Program
Final Program
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Final Program
| Sunday, August 29, 2010 | |
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ARRIVAL 18.00-20.00 |
Registration desk opened. |
| Monday, August 30, 2010 | |
| 8:30-9:30 | Registration continuing |
| 9:30-10:10 |
WELCOME ADDRESS: Fritz Wauthier (President of vhs Gilching), Manfred Walter (First Mayor of Gilching), Albert Luppart (Vice District Administrator), Karin Sonnenholzner (Member of the Bavarian Landtag) |
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OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE: Juan Belmonte Aviles (President of SEAC) and Michael A. Rappenglueck (Secretary of SEAC, Chair of SEAC 2010). |
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| MORNING SESSION | NEOLITHIC CULTURES (CHAIR: KIM MALVILLE) |
| 10:00-10:45 | Invited Lecture: Michael A. Rappenglueck Keeper of Time and Guardians of Space – Some Basic Concepts of Astronomy and Power |
| 10:45-11:10 | Juan Belmonte Aviles and A. César González García, Astronomy, Landscape and Power in Eastern Anatolia Astronomy, Astronomy, Landscape and Power in Eastern Anatolia |
| 11:10-11:40 | Coffee Break |
| 11:40-12:05 | Elio Antonello, V.F. Polcaro, A.M. Tunzi, M. Lo Zupone, A New Neolithic Sanctuary in Daunia |
| 12:05-12:30 | Morgan Saletta, The Functional Equinoxal Alignment of the Arles-Fontvieille Monuments: A Case Study of Ancient Astronomy and Monumental Architecture in Neolithic France |
| 12:30-12:55 | Marco Bulloni, Neolithic astronomical alignments below the Arctic Circle, on Great Solovetsky Russian island |
| 12:55-14.30 | Lunch |
| AFTERNOON SESSION | MEGALITHIC CULTURES (CHAIR: MICHAEL A. RAPPENGLUECK) |
| 14:30-14:55 | Fabio Silva, Orientation of Neolithic Tombs in Central Portugal |
| 14:55-15:20 | Georg Zotti and Wolfgang Neubauer, Kreisgrabenanlagen: Expressions of Power Linked to the Sky |
| 15:20-15:45 | David Fisher, Re-structuring the World of Scottish Magalithic Sites and Animating Astronomical Phenomena Through 3D Computerization |
| 15:45-16:10 | Ann Henty, Recumbent Stone Circles: Theory Overview Based on Fieldwork Conducted at Three Sites |
| POSTERSESSION & COFFEE BREAK | CHAIR: STANISLAW IWANISZEWSKI |
| 16:10-17:10 |
Marco Bulloni, Neolithic Astronomical Alignments in the Russian White Sea Region: Preliminary Results Cecilia Paula Gómez, Power, Danger and Liminality: Moon, Stars and Women Among the Toba of Western Formosa (Gran Chaco, Argentina) Manuela Incerti, F. Bonoli, and V. F. Polcaro, Transient Astronomical Events as Inspiration Sources of Renaissence Art Franz Kerek and Florin Stanescu, Precise astronomical measurements on the Pythagoreean mega-triangle Retezat - Paring - Sarmizegetusa-Regia Alejandro Martín Lopéz, ATopology of Power: Sky and Social-Space in the Argentinean Chaco Iurii Leonidovich Mosenkis and Dmytro Pereverziev, The Phaistos Disk as a star compass Vito Francesco Polcaro and A. Martocchia, A Social History of Medieval Astronomy Sepp Rothwangl, Petroglyphs of Styrian monument Teufelstein, an archeoastronomical manual? Iharka-Magdalona Szücs-Csillik, Comsa, A., and Maxim, Z., Archaeoastronomical World from Romania Doris Vickers, Ancient-Skies: Human Cultures and their Skies Larisa Nikolaevna Vodolazhskaya, Archaeoastronomical Analysis of the Karataevo Fortress Sanctuary in Northern Black Sea Coast |
| LATE AFTERNOON SESSION | POWER OF CALENDAR AND CLOCKS (CHAIR: STANISLAW IWANISZEWSKI) |
| 17:10-17:35 |
Sonja Draxler, Calendars as Symbols of Power |
| 17:35-18.00 | Gudrun Wolfschmidt, Astronmical Clocks - Representation of Power |
