On Friday, 20 March, the University Library in Leiden (Netherlands) organises a one-day conference on “Women and Alchemy in Early Modern Europe.”
More information and the programme can be found here.
To attend the conference, please send an e-mail to Sajed Chowdhury (s.a.chowdhury [AT] hum.leidenuniv.nl) by 28 February.
The latest issue of Chemical Intelligence is now available! It includes lots of information on upcoming events organised by the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry and by other organisations (including two on women and chemistry!); announces the opening of the Award Scheme for New Scholars and for various organisational activities; and contains many reports about past SHAC meetings. You can download the latest issue here.
Tuesday 11 February 2020, Knowledge Centre, British Library, 13.00 to 17.00
SHAC is supporting a British Library and World Scientific Publishing Company Event, Women in their Element, which is part of the WISE Festival, celebrating the International Day of Women and Girls in Science.
The co-editors and contributors of the recently published Women in Their Element provide a fresh perspective on the unsung contributors to science in this half-day seminar on women and the Periodic Table.
Published in the International Year of the Periodic Table, 2019, Women in their Element offers an original viewpoint on the history of the Periodic Table: a collective volume with short illustrated papers on women and their contributions to the building and the understanding of the periodic table and of the elements themselves. Edited by Annette Lykknes and Brigitte Van Tiggelen, this book will help make historical women chemists more visible, as well as shed light on the multifaceted character of the work on the chemical elements and their periodic relationships.
For further details and information on how to book a British Library event please visit the British Library website here.
The new Issue of Chemical Intelligence, the first one edited by our new CI-editor Karoliina Pulkkinen, is now online! It includes reports of conferences and awards, information about the Partington Prize and upcoming conferences, and more! The issue can be downloaded here.
This year’s SHAC Postgraduate Workshop will be held from 28-30 November, 2019 at the Ritman Library, Amsterdam.
The programme can be downloaded here.
Registration is possible via studentrep [AT] ambix.org
The program
This year marks the centenary of the death of William Crookes. Journalist, chemist, photographer, spiritualist, businessman, sometime Secretary of the Royal Institution and President of the Royal Society of London, Crookes was a key figure in the science of the second half of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth. This meeting, organised by the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry, the Historical Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Royal Institution, which is part of the ChemFest celebrations of the sesquicentenary of the periodic table, will examine various aspects of Crookes’s extraordinary career and his place in science.
The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry’s AGM will also be held at this meeting and further details about this will be sent to members in the autumn.
Programme
13.15 SHAC AGM
13.30 Registration for Crookes Meeting
13:45 Welcome and Introduction: Frank James, (Royal Institution and Chair of SHAC)
First Session Chair: Anna Simmons (UCL)
13.50 Richard Noakes (Exeter University)
‘Two Parallel Lines’? The Trajectories of Physical and Psychical Research in the Work of William Crookes
14:30 Kelley Wilder (De Montfort University, Leicester)
William Crookes, a life in Photo-Chemistry
15.10 Refreshment Break
Second Session Chair: Peter Morris (Chair of RSCHG) 15.30 Frank James (Royal Institution and UCL)
William Crookes and Michael Faraday
16.10 Paul Ranford (UCL)
Crookes’s “Invisible Helper” – George Gabriel Stokes (1819-1903)
16.50 William Brock (University of Leicester)
The key to the deepest mystery of nature: Crookes, periodicity and the genesis and evolution of the elements
17.30 Close of meeting
There is no charge for this meeting, but prior registration is essential. Please email Robert Johnstone (robert.johnstone.14 [AT] ucl.ac.uk) if you would like to attend. If having registered, you are unable to attend, please notify Robert Johnstone.
The meeting will take place at Saturday 19 October 2019, at the Royal Institution, 21 Albemarle Street, London, W1S 4BS
The Oxford seminar in the history of alchemy and chemistry will will take place during Trinity Term, and is organised with the support of SHAC. It’s convenors are John Christie, Oxford and Marie Thébaud-Sorger, MFO.
See here the programme:
Wednesday 22 May, 3.00-5.00pm
Jo Hedesan, Oxford
« Alchemy and Paracelsianism at the Casino San Marco in Florence under the patronage of Antonio de’ Medici (1576-1621) »
Ute Frietsch, Wolfenbüttel
« Alchemy as an organising principle of the Kunstkammer of Rudolf II »
Wednesday 29 May, 3.00-5.00pm
A prospect and preview of A Cultural History of Chemistry (6 vols., Bloomsbury, forthcoming) With Peter Morris (Joint Editor-in Chief), John Christie (contributor, vol. 4).
Wednesday 5 June, 4.00-6.00pm
Pierre Teissier, Université de Nantes
« Chemical Substitutions in XXth Century Materials Research »
Mat Paskins, LSE
« The Substitutes Directory: Narratives and Practices of Substitution »
Location :
Maison française d’Oxford
2-10 Norham Road
OX2 6RF Oxford