TOPIC
Sky has always fascinated the human beings and it has always had a significant impact on our worldview. Early cultures identified celestial objects with the gods and took their movements across the sky as prophecies of what was to come. Throughout history people have also looked to the stars to decide when to plant crops, to navigate oceans, and to know where we came from and how we got here. Today two different disciplines are interested in the study of stars and planets, despite being based on distinct assumptions: from one side astronomy and from the other side astrology. What are the differences between them? What do they have, instead, in common? What is a star for both astronomy and astrology? Is it possible to imagine a kind of interaction between astrologers and astronomers? What do they think about each other?
Don’t miss the debate between the astrophysicist Prof. Christoffel Waelkens and the astrologer Michaël Mandl at the upcoming Brussels Science Apéro! Let’s peer together into heaven and have your questions and curiosities answered!
The 18th of June 2014, from 19.00 to 20.30 http://www.neweuropestudios.com/ Rue Froissart 1, 1040, Brussels, Belgium View New Europe Studios in a larger map REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT ON FACEBOOK!
Christoffel Waelkens is Professor in Astrophysics at the KU Leuven. He acts as Programme Director for the master in Astronomy and Astrophysics and the advanced master of Space Studies. His research topics are stellar evolution, circumstellar media, and space astrophysics. Waelkens is the author of many scientific publications and the promotor of several research projects. He was co-Principal Investigator of the PACS instrument on the Herschel satellite, and the instigator of the project for the Mercator Telescope at the La Palma Observatory on the Canary Islands. Michaël Mandl Michaël Mandl has a Master degree in Psychology, but he has always had a keen interest in astrology. He earned an astrological training basically by himself, through many readings and case studies. In 1994 he became editorial assistant in the quarterly journal of the Federation Astrologique Belge (FAB) “Infosophia”; then he assumed the presidency of the FAB for nine years and he collaborated with many journals. Currently, Mandl works as an astrological consultant, a trainer and a conference speaker. He’s also the author of several publications and he participates in various Belgian radio and television programs. Since 2010 Mandl is writing the horoscope for “Le Soir Magazine”.
WHEN & WHERE?
New Europe Studios
SPEAKER
Christoffel Waelkens
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