Venue: Museum Plantin-Moretus, Vrijdagmarkt 22, Antwerp, Belgium

A meeting sponsored by the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry, ‘The Royal Typographer and the Alchemist: Willem Sylvius and John Dee’, will take place on 26 October at the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp, Belgium. Coinciding with the 450th Anniversary of the publication of John Dee’s Monas Hieroglyphica, this colloquium will bring together specialists on John Dee and specialists on late sixteenth-century print culture and humanistic activities in Antwerp. The aim of the colloquium is to investigate the links between Antwerp’s vibrant print culture and its relationship to alchemy and the occult philosophy in the late sixteenth century.

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The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry’s first meeting in Latin America, “Crossing Oceans: Exchange of Products, Instruments, Procedures and Ideas in the History of Chemistry and Related Sciences”, will shortly take place in São Paulo, Brazil, from Sunday 24 until Thursday 28 August 2014. This international conference will be hosted and organised by CESIMA (Centre Simao Mathias of Studies in the History of Science) and co-sponsored by SHAC and the Centre of Logic, Epistemology and History of Science, Unicamp (CLE). The conference will mark the occasion of CESIMA’s 20th anniversary in 2014.

Full details of the conference’s programme are now available online.

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The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry is delighted to announce that its first meeting in Latin America, “Crossing Oceans: Exchange of Products, Instruments, Procedures and Ideas in the History of Chemistry and Related Science”, will take place on 24-28 August 2014 in São Paulo. This international conference will be hosted and organised by CESIMA (Centre Simao Mathias of Studies in the History of Science) and co-sponsored by SHAC and the Centre of Logic, Epistemology and History of Science, Unicamp (CLE). The conference will mark the occasion of CESIMA’s 20th anniversary in 2014. There will be around 30 speakers from Brazil and the following SHAC members have confirmed their participation: Robert Anderson, Jennifer Rampling, Carsten Reinhardt, Hasok Chang, Frank James, Conleth Loonan and Malika Basu.

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CESIMA ANNO XX –  Crossing Oceans: Exchange of Products, Instruments, Procedures and Ideas in the History of Chemistry and Related Sciences

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University of Amsterdam (Friday, 24 October 2014)

For the first time, the annual postgraduate workshop of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (SHAC) will take place outside the United Kingdom, at the University of Amsterdam. The workshop offers postgraduate students and early-career researchers the opportunity to share ideas, explore methodological issues and network in a stimulating atmosphere.

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Maison Française, Oxford (17-19 July 2014)

This is the fourth conference of the project Sites of Chemistry, 1600-2000 which investigates the multitude of sites, spaces and places where chemistry has been practiced since the beginning of the 17th century. It is part of a series of four annual conferences each devoted to a particular century. A final conference will be held in 2015 to explore themes and developments over the whole period and on a broader comparative scale. Selected papers from each conference will be published in special issues of Ambix, and two volumes of essays will be published at the end of the project. The project is supported financially by the Wellcome Trust for the History of Medicine and is sponsored by the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry. Full details on the general project as well as on the past conferences are available at www.sitesofchemistry.org.

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At the 24th International Congress of History of Science, Technology and Medicine (University of Manchester, July 21-28, 2013), Andrea Sella—professor of chemistry at UCL—will demonstrate some of the strange properties of plain, everyday water ice.

To learn more about this SHAC-sponsored event, download the flyer here. For further information, do not hesitate to contact Dr Anna Marie Roos, Honorary Secretary of SHAC.