INSAP III
The Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena
Hotel La Torre, Palermo, 31 December 2000 - 6 January 2001
PROGRAMME
December 31st (Sunday)
HOTEL LA TORRE
10.00 - 13.00 Registration and Poster setting
14.00 - 17.00 Poster setting
17.00 OPENING CEREMONY
- Speeches by Local Authorities
- Speech(es) by IOC and/or LOC chair(s)
- Speech by Mayor of Ponte in Valtellina
- Speech by G. Piazzi's descendant (an American niece)
18.15 Prof. FODERA' (keynote)
19.00 END
20.15 NEW YEAR'S EVE (with dinner and party)
January 1st (Monday)
10.00 - 13.00 Poster session
HISTORY SESSION ON PIAZZI'S DISCOVERY
15.00 S. Débarbat (review):Piazzi and his French colleagues
15.50 A. McConnell (review):
The Ramsden workshop and the production of the Palermo Circle
16.40 Tea break
17.10 P. Brosche (review):Gotha, Goethe and the first Asteroids
18.00 R. Binzel (review):
Asteroids Coming of Age
21.00 - Through the Ecliptic: Star Concert (music by the Association 4'33")
January 2nd (Tuesday)
Session: MYTHS AND CONSTELLATIONS
9.00 - 9.45 J. A. Belmonte (keynote):The Decans and the Ancient Egyptian Skylore
9.50 - 10.10 R. Olowin:
Near East Constellation Panels: Utnapishtim, Noah and the Deluge remembered in the Sky
10.15 - 10.35 E. Calzolari:
The generation-constellation: the Great Bear, the Cassiopeia and the Butterfly
10.40 - 11.10 Coffee break
Session: ASTRONOMICAL PRACTICE THROUGH THE AGES
11.10 - 11.55 G. Federici-Vescovini (keynote)On the connections between Astronomy and Medicine in the Curriculum of Studies at the College of Philosophy, Astronomy and Medicine Faculty of Bologna University in 1405
12.00 - 12.20 A. Leutgeb
When to do? Muhurta-The Hindu concept of auspicious time11.10 - 11.30
12.25 - 12.45 J.Echevarria
The interaction between music and astronomy
13.00 - 15.00 LUNCH
Session: HISTORY AND LITERATURE
15.00 - 15.20 I. A. Ahmad:Astronomical Inspiration in the Rubiyat of Umar Khayyam
15.25 - 15.45 N. Miller:
La Sphera: A Renaissance interplanetary voyage
15.50 - 16.10 J. Stein:
Cicero's Cosmos: The Universe as Metaphor
16.15 - 16.35 D. Garwood:
The dining room as celestial vault in Marcel Proust's "In Search of Lost Time"
16.40 - 17.10 Tea break
17.10 - 17.30 A. Deming:The Poetics of Space
17.35 - 17.55 A. Henchman:
Nocturnal Reconnoiters: Astronomy and Perception in 19th century British Literature
18.00 - 18.20 G. Bignami:
History in Space
21.30 J. Echevarria & E. Vazquez - Canciones de Luna (music and songs)
January 3rd (Wednesday)
8.00 Departure for excursion to the archaeological site of Solunto and visit to Villa Palagonia in Bagheria
13.30 -14.30 LUNCH at "Melchiorre's"
14.30 Back to the Hotel La Torre
Session: ARCHAEOLOGY
15.00 - 15.45 M. Tosi (keynote):The Stars for Space and Time Division in the Prehistoric Evolution of Human Societies
15.50 - 16.10 D. Pankenier:
Popular astrology and Border Affairs in Early Imperial China: an archaeological confirmation
16.15 - 16.35 M. Gridley:
Planets, Pagodas and Power
16.40 - 17.10 Tea break
17.10 - 17.30 M. Rappenglück:Paleolithic Cosmovisions: The rock panel in the shaft of the Lascaux Grotto, France
17.35 - 17.55 Z. F. Edge:
Aurochs in the Sky: A Celestial Interpretation of the Hall of Bulls in the Cave of Lascaux
Aula Magna, Facoltà di Ingegneria,
Viale delle Scienze
21.00 - G. Coyne S. J.:La cosmologia moderna e l'immagine del Creatore (public conference)
January 4th (Thursday)
PALAZZO DEI NORMANNI
Session: ASTRONOMY IN ART (I)
9.30 - 10.15 Prof. Regnier (keynote):The influence of astronomical discoveries in modern and contemporary painting
10.20 - 10.40 L. Robinson:
Reflections on the Artist's Moon
10.45 - 11.05 K. Hoving:
Jackson Pollock's "Galaxy"
