Participants

Michael A. Rappenglück
“Voyages guided by the Skies: Ancient concepts of exploring and domesticating time and space across cultures”

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Manuel Calado
"Central Alentejo: Beyond Megalithic Orientations"

[short bio]
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Cândido Marciano da Silva
"Elements of Archaeoastronomy in Portugal"

[short bio]
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Lionel Sims
"The Journey Out of Africa: the solarisation of the moon"

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Stanisław Iwaniszewski
"Navigating Between the Scylla of Social Constructivism and Charybdis of Logical Empiricism: The Construction of Facts in Cultural Astronomy"

[short bio]
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Emília Pásztor
"Symbols for ever? Voyages in the celestial symbols over the Prehistoric Europe and over the time"

[short bio]
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Giulio Magli
"An archaeo-astronomical visit to the sacred landscape of the Old and the Middle Kingdom pyramids"

[short bio]
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A. César González-García
"A voyage of Christian medieval astronomy: symbolic, ritual and political orientation of churches"

[short bio]
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Malhão Pereira
"The archaeology of the nautical astrolabe: news from a shipwreck in Namibia"

Jarita Holbrook
"Celestial Navigation in U.S. Pacific and Africa"

[short bio]
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Henrique Leitão
"Manuel Dias and the Tianwenlüe: A 17th Cent. Dialogue on Astronomy Between Europe and China"

[short bio]
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Shi Yunli
"From Confrontation to Accommodation: The Cultural Dimension of European Astronomy in China (1583-1840)"

[short bio]
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David Pankenier
"China, the 'Babylon of the East': Cultural Influences in Early East Asian Astronomy"

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Ivan Šprajc
"New data on astronomical orientations in Maya Lowlands"

[short bio]
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Alejandro Martín López
"Shaking Eden: Voyages, Bodies and Change in the Social Construction of South American Skies"

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Nicholas Campion
"Defining Astrology in Ancient and Classical History"

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Frank Prendergast
"A place along the way - contextualising findings from the Iron Age post enclosure at Lismullin, Co. Meath, Ireland"

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J. McKim Malville
"Reading Alien Landscapes: Thick Descriptions versus Euro-centrism"

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Juan Antonio Belmonte Avilés
"The Voyages of the Zodiac: an impenitent traveller across lands and ages"

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Luísa Pereira
"The voyage of human genes"

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Clive Ruggles
"Voyages in the sky perception over the world"

[short bio]
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For all participants see the Abstract book (with programme and list of participants): here.[pdf - 2.5MB].