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University of Wales Trinity Saint David Conference 
Annual Sophia Centre Conference 
The Marriage of Heaven and Earth: Images and Representations of the Sky in
Sacred Space

The Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture,
School of Archaeology, History and Anthropology

28-29 June 2014
Venue: Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, Bath, England

Booking:
http://www.historyofastrology.org.uk/conferences/HeavenAndEarth/booking.html

Speakers and Abstracts:
http://www.historyofastrology.org.uk/conferences/HeavenAndEarth/speakers.htm
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Juan Antonio Belmonte (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (Tenerife,
Spain))
'Cosmic landscapes in ancient Egypt: a diachronic perspective'

J. McKim (Kim) Malville (Professor Emeritus, Department of Astrophysical and
Planetary Sciences at the University of Colorado)
 'The Parallelism of Heaven and Earth in Andean Cultures'

Nicholas Campion (Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture,
School of Archaeology, History and Anthropology, University of Wales Trinity
Saint David,
The Marriage of Heaven and Earth in Twentieth-Century Art: Mysticism, Magic
and Astrology in Surrealism

Faisal Al-Doori (University of Aberystwyth/ Tikrit University,Iraq)
'The Image of the Marriage of Heaven and Earth in W. B. Yeats' poem
"Chosen"'

Gerardina Antelmi (University of Split (Croatia)),
'Poetry Creation as a Space of Union between Natural and Supernatural: A
Reading of The House of Fame'

Jim Cogswell (Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and Professor of Art, University
of Michigan)
'Jewelled Net of the Vast Invisible: a multi-media experience of
cosmological space' 

Alexander Cummins (Independent Scholar)
'The Faces of the Heavens: Early Modern Astrological Image Magic'
 
Edina Eszenyi, (University of Kent) 
 'Thunderbolt: Shaping the image of Lucifer in the Cinquecento Veneto

Harold H. Green (Research Associate of the Maya Exploration Center)
'Zenith Sun as Organizing Principle in the Constructed Sacred Space and
Calendrics of Central Mexico'

Cheryl Hart (University of Wales Trinity Saint David)
'Sacred or Secular? An Analysis of the Rosette Motif within the Iconographic
Repertoire of the Near East, Egypt and the Aegean'

Scott E. Hendrix (Associate Professor of History, Carroll University, U.S.A)

'From the Margins to the Image of 'The Most Christian Science': Astrology,
Theology, and St. Peter's Basilica'.

Liz Henty (University of Wales Trinity Saint David)
'Tomnaverie Recumbent Stone Circle: Earthly Window to the Sacred Sky'
Shon Hopkin (Assistant Professor of Religious Education at Brigham Young
University) 
'The Joining of Heaven and Earth in Mormon Temples and Sacred Texts'

Stanislaw Iwaniszewski, (Professor of Archaeology, Department of
Postgraduate Studies in the National School of Anthropology and History,
Mexico City)
'Communicating with the Ancestors in the Spiritual Landscape at Yaxchilan,
Chiapas, Mexico'

Bożena Józefów-Czerwińska (Head of Department of Anthropology, Institute of
Anthropology and Archaeology, Pultusk Academy of Humanities)
'Signs in the Sky - Beliefs in Polish Folk Culture'

Tore Lomsdalen (Independent Scholar)
'Cult, ritual, sacred space and the sky in the prehistoric temples of Malta'

Patrick McCafferty (Queens University, Belfast)
'The Union of Heaven and Earth in the Boyne Valley, Ireland'

Rathnasree Nandivada (Director, Nehru Planetarium, New Delhi, India)
'The evolution of representations of the Navagrahas in Indian temples and
their changing identification with celestial bodies on the ecliptic'

Joanna Popielska-Grzybowska (Head of Department of Ancient Cultures,
University of Warsaw)
'The Sky in Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts'

John David Mooney (Artistic Director of the John David Mooney Foundation)
'Sacred Geography, Sacred Sky, and Sacred Geometry'