Contributions

The sessions will take up to some 35 hours divided as follows (subject to change):

a) 5 invited conferences (one per day) of 45 min plus 5 min for questions, i.e. 50 min each.

We have already invited the following lecturers:

Prof. Michael Hoskin.	Cambridge University.
Prof. Carlos Jaschek.	S.E.A.C.
Prof. Stephen McCluskey.	West Virginia University.
Prof. Antonio Tejera Gaspar.	Universidad de La Laguna.
Prof. Alexander Gurshtein (public lecture).	Mesa State University.

b) 10 invited reviews (one per session) of 30 min plus 5 min for questions, i.e. 35 min each.

The following sessions are proposed (subject to updates and changes):

General Topics and Methodology.	Bradley Schaefer.
Astronomy and Landscape.	J. Broda.
Calendars: cycles of time at the End of the Millenium.	A.Lebeuf.
Ethnomathematics and Ethnoastronomy: the sky of living people.	B. Murray.
The Origin of the Constellations.	E. Krupp.
Astronomy in Islands: a peculiar evolution?	C. Esteban.
New Research in Traditional Areas: Eurasia.	S. Iwaniszewski.
New Research in Traditional Areas: Precolumbian America.	J. Galindo & M. Ziolkowski.
From the Atlas to the Caucasus: the other side of the Mediterranean.	J.A. Belmonte.
Research in New Areas: Exotic Astronomies and Cultural Diversity.	C. Ruggles.

c) 50 contributed talks of 15 min plus 5 min for questions, i.e. 20 min each.

d) 50 short poster presentations of 5 min plus 5 min for questions, i.e. 10 min each (optional).

This will allow more than 100 participants to intervene. However, depending on the number of delegates the 50 talks might make as much as 100 short presentations; hence as many as 150 participants would be allowed to speak if needed.

The official language of the conference will be English. However, some talks and short presentations in Spanish may eventually be accepted (not posters). Hopefully, simultaneous translation will be provided depending on the final budget although preference will be given to grants. However, for SEAC Annual General Meeting (AGM), the language tradition followed so far will be respected.

Working Groups

During lunch time (2 hours) and in the evening, working groups can meet up to discuss specific topics. Some have been proposed:

Conceptual, theoretical and methodological perspectives in Astronomy in Culture.
Curriculum Development: classroom applications and out-of-school applications of Astronomy in Culture.
Intersections with other disciplines.

Suggestions for other Working Groups are welcome by the organisation.

Publication of the Conference Proceedings

The Proceedings will be edited by the LOC and will be sponsored and published by the "Organismo Autónomo de Museos y Centros" of the Cabildo de Tenerife.

In principle, we hope to offer 10 pages for invited conferences and reviews, 6 pages for talks and 4 pages for short presentations (posters). All communications must be written in English with an optional extended Abstract in Spanish.

IMPORTANT.
Due to budget schedule limitations, we are forced to be most serious and strict with dead-lines for publication. In principle, each participant will be asked to come to the Conference with his/her text in publication format (Word 6.0 or similar manuscript, plus graphics in black & white).

Two months will be allowed after the meeting for final corrections. If no corrections are supplied, we will consider the first draft as the definitive version. In any case, September 1st is the definitive dead-line.

To attend the meeting will not necessarily mean to have the communication published. Each contributed paper will suffer a referring process after the conference.