| 18:00-18:25 |
Harald Gropp, Towards One Date? The Easter Date(s) in Past, Present, and Future |
| 19:15-21:15 |
WELCOME RECEPTION, INCLUDING A SPECIAL BAVARIAN FOLKLORE PERFORMANCE Group shot of SEAC 2010 participants; Performance of the Guichinger Brauchtum folklore group with typical Bavarian Dances. |
| Tuesday, August 31, 2010 | |
| MORNING SESSION | CHALCOLITHIC / BRONZE AGE / IRON AGE CULTURES (CHAIR: DAVID PANKENIER) |
| 9:00-9:35 | Invited Lecture Emilia Pasztor, Astronomy and Power: the Bronze Age Warriorship and the Sky |
| 9:35-10:00 | Vesselina Petrova Koleva, Lunar Symbolism in Some Prehistoric Artifacts from Europe |
| 10:00-10:25 | Marianna Ridderstad, Significance of Astronomy in Ancient Finland |
| 10:25-10:50 | Manuel Pérez-Gutiérrez, David Bea Castaño, Jordi Diloli Fons, and Samuel Sardà Seuma, Astronomy and the Power: The Singular Building of Turó del Calvari (Vilalba dels Arcs, Tarragona) |
| 10:50-11:20 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 11:20-11:45 | Ioannis Liritzis, Flora Vafea, Mosalam Shaltout, and Gerasimos Artelaris, The Astronomical Orientation of Nawamis at Gebel Gunna and Ain Khodra, Southern Sinai: A reappraisal |
| 11:45-12:10 | Fernando Pimenta, Nuno Ribeiro, Andrew Smith, and Luis Tirapicos, Rock Art between Rivers Alva and Ceira. Orientation in the Landscape |
| 12:10-12:35 | Göran Henriksson, Total Solar Eclipses Close to the Pleiades on the Nebra Disc and Swedish Rock-Carvings |
| 12:35-14:30 | Lunch |
| AFTERNOON SESSION | EGYPT, MINOAN CULTURE(CHAIR: JUAN BELMONTE AVILES) |
| 14:30-14:55 | Rolf Krauss, Stellar and Solar Components in Ancient Egyptian Ideology and Astronomy |
| 14:55-15:20 | Peter Chapman, Pharaonic Power and the Heavens |
| 15:20-15:45 | Göran Henriksson and Mary Blomberg, The Political Elite at Knossos as Custodians of the Calendar |
| 15:45-16:15 | Coffee Break |
| 16:15-16:40 | Nataliya Dmitrieva, The Prince P.A. Putyatin is the Forerunner of Russian Archaeoastronomy |
| 16:40-17:40 | Round Table Discussion (CHAIR: STANISLAW IWANISZEWSKI AND EMILIA PASZTOR) |
| PUBLIC LECTURE | |
| 20:00-21:15 | Michael A. Rappenglueck, Archaische Kosmovisionen im Schamanismus (Archaic Cosmovisions in Shamanism) |
| Wednesday, September 1, 2010 | |
| MORNING SESSION | CULTURES IN EUROPE, ASIA, OCEANIA AND AFRICA CHAIR: IVAN SPRAC) |
| 9:00-9:35 | Invited Lecture David Pankenier, Astrology for an Empire: Sima Qian's 'Treatise on the Celestial Offices' (ca. 100 BCE) |
| 9:35-10:00 | Williams Bruce Masse, The Celestial Engine at the Heart of Traditional Hawaiian Culture |
| 10:00-10:25 | Jarita C. Holbrook, Cosmic Power: Themes of Astronomy and Power within the Film “Cosmic Africa” |
| 10:25-10:50 | Barth Chukwuez, The Concept of Power and Cosmology Manipulation of Cosmology by Spiritualist or Native Doctors (dibia) A Case Study of the Igbo Society of Nigeria. |
| 10:50-11:20 | Coffee break |
| 11:20-11:45 | Mare Kõiva and Andres Kuperjanow, Some aspects of European Moon Mythology |
| 11:45-12:10 |
Michael A. Rappenglueck, Astral High-Fashion Clothing and Accessories |
| 12:10-12:35 | Max E. Lippitsch and Sonja Draxler, Stars of Power – Astronomical Objects on Ancient Princely Insignia |
| 12:35-14:00 | Lunch |
| HALF DAY EXCURSION |
VISIT OF SOME FAMOUS AND SPECIAL PLACES IN MUNICH. Departure of Train at 14:23, railway station Gilching-Argelsried, 5 MInutes to go from resaurant Plaka in the centre of Gilching. |
| Thursday, September 2, 2010 | |
| MORNING SESSION | CULTURES OF NORTH AMERICA, MESOAMERICA AND SOUTH AMERICA (CHAIR: ROSZLYN FRANK) |
