{"id":267,"date":"2019-03-05T12:26:55","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T12:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spica.org.uk\/?page_id=267"},"modified":"2019-03-14T15:47:38","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T15:47:38","slug":"contributors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/spica.org.uk\/index.php\/contributors\/","title":{"rendered":"Contributors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">Nomita Khatri<a id=\"nk\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/spica.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Nomita-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-268\" srcset=\"http:\/\/spica.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Nomita-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/spica.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Nomita-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/spica.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Nomita-655x655.jpg 655w, http:\/\/spica.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Nomita.jpg 699w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Nomita is a student on the Master\u2019s in Ecology and Spirituality at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, which she aims to complete in 2020. What continues to pique her interest is the connection between the outside world and our own lived internal experiences as individuals within it. The paper <a href=\"http:\/\/spica.org.uk\/index.php\/2019\/02\/01\/experiencing-the-goan-skies\/\">Experiencing the Goan Skies<\/a> presented her with the experience of exploring these seemingly separate spheres under a monsoon sky. Nomita lives in Goa, India, where she works on design projects that explore this mirrored connection between worlds and increasingly hopes bring alive these connections in the form of more qualitative research work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">Christopher Layser<a id=\"cl\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/spica.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pic2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-269\" srcset=\"http:\/\/spica.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pic2-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/spica.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pic2-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/spica.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pic2-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/spica.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pic2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/spica.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pic2-655x655.jpg 655w, http:\/\/spica.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pic2.jpg 1527w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Christopher Layser completed the requirements for the &nbsp;MA in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology from the University of Wales Trinity Saint David with a distinction for his dissertation on Maya Skyscape Iconology titled \u2018Can an Iconological Analysis of a Classic Period Vase (K1485) Further our Understanding of Ancient Maya Skyscapes?\u2019 He is an active member of the Society for Cultural Astronomy in the American Southwest (SCAAS) and the Pre-Columbian Society of the Penn Museum. As a volunteer with the Maya Research Program (MRP) he participates in Maya site archaeological excavation and photogrammetry\/3D imaging in northwestern Belize. Read his contribution <a href=\"http:\/\/spica.org.uk\/index.php\/2019\/02\/01\/the-turtle-the-peccary-and-the-two-headed-serpent-comparison-of-maya-zodiac-constellations-in-the-paris-codex-and-the-murals-of-bonampak\/\">The Turtle, the Peccary and the Two-headed&nbsp;Serpent<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nomita Khatri Nomita is a student on the Master\u2019s in Ecology and Spirituality at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, which she aims to complete in 2020. What continues to pique her interest is the connection between the outside world and our own lived internal experiences as individuals within it. The paper Experiencing the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/spica.org.uk\/index.php\/contributors\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Contributors<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-267","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/spica.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/spica.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/spica.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spica.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spica.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/spica.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297,"href":"http:\/\/spica.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/267\/revisions\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/spica.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}