11.10 - 11.40 Coffee break
11.45 - 12.05 J. White:Celestial Phenomena: Colin McCahon
12.10 - 12.30 G. Gahm:
Art and Science in "The Sweden Solar System"
12.35 - 12.55 E. Feinberg:
The Architecture of the Ethereal
13.00 - 15.30 Light Lunch (offered by Sicilian Regional Parliament)
Visits to the Palace, the Palatine Chapel, the Astronomical Observatory and the nearby Cathedral with Piazzi's Meridian Line
15.30 - 15.50 L. Cheney:Vasari's "Patience": the measure of time
15.55 - 16.15 R. Poss:
Landscape and Lyricism in the Astronomical paintings of Donato Creti
16.20 - 16.40 A. Georgiewska-Shine:
On Juno and her double in Rubens' "Ixion"
16.45 - 17.15 Tea break
17.15 - 17.35 M. Gahtan:Solar Imagery in Italy, 1450-1750
17.40 - 18.00 V. Shrimplin:
The beginning and the end: Images of the Universe
21.00 L. Williams - Cosmic Cabaret
January 5th (Friday)
HOTEL LA TORRE
Session: ASTRONOMY IN ART (II)
9.00 - 9.20 M. Incerti:Il Battistero di Parma: conoscenze astronomiche
9.25 - 9.45 V. Tiede:
The Sun in the Oratory: Calendric orientation of Early Christian Chapels
9.50 - 10.10 D. P. Madacsi:
Opto-diversity, A key to Artistic Inspiration-Case Study: Moonscapes vs. Earthscapes
10.15 - 10.35 Maria Sundin & Daniel Oberti:
Star Dancers
10.40 - 11.10 Coffee break
Session: ART IN ASTRONOMY
11.10 - 11.55 I. Elmqvist (keynote):The image of the Astronomy and the Astronomer in the 17th Century Frontispice Illustrations
12.00 - 12.20 P. Hingley:
Picturing Eclipses 1100-2000
12.25 - 12.45 M. Rådbo:
The artist's Moon in a scientific perspective
13.00 - 15.00 LUNCH
Session: ASTRONOMY AND SOCIETY
15.00 - 15.45 R. White (keynote):Astronomy and Urban Planning in Inka Empire
15.50 - 16.10 J. Ortner:
The Luni-solar Calendar of the Hopi of Northern Arizona, USA
16.15 - 16.35 H. Henry:
Astronomers, Alpine Climbers and Aeronauts
16.40 - 17.10 Tea break
17.10 - 17.30 D. Davis:Inspiration Lost: The Disappearence of the Night
17.35 - 17.55 G. Wells:
The Sky as a Metaphor in an Age of Science
18.00 - 18.20 P. Knappenberger:
Interpreting the Cosmos through Evolving Technologies
January 6th (Saturday)
PALAZZO STERI
Session: TIME AND SPACE
9.30 - 10.15 C. Impey (keynote):Thruth and Beauty in Cosmology: does the Universe have an Aesthetic?
10.20 - 10.40 D. De Fontaine:
Flat Worlds: Today and in Antiquity
10.45 - 11.15 Coffee break
11.15 -11.35 H. Gropp:The nearly forgotten calendar of Coligny and some other calendars at the turn of the (Gregorian) Millennium
11.40 - 12.00 M. Toscano:
The Celestial Timekeepers
12.05 - 12.30 J. C. Caldwell:
Sunlight timing as a function of latitude, longitude and date: a trigonometric model
13.00 - 15.00 LUNCH (at "I Beati Paoli", Piazza Marina)
15.00 - 15.20 A. Cadez:The Beauty of Symmetry and the Charm of its Breaking
15.25 - 15.45 J. Mooney:
Malta 2000
15.50 - 16.10 Conclusions (by R. Sinclair)
END OF THE MEETING
16.15 - 19.00 Visits to the IAAA exhibition (Palazzo Steri) and to the Oberti exhibition (Libreria del Mare)
ENTERTAINMENT
Association 4'33'' - Through the Ecliptic: Star Concert (music)
J. Echevarria & E. Vazquez - Canciones de Luna. a series of night songs by contemporaries Mexican composers (music)
J. Dill - Creation of a universe: a vision (animation)
L. Williams - Cosmic Cabaret (music)
POSTERS
M. Atkinson - Liquid space
F. Bertola - The Moon, the Stars and the milk
M. Bjorkin - Popular astronomy 1900: science, fiction and new media
R. Buonanno - Historical astronomical sites in Rome
N. Campion - From Stonehange to Seattle
J. Dill - Creation of a Universe (animation)
R. Poss - Plato's Timaeus and the inner life of stars
G. Wolfschmidt - Van Gogh's "Starry night": Inspired by astrophotography?