The new Chemical Intelligence is now online!
SHAC Award Scheme 2018
The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry invites applications for its Award Scheme for 2018.
CfP: 9th SHAC Annual Postgraduate Workshop
We now welcome abstracts for the next SHAC Postgraduate Workshop. The 9th Annual Postgraduate Workshop will take place on 29 June, 2018 at the Royal Institution in London. The theme of the Workshop is “Experience and Experiment: Materiality of Alchemical Texts and Objects.”
New Book: Compound Histories: Materials, Governance and Production, 1760-1840
Compound Histories: Materials, Governance and Production, 1760-1840, edited by Lissa Roberts, University of Twente and Simon Werrett, University College London, is now available via Brill.
Compound Histories: Materials, Governance and Production, 1760-1840 offers a new view of the period during which Europe took on its modern character and globally dominant position. By exploring the intertwined realms of production, governance and materials, it places chemists and chemistry at the centre of processes most closely identified with the construction of the modern world. Compound Histories explores the place of chemistry in material and knowledge production; the growth and management of consumption; environmental changes, regulation of materials, markets, landscapes and societies; and practices embodied in political economy. Rather than emphasize revolutionary breaks and the primacy of innovation-driven change, the volume highlights the continuities and accumulation of incremental changes that framed historical development. Contributors are: Robert G.W. Anderson, Bernadette Bensaude Vincent, José Ramón Bertomeu Sánchez, John R.R. Christie, Joppe van Driel, Frank A.J.L. James, Christine Lehman, Lissa L. Roberts, Thomas le Roux, Elena Serrano, Anna Simmons, Marie Thébaud-Sorger, Sacha Tomic, Andreas Weber, and Simon Werrett.
http://www.brill.com/products/book/compound-histories
**Compound Histories: Materials, Governance and Production, 1760-1840 is available to download for free from Brill’s open access page**: http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/…/boo…/9789004325562
British Society for the History of Pharmacy conference 2018
Bookings are now open for the annual conference of the British Society for the History of Pharmacy, to be held from Friday 6 – Sunday 8 April 2018 at the Best Western Yew Lodge Hotel, Kegworth in the East Midlands.
OXFORD SEMINAR IN THE HISTORY OF ALCHEMY AND CHEMISTRY, 2018
The seminar, usually held each year in May-June, is being moved forward to January 2018, in order to coincide with the visit of our colleague, the distinguished historian of chemistry Professor Emeritus Bernadette Bensaude Vincent (Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne), to the Maison Française d’Oxford in January-February 2018.
8th Annual SHAC Postgraduate Workshop:
On 1 and 2 December, 2017, the 8th Annual SHAC Postgraduate Workshop will take place at the Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia.