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SHAC - Forthcoming Events
Thursday June 12 2008, 3:00-5:00pm
La Maison Française, Oxford
Muriel Le Roux (Maison Française d'Oxford) and Viviane Quirke (Oxford Brookes University) will be presenting papers on 'The History of Twentieth-Century Chemistry, Britain and France: Two Case Studies'
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Saturday 14 June 2008, 2:00-4:00pm
EMPHASIS, University of London, Room ST273 Stewart House (adjacent to University of London Senate House Building, Russell Square side).
Bruce T. Moran (University of Nevada, Reno): ‘Alchemy in the Margins: Private Practices and Alchemical Agendas in the Age of Reason - the Case of Camillo Baldi’
(NB this session will be a discussion of a pre-circulated paper. For copies of the paper please contact: Stephen Clucas: s.clucas@bbk.ac.uk)
Professor Moran's most recent monograph is on Andreas Libavius and The Transformation Of Alchemy: Separating Chemical Cultures with Polemical Fire (Science History Publications, 2007)
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Thursday 5 June 2008, 3:00-5:00pm
History Faculty, Old Boys' High School, George Street, Oxford
John Christie (University of Leeds & History Faculty, Oxford) and John Perkins (Brookes University, Oxford) will be presenting papers on Locations and Theories of Chemistry in the XVIII century as part of 'Chemistry from the Early Modern Period to the Twenty-First Century', the second of three exploratory seminars in anticipation of the launch, this Autumn, of Oxford's new annual seminar series in the History of Alchemy and Chemistry.
Chair: Pietro Corsi (History Faculty, Oxford)
> John Christie (University of Leeds & History Faculty, Oxford): 'A chemical community under revolutionary stress: Scottish chemistry in the revolutionary decades'
> John Perkins (Brookes University, Oxford): 'Chemistry outside the Academy in France, 1770-1800'. |
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Professor Lawrence M. Principe of Johns Hopkins University will be giving a series of three lectures on The Secrets of Alchemy in the Horning Visiting Scholar Series 2007-08 at Oregon State University, April 15, 17, & 18 2008. For more details, click HERE to download the poster (PDF)and HERE to visit the OSU webpage. |
Creating a New Rainbow: Dyes after Perkin
14 February 2008
The Fish Room of the Royal Society of Chemistry,
Burlington House, Piccadilly
A joint meeting to celebrate the 2007 Sidney M. Edelstein Award for Outstanding Achievement in the History of Chemistry to Anthony S. Travis of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
10:00 |
Reception and coffee |
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Session 1 Chair: Peter J T Morris |
10:30 |
Welcoming remarks |
10:40 |
"Peter Griess – the azo dye chemist" Chris Cooksey (Watford, Hertfordshire) |
11:10 |
"Indigo and Mauveine: Molecules with Chemistry and History" J. Sérgio Seixas de Melo (Department of Chemistry, University of Coimbra, Portugal) |
11:40 |
"Pioneering Post-Mauveine Dyestuffs from Newington and Hackney Wick." David Leaback (Biolink Technology) |
12:05 |
Lunch – this is not provided but there are many cafés, restaurants and pubs close to the venue |
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Session 2 Chair: Alan Dronsfield |
13:30 |
"What a Wonderful Empire is the Organic Chemistry" Anthony S. Travis (Hebrew University/Leo Baeck Institute, London) |
14:35 |
"Interesting Perkin and Post-Perkin Dyes from the Science Museum's Collections" Peter J T Morris (Science Museum, London) |
15:00 |
Tea |
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Session 3 Chair: Chris Cooksey |
15:30 |
The early synthetic organic dyes: patents and international competition on a global scale" Matthijs de Keijzer (Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage, Amsterdam) |
16:00 |
"The dye chemists: prospects and problems concerning a new data base" Ernst Homburg (University of Maastricht, The Netherlands) |
16:30 |
“Innovation Spectrum: Dyestuffs Research c.1900” Carsten Reinhardt (University of Bielefeld, Germany) " |
17:00 |
Concluding remarks |
This event is being organised by the Royal Society of Chemistry Historical Group and the Chilterns & Middlesex Section of the RSC, but a limited number of places will be available to SHAC members. If you are interested in attending the meeting, please contact the Hon. Secretary preferably by email at A.E.Simmons@open.ac.uk or Dr Anna Simmons, Epsom Lodge, La Grande Route de St Jean, St John, Jersey, JE3 4FL. She will then advise you by 1 February 2008 whether there is space available. As we expect this meeting to be popular, allocation of places will be made on a first come first served basis.
Click here to download the flyer.
Modelling Matter Symposium
26-28 March 2008
The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry is supporting the Modelling Matter Symposium being organised by Dr M. D. Eddy and Dr R. F. Hendry at St Chad's College, Durham University. This meeting will take place from 26-28 March 2008 and is sponsored by Durham University's Institute of Advanced Studies. The interdisciplinary two-day symposium will investigate the different strategies and methods of modelling and representing across the physical and life sciences, and the ways in which models relate to their subject matter and to the empirical evidence.
This is part of a year-long series of events on modelling being hosted by Durham University's Institute of Advanced Study.
For further information, click here to visit the Modelling Matter website.
Click here for reports on past SHAC meetings
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