Meeting of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry: What’s the Matter? The Material Culture of Chemistry
The 2012 Autumn Meeting of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
What’s the Matter? The Material Culture of Chemistry
Saturday 8 December 2012
Science Museum, London
11.00: Tour of James Watt and our World (including Watt’s workshop) by Jane Insley (Science Museum