Past conferences

SEAC XXXI

Topic: Skyscapes in the sun island
Date
: November 12-16, 2024
Place: Catania, Italy
Organisers: Andrea Orlando, Sebastiano d'Urso

 

SEAC XXX

Topic: Between ancient and modern astronomy
Date
: September 6-9, 2023
Place: Warsaw, Poland
Organisers: Stanislaw Iwaniszewski, Mariusz Ziolkowski, Michal Gilewski

 

SEAC XXIX

Topic: Signs and Symbols: Above and Below
Date
: September 5-9, 2022
Place: Timisoara, Romania
Organisers: Marc Frincu
Proceedings: Frincu, Marc (ed.). 2024. Proceedings of the 29th Conference o fthe European Societ yfor Astronomy in Culture (SEAC) Timisoara 2022. Timisoara: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara.

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SEAC XXVIII

Topic: Cultural Astronomy & Ancent Skywatching
Date
: September 6-11, 2021
Place: Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
Organisers: Penka Maglova, Mina Spasova, Alexey Stoev
Proceedings: Maglova, Penka & Stoev, Alexey (eds.). 2023. Cultural Astronomy & Ancient Skywatching. Proceedings of the 28th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Astronomy in Culture (SEAC). Plovdiv: TOTEM Studio.

SEAC XXVII

Topic: Beyond Paradigms in Cultural Astronomy
Date
: September 5-9, 2018
Place: Bern, Switzerland
Organisers: César González-García, Lionel D. Sims
Proceedings: González-García, César A., Frank, Roslyn M., Sims, Lionel D., Rappenglück, Michael A., Zotti, Georg, Aviles Belmonte, Juan & (eds.). 2021. Beyond Paradigms in Cultural Astronomy: Proceedings of the 27th SEAC conference held Sprajc, Ivantogether with the EAA. Oxford: BAR. URL.

SEAC XXVI

Topic: Harmony and Symmetry
Date
: August 28 - September 1, 2018
Place: University of Graz, Graz, Austria
Organisers: Max E. Lippitsch, Sonja Draxler
Proceedings: Draxler, Sonja, Lippitsch, Max E. & Wolfschmidt, Gudrun (eds.). 2020. Harmony and Symmetry. Celestial reguarities shaping human culture. Proceedings of the SEAC 2018 Conference in Graz. Hamburg: tredition.

SEAC XXV

Topic: Road to the Stars
Date
: September 18-22, 2017
Place: Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Organisers: César González-García
Proceedings: Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry 18.4 (2018). URL.

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SEAC XXIV

Topic: The Marriage of Astronomy and Culture: Theory and Method in the Study of Cultural Astronomy
Date
: September 12-16, 2016
Place: The Bath Literary and Scientific Institution (BRLSI), Bath, United Kingdom
Organisers: Nicholas Campion
Proceedings: Contributions are published in the following journals:
- Culture & Cosmos 21 (2017)
- Journal of Skyscape Achaeology 3.2 (2017)

SEAC XXIII

Topic: Astronomy in Past and Present Cultures
Date
: November 9-13, 2015
Place: University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy
Organisers: Vito Francesco Polcaro
Proceedings: Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry 16.4 (2016). URL.

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SEAC XXII

Topic: The Materiality of the Sky
Date
: September 22-26, 2014
Place: University of Malta, La Valetta, Malta
Organisers: Frank Ventura
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SEAC XXI

Topic: Astronomy, Mother of Civilization and Guide to the Future
Date
: September 2-6, 2013
Place: Athens, Greece
Organisers: Xenophon Moussas
Proceedings: Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry 14.3 (2014). URL.

