The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry is delighted to announce that its first meeting in Latin America, “Crossing Oceans: Exchange of Products, Instruments, Procedures and Ideas in the History of Chemistry and Related Science”, will take place on 24-28 August 2014 in São Paulo. This international conference will be hosted and organised by CESIMA (Centre Simao Mathias of Studies in the History of Science) and co-sponsored by SHAC and the Centre of Logic, Epistemology and History of Science, Unicamp (CLE). The conference will mark the occasion of CESIMA’s 20th anniversary in 2014. There will be around 30 speakers from Brazil and the following SHAC members have confirmed their participation: Robert Anderson, Jennifer Rampling, Carsten Reinhardt, Hasok Chang, Frank James, Conleth Loonan and Malika Basu.
[Archived] Conference Announcement – CESIMA ANNO XX – August 24-26, 2014
CESIMA ANNO XX – Crossing Oceans: Exchange of Products, Instruments, Procedures and Ideas in the History of Chemistry and Related Sciences
Chemical Intelligence #11
A new issue of the Society’s newsletter is now available for download.
[Archived] New Issue: Ambix 61, no. 2 (2014) Now Available Online!
Guest edited by Antonio García-Belmar and John Perkins, this special issue is devoted to the topic ‘Sites of Chemistry in the Nineteenth Century’.
[Archived:] Call for Papers: Geographies of Alchemy and Chemistry (5th SHAC Postgraduate Workshop)
University of Amsterdam (Friday, 24 October 2014)
For the first time, the annual postgraduate workshop of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (SHAC) will take place outside the United Kingdom, at the University of Amsterdam. The workshop offers postgraduate students and early-career researchers the opportunity to share ideas, explore methodological issues and network in a stimulating atmosphere.
[Archived] New Issue: Ambix 61, no. 1 (2014) Available
The new articles deal with nine newly discovered letters by Michael Maier (1568-1622), George Fordyce’s additios and modifications to William Cullen’s philosophical chemistry and the growing role of titrimetry in late nineteenth-century industry.
[Archived] Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry Awards Scheme 2014
The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry invites applications for its award scheme for 2013. Two types of award are available: support for research into the history of chemistry or history of alchemy by New Scholars and support for Subject Development of either history of chemistry or history of alchemy.