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University of Wales Trinity Saint David
The Sophia Centre
Tenth Annual Conference

Astrology in Time and Place
The Transmission of Ideas and Cross Cultural Comparison in the History of Astrology

Date: Saturday 23-Sunday 24 June 2012
Venue: Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institute, 16-19 Queen Square, Bath BA1 2HN 
£45 one day / £65 both days

http://www.historyofastrology.org.uk/conferences/TimeAndPlace/

Conference Chairs: Nicholas Campion and Dorian Greenbaum
Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture, University of Wales Trinity Saint David

Keynote Speakers

Charles Burnett
Professor of the History of Islamic Influences at the Warburg Institute of the University of London.

David Pankenier
Department of Modern Languages & Literature, Lehigh University.

Michael York
Former Professor of Cultural Astronomy and Astrology, Bath Spa University

Speakers

Audrius Benorius
Director of the Center of Oriental Studies, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Transformations of the Social and Religious Status  of the Indian Astrologer at the Royal Court

Bernadette Brady
University of Wales Trinity Saint David
Aristotle’s idea of ‘place’ within contemporary astrology 

Kristina Buhrman
University of Southern California
Ptolemy and Sima Qian in 11thCentury Japan: Combining Disparate Astrologies in Practice

Michael Grofe
Maya Exploration Project
Eternity in an Hour: the astronomical symbolism of the Era as the Maya agricultural year

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
 
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
Independent Scholar
The Meaning of Time: Calendar Divination

Matthew Kosuta
College of Religious Studies, Mahidol University, Thailand.
The relationship between Theravada Buddhism and astrology with an emphasis on the modern period and Thailand. 

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
Kyōto Sangyō University and the University of Wales Trinity Saint David
Various renderings of pinax in Greek and Demotic in the Medînet Mâdi ostraca

Gustav-Adolf Schoener
Leibniz University of Hanover
The Difference between Methods of Natural Sciences and Methods of Religious Studies on Modern Astrology.