Here’s somewhat short notice about the upcoming Post Graduate Conference and, by the way the next SHAC on line seminar will be on Thursday 18th January 2024, not in 2025 as recently advised!
The SHAC PG Conference, Uncovering the Secrets of the Universe, will be held this Saturday (13th January 2024) coming from St John’s College, Oxford.
It can be accessed via Zoom.
Programme:
Welcome and Introduction: 11.00 – 11.15
Session 1: 11.15 – 12.30
- Josh Werrett, University of Oxford
imitatio Christi and the Aesthetics of Martyrdom in The Visions of Zosimos of Panopolis
- Yusuf Tayara, University of Oxford
Towards a Literary Heresiology: Esotericism, Language, and Reason in the Work of al-Safadi
- Diego Gorini, University of Salento / University of Cologne
“Rotam Rotare”: The Wheel as an Instrument of the Scientific Investigation of Nature in the Pseudo-Lullian Alchemical Works.
Lunch: 12.30 – 13.30
Session 2: 13.30 – 14.45
- Sergei Zotov, University of Warwick
Toads, Feathers, Horseshoes, and The Seven-Footed King: Recent Developments in the Study of The Ripley Scrolls
- Ellen Hausner, University of Oxford
Angels, Magic, and the Philosophers’ Stone: The Manuscripts of a Sixteenth-Century Physician
- Maddie Reynolds, University of Edinburgh
‘Heavenly alchemy’: Material Culture and the Divine Cosmos in John Dee’s Apocalyptic World
Break: 14.45 – 15.00
Session 3: 15.00 – 16.00
- Elena Morgana, University of Oxford
William Yworth’s Alkahest: Alchemical Philosophy in the 18th Century
- Leonardo Anatrini, University of Florence
From Ether to God (and Everything in Between): On the Alchemical Philosophy and Laboratory Practice of François Jollivet-Castelot
Break: 16.00 – 16.15
Keynote Lecture: 16.15 – 16.45
- Frank James, University College London
Bringing the Universe Together: The Field Theory of Michael Faraday
Closing Remarks: 16.45 – 17.00 SHAC Conference