Programme

• New: Abstract book (with programme and list of participants): here [pdf - 2.5MB]
• Sessions - overview
• Public sessions - overview
• Provisional schedule day by day
• Exhibition Antikythera Mechanism
• Excursion to Anta Grande do Zambujeiro and Almendres Cromeleque
• Optional excursion to the Center of Rock Art in Seia or Half-day excursion to Herdade das Murteiras - programme details available

(Fernando Pimenta, APIA)

The conference will consist of invited talks, oral presentations, and posters. Invited talks are fixed to 30 minutes (25 minutes for the talk, plus 5 minutes for the discussion). These contributions on special topics will be given from speakers invited by the organisers. Oral presentations are limited to 20 minutes (17 + 3). A special poster session will be held. Two public lectures and one round table discussions are planned.

Sessions

Opening of the meeting
Invited Speaker: Michael A. Rappenglück “Voyages guided by the Skies: Ancient concepts of exploring and domesticating time and space across cultures” [abstract]

Archaeoastronomical voyages in Paleolithic and Neolithic cultures
Invited Speaker: Manuel Calado "Central Alentejo: Beyond Megalithic Orientations" [abstract]
Invited Speaker: Marciano da Silva "Elements of Archaeoastronomy in Portugal" [abstract]
Invited Speaker: Lionel Sims "The Journey Out of Africa: the solarisation of the moon" [abstract]

Archaeoastronomical voyages in Chalcolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages
Invited Speaker: Emília Pásztor "Symbols for ever? Voyages in the celestial symbols over the Prehistoric Europe and over the time" [abstract]
Invited Speaker: Frank Prendergast "A place along the way - contextualising findings from the Iron Age post enclosure at Lismullin, Co. Meath, Ireland" [abstract]
Nuno Ribeiro / Fernando Pimenta / Luís Tirapicos and Andrew Smith "Open rock art in the central north of Portugal, an introduction to the week-end excursion" [abstract]

Archaeoastronomical voyages in Antiquity, Egypt, Middle East and Mediterranean
Invited Speaker: Giulio Magli "An archaeo-astronomical visit to the sacred landscape of the Old and the Middle Kingdom pyramids"

Archaeoastronomical voyages in Medieval Time in Orient and Occident
Invited Speaker: A. César González-García "A voyage of Christian medieval astronomy: symbolic, ritual and political orientation of churches" [abstract]

Astronomical Navigation – A Meeting of Worlds
Invited Speaker: Malhão Pereira "The archaeology of the nautical astrolabe: news from a shipwreck in Namibia"
Invited Speaker: Jarita Holbrook "Celestial Navigation in U.S. Pacific and Africa" [abstract]

History of Astronomy – A Meeting of Cultures
Invited Speaker: Henrique Leitão "Manuel Dias and the Tianwenlüe: A 17th Cent. Dialogue on Astronomy Between Europe and China" [abstract]
Invited Speaker: Shi Yunli "From Confrontation to Accommodation: The Cultural Dimension of European Astronomy in China (1583-1840)" [abstract]

Ethnoastronomical voyages in Africa, Asia, Europe and Oceania
Invited Speaker: David Pankenier "China, the 'Babylon of the East': Cultural Influences in Early East Asian Astronomy" [abstract]
Invited Speaker: Nicholas Campion "Defining Astrology in Ancient and Classical History" [abstract]
Invited Speaker: J. McKim Malville "Reading Alien Landscapes: Thick Descriptions versus Euro-centrism" [abstract]

Ethnoastronomical voyages in North America, Mesoamerica and South America
Invited Speaker: Ivan Šprajc "New data on astronomical orientations in Maya Lowlands" [abstract]
Invited Speaker: Alejandro Martín López "Shaking Eden: Voyages, Bodies and Change in the Social Construction of South American Skies" [abstract]
In memory of Robert Sadowski: Mariusz Ziółkowski "Astronomy and calendars of the Inca Empire - new developments"

Methodologies, techniques and instruments to navigate in Archaeoastronomy
Invited Speaker: to be announced

Round Table discussion "To Where is Archaeoastronomy voyaging? Archaeoastronomy, Cultural Astronomy and Education" 
Invited Speaker: Stanisław Iwaniszewski
Invited Speaker: Lionel Sims

Public sessions

Public Session I:

• The Voyages of the Zodiac: an impenitent traveller across lands and ages (Juan Antonio Belmonte Avilés) [abstract]
• The voyage of human genes (Luísa Pereira) [abstract]

Public Session II:

• Voyages in the sky perception over the world (Clive Ruggles) [abstract]

Provisional schedule
 

Exhibition Antikythera Mechanism

The Conference will be accompanied by an exhibition about the Antikythera Mechanism, replicas of ancient nautical instruments and works of Australian artist Marea Atkinson. [flyer]