Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Making Chemistry: History, Materials, and Practices
Monday 8 December 2014
Locations: Royal Institution and Institute of Making, UCL, London
The programme and registration form are available for download here.
Programme | Geographies of Alchemy and Chemistry
5th SHAC Postgraduate Workshop (October 24, 2014)
Venue: University of Amsterdam, Bungehuis 1.01, Spuistraat 210,1012VT Amsterdam
Venue: Museum Plantin-Moretus, Vrijdagmarkt 22, Antwerp, Belgium
A meeting sponsored by the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry, ‘The Royal Typographer and the Alchemist: Willem Sylvius and John Dee’, will take place on 26 October at the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp, Belgium. Coinciding with the 450th Anniversary of the publication of John Dee’s Monas Hieroglyphica, this colloquium will bring together specialists on John Dee and specialists on late sixteenth-century print culture and humanistic activities in Antwerp. The aim of the colloquium is to investigate the links between Antwerp’s vibrant print culture and its relationship to alchemy and the occult philosophy in the late sixteenth century.
The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry’s first meeting in Latin America, “Crossing Oceans: Exchange of Products, Instruments, Procedures and Ideas in the History of Chemistry and Related Sciences”, will shortly take place in São Paulo, Brazil, from Sunday 24 until Thursday 28 August 2014. This international conference will be hosted and organised by CESIMA (Centre Simao Mathias of Studies in the History of Science) and co-sponsored by SHAC and the Centre of Logic, Epistemology and History of Science, Unicamp (CLE). The conference will mark the occasion of CESIMA’s 20th anniversary in 2014.
Full details of the conference’s programme are now available online.
The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry is delighted to announce that its first meeting in Latin America, “Crossing Oceans: Exchange of Products, Instruments, Procedures and Ideas in the History of Chemistry and Related Science”, will take place on 24-28 August 2014 in São Paulo. This international conference will be hosted and organised by CESIMA (Centre Simao Mathias of Studies in the History of Science) and co-sponsored by SHAC and the Centre of Logic, Epistemology and History of Science, Unicamp (CLE). The conference will mark the occasion of CESIMA’s 20th anniversary in 2014. There will be around 30 speakers from Brazil and the following SHAC members have confirmed their participation: Robert Anderson, Jennifer Rampling, Carsten Reinhardt, Hasok Chang, Frank James, Conleth Loonan and Malika Basu.
CESIMA ANNO XX – Crossing Oceans: Exchange of Products, Instruments, Procedures and Ideas in the History of Chemistry and Related Sciences
University of Amsterdam (Friday, 24 October 2014)
For the first time, the annual postgraduate workshop of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (SHAC) will take place outside the United Kingdom, at the University of Amsterdam. The workshop offers postgraduate students and early-career researchers the opportunity to share ideas, explore methodological issues and network in a stimulating atmosphere.