Astronomy and Civilization Conference
Budapest, Hungary - 10-13. August 2009

The conference "Astronomy and Civilization", being held in Budapest on August 10-13, 2009 to celebrate the International Year of Astronomy 2009, is an exceptional, multidisciplinary event on the most challenging questions of science, philosophy, religion and art. It is organized by the Konkoly Observatory of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Lorand Eotvos Physical Society, and the Lorand Eotvos University. See: http://www.konkoly.hu/AC2009

	Stephen P. Cook: The Importance of Astronomy in Shaping Worldviews (34 MB) Video version   ***   Audio version
	Helena Knyazeva: The Russian Cosmism and the Modern Theory of Complexity: Comparative Analysis (55 MB) Video version   ***   Audio version
	Frances Clynes: The Enchanting Heavens (27 MB) Video version   ***   Audio version
	Stanislaw Iwaniszewski: Cultural Impact of Skywatching (55 MB) Video version   ***   Audio version
	Emília Pásztor: The social and spiritual impact of sky lore on prehistoric societies in Europe (43 MB) Video version   ***   Audio version
	Gábor Karátson: To see a world (50 MB) Video version   ***   Audio version
	Béla Kálmán: Cathedrals as observatories: Meridianae in Italy (37 MB) Video version   ***   Audio version
	Suresh Bhattarai: Impact of Astronomy in Nepalese Civilization (45 MB) Video version   ***   Audio version
	Paul Davies: Why is the Universe Just Right for Life? (80 MB) Video version   ***   Audio version
	Subhash Kak: Observers, Freedom, and the Cosmos (69 MB) Video version   ***   Audio version
	Henry P. Stapp: Mind in the Quantum Universe (64 MB) Video version   ***   Audio version
	Sepp Rothwangl: The Cosmological Circumstances and Results of the A.D.- Invention: Anno Mundi 6000, Great Year, Precession, End of the World Calculations (32 MB) Video version   ***   Audio version
	Ion Soteropoulos: Humanity en route to the glorious unity of our Universe (35 MB) Video version   ***   Audio version
	Chandra Wickramasinghe: Panspermia and the Origins of Life - New Horizons (74 MB) Video version   ***   Audio version
	Menas Kafatos: Quanta and the Conscious Universe (72 MB) Video version   ***   Audio version
	Ákos Kereszturi: The possibility of life at the polar dunes of Mars: observations, analogues and modeling (37 MB) Video version   ***   Audio version
	Atilla Grandpierre: On the first principle of biology and its significance for the unification of natural sciences, scientific world picture, religion, art and the future of mankind (87 MB) Video version   ***   Audio version
	Katalin Martinás: The Principle of Greatest Happiness (41 MB) Video version   ***   Audio version
	László G. Puskás: Nanobionts and the size limit of life (32 MB) Video version   ***   Audio version
	Joseph Seckbach: From Extremophiles on Earth to the Extraterrestrial Life The Astrobiological Cases of Mars and Europa (39 MB) Video version   ***   Audio version
	Stephen Wolfram: Exploring the Computational Universe (Video conference) (100 MB) Video version   ***   Audio version
	Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka (red by Gary Backhaus): The New Enlightenment - Transcendental Positioning of the Living Being between the Spheres of the Earth and the Cosmos (121 MB) Video version   ***   Audio version
	Hans Köchler: The relation between man and the World (66 MB) Video version   ***   Audio version
	Nancey Murphy: Cosmopolis - How Astronomy Affects Religion and Philosophy of Human Nature (72 MB) Video version   ***   Audio version
	William R. Stoeger: The Ascent of Rationality: From Scientific Cosmology to Philosophy and Theology (70 MB) Video version   ***   Audio version
	Varadaraja V. Raman: Stars in Human Civilization - A Hindu Reflections (86 MB) Video version   ***   Audio version
	Nicholas Campion (red by Frances Clynes): Astronomy and the Soul (33 MB) Video version   ***   Audio version
	Alice Mary Williamson: The contribution of Musical Theory to an Ancient Chinese concept of the Universe (33 MB) Video version   ***   Audio version
	Norman D. Cook: Triadic Insights in Astronomy, Art and Music (67 MB) Video version   ***   Audio version
	Miklós Maróth: Arabic cosmology between Aristotle and Copernicus (51 MB) Video version   ***   Audio version