The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (SHAC), in collaboration with the Allard Pierson of the University of Amsterdam and the Centre for History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents (HHP), will hold its Annual Autumn Meeting at the Allard Pierson, Amsterdam, on 11 October 2024, starting at 9:30 am and ending at 16:30 pm. The meeting will be hybrid, although we strongly encourage in-person attendance.

You can register here: https://allardpierson.nl/en/events/en-autumn-meeting-shac/

The emphasis will be on the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica State collection, one of the extensive collections housed at the Allard Pierson. This library holds approximately 4,400 rare manuscripts and printed works related to the hermetic tradition, assembled by the Dutch entrepreneur Joost Ritman.

The keynote of the day is Professor Stephen Clucas (Birkbeck, University of London):
‘Thomas Harriot and the alchemy of the Northumberland Circle’

Speakers and topics will include:
Sergei Zotov: ‘An image series in the Traumgedichte der siebe Säulen’
Tjalling Janssen: ‘Elemental beings, discourses of nature, and Paracelsian reception in Georg von Welling’s Opus mago-cabbalisticum et theosophicum’
Corey Andrews: ‘Alchemy in the Geheime Figuren der Rosenkreuzer (Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians), with reference to an ‘extended’ 20th-century manuscript’
Kyra Gerber: “Es komt alles und allein” – Marginalia in a rare early edition of Kunrath’s work
Amber Richter: ‘The Fruit that Blossoms from the Daughter: The Hidden Dryads in Michael Maier’s Atalanta Fugiens’
Peter Forshaw: ‘Abraham Le Juif’s Livre des figures hiéroglyphiques’
Jennifer Rampling: ‘George Ripley’