7th SHAC Postgraduate Workshop: Call for Papers

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Colouring and Making in Alchemy and Chemistry
7th SHAC Postgraduate Workshop

Utrecht University (Wednesday, 26 October 2016)

Keynote Lecturers
Tara Nummedal (Brown University)
Ernst Homburg (Maastricht University)

Hosted by the ARTECHNE research group, the annual postgraduate workshop of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (SHAC) will take place at Utrecht University in 2016. Fostering exchange among historians of alchemy and chemistry, the workshop offers postgraduate students and early-career researchers the opportunity to share ideas, explore methodological issues and network in a stimulating atmosphere.

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Postdoc in the history of 18th c. medicine at the University of Groningen

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Application deadline: 14 February 2016

The Center of Historical Studies, Faculty of Arts, welcomes applications for an 18 month postdoc position (0.7 fte) to conduct research in the history of Boerhaavian medicine in the eighteenth century. The postdoc project is embedded in the NWO Vidi project “Vital Matters. Boerhaave’s Chemico-Medical Legacy and Dutch Enlightenment Culture”, supervised by Dr Rina Knoeff.

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Spring Meeting 2016: High Pressure in the Interwar Period (11 February 2016)

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Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry: Spring Meeting 2016

To be followed by the Morris Award lecture and reception

HIGH PRESSURE IN THE INTERWAR PERIOD

Thursday, 11 February 2016

Location: Dana Research Centre and Library, 165 Queens Gate, London SW7 5HD

(10 minutes’ walk from South Kensington or Gloucester Road underground stations)

NB: the new research centre is part of the Science Museum, but can only be accessed from Queens Gate, not the main museum entrance. It is just beyond the Natural History Museum’s Darwin Centre.

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