Colloque : “Astrology in the Ancient Near East” — The Oriental Institute, Oxford, 23-25/04/2014
Astrology in the Ancient Near East
Programme
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 2014 — Venue: The Oriental Institute, Pusey Lane
09:00-10:00
Mr. Netanel Anor (PhD candidate at the Freie Universität Berlin) : “Babylonian divination: Subject to be defined)”.
10:00-11:00
Dr. John Wee (University of Chicago) : “Stranger Beasts in the Zodiac: Mul-apin and the Astrological Table in BM 56605”
11:00-11:30 Tea/Coffee
11:30-12:30 Prof. Michael Roaf (University of Munich) : “Assyrian Astroglyphs.”
12:30-13:30 Dr. Nicholas Campion (University of Lampeter-UK) : “The Horoscopes of Cities in the Near East.”
13:30-15:30 Lunch
15:30-16:00 Tea/coffee
16:00-17:00 Miss. Carol Ferris (Marylhurst University) : “The Celestial Roads of Babylon and early China.”
17:00-18:00 Ms.. Stephanie Rudolf (Germany) : “Subject to be defined.”
THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 2014 — Venue: The Oriental Institute, Pusey Lane
09:00-10:00 Dr. Louise M. Pryke (University of Sydney) : “The validity of astrological explanations for the treatment of the Bull in the Gilgamesh Epic.”
10:00-11:00 Dr. Helen R. Jacobus, (University of Oxford) : “The Horoscope of Stephanus of Alexandria. Political Astrology in the Context of Religious Polemics.”
11:00-11:30 Tea/Coffee
11:30-12:30 Dr Simone Isacco Maria Pratelli (University of Milan) : “Subject to be defined.”
12:30-13:30 Dr. Maddalena Rumor (Topoi – FU, Berlin) : “Subject to be defined.”
13:30-15:30 Lunch
15:30-16:00 Tea/coffee
16:00-17:00 Mr. Chris Mitchell (PhD researcher at the University of Leicester) : “The provenance of ‘Arabic’ astrological techniques.”
17:00-18:00 Dr. Bernadette Brady (University of Wales Trinity Saint David) : “The influence of Islamic astrology on Galileo’s work.”
19:00-22:00 Banquet
FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 2014 — Venue: The Oriental Institute, Pusey Lane
09:00-10:00 Dr. Sophia Mergiali-Sahas (University of Athens) : “The physician-astronomer-astrologer of Constantinople Gregory Chioniades (c. 1240-c.1320).”
10:00-11:00 Dr. Saiyad Ahmad (American University – Cairo) : “Light upon Light: The Astrological Theurgy of Shihab al-Din al-Suhrawardi al-Maqtul (executed Aleppo 587 H/ 1191 CE).”
11:00-11:30 Tea/Coffee
11:30-12:30 Prof. Joseph Geiger (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) : “Eutocius: a mathematician and astrologer from Ascalon.”
12:30-13:30 Mrs. Darrelyn Gunzburg (University of Bristol) : “The representation of celestial images in the Palazzo della Ragione, Padua, Italy.”
13:30 Conference ends.
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