Dear SHAC Members,
a reminder about seminars, meetings, conferences and awards coming up in the next six months. We hope to see you online or in-person at some of them. Please scroll down to see everything!
1. Next SHAC Online Seminar – Thursday 21 November
The next on-line seminar will be given by Professor Matthew Daniel Eddy (University of Durham) who will present: ‘A Very Curious Subject’: Jane Ewbank, Public Lectures and Experimental Philosophy in Late Georgian York
This will be live on Thursday, 21 November 2024, beginning at 5.00pm GMT (6.00pm CET, 12 noon ET, 9.00am PT). 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:
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/society-for-the-history-of-alchemy-and-chemistry/t-rpojrkg
The seminar will be also accessible live on YouTube at
2. SHAC Special ICHC14 Award Scheme – Grants to support attendance at 14ICHC in Valencia, Spain, 11-14 June 2025
Applicants are invited to apply for grants under a Special Award Scheme from the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (SHAC) to support attendance of early-career scholars and independent scholars at the 14th International Conference on the History of Chemistry in Valencia, Spain on 11 June to 14 June 2025. Awards of up to £400 will be made as a contribution towards the cost of travel, accommodation, and registration fees for those giving a paper at the conference. Early-career scholars are defined as post-graduate students (both masters and doctoral students) and those who have obtained a PhD since January 2015. For more information see: https://www.ambix.org/grants/
Deadline for applications is 28 February 2025
3. CHCMS Early Career Lecture Award – Call for nominations
For the 2025 edition, the awardee will be invited as guest to 14ICHC which is taking place in Valencia, Spain, 11-14 June 2025. The awardee will also commit to an interview to be shared through the CHCMS website and YouTube channel. The deadline for submitting nominations is 30 December 2024. The CHCMS Early Career Lecturer will be announced in February 2025. For more information see check the website: https://www.chcms.org/awards.html
4. SHAC Spring Meeting on the Biographies of Alchemists and Chemists
University College London on Saturday 29 March 2025
Offers of papers by 17 December 2024 – please see details at: https://www.ambix.org/2025-spring-meeting-on-the-biographies-of-alchemists-and-chemists/
5. SHAC Brock Award – Call for Nominations
Nominations by 30 June 2025 – please see details at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00026980.2024.2420472?src=exp-la
6. Call for Papers for SHAC Session on the Pesticide Chemical Industry in the 20th Century at ICHC 2025 (Valencia) https://www.ambix.org/call-for-papers-shac-session-on-the-pesticide-chemical-industry-in-the-20th-century-at-ichc-2025-valencia/?doing_wp_cron=1731068291.4582250118255615234375
Best wishes,
The SHAC Officers
Pp Frank James