June 3-4, 2021  Registration link

Please note that the schedule reflects U.S. Eastern Time. 

THURSDAY, JUNE 3rd 

9:30-10:00 | INTRODUCTIONS 

10:00-10:50 | CONCEALING GENDERED KNOWLEDGE 

Natacha Klein Käfer, Private Spaces, Secret Practices: Gender and Concealment in  Alchemical Laboratories under Anna and August of Saxony 

Lara Tessaro, Beauty secrets: uncovering the estrogenic roots of Canadian cosmetic  labelling regulations, 1943-44 

Grace Poudrier and Lauren Richter, PFAS Ubiquity as Corporate Accomplishment

[break: 20 min] 

11:10-12:00 | ICONS AND CIPHERS 

Sergei Zotov, The biggest secret of Newton: alchemical iconography of Coronatio  naturae 

Marlis Hinckley, Secrecy in Pseudo-Lull: The Use of Letter Codes

Megan Piorko and Sarah Lang, Sloane MS 1902 Alchemical Cipher

12:00-1:00 | KEYNOTE, Nancy Langston

FRIDAY, JUNE 4th 

10:00-10:50 | PATENTS, PROFITS, AND INVENTIONS 

Andrew Meade McGee, Open Labs Versus Proprietary Methods: Secrecy,  Information Networks, and the Evolution of an Institutional Chemical Research  Infrastructure in the First Five Decades of the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research 

Vyta Pivo, The Alchemy of Concrete: The Making and Unmaking of Material History 

Alison McManus, Who Invented Agent Orange?: Priority Disputes in the Aftermath  of Wartime Secrecy 

10:50-11:40 | RULES AND RESIDUES 

Jayson Porter, As if: Furtive Arsenic (As) from Extraction to Exposure 

Jack Klempay, Residues at the Limits of Chemical Knowledge: The Case of  Chlordecone Contamination in Martinique and Guadeloupe 

Colleen Lanier Christensen, Toxic Rules?: Standardized Chemical Knowledge and the  Limits of Regulatory Action 

[break: 20 min] 

12:00-1:00 | KEYNOTE: Michelle Murphy 

1:00-1:30 | CLOSING REMARKS