The venue of the conference is in the Department of Economics.
Friday to Sunday sessions will be held in Room B1.
Monday sessions will be held in Room B20.
Workshop will be held in the Computer Room
Outreach activities will be held in Kordatos Amphitheatre (School of Humanities).
- 14:30 Registration
- 15:30 Welcoming speeches
- 16:00 Session 1: Centaurs (chair: John Steele)
- S. Hoffmann: Constellation Centaurus as case study
- W. Horowitz: Mixed Beings: From Centaurus to the Sumerian Pig-Fish
- A.E. Kechagias: Hercules and the Centaurs: Myth and astronomy between Ancient Greece and India
- M. Georgiadou: Ritual procession on Pelion at the heliacal rising of Sirius
- D. Vickers: Holding the Beast: The preservation of star lore in the Carolingian "De Ordine ac Positione Stellarum in Signis"
- 18:00 Session 2: Near East and Egypt (chair: Rita Gautschy)
- E. Zangger, A. Aşınmaz & N. Atila: Staging the divine: Cosmology, epiphany and hydraulic display at Eflatunpınar
- J. Steele: Horoscopy in Babylonian society
- B.P. Carpenter: Using a least squares ΔT model to refine the chronology of the Amarna period
- A. Maravelia: An amazing solar epiphany (hēliasmos) in two Coptic churches of the Delta
- A. Rodrígues-Antón & A.C. González-García: Astronomy and religion in the Roman temples of Near East
- 21:00 Conference dinner
- Star gazing with the Volos Astronomical Society
- 09:30 Session 3: European Prehistory I (chair: Gail Higginbottom)
- M. Incerti & F. Rossi: Light phenomena and archaeoastronomy at Ponte d’Ercole (Italy): a 3D survey and diachronic simulation approach
- M.A. Rappenglück: From embodied measurement to celestial order
- S.D. Kiotsekoglou: Solstices and Equinoxes: Monitoring the positions and movements of the Sun through the eyes of the Ancestors
- M. Spasova, H. Valchanova, P. Maglova & A. Stoyev: Sky on Stone: evolution of the depiction of celestial objects on rock surfaces in Prehistory
- A. Stoyev, P. Maglova & O. Ognyanov: Research on Eneolithic projective systems for determining solar culminations with drone technologies
- 11:30 Session 4: European Prehistory II (chair: Maitane Urrutia-Aparicio)
- F. Prendergast: Facing west—a new archaeoastronomical analysis of wedge tombs
- M.P. Zedda & M.A. Rappenglück: Nuraghe Santu Antine (Sardinia) as a cosmologically structured place: Architecture, landscape, Crux and the Milky Way
- G. Higginbottom: Interpreting local cosmological schemes through dolmen construction
- A.C. González-García: Towards a comprehensive study of megalithic astronomy in Galicia (Spain)
- G. Russo: The Celestial Dog: A pre-registered Neolithic stellar alignment system in southeastern Sicily (5000–4300 BCE)
- 16:00 Session 5: Africa & Asia (chair: Marc Thuillard)
- M. Urrutia-Aparicio, A. Rodríguez-Antón, M.A. Perera Betancor & A.C. González-García: Prehistoric funerary landscapes of Western Sahara: further insights from cultural astronomy
- B.S. Shylaja & S.M. Hoffmann: The Vedic Nakshatras and the Babylonian zodiac
- C.B. Unganarasimhaiah: The Descent of Gaṅgā: Galactic axis interpretation of Indian cosmology
- H. Attaolahi: The concept of time in Ancient Persia
- S. Sheiki, N. Andalib & A.C. González-García: The Celestial Body: The intersection of astronomy, history and architectural symbolism in Nizami’s "Haft Peykar"
- 18:00 Session 5: America (chair: Nicolas Balbi)
- S. Gullberg: Cosmic worldview of the Inkas
- S. Motta, S. Ayub, L. Epis & C. Paolo: Tiwanaku (Bolivia), an archaeoastronomical study on the role of the stars in the dating of the site
- R. Kanazawa: Afterimage Archaeoastronomy: A physiological framework for ancient sky perception and monumental alignments
- S. Iwaniszewski: The origins and spread of Lunar Series in the Early Classic Period (ca. 250/357–600 CE), Maya Lowlands
- M.C.H. Lourenço & S. Valentim: Cultural astronomy in Candomblé and its potential for science education
- 21:00 Film screening (Kordatos Amphitheatre)
- Cielo by Alison McAlpine
Cielo is a love poem for the night sky, set in the Atacama Desert, Chile. Planet Hunters in the Atacama's astronomical observatories and the desert dwellers who work the land and sea share their evocative visions of the stars and planets, their mythic stories and existential queries with remarkable openness and a contagious sense of wonder.
