Here are details of a one day in person meeting, a call for papers, the SHAC award scheme and Chemical Intelligence. I hope you find the information useful.

The Development of the Chemist’s Notebook

This one-day in-person meeting organised by the Historical Group will take place on Wednesday 13 March 2024, 10.30-17.00, at Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BA.

For many centuries chemists have used notebooks to record their experiments, results, literature research and thoughts. This meeting will feature analysis of the notebook practices of some famous chemists starting from the time of Robert Boyle and consider their evolution until their most recent manifestation in electronic form.

For more information and to book please go to https://www.rsc.org/events/detail/77987/the-development-of-the-chemist-s-notebook or email Peter Morris, Historical Group Secretary, directly at doctor@peterjtmorris.plus.com, giving your name, email address and any special requirements. The event is free of charge. Coffee and tea will be available, but lunch is not included, although there are plenty of cafes nearby in Piccadilly and adjoining streets.

Programme:

10.30 Coffee

10.50 Welcome

11.00 Michael Hunter (Birkbeck, University of London): The Workdiaries of Robert Boyle

11.40 Sharon Ruston (Lancaster University): Protean Poetics in Humphry Davy’s Notebooks

12.20 Lunch (not supplied)

1.40 Matthew Eddy (University of Durham): ‘What Was a Chemistry Notebook? The Case of Charles Darwin

2.20 Frank James (University College London): How Michael Faraday’s Laboratory Notebooks Developed into a Diary

3.00 Tea

3.30 Kostas Gavroglu (University of Athens): Notebooks as Laboratories: The case of Linus Pauling

4.10 Samantha Pearman-Kanza (University of Southampton): Electronic Lab Notebooks and Beyond

4.50 Closing remarks

5.00 Meeting ends

B. New issue of Chemical Intelligence availableThe Winter 2024 issue of Chemical Intelligence, edited by Karoliina Pulkkinen, is available online for members to enjoy.https://www.ambix.org/winter-2024-issue-of-chemical-intelligence-is-out/ 

C. Reminder – SHAC Spring Meeting – Call for Papers – Deadline 1 March 2024The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry invites abstract submissions for its Annual Spring Meeting, to be held at the University of Oxford (Maison Francaise d’Oxford) on 28 May 2024. The theme is ‘From Late Antique to Early Modern Alchemy: New Approaches, New Horizons’. For further details see:https://www.ambix.org/shac-spring-meeting-call-for-papers/

D. SHAC Award Scheme 2024 Opens 1 March 2024The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry invites applications for its Award Scheme for 2024. SHAC offers two types of award: support for research into the history of chemistry or history of alchemy by both new and independent scholars and support for Subject Development of either history of chemistry or history of alchemy. Application forms must be obtained from grants@ambix.org . For further details see: https://www.ambix.org/grants/

We have extended the CFP deadline for the Spring Meeting to 10^th of March. The original call is attached below. Hope this will encourage more of you to submit!

(Original Call below:).

SHAC Spring Meeting – Call For Papers

The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (SHAC) invites abstract submissions for its Annual Spring Meeting, to be held at the University of Oxford (Maison Francaise d’Oxford) on 28 May 2024. The meeting will be hybrid, although we strongly encourage in person attendance.

The keynote speaker is Prof. Jennifer M. Rampling (Princeton).

The theme is ‘From Late Antique to Early Modern Alchemy: New Approaches, New Horizons’. Under this broad remit, we encourage submissions that explore:

·                     New methodologies and approaches to the study of alchemy / chymistry

·                     Interdisciplinary perspectives setting alchemy / chymistry in dialogue with other fields of learned or craft knowledge

·                     Case studies of individuals, groups, or institutions pursuing alchemy / chymistry in conjunction with other fields of knowledge

·                     The material, visual, and experimental cultures of alchemy / chymistry

·                     Diverse sites of alchemical / chymical practice

The submissions can be individual presentations, panels with 3 speakers or roundtable proposals. Presentations should not exceed 20 minutes in length.

Please submit your abstract, together with a CV or a paragraph detailing your background, to: georgiana.hedesan [AT] history.ox.ac.uk by 1 March 2024.