SHAC - Forthcoming Events

The next Society meeting will take place in Spring/Summer of 2010 in Lille. Further details will be available here shortly.

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.

Oxford History of Chemistry Seminars

2010 Programme

"Mastering Nature? Chemistry in History?"

All meetings are from 3.00 to 5.00

Georgette Taylor, UCL "Pedagogical Progeniture or Tactical Translation? George Fordyce's additions and modifications to William Cullen's philosophical chemistry"
François Pepin, Université Paris-Oest, "Diderot and Chemistry: A model of experimental philosophy"

March 11th 2010 "New Researchers"
History Faculty, Oxford University, Old Boy's High School, George Street

Catherine Jackson, UCL "Chemistry as the Defining Science: Training and Discipline in 19th century chemical laboratories"
Erik Langlinay, EHSS, Paris "Scales and spaces of the chemical industry in France, 1890-1930"

April 29th 2010 "Chemistry in the Low Countries in the 19th and 20th Centuries"
Maison Français, 6-10 Norham Road

Ernst Homburg, University of Maastricht, title TBA
Brigitte van Tiggelen, Catholic University of Louvain, title TBA

This seminar will be followed by a reception and the presentation of the Morris Award of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry to Professor Ray Stokes, University of Glasgow, for his work on the history of the German chemical industry. Professor Stokes will then give a lecture.

May 12th 2010 "Chemistry and Pharmacy in the Colonial World"
Centre for the History of Medicine, Oxford Brookes University, Headington, Oxford

Floriane Blanc, Université de Lyon, "The Dakar Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, part of a global plan?"
Stuart Anderson, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, "Setting the Standard: The British Pharmacopoeia as an instrument of imperialism, 1864-1932"

May 26th 2010 "Chemical Adventures: The search for natural products"
Maison Français, 6-10 Norham Road

Speaker to be confirmed
Laurent Sorcelle, Journalist, Paris, "'Science et Conscience, richesse de l'âme' a discussion of his novel, Le trésor de Los Mangos, on the search in Mexico by a young chemist for a rare periwinkle with therapeutic properties"

ALL WELCOME

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