Language: Spanish / English / French
Subtitles: Greek
- 09:30 Session 7: Methodology (chair: César González-García)
- G. Zotti, S.M. Hoffmann & A. Wolf: Stellarium Skycultures 2.0: A significant improvement
- R. Gautschy: Reproducible Archaeoastronomy: Structured workflows for astronomical chronology in the digital humanities
- J. Mejuto & E. Rodas-Quito: "Chan U’bih": An online archaeoastronomical research engine for horizon-based alignment studies
- M. Frincu, M. Urrutia-Aparicio, A. Ancuta & H. Hochbauer: New tools for standard and GIS based archaeoastronomical analysis
- V. Lianou, M. Frincu & M. Urrutia-Aparicio: Estimating orientation in Roman towns: An AI-based approach
- 11:30 Session 8: Science & Myth (chair: Alicia Maravelia)
- X. Moussas: From Logos to Algorithm: The Antikythera Mechanism between nomos, physical law, and proto-artificial Intelligence
- S. Draxler & M.E. Lippitsch: Description and illustration of solar and lunar eclipses in Medieval and Renaissance times
- J.N. Balbi: The first stratospheric ascension project of the southern hemisphere (1938) and the scientists' questions
- M. Thuillard: The Raven, the Crow, and the Sun: A quantitative analysis of cultural transmission
- N. Bekbassar: The theory of celestial imbalance: On the question of the relationship between the Pleiades and the Big Dipper in the mythology of Eurasian steppe
- 16:00 Workshop (Computer Room)
- Z. Kovačić: Circular statistics in archaeoastronomy Using R
- 20:30 Outreach lecture in Greek (Kordatos Amphitheatre)
- X. Moussas: Ο Μηχανισμός των Αντικυθήρων πρόδρομος της Τεχνητής Νοημοσύνης
- 09:30 Session 9: Greece (chair: Xenophon Moussas)
- M.V. Garcia-Quintela & A.C. González-García: Helios in Athens: from the city of Theseus to the city of Plato
- M.A. Sutton: From arithmogeometry to stellar alignments: Exploring a polyhedral model underlying the classical constellations
- A. Paule: Greeks, gnomonics, mathematics: Sundials and their inventors in Ancient Greek culture
- T.G. Dallas, C. Apostolou & L. Zacheilas: The orientation of the tholos tombs in Dimini
- I. Cristofaro: Conceptual developments in skyscape archaeology in sacrificial festival contexts: the seasonality–test
- 11:30 Session 10: Varia & Posters (chair: Themis Dallas)
- D. Hamacher & J. Holbrook: Indigenous astronomy in the space age: a report on the 2025 IAU Symposium 399 / Oxford XIII Meeting
- J.D. Mooney: "Catching the Equinox", Santiago de Compostela
- G. van Aarsen: Gilgamesh and the Centaur
- V. Lianou: "Archaeosky": A computational platform for archaeoastronomical analysis of the Roman world
- G. Henrikkson: Caesar’s comet identified as comet Encke II, a part of comet Encke
- K.N. Kokkolis: Tiresias and the well-made oar: Cosmic orientation in Bronze Age sacred architecture
- A. Bajic & M.S. Dimitrijević: "Shield of Heracles": A poem, a temple and a celestial battle
- X. Moussas: Astronomical orientation of orthogonal buildings in Neolithic Thessaly
- M. Tsikritsis & X. Moussas: The Minoan Gate to the Sky and the rhythms of nature
- R. Perez-Enriquez, E. Rodas-Quito, X. Moussas: Astro-architectural design principles in Greek and Roman theatres: Solar-gnomonic construction rules
- D. Marinho, A.C. González-García & A.M.S. Bettencourt: Wheel-crosses in Southern Galicia: Archaeoastronomical patterns and interpretations
- C. Maumené: Beyond salt: a neolithic funerary vessel as a possible astronomical tool?
- R. Pierini & P. Nava: Celestial Gardens: Plant and constellation lore in the sky of Centaurus
- A. Gangui & C. Rivera: Archaeoastronomy in the Bolivian highlands: a preliminary analysis of the orientation of the funerary towers of Tama Chullpa, Culli Culli
- Synopsis
- Light lunch
- 14:30 SEAC General Assembly
- Carlos Jaschek Award ceremony
- 21:00 Space-inspired concert (Kordatos Amphitheatre)
- Performed by Synola the University of Thessaly Music Ensembles