CONFERÊNCIA NA INGLATERRA 24 E 25/04/2010
Imagining
Astrology:
Painted Schemes and Threads of the Soul
*** Early Registration closes 30th Nov 2009 ***
One day only - £40 / Both days - £75
A Two-Day
International Academic Conference
at the University of Bristol, UK
Supported by the Bristol Institute for Research in the Humanities and Arts
and the Centre for Medieval Studies
24-25 April 2010
Organized
by Darrelyn Gunzburg and Liz Greene
with assistance from Chris Mitchell
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Speakers and topics
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
Professor of Religious Studies, University of Groningen
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, University of Wales, Lampeter
The visual cartography of the sky since Mesopotamian times.
Darrelyn
Gunzburg
Postgraduate research student, University of Bristol
A Cultural Cosmology: The fresco paintings of the
first floor Salone of the Palazzo della Ragione, Padua, Italy.
Programme
and provisional timetable available on the website below.
Further information: Darrelyn Gunzburg hadrg@bristol.ac.uk
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.
Early Registration Fee (by 30 November 2009)
One day only - £40
Both days - £75
Full Registration Fee (after 1 December 2009)
One day only - £60
Both days - £100
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BURSARIES AVAILABLE
to Postgraduate Research Students
We have 10 bursaries of £25 each available for current PGRs in need to
attend this two-day conference at the early registration price. This means you
pay only £50 for the two days. Please send an email in the first place
with your details to Darrelyn Gunzburg hadrg@bristol.ac.uk You will be required
to register with the balance of monies no later than 30th November, otherwise
the bursary will be given to the next PGR on the list.
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/birtha/imaginingastrology