Interstellar skies: The Lunar Passage in Literature through the Ages
Interdisciplinary symposium on the lunar passage in literature, 4-6 August 2018, organised by Dale Kedwards (CML)
WORKSHOP
Interstellar skies: The Lunar Passage in Literature through the Ages
Hven, Sweden (connections via Copenhagen), 4th–6th August 2018
Keynotes
Matthew Francis (Aberystwyth University, UK): Towards Goosepunk: A Modern Poetic Treatment of Francis Godwin’s The Man in the Moone
Lisa R. Messeri (Yale University, US): Tidally Locked: Lunar Constructions of a Planetary Imagination
Papers
Hester Bradley (Oxford Brookes University, UK): The Moon on Stage: The Lunar Character in Early Modern England
Bertil Dorch (University of Southern Denmark, DK): Tycho Beyond the Memory of Humankind
Victoria Flood (University of Birmingham, UK): Medieval Dreams and Early Science Fiction in Johannes Kepler’s Somnium
Dale Kedwards (University of Southern Denmark, DK): ‘Whether Jove will me stellify’: Chaucer and Starstuff
Divna Manolova (University of Silesia, PL): The Mirror of the Moon and the Moon in the Mirror: The Lunar Theory of Demetrios Triklinios
Marteinn Helgi Sigurðsson (Copenhagen, DK): Journey to the Moon: Kepler’s Dream, Tycho Brahe and Icelandic Astronomy
Kate McClune (University of Bristol, UK): Ariosto, Lunar Landscapes, and Sixteenth-Century Scotland
Tom McLeish (University of York, UK): From Mars to Music, from Alcuin to Charlemagne, from Cassiodorus to Grosseteste – or how to keep your head when Mars makes you see red
Nicola Thomas (St Hilda's College, Oxford, UK): ‘the orbit mouth organ the floating song’: Queerness, Space and Pleasure in Edwin Morgan's Spacepoems
Image credit: NASA