Applicants are invited to apply for grants under a new Special Award Scheme from the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (SHAC) to support attendance of early-career scholars and independent scholars at the 12^th International Conference on the History of Chemistry in Maastricht on 29 July to 2 August 2019. Awards of up to £500 will be made as a contribution towards the cost of travel, accommodation and registration fees for those giving a paper at the conference. Early-career scholars are defined as post-graduate students (both masters and doctoral students) and those who have obtained a PhD since January 2014.

Applicants must be members of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry in good standing at the time of making an application and if successful through the period of the award. For more information and application forms please contact grants[AT]ambix.org stating that you are applying for a grant to attend ICHC.

Details of how to join the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry can be found at https://www.ambix.org/subscription/ . Membership enquiries should be made to newjoiner[AT]ambix.org

The deadline for applications is Sunday 7 April 2019. Please note this an earlier deadline than for the 2019 SHAC Award Scheme. It is expected that applicants will be advised of the outcome of their application in time to register for early-bird conference fees which are available until 1 May 2019.

An activity report must be submitted at the end of the conference. This will usually be published in SHAC’s Chemical Intelligence Newsletter.

Please note that applying for a Special ICHC12 Award does not preclude applying to the usual SHAC Award Scheme for 2019.

Matter, Ideas and Nature:  A Conference in Memory of David Marcus Knight

Durham University, 14-15 June 2019

SHAC’s spring meeting is being organised jointly with Durham University’s Department of Philosophy and will take place at Durham University’s Business School on Friday 14 and Saturday 15 June 2019.

The registration fee for the meeting will be £20.

Please visit the following link to book a place at the conference

https://www.dur.ac.uk/conference.booking/details/?id=1205

FRIDAY 14^TH JUNE

SATURDAY 15^TH JUNE

On 4 and 5 March, the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry and the Maison Francaise in Oxford will organise a conference on “Biographies of Materials and the Crossroads between Natural Sciences and Humanities.”

During the conference, both historians and material scientists will shed light on the hybrid life of materials as natural entities or social and economic agents.

Attendance is free, but registration is required.

For the full programme and ways to register, see here.

The Science Museum, in collaboration with partners, is hosting a one-day conference, ‘Chemistry in Albertopolis’, on 11 April 2019.

The conference will explore the 150-year history of chemistry in Albertopolis, the cultural and scientific quarter at the heart of South Kensington. ​This one-day conference will feature sessions and tours celebrating the institutions which helped to make chemistry a key facet of intellectual and public life in this pocket of West London and beyond. Full details, a programme and booking link can be found here https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/see-and-do/chemistry-albertopolis-conference Registration is free.

On Friday, 16 November 2018, the IUPAC will celebrate its centennial in Paris. The scientific Union will be celebrated during this symposium and in several lectures from members on IUPAC’s past, present, and future.

All information, including the full programme, can be found here.

The latest issue of SHAC’s newsletter, Chemical Intelligence, is now out.

This issue of Chemical Intelligence offers much news on past events, upcoming SHAC events, Ambix, prizes and awards, and much more. The issue can be downloaded here.

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Call for Papers, pieces and performers: Deadline 20^th December 2018
National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth 15/16^th March 2019

In a Strange Garden comprises a one-day symposium, exhibition of rare alchemical texts and an experimental electronic music concert (Friday March 15^th) and concert (Saturday March 16^th) for artists and researchers of any or no affiliation, early career and practice-based researchers, sound artists, musicians and composers.

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