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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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Chargé de diffusion scientifique (24 février 2014). Colloque : “Astrology in the Ancient Near East” — The Oriental Institute, Oxford, 23-25/04/2014. IISMM. Consulté le 8 novembre 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/pxu8


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