We were sorry to have to postpone the on-line seminar two weeks ago due to technical difficulty. These have now been resolved and the seminar has been rescheduled to 25th April.
The next on-line seminar of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry will be given by Professor Robert Fox (University of Oxford) who will present:
Thomas Garnett: Science, medicine, mobility in eighteenth-century Britain
This will be live on Thursday, 25th April 2024, beginning at 5.00pm British Summer Time (1 hour ahead of GMT). The format will be a talk of 20-30 minutes, followed by a moderated discussion of half an hour.
As with recent seminars the Zoom link can be freely accessed by anyone, member of SHAC or not, by booking through the following Ticket Source link:
The seminar will be also accessible live on YouTube
There are two other items that members of SHAC may find of interest.
The first is a call for papers for the History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Mérida, Mexico, 7-10 November 2024
Multidisciplinary approaches to the history of chemistry
Proposed session for History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Mérida, Mexico, 7-10 November 2024; co-sponsored by the HSS Forum on History of Chemistry, the Commission on the History of Chemistry and the Molecular Sciences and the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry.
The aim of the proposed session is to bring historians and practitioners of these multidisciplinary approaches to the history of chemistry together to contrast their results and methods, and to promote a multidisciplinary dialogue for the sake of the history of chemistry. We are, in particular, interested in addressing the following questions:
- What specific questions can be resolved by the multidisciplinary approaches to the history of chemistry and which cannot?
- What is the role of formal models in historiographical narratives?
- What is the appropriate coarse-graining level for the history of chemistry, and to what extent can this level be addressed by different disciplines?
- Can multidisciplinary approaches help link macrohistory with microhistory?
- What formal models are most suitable for historiographical research?
- What are the disciplinary challenges posed by the history of chemistry?
We invite scholars and researchers to submit abstracts addressing any of the aforementioned topics or related areas within the history of chemistry. Submissions may include empirical studies, theoretical frameworks, methodological advancements, or interdisciplinary perspectives. We encourage innovative approaches and welcome contributions from both established academics and early-career researchers.
If you are interested in participating in this session, please send your name, affiliation, email address and the topic of your presentation to Guillermo Restrepo (restrepo@mis.mpg.de) by 8 April 2024. At a later date, organizers will request a title and an abstract, but they are not needed at this stage.
The second is notification of the forthcoming 9th EuChemS Chemistry Congress (ECC-9), to be held in Dublin, Ireland, from 7th – 11th July, 2024.
The Institute of Chemistry of Ireland (ICI) is delighted and honoured to be organising this event.
The 9th EuChemS Chemistry Congress will have an exciting scientific programme with world-leading plenary speakers, invited speakers and short oral presentations, supplemented with a series of poster presentations, focused around eight scientific themes:
· Advances in Synthetic Organic Chemistry
· Catalysis
· Chemistry Meets Biology For Health
· Education, History, Cultural Heritage, and Ethics in Chemistry
· Energy, Environment and Sustainability
· Nanochemistry/Materials
· Physical, Analytical and Computational Chemistry /AI)
· Supramolecular Chemistry
· The programme will feature dedicated sessions organised by the EuChemS European Young Chemists´ Network of EuChemS (EYCN) and the Institute of Chemistry of Ireland (ICI)
Full Details are at https://euchems2024.org/
Best regards
SHAC officers.