| 9:00-9:35 | Invited Lecture Ivan Sprajc, Astronomy and Power in Mesoamerica |
| 9:35-10:00 | Richard R. Zito, Possible Mesoamerican Naked-Eye Observation of Sun Spots – I: Evidence from the Tikal Ball Court Marker |
| 10:00-10:25 | Jesús Galindo Trejo, Calendric-Astronomical Orientation as an Expression of Power in Mesoamerica |
| 10:25-10:50 | Richard R. Zito, Possible Mesoamerican Naked-Eye Observation of Sun Spots – II: Evidence from the Codices |
| 10:50-11:20 | Coffee Break |
| 11:20-12:30 | Petra Schmidl, Short introduction to the following film: The Ancient Astronomers of Timbuktu. The Secrets of Africa's Medieval Astronomers (by Sharron Hawkes), 60 min |
| 12:30-14:15 | Lunch |
| Afternoon session | Antiquity (CHAIR: MARY BLOMBERG) |
| 14:15-14:50 | Invited Lecture Xenophon Moussas, The Antikythera Mechanism, an Advanced Astronomical Device and the First Planetarium? |
| 14:50-15:15 | Heidi Tauber, Astronomy in Ancient World: The Influence of the Stars on the Live of People Represented in Greek and Roman Poetry and Mithraism |
| 15:15-15:40 | Doris Vickers, Ovid Plays with Power or Power Plays with Ovid? |
| 15:40-16:10 | Coffee Break |
| 16:10-16:35 |
Marcello Ranieri, Silvia Gaudenzi, Among the Circles: A Geometrical Analysis of the Teatro Marittimo in Villa Adriana |
| 16:35-17.00 | Xenophon Moussas, Silvia Gaudenzi, Early Greek Astrophysics and the dawn of Science and civilization |
| 17.00-17:35 | Invited Lecture Stanislaw Iwaniszewski, The Social Life of Celestial Bodies: The Sky in Culture Perspective |
| PUBLIC LECTURE | |
| 20:00-21:15 |
Clive Ruggles, Heavenly Power in Worldly Hands: Ancient Sky Perceptions and Social Control (Himmelsmächte in weltlicher Hand: Die Wahrnehmung des Himmels in alter Zeit und die Frage sozialer Kontrolle) |
| Friday, September 3, 2010 | |
| MORNING SESSION | MEDIEVAL TIME IN ORIENT AND OCCIDENT (CHAIR: GUDRUN WOLFSCHMIDT) |
| 9:00-9:35 | Invited Lecture Nick Campion, Astronomy and the State: Time, Space, Power and the Foundation of Baghdad |
| 9:35-10:00 | William Ben Adams, From Rain Stars to Lunar Stations: the Restructuring of Early Islamic Cosmology in Qur’anic Commentaries |
| 10:00-10:25 | Seyyed Mohammad Mozaffari, Astronomy and Politics; Evidence for Some Old Observations in the Persian Sources |
| 10:25-10:50 | Petra G. Schmidl, The Dustūr al-munajjimīn or Does a Sovereign Need Astronomy to Structure His Reign? |
| 10:50-11:20 | Coffee Break |
| 11:20-11:45 | A. César González García, Juan Antonio Belmonte and Lourdes Costa Ferrer, The Orientation of pre-Romanesque Churches in Spain: A Case of Power Reaffirmation |
| 11:45-12:10 | Zalkida Hadzibegovic, Astronomical Heritage in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Late Medieval Tombstones and Astral Motifs as Their Decoration |
| 12:10-14:00 | Lunch |
| ASTRONOMY AND POLITICS IN THE MODERN AGE (CHAIR: GUDRUN WOLFSCHMIDT) | |
| 14:00-14:25 | Magda Stavinsch and Cătălin Mosoia, Astronomy and Politicians |
| 14:25-14:50 | Barbara Rappenglueck, Comets in Political Caricatures 1790-2009 |
| 14:50-15:00 | CLOSING OF THE CONFERENCE |
| 15:00-17.00 | 18TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF SEAC |
| 19:30 |
CLOSING DINNER The closing dinner will take place in a Bavarian restaurant localized in the small village of Wörthsee on the riverside of the Lake Wörthsee. The music group Swingtet will provide backkground music. Departe of local train from Gilching to Wörthsee at 18:56. From the railway station at Steinebach (Wörthsee) you have to go ca 10-15 minutes to the restaurant Augustiner at the Lake Wörthsee. |
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