SHAC Spring Meeting 2019

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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 14TH JUNE

10:00 Introduction
Matthew Eddy and Robin Hendry
10:30 David Marcus Knight (1936-2018): An Appreciation
Prof William H. Brock (Leicester University)
11:30 Voyaging in Strange Seas: Science and Storytelling
Ms Sarah Day (Journalist and Novelist)
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Whitehead and Wells on the ‘Invention of Invention’
Prof Peter Bowler (Queens University Belfast)
14:30 Young Wallace: New light on the globe-trotting land-surveyor to whom Darwin wrote ‘May all your theories succeed’
Prof Jim Moore (Open University)
15:30 Break
16:00 Beyond the Exotic Anomaly: The European Reception of the
Kangaroo
Dr Sophie Forgan (Linnean Society of London)
17:00 Trust in Science 
Prof Nancy Cartwright (Durham University)
18:00 End
19:30 Conference Dinner

SATURDAY 15TH JUNE

10:00 Trust in Chemistry Prof Robin Hendry (Durham University)
11:00 The Very Young Humphry Davy 
Prof Frank A. J. L. James (University College London and the Royal Institution)
12:00 Lunch  
13:00 The Life of Thomas Garnett
Prof Robert Fox (Oxford University)
14:00 Rethinking Joseph Black’s Matter Theory
Prof Matthew Daniel Eddy (Durham University)
15:00 Closing Remarks
Matthew Eddy and Robin Hendry
15:30 End

Conference:Biographies of Materials

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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.

Conference: Chemistry in Albertopolis

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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.

Of interest: In a Strange Garden – Alchemy in Sound and Nature

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

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

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