October 6
18:00 | Conference warming | Theatercafé, Theaterstraße 5, Erlangen |
October 7
9:00 - 09:30 |
Conference opening | |
| 9:30 - 10:30 | Plenary | |
| Raz Chen-Morris | Poetic Astronomy and the Construction of New Heavens |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | coffee break | |
| 11:00 - 13:00 | The Middle Ages | |
| Sophie Knapp | Astronomical and Cosmological Knowledge in Middle High German Sangspruchdichtung: Between Nigromancy and Erudite meisterschaft |
| Daniel Könitz | Of Comets, Celestial Spheres and Planetary Children |
| Maximilian Wick | Mirari faciunt magis hec quam scire: Ways of (Not) Understanding the Cosmos in Jean de Hauteville’s Architrenius |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | lunch | |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Christian and Islamic Theology and Philosophy | |
| Joseph Kouneiher | Nicholas of Cusa (Cusanus) and the Mathematization of Nature |
| Nadine Löhr | Three Egyptian Horoscopes in Florence |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | coffee break | |
| 16:00 - 17:30 | Online panel | |
| Walker Horsfall | Astronomical (In)accuracy in Heinrich von Mügeln’s Der meide kranz |
| George Vlahakis | Reading the Stars in late Byzantium and the Balkans under the Ottoman Empire |
| 19:00-22:00 | dinner | Zen, Theaterplatz 22, Erlangen |
October 8
09:00 - 10:30 | The Renaissance | |
| Agata Starownik | Astronomy for the Public. The Warsaw Parade of Planets in Martin Gruneweg’s Relation |
| Helge Perplies | Heavenly Theater. Writing about Astronomy and Astrology in Jean Bodin’s Démonomanie des Sorciers (1580) |
| 10:30-11:00 | coffee break | |
| 11:00-12:00 | Plenary | |
| Hania Siebenpfeiffer | "And they looked like a hundred suns": Imagination of the Extra-Terrestrial in Early European Enlightenment |
| 12:00-13:30 | lunch | |
| 13:30-14:30 | Plenary | |
| 13:30-14:30 | Alexander Honold | Celestial Education. The Formative Impact of Astronomy on the German "Bildungsroman" (Goethe, Hölderlin, Jean Paul) |
| 14:30-15:15 | The Eighteenth Century | |
| Reto Rössler | In Ruins – in Dreams. (The End of) ›Heavenly Writing‹ in Jean Paul’s Speech of the Dead Christ down from the Universe That There Is No God (1796) |
| 15:15-15:45 | coffee break | |
| 15:45-17:15 | Online Session | |
| Pouyan Shahidi | Moonlight, Quintessence, and Gabriel: The Explanation and Use of the Lunar Spots across Fields of Intellectual Inquiry in Islam |
| Matthias Hennig | Lunar Travels as an Anti-colonial Desire: The Moon and the New World Discourse |
| 19:00-22:00 | Conference dinner | Mein lieber Schwan, Hauptstraße 110, Erlangen |
October 9
09:00 - 10:30 | Chinese Heavens | |
| Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh | Monuments, Hermeneutics, or Astronomy? China and the Invention of World History |
| Andrea Bréard | "Heavenly Patterns" and Everyday Life in a Nutshell (China) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | coffee break | |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | The Language of Astronomical Phenomena | |
| Gábor Kutrovátz | The Anatomy of Constellations: How Textual Descriptions in Early Modern Star Catalogues Refer to Body-parts of Constellation Figures |
| Harald Gropp | The Celestial Script Conquers the World |
| 12:30 | Concluding remarks / lunch | |
| afternoon | Visit to Bamberg and Bamberg Observatory (optional) | |
