Sponsored by:
The Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture, University of Wales, Lampeter

Jim Bennett, Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford,

'The Cosmographical Role of Renaissance and Early-Modern Sundials'

 

Joscelyn Bell Burnell, Astrophysics, University of Oxford,

Astronomy and Poetry

 

Michael Hoskin, Editor, Journal for the History of Astronomy,

‘William Herschel’s Wonderful Decade, 1781–1790'

 

Michael  Rowan–Robinson, past President, Royal Astronomical Society

'The Invisible Universe'

 

Arnold  Wolfendale, former Astronomer Royal,

‘The Inter-Relation of the Visual Arts and Science in Particular and Astronomy in Particular’.

Invited Review Papers

Nicholas Campion, University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, UK,

'Astrology: A Critical, Historical and Philosophical Review'

 

Chris Impey, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ USA,

'The Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena'

 

Ron Olowin, St. Mary's College, Moraga, CA USA,

'A Cosmic Voyage: A Sophisticate’s Primer for the History of the World'

Oral Presentations

Patricia Aakhus, University of Southern Indiana, Indiana, USA

'Astral Magic and Adelard of Bath’s Liber Prestigiorum; or Why Werewolves Change at the Full Moon'

 

Lucia Ayala, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany

'The Universe in images: Iconography of the Plurality of Worlds'

 

Daniel Armstrong, RMIT and Deakin Universities. Australia

'Citing The Saucers: Astronomy, UFOs and a persistence of vision'

 

Marv Bolt, Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum, Chicago, Ilinois, USA

'Magi and The Star of Bethlehem'

 

Bernadette Brady,  University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, Wales

'Star Phases, Mortal Gods and Angels'

 

Alberto Cappi, INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna, Italy

'The concept of gravity before Newton'

 

Faya Causey, National Gallery of Art, USA

'Thinking in circles: cosmic schemata from antiquity to the present'

 

Giles Davison, Independent Scholar, UK

'Responses in Habsburg Austria in the 17th century to the Vatican’s decisions regarding the Index of Forbidden Books'

 

Ad Epstein (with Richart Lorig)

'Sky White Tiger - Realizing a Rock & Roll Sky Mythology'

 

Beatriz Garcia, National Technical University, Argentina

'Inspiration of Astronomy in the movies: a history of a close encounter'

 

Darrelyn Gunzburg, University of Bristol, UK

'Sky-Horizon-Earth : The tripartite division of space reflected in art'

 

John Hammond, University of Kent, USA

'Gold cups and ring ditches: cosmology, astronomy and sacred geometry at the time of Stonehenge'

 

Peter Hingley, Royal Astronomical Society

'The Observatory as Architectural Object'

 

Frank Keim, University of Ulm, Germany

'Giorgiones Discovery Of Jupiters Satellites 105 Years Before Galileo'

 

Tayra M. Carmen Lanuza-Navarro, Chemical Heritage Foundation / University of Valencia, Spain

'Astrological culture before its public'

 

Richard Lorig (with Ad Epstein)

'Sky White Tiger - Realizing a Rock & Roll Sky Mythology'

 

Euan Mackie, National Museums of Scotland

'A new look at the astronomy and geometry of Stonehenge'

 

Toby Maclennan, Rutgers University, New York, USA

'Presentation of Playing the Stars'

 

Leonid Marsadalov, The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia

'Archaeoastronomical Aspects of the Archeological Monuments of Siberia'

 

Michael Mendillo, Boston University, Massachusetts, USA

'The Artistic Portrayal of the Medicean Moons in Early Astronomical Charts, Books and Paintings'

 

Paolo Molaro, INAF-OAT, Trieste, Italy

'Edgar Allan Poe’s cosmology  in  Eureka', by P.Molaro & A.Cappi

 

John David Mooney, John David Mooney Foundation, Chicago, Illinois, USA

'Sun Dance: A Solar Garden'

 

Walter Murch, Looking-Glass Films, Bolinas, USA

'Titius-Bode and The Music of the Spheres'

 

Paul Murdin, IoA, Cambridge, UK

'Artilleryman to head of state - how astronomy inspired Francois Arago'

 

Roberta J. M. Olson, The New-York Historical Society, New York, USA

'The Comets of Caroline Herschel, Sleuth of the Skies at Slough'

 

Jay M. Passachoff, The New-York Historical Society, New York, USA

'The Comets of Caroline Herschel, Sleuth of the Skies at Slough'

 

David Pankenier, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA

'Astrology for an Empire: The "Treatise on the Celestial Offices" (ca. 100 BCE)'

 

Aaron Plasek, Metropolitan State College of Denver, USA  

'Stars are Symbols; Reading and Gallery Show: Insights, Questions'

 

