The Oxford Seminar this year will be running three sessions, each consisting of two papers.
The session dates and times are Weds May 22nd, May 29th, and June 5th 3pm-5pm, Salon at the Maison Française d’Oxford, Norham Rd, Oxford.
Each session has two speakers, who will deliver papers of 30-40 minutes, leaving 20-30
minutes for questions and discussion.
WEDS MAY 22ND: Substance and Identity: Histoires Petites et Grandes
John R.R. Christie (Oxford): ‘A salt sui generis’: Chemical Analyses of Scarborough Spa Waters, 1734
Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent (Paris): Why a Biography of Carbon?
WEDS MAY 29th: Meissen Coloration and Pacific Chemical Medicine
Nicholas Zumbulyadis (Delaware): Chymistry and Art at the Cusp of the 17th and 18th
centuries
Mariana Sanchez (Paris): Distillation in the Phillipines in the 18th century
WEDS JUNE 5th: Acquiring science in early 19th century York: the diary of Jane Ewbank
Rachel Feldberg (York): From Crocodiles to the Structure of the Universe: Jane Ewbank’s shifting engagement with the Natural World
Matthew Eddy (Durham): Jane Ewbank and Experimental Philosophy: Public Lectures in late Georgian Yorkshire
Programme Organizers: Jo Hedesan (georgiana.hedesan@hist.ox.ac.uk); John Christie (jrrc_@hotmail.com)
The Oxford Seminar is sponsored and supported by The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry and by the Maison Française d’Oxford.