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SEAC XX

Topic: Ancient cosmologies and modern prophets
Date
: September 24-29, 2012
Place: Ljubljana, Slovenia
Organisers: Ivan Sprajc, Gregor Meglic
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SEAC XIX

Topic: Stars and Stones: Voyages in Archaeoastronomy and Cultural Astronomy
Date
: September 5-9, 2011
Place: Evora, Portugal
Organisers: Fernando Pimenta, Nuno Ribeiro
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SEAC XVIII

Topic: Astronomy and Power - How worlds are structured
Date
: August 29 - September 5, 2010
Place: Gilching (near Munich), Germany
Organisers: Michael A. Rappenglück, Barbara Rappenglück
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SEAC XVII

Topic: From Alexandria to Al-Iskandariya, astronomy and culture in the ancient Mediterranean and beyond
Date
: October 25-31, 2009
Place: Alexandria, Egypt
Organisers: M. Shaltout, Juan Antonio Belonte, H. El-Mikat
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SEAC XVI

Topic: Cosmology Across Cultures
Date
: September 8-12, 2008
Place: Granada, Spain
Organisers: Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia (IAA) and Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC), with the collaboration of "Parque de las Sciencias" in Granada (PCG)
Proceedings:

 

SEAC XV

Topic: Astronomy and Cosmology in Folk Traditions and Cultural Heritage (joint SEAC-ISAAC meeting)
Date
: July 22-31, 2007
Place: Kleipeda, Lithuania
Organisers: Jonas Vaiskunas
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SEAC XIV

Topic: Ancient Watching at Cosmic Space and Observation of Astronomical Phenomena
Date
: April 6-10, 2006
Place: Rhodes, Greece
Organisers: Ioannis Liritzis
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SEAC XIII

Topic: Lights and Shadows in Cultural Astronomy
Date
: June 28 - July 3, 2005
Place: Isili, Sardinia, Italy
Organisers: Juan Belmonte, Mauro Zedda
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SEAC XII

Topic: Archaeoastronomy in archaeology and ethnography
Date
: August 26-28, 2004
Place: Kecskemet, Hungary
Organisers: Emilia Pasztor, Lajos Bartha, Istvan Szabics
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SEAC XI

Topic: The Future of Archaeoastronomy
Date
: August 11-12, 2003
Place: Leicester, England
Organisers: Clive Ruggles
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SEAC X

Topic: Cultural Context from the Archaeoastronomical Data and the Echoes of Cosmic Catastrophic Events
Date
: August 27-31, 2002
Place: Estonian Literary Museum, Tartu, Estonia
Organisers: Izold Pustylnik, Mare Koiva
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SEAC IX

Topic: Calendars, Symbols, and Orientations
Date
: August 27-30, 2001
Place: Ancient Observatory, Stockholm, Sweden
Organisers: Mary Blomberg, Peter Blomberg, Goran Henrikson
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SEAC VIII

Topic: Astronomy of Ancient Civilizations
Date
: May 23-27, 2000
Place: Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow, Russia
Organisers: V. Obridko, E. Kaurov, I. Spultnik, T. Potemkina
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SEAC VII

Topic: Astronomy and Cultural Diversity
Date
: June 21-27, 1999
Place: Museo de la Ciencia y el Cosmos, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
Organisers: Juan Antonio Belmonte, César Esteban
Proceedings:

 

SEAC VI

Topic: Astronomy and Landscape
Date
: August 31 - September 2, 1998
Place: Queen's College, Dublin, Ireland
Organisers: Clive Ruggles
Proceedings:

 

SEAC V

Topic:
Date
: September 3-6, 1997
Place: Maritime Museum, Gdansk, Poland
Organisers: Mariusz Ziolkowski, Arnold Lebeuf
Proceedings:

 

SEAC IV

Topic: Astronomy in Culture
Date
: September 4-6, 1996
Place: Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
Organisers: Carlos Jaschek, Fernando Atrio
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SEAC III

Topic: Ancient Times, Modern Methods
Date
: August 31 - September 2, 1995
Place: "Lucian Blaga" University, Sibiu, Rumania
Organisers: Florin Stanescu
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SEAC II

Topic:
Date
: August 29-31, 1994
Place: Bochum, Germany
Organisers: Wolfhard Schlosser
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SEAC I

Topic: Astronomical traditions in Past Cultures
Date
: August 31 - September 2, 1993
Place: N.A.O. Rozhen, Smolyan, Bulgaria
Organisers: Dimiter Kolev, Vesselina Koleva
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SEAC O

Topic: Astronomy and Human Sciences
Date
: November 3-5, 1992
Place: Observatoire de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
Organisers: Carlos Jaschek
Proceedings: Jaschek, Carlos (ed.). 1993. European Meeting on Archeoastronomy & Ethnoastronomy. Strasbourg: University Press. URL.

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