Issue 14 of the Society’s newsletter, Chemical Intelligence, is now available for download. As our current newsletter editor, Dr Jo Hedesan (Oxford), is stepping down with this issue, we would like to thank her for the dedicated work she has done in this capacity over the last two years.
Category Archives: SHAC Meetings & Events
[Archived] Call for Papers: ‘Alchemy and Chemistry in Sickness and in Health’ (6th SHAC Postgraduate Workshop)
Call for Papers | Alchemy and Chemistry in Sickness and in Health
6th SHAC Postgraduate Workshop
Maison Française, University of Oxford (Friday, 30 October 2015)
This year the annual postgraduate workshop of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (SHAC) will take place in the UK, at the Maison Française, Oxford. The workshop offers postgraduate students and early-career researchers the opportunity to share ideas, explore methodological issues and network in a stimulating atmosphere. There will also be the chance to hear papers from, and ask questions of, two keynote speakers. Continue reading
[Archived] SHAC Spring Meeting (Monday 15 June 2015): Programme and Call for Registrations
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.
[Archived] SHAC Spring/Summer Meeting: Call for Papers
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.
[Archived] Call for Registrations: Making Chemistry. History, Materials, and Practices
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.
[Archived] Programme/Call for Registrations: Geographies of Alchemy and Chemistry (5th SHAC Postgraduate Workshop)
Programme | Geographies of Alchemy and Chemistry
5th SHAC Postgraduate Workshop (October 24, 2014)
Venue: University of Amsterdam, Bungehuis 1.01, Spuistraat 210,1012VT Amsterdam
[Archived] The Royal Typographer and the Alchemist: Willem Sylvius and John Dee (Antwerp, 26 October 2014)
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.