The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (SHAC) is holding its Spring Meeting, which will also mark its 90th Anniversary, in person on Saturday 29 March 2025 at University College London (LG04, 26 Bedford Way).
The meeting will be on The Biographies of Alchemists and Chemists and registration, which costs £18.50, is now available via this TicketSource link:
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/society-for-the-history-of-alchemy-and-chemistry/t-vvgzdpy
Programme:
| 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, Robert Anderson and Peter Morris |
| 5.30 | End of meeting |
We look forward to seeing you there.
Best regards
Rob Johnstone
Hon Treasurer.