy in the Greek and Roman World (online)
21.11.23 Mathieu Ossendrijver (Berlin), Babylonian Predictive Science and Conceptions of the Universe
28.11.23 Elisa Coda (Pisa), Ancient Cosmos Becomes Medieval: Aristotle Transformed
05.12.23 Cornelia Klettke (Potsdam), Perceptions of Space and Time in Dante’s Universe
12.12.23 Florian Freitag (Duisburg-Essen), Immersive Spaces: The Cosmology of Disney’s Tomorrowlands
19.12.23 Pouyan Rezvani (Munich), The Transmission of Astral Sciences in the Middle Ages: Medieval Arabic Translations of Ptolemy’s Almagest
09.01.24 Antje Nötzold (Chemnitz), Geopolitical Rivalry, Astropolitics and Future Space Warfare
16.01.24 Daniel Lambach (Frankfurt), Pigs in Space - How We Are Polluting the Space Environment and How We Can Stop
23.01.24 Jens Temmen (Düsseldorf), “Make Humanity a Multiplanet Species!”: The Second Space Age and the Anthropocene in American Studies.
30.01.24 Nicola Barbagli (Trier), Egyptian Skies: Astronomical Studies and Astrological Practices in Roman Egypt
06.02.24 Johann Hafner (Potsdam), Martin Wilkens (Potsdam), David Brown (Castel Gandolfo), Panel discussion: Astronomy, Cosmology and Christian Religion
For further information: https://www.uni-potsdam.de/fileadmin/projects/hi-altertum/Restliche_Dateien_f%C3%BCr_die_HP/KolloquiumWiSe23-Flyer.pdf
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