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SHAC
- Forthcoming Events
SHAC Meetings
SHAC Workshops
Oxford History of Chemistry Seminars
Durham University Public Lectures
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SOCIETY
FOR THE HISTORY OF ALCHEMY AND CHEMISTRY MEETINGS
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The next Society meeting will take place in Spring/Summer
of 2010 in Lille. Further details will be available here shortly.
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SOCIETY
FOR THE HISTORY OF ALCHEMY AND CHEMISTRY WORKSHOPS
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Friday
8 January 2010
SHAC Postgraduate Workshop in the History of Alchemy
and Chemistry
Department of History and Philosophy of Science,
University of Cambridge
10.00 Registration
10.30–11.30 Introductory talk
'Why has chemistry become unfashionable for historians of science?'
Hasok Chang (University College, London)
11.30–13.00 Panel 1
'Interpreting alchemy: text, image and practice.'
Jennifer Rampling (University of Cambridge)
'Some problems in the history of seventeenth-century chemistry.'
Karin Ekholm (Indiana University, Bloomington)
13.00–14.15 Lunch
14.15–16.30 Panel 2
'Searching for chemists in eighteenth-century France.'
John Perkins (SHAC/Oxford Brookes University)
'The Replication Method in the history of chemistry: resolving
a nineteenth-century priority dispute.'
Pieter Thyssen (Catholic University of Leuven)
'Chemistry, the pharmaceutical industry, and medicine in the twentieth
century: drugs as "boundary objects."'
Viviane Quirke (Oxford Brookes University)
16.30 Close
Sponsored by the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry.
Lunch is provided. There is no charge for attendance, but registration
is required. Assistance is available towards the cost of travel
and accommodation. Please email Jennifer
Rampling for further details, and to register. |
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Oxford
History of Chemistry Seminars
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The 2009
Oxford History of Chemistry Programme is completed |
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Details of
the 2010 Programme will appear here shortly. |
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Click here for further details, including maps & directions
or contact Prof. Corsi’s secretary,
Stephanie Jenkins, History Faculty, Oxford, 01865
615027, stephanie.jenkins@history.ox.ac.uk |
Convenors: Pietro Corsi, John Christie, Robert Fox, Muriel Le
Roux, John Perkins, Viviane Quirke
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DURHAM
UNIVERSITY PUBLIC LECTURE PROGRAMME
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REFLECTIONS
ON WATER |
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| Lectures will be on Wednesdays at 5.15
in Room 202 (the Rosemary Cramp Lecture Theatre) in the Calman Learning
Centre on the Science Site. |
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| 2009 |
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| 4th November |
‘Dissolving Uncertainties in Water: electric
fishes, Volta’s alarm-bell, Humphry Davy, and a dynamical
science’, Prof David Knight, Durham
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| 11th November |
‘Mirror of the Sea: Reflections on the Writings of Joseph
Conrad in the Age of Steam and Sail’, Prof Crosbie Smith,
University of Kent |
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| 18th November |
‘Geology, Water and Engineering: the Amazing Saga of Stone
Water Pipes in the British Isles, 1800-1815’, Prof Hugh
Torrens, Geology, University of Keele |
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| 25th November |
‘Water’ and ‘H2O’, Dr Robin Hendry,
Philosophy, Durham |
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| 2nd December |
‘Water an Element or Compound? Principles, Particles and
Elements in the Chemical Revolution of 1789’, Prof Hasok
Chang, Science & Technology Studies, University College London |
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| 9th December |
‘Water: What’s so Special about it? Prof John
Finney, Physics and Astronomy, University College London |
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2010 |
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| 3rd February |
‘Water as an example in philosophical literature’,
Prof Jonathan Lowe, Philosophy, Durham |
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| 10th February |
‘Water in Religious Art and Architecture’, Prof
David Brown, Theology, St Andrews University |
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| 17th February |
‘Going Swimmingly: Rivers of Rebirth and Recreation’,
Prof Peter Coates, History, University of Bristol |
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| 24th February |
‘Water, water everywhere - finding ourselves when all at
sea: navigators, astronomers and clockmakers’, Prof Sir
Arnold Wolfendale, Physics, Durham |
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| 3rd March |
‘"Take me to the river" Water Cures in the Twentieth
Century’, Dr Roberta Bivins, University of Warwick. Supported
by the Wellcome Trust |
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| 10th March |
‘The Sparkling Nectar of Spas: Physicians, Clerics and Mineral
Water in an 18th century Provincial Town’, Dr Matthew
Eddy, Philosophy, Durham |
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| Roberta Bivins' lecture is
supported by the Wellcome Trust. The Series is sponsored by the
Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry, as well as the
IAS. |
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Click
here for reports on past SHAC meetings
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