[Archport] 2º Anúncio da XIX Conferência SEAC 2011

["Fernando Pimenta" <fernandopimenta@netcabo.pt>]

 

2^º Anúncio da Conferência

Stars and Stones:

 

 

Voyages in Archaeoastronomy and Cultural Astronomy - A meeting of different worlds

 

19 a 23 de Setembro, 2011, Évora (Portugal)

 

 

An International Conference on Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy

http://www.ciuhct.com/seac2011

 

Under the Patronage of the

http://www.archeoastronomy.org

 

Está aberto o período para inscrições e envio de resumos!

 

Gostaríamos de informar que está aberto o period para inscrições e envio de resumos para a XIX Conferência SEAC 2011!

Todos os interessados deverão enviar um resumo (com 400-500 palavras e pelo menos 3 referências), em inglês, para os responsáveis do LOC:

Fernando Pimenta fernando.pimenta@apia.pt
Nuno Ribeiro nuno.ribeiro@apia.pt

Data limite para a recepção dos resumos: 1 de Maio de 2011. A informação sobre a aceitação dos resumos será dada até 1 de Junho de 2011.

Tal como as apresentações orais, os posters só serão aceites para apresentação se o(s) autor(es) estiverem presentes na Conferência. No caso de existirem demasiadas apresentações orais, o SOC decidirá quais a que serão apresentadas na modalidade de poster. Os posters não são apresentações de ?2ª classe?! Os posters aceites serão publicados tal como os restantes ?papers?.

Mais informações no sítio Web da Conferência em http://www.ciuhct.com/seac2011

 

Rationale

 

Since Prehistory that the sky was always been integrated as part of the cosmovision of human societies. The sky played a fundamental role not only in the space orientation, in the time organization, in the ritual practices or in the celestial divination but also as an element of power.

 

Migrations and voyages are intrinsic to the humankind, they opened the routes for cultural diffusion and trade, but also for power dominance. Following their routes is also to follow their cultural diversity and how they met or clashed. The sky and astronomical phenomena provided the tools for time reckoning, calendar organization and celestial navigation that supported those voyages. Astronomy gives us today the capacity to reproduce the sky, opening a window through which we can glimpse how those societies perceived, integrated and manipulated the sky into their world views and their myths, and, ultimately, into their society organization.

A voyage is always a meeting of different worlds and a process to accept diversity. We wish that this Conference will be also a meeting of different worlds in the invited lectures, in the public lectures, in the LOC/SOC and in the audience.

The main conference topics are:

? Techniques of celestial navigation and orientation of the past. Astronomical navigation and nautical instruments in XIV, XV and XVI centuries.

? Expressions of astronomical knowledge in architecture and monuments, rock art, archaeology and landscape. People migration, a meeting between different cultures

? History of astronomy. A meeting between different conceptions

? Astronomy and the Jesuits. A meeting between different worlds

? Astronomy in antiquity. A meeting between different knowledges

? Ethno-astronomy, Cultural Astronomy and myths, voyages in space and in time through different cultures.

? To where is Archaeoastronomy voyaging? A round table about Archaeoastronomy, Cultural Astronomy and Education

We will challenge the speakers to start their lectures as a voyage history, presenting different perspectives:

 

• an history from a discovery or excavation,
• a voyage through cultures,
• a meeting between cultures.

For further informations please check our home page at: http://www.ciuhct.com/seac2011

 

Por favor divulguem este anúncio a todos os que possam estar interessados.

Esperamos encontrar-vos em Évora!

 

Os responsáveis pelo SEAC 2011, com os melhores desejos para 2011:

 

Fernando Pimenta e Nuno Ribeiro