2023

21st Dec
Deadline

JSA/Sophia Centre LSI Award

The Journal of Skyscape Archaeology and Sophia Centre Lionel Simms Award 2023 >> Read more...

23rd Nov
4:00 pm GMT

Keynote online event

Skyscape Arch. Lecture. A. Rodríguez-Antón : Cultural astr.: orientation of pre-Islamic funerary monuments in Western Sahara. >> Read more...

19th Oct
4:00 pm BST

Keynote online event

Skyscape Arch. Lecture Series. Duane Hamacher : Dating Tasmanian Aboriginal oral traditions to the Late Pleistocene. >> Read more...

28th Sep
6:30-8:00 pm BST

Alumni online event

Sophia Graduate Lectures: Three graduates and their research. >> Read more...

27th Jul
6:30-8:00 pm BST

Alumni online event

Margarida Manarte: An investigation into the astrological symbols in two decorative paintings of José de Almada Negreiros >> Read more...

17th-21st Jul

Online course

Summer Course: Cultural Astronomies In Medieval And Early Modern Europe >> Read more...

10th-12th Jul

Sophia Centre, Lampeter Campus

Sophia Centre Summer School 2023
>> Read more...

8th-9th Jul

Sophia Centre, Lampeter Campus

Sophia Centre Twentieth Annual Conference 2023
>> Read more...

14th Jun
4:00 pm BST

Keynote online event

Skyscape Arch. Keynote L. Series. Alan Ereira: Knowing outer and inner space: how the Kogi of Colombia inhabit the world. >> Read more...

24th May
4:00 pm BST

Keynote online event

Skyscape Arch. Keynote L. Series. Duane Hamacher: When Stars Fall: Apocalyptic Experiences of Meteorite Impacts in History. >> Read more...

18th May
6:30-8:00 pm BST

Alumni online event

Sophia Graduate Lectures: Four graduates and their research. >> Read more...

26th April
4:00 pm BST

Keynote online event

Skyscape Arch. Keynote L. Series. Antti Lahelma: Swans and Stars: Cosm. Myths in the Neolithic Petroglyphs of Lake Onega >> Read more...

5th Apr
4:00 pm BST

Keynote online event

Skyscape Arch. Keynote L. Series. Alejandro López: An Anthropology of the skies: South American persp. on Cultural Ast. >> Read more...

28th Mar
6:00-7:30 pm GMT

Alumni online event

Garry Phillipson: Disenchantment, Re-Enchantment and Astrology. >> Read more...

22nd Mar
4:00 pm GMT

Keynote online event

Skyscape Arch. Keynote L. Series. Annette Lee: Skyscapes and Sound scapes – Decolon. Sacred Spaces One Bit at a Time. >> Read more...

23rd Feb
6:00-7:30 pm GMT

Alumni online event

Nick Campion: a report on the recent Sophia Centre pilgrimage and field trip to the Navagraha temples of Tamil Nadu. >> Read more...

22nd Feb
4:00 pm GMT

Keynote online event

Skyscape Arch. Keynote Lecture Series. Camilla Power: Lunarchy: the original economics of time. >> Read more...

2022

13th Dec
6:00 pm GMT

Book Launch, online

Book Launch:The Messianic Star: New Light on the Star of Bethlehem by Dr Martin Wells. >> Read more...

19th Nov

Sophia Centre, London Campus

Sophia Centre Eighth London Conference 2022
>> Read more...

21st-23rd Oct

2021

21st Dec
Deadline

JSA/Sophia Centre LSI Award

The Journal of Skyscape Archaeology and Sophia Centre Lionel Simms Award 2021 >> Read more...

15th Dec
4:00 pm GMT

Keynote online event

Skyscape Arch. Keynote 6 Lecture Series. Brady, Gunzburg & Silva: The Mat. of Light in Cistercian Abbey Churches of GB & Irl. >> Read more...