Richard Poss, University of Arizona, Tuscon, Arizona, USA

'Easy Journey to Other Planets?:  Reflections on the Lagrange Points'

 

Stephen Renshaw, Kanda University of International Studies, Chiba, Japan

'The Inspiration of Subaru as a Symbol of Values and Traditions in Japan'

 

Francis Ring, University of Glamorgan, Wales

'The Bath Philosophical Society and its influence on William Herschel’s career'

 

Jose Francisco Salgado, Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum, Chicago, Illinois, USA

'Time-Lapse Photography of the Night Sky'

 

Voula Saridakis, Lake Forest College, Chicago, Illinois, USA

'For "the present and future happiness of my dear Pupils”: The Astronomical and Educational Legacy of Margaret Bryan'

 

Rolf Sinclair, Centro de Estudios Cientificos, Chile

'Howard Russell Butler: Painter Extraordinary of Solar Eclipses'

 

Inga Elmqvist Söderlund, Stockholm university/ Observatoriemuseet, Stockholm, Sweden

'Inspiration from antique heroic deeds: Hercules as an astronomer'

 

David Southwood, European Space Agency, Paris, France

'The Herschel Space Observatory'

 

Felicity Spear, Independent Visual Artist, Victoria, Australia

'Extending vision: sky-situated knowledge and the artists eye'

 

Vanessa Stanley, Visual Artist, Australia

'Surveillance-Surveillance-Surveillance'

 

Kelley Swain, Whipple Museum of the History of Science, Blackheath, UK

'Caroline; readings from an historical novel-in-progress'

 

Tarja Trygg, Aalto University School of Art & Design, Helsinki, Finland

'Solargraphy - Sunpath Pinhole Recording'

 

Emily Urban, Rutgers University, Rome, Italy

'Depicting the Heavens: The Use of Astrology in the Frescoes of Rome'

 

Emilie Vergé, Université de Paris-3/Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France

'The astronomical sky in American experimental cinema'

 

Gary Wells, Ithaca College, Ithaca, USA

'The Moon in the Landscape: Interpreting a Theme of 19th Century Art'

 

Matthew Whitehouse, University of Arizona, Arizona, USA

'Astronomical Organ Music'

 

Berco Wilsenach, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

'Project for the Blind Astronomer'

 

Artwork

Sheelagh Broderick, Graduate School of Creative Arts & Media, Dublin, Ireland

'A Cosmopolital Cosmology'

 

Marilyn Gottlieb-Roberts, Independent artist

'A Durable Tale and graphic report, with almanacs'

 

Merja Markkula, University of Turku, Finland
'The Way I See the Stars:  fibre art inspired by astrobiology'

 

Govinda Sah, Independent Artist, Nepal
'Beyond the Notion'

 

Gisela Weimann, Independent Artist, Berlin, Germany

'Above all the stars'

 

Ellen Wiener, Independent artist, USA

'My Histogram of the Telescope'

 

Courtney Wrenn, Scrapworm, USA
'Nebulae (emission / absorption)'
 

Posters

Marea Atkinson, School of Art, Architecture and Design, University of South Australia 

'In Search of Starlight '

 

Ulisses Barres de Almeida, University of Durham, UK
'What are these sparks of infinite clarity? And what am I? So I pry'

 

Kamira Barron, University of Calgary, Canada

'Kukaniloko – A Living Legend'

 

Jim Cogswell, University of Michigan, USA

'Molecular Delirium'

 

Lynn Crighton-Lyon, Arès et  Antarès, France
'Music and Astronomy: A Secret Melody'

 

Clive Davenhall, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

'Dr Katterfelto and the Prehistory of Astronomical Ballooning'

 

Christian Etheridge, Aarhus Universitet, Denmark

'A systematic re-evaluation of the sources of Old Norse astronomy'

 

Aidan Foster, University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, Wales

'Hierophanies in the Vinland Sagas:  Images of a New World'

 

Thomas Gough, Independent Scientist
'Precise Lunar Alignments: Real or Chance? New Data from Argyll'

 

Lynda Harris, Independent Scholar

'Changing Images of the Milky Way during the Greco-Roman and Medieval Periods'

 

Andrea Martocchia, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Italy  

'Guidelines for a social history of Astronomy'

 

Paul Malone, Independent Artist, London, UK
'The Role of Electricity in the Morphology of the Universe'

 

Martha Noyes, Independent

'Astronomy in the Oral Literature of Hawaii'

 

Sharada Srinivasan, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India
'Cosmic inspiration & art in relation to dancing ShivaNataraja bronze'

 

Robert Tarquinio, Bright Star Pictures LLC, CA, USA
'On the use of archeoastronometric chronometric chronometry to determine the beginning of the Sothic year'

 

Evelyn Urama, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria

'The Significance Of The Sun In Traditional African Burial Rites'