The Sophia Trust is finalising negotiations to transfer the Sophia Centre from Bath Spa University to the University of Wales at Lampeter. The MA in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology will continue as before, but will be run as an online distance-learning programme, with an annual summer school at Lampeter. We hope to have final details in the next issue. In the meantime, contact Nick Campion to register your interest at ncampion@caol.demon.co.uk
Saturday 9 June 2007, 10am-5pm, Stanton Lecture Theatre at Bath Spa University, Newton Park, Bath BA2 9BN
Announcing the second postgraduate conference of the Sophia Centre at Bath Spa University, with papers presented by graduates of the MA in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology.
Speakers will include (subject to alteration):
Nick Campion: ‘Divination as an Authoritarian System'
Frances Clynes: ‘The Effect of Information Technology on Astrology’
Cat Cox: The astrologer as Magician or Shaman: A consideration of astrological practice within a cosmological paradigm of participation with the divine.
Sue Farebrother: ‘Cultural Influences, Changing Perceptions and Links between Astrology and Tarot from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Time’
Cherry Gilchrist: ‘Naming the Planets’
Liz Greene: ‘The Celestial Ascent of the Soul: The Morphology of an Enduring Idea’
Cat Javor: ‘Astrology as the Language of the Western Esoteric Tradition’
Teresa Moorey: ‘An Investigation of the Sky as a Source of Enchantment in the Twentieth and early Twenty-First Centuries’
Chrissy Philp: ‘Is there anything in Astrology Independent of Culture? An Investigation into the Nature of Culture and Astrology’
Cost: £8:50, including a vegetarian buffet lunch.
Advance bookings only. For a booking form, please write to: Dr Nick Campion, The Sophia Centre, Bath Spa University, Newton Park, Bath BA2 9BN, UK, or email n.campion@bathspa.ac.uk