27th Nov

Sophia Centre, London conference

Sophia Centre Seventh London Conference 2021
>> Read more...

17th Nov
4:00 pm GMT

Keynote online event

Skyscape Archaeology Keynote 6 Lecture Series. Brian Hayden: Secret Societies and the Origins of Astronomy. >> Read more...

2nd Nov
6:00-7:00 pm GMT

Book Launch, online

Book Launch: Divination and Knowledge in Greco-Roman Antiquity. >> Read more...

3rd Sep
6:30-8:00 pm GMT

Alumni online event

Jack Hunter: Deep Weird: High Strangeness, Boggle Thresholds and Damned Data in Ac. Research on Extraord. Experience >> Read more...

11th Aug -
8th Sep

Short Course online

Short Course: Introduction to Egyptian Cultural Astronomy
with Dr Bernadette Brady. >> Read more...

30st Jul
6:30-8:00 pm GMT

Alumni online event

Michelle Holgate: Indian Astrology in the West
*** CANCELLED ***

21st Jul
Deadline

JSA/Sophia Centre Research Grant

The Journal of Skyscape Archaeology and Sophia Centre Research Grant 2021 >> Read more...

21st-28th Jun
5th-12th-19th Jul

Short Course online

Short Course: Spirits, Gods and Magic with Dr Jack Hunter
>> Read more...

19th-20th Jun

Sophia Centre conference, online

Sophia Centre Eighteenth Annual Conference 2021
>> Read more...

7th Jun

Book Launch, online

Book launch: Mattering the Invisible: Bodies, Technologies and the Realm of the Spectral >> Read more...

13th May
6:30-8:00 pm GMT

Alumni online event

Jessica Heim: Dark Sky Initiatives in Central Idaho: Community
Experiences with Dark Skies and Dark Sky Advocacy. >> Read more...

25th Mar
4:00-6:00 pm GMT

Keynote online event

Keynote 9 Lecture Series 25 Feb to 25 Mar
Lionel Obadia and Alan Ereira. >> Read more...

18th Mar
4:00-6:00 pm GMT

Keynote online event

Keynote 9 Lecture Series 25 Feb to 25 Mar
Fiona Bowie and Amy Whitehead. >> Read more...

17th Mar
6:30-8:00 pm GMT

Alumni online event

Garry Phillipson What 'truth' means in regard to alternative crafts
and practices, particularly astrology. >> Read more...

12th Mar
4:00-6:00 pm GMT

Keynote online event

Skyscape Archaeology Keynote 6 Lecture Series
Duane Hamacher and Frank Prendergast. >> Read more...

11th Mar
4:00-6:00 pm GMT

Keynote online event

Keynote 9 Lecture Series 25 Feb to 25 Mar
Bernadette Brady. >> Read more...

4th Mar
4:00-6:00 pm GMT

Keynote online event

Keynote 9 Lecture Series 25 Feb to 25 Mar
John Cannon and Darrelyn Gunzburg. >> Read more...

25th Feb
4:00-6:00 pm GMT

Keynote online event

Keynote 9 Lecture Series 25 Feb to 25 Mar
Frank Prendergast and Anna Estaroth. >> Read more...

12th Feb
4:00-6:00 pm GMT

Keynote online event

Skyscape Archaeology Keynote 6 Lecture Series
Ed Krupp and Steven Gullberg. >> Read more...

28th Jan
6:30-8:00 pm GMT

Alumni online event part 3

Darrelyn Gunzburg: Giotto's Sky: The Cultural Astronomy of the fresco paintings of the Salone of the Palazzo della Ragione >> Read more...

21st Jan
6:30-8:00 pm GMT

Alumni online event part 2

Darrelyn Gunzburg: Giotto's Sky: The Cultural Astronomy of the fresco paintings of the Salone of the Palazzo della Ragione >> Read more...

14th Jan
6:30-8:00 pm GMT

Alumni online event part 1

Darrelyn Gunzburg: Giotto's Sky: The Cultural Astronomy of the fresco paintings of the Salone of the Palazzo della Ragione >> Read more...

12th Jan
4:00-6:00 pm GMT

Keynote online event

Skyscape Archaeology Keynote 6 Lecture Series
Georg Zotti and Stanislaw Iwaniszewski. >> Read more...

2020

8th Dec
4:00-6:00 pm GMT

Keynote online event

Skyscape Archaeology Keynote 6 Lecture Series
Kenny Brophy and Mark Frincu. >> Read more...

28th-29th Nov
2-6 pm

Sophia Centre online conference

Sophia Centre London Conf. 2020
>> Read more...

10th Nov
4:00-6:00 pm GMT

Keynote online event

Skyscape Archaeology Keynote 6 Lecture Series
Juan Belmonte and Katya Stroud. >> Read more...

27th Oct
6:30-8:00 pm GMT

Alumni online event

Maayan Medzini: The Venus Synodic cycle in the
Canaanite myths and rituals. >> Read more...

13th Oct
4:00-6:00 pm BST

Keynote online event

Skyscape Archaeology Keynote 6 Lecture Series
Carolyn Kennett and Alejandro López. >> Read more...

22nd Sep
18:30-20:00 GDT

Alumni online event

Patrick Curry: Wonder, Place and Space
>> Read more...

21st Jul

Sophia Centre
online key concept

Cosmology, Magic and Divination Keynote Lecture 3
>> Read more...

14th Jul

Sophia Centre
online key concept

Cosmology, Magic and Divination Keynote Lecture 2
>> Read more...

13th-15th Jul
*POSTPONED*

Sophia Centre, Lampeter Campus

Sophia Centre Summer School 2020
>> Read more...

11th-12th Jul
*POSTPONED*

Sophia Centre, Lampeter Campus

Sophia Centre Eighteenth Annual Conference 2020
>> Read more...

10th Jul

Sophia Centre, Lampeter Campus

Sophia Centre MA students graduation 2020

7th Jul

Sophia Centre
online key concept

Cosmology, Magic and Divination Keynote Lecture 1
>> Read more...

23rd Jun

Sophia Centre
online key concept

Sophia Centre, Skyscape Archaeology Keynote Lecture
>> Read more...

9th Jun

Sophia Centre
online key concept

Sophia Centre, 4 Keynote Lectures: Skyscape Archaeology IV
12 May, 19 May, 26 May, 9 Jun. >> Read more...

1st Jun

Alumni online event

Frances Clynes: Gods, Heroes and Kings: The Cycles of Irish Mythology >> Read more...

26th May

Sophia Centre
online key concept

Sophia Centre, 4 Keynote Lectures: Skyscape Archaeology III
12 May, 19 May, 26 May, 9 Jun. >> Read more...

22nd-24th May
*POSTPONED*

Sophia Centre, St. Petersburg

Sophia Centre sponsored conf. "On the Political Skies: Harmonies between Heaven and Earth" in St. Petersburg, Russia. >> Read more...

19th May

Sophia Centre
online key concept

Sophia Centre, 4 Keynote Lectures: Skyscape Archaeology II
12 May, 19 May, 26 May, 9 Jun. >> Read more...

12th May

Sophia Centre
online key concept

Sophia Centre, 4 Keynote Lectures: Skyscape Archaeology I
12 May, 19 May, 26 May, 9 Jun. >> Read more...

21st Apr

Alumni online event

Chris Mitchell: From astrolabes to zijes - how Arabic science brought horoscopes to the Latin West >> Read more...

27th Feb

Alumni online event

Astrid B. Leimlehner: Johannes Kepler's Psychology and Astrology
in relation to Private and Public Contexts >> Read more...

22nd Jan

Alumni online event

Ilaria Cristofaro: A Journey to the Late Bronze Age Minoan Underworld: The Reflection of Sunlight on the Sea as an Axis Mundi >> Read more...

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