An incredibly varied spring meeting, from alchemy to Arrhenius, elixirs to electrons
Venue: Clare Hall (NOT to be confused with Clare College!), Herschel Road, Cambridge and Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane, Cambridge
For registration form, click here.
Spring/Summer Meeting, Monday 15 June 2015: Call for Papers
The first biannual meeting of SHAC in 2015 is being arranged for the morning to mid-afternoon of Monday 15 June 2015 at Clare Hall, Herschel Road, Cambridge. The first part of the meeting will not be to address any particular theme but will consist of a succession of papers on topics appropriate to the Society’s interests. Later in the afternoon participants will make their way to the History and Philosophy of Science Department in Free School Lane for presentations in the ADHOC series by Professor Hasok Chang and Professor Klaus Ruthenberg (of Coburg University) on the history/philosophy of acidity. ADHOC has been financially supported by SHAC for a number of years.
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.