SHAC is holding the SHAC Spring Meeting 2025 and it marks the Society’s 90th Anniversary,
It will be held “in person” on Saturday 29 March 2025 at University College London (LG04, 26 Bedford Way) on the subject of:
Biographies of Alchemists and Chemists
Registration costs £18.50 and is now available via this TicketSource link:
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/society-for-the-history-of-alchemy-and-chemistry/t-vvgzdpy
The schedule for the meeting, showing the list of excellent speakers, is shown below:
| 9.30 | Coffee | |
| 10.00 | Frank James (UCL) | Opening remarks |
| 10.15 | Laurence Chen (UCL) | Mercurial self-fashioning: mythological (auto)biographies in Elias Ashmole’s Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum |
| 10.45 | Sergei Zotov (Warwick) | Visual Biographies: Portraits and Monuments in Early Modern Alchemical Manuscripts |
| 11.15 | Charlotte Abney Salomon (SHI) | J.G. Gahn, in the Words of Others |
| 11.45 | Anna Simmons (UCL) | “The perspicuity of style, and the proprietary of expression”: Lectures, Laboratories and William Thomas Brande (1788-1866) |
| 12.15 | Lunch, not provided but some will be heading to the Wellcome café | |
| 2.00 | Jenny Wilson (UCL) | Campaigning for peace: The work of Dame Kathleen Lonsdale FRS (1903-1971) |
| 2.30 | Annette Lykknes (NTNU, Trondheim) | Clusters of women in laboratories or institutes of technology: Reflections on prosopographical approaches to the history of (women in) chemistry |
| 3.00 | Tea | |
| 3.30 | Carsten Reinhardt (Bielefeld) | Autobiographies of Chemists: The Lives in Chemistry Series |
| 4.00 | Judith Kaplan (SHI) | Who are the Biographers? Reflections on Problem Choice and Personal Investment |
| 4.30 | Roundtable for reminiscences to mark the 90th anniversary of SHAC with a glass of wine | Participants will include Gerrylynn Roberts, John Brooke and Peter Morris |
| 5.30 | End of meeting |
I look forward to seeing you there and sharing with you a glass of wine during the last item of the schedule.
Best regards
Frank James