One day in-person meeting to be held on Saturday 25 November 2023. B.4.04, Cruciform Building, University College London, Gower Street, WC1E 6BT.
Please register (fee £20) at https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/society-for-the-history-of-alchemy-and-chemistry/t-dvpgxjr
10.00 | Registration and coffee |
10.30 | Malika Basu Alchemy to Chemistry in the Long Eighteenth Century – Incredible changes within the Indian Historical Tradition |
11.00 | Hjalmar Fors (remote) The alchemists children: Managing an alchemical heritage in the 18th Century |
11.30 | Coffee |
12.00 | Presentation of SHAC’s Oxford Part II Prize to Eleanor Smith and the Partington Prize to Armel Cornu |
12.10 | Armel Cornu Reintroducing the Senses in Narratives of Eighteenth-century Chemistry |
12.40 | Mieke Adriaens and Pieter Beck Replicating the Fontana-Ingenhousz eudiometer |
1.10 | Lunch – please make your own arrangements, but a group will be going to the Wellcome café |
2.30 | Anna Simmons Inside the shop: Women, Apothecaries and Pharmacy in the Long 18th Century |
3.00 | Nicholas Zumbulyadis (remote) The Beginnings of Cobalt Chemistry in the early 18th Century (1700-1730) |
3.30 | Matthew Eddy The Inquiring Diarist: Jane Ewbank and the Cultural Context of Experimental Philosophy in Late Georgian Yorkshire |
4.00 | Tea |
4.30 | John Christie Past and Presence: Alchemy and Chemists in the European Long 18th-Century |
5.00 | Hasok Chang The forgotten history of contact electrochemistry |
5.30 | A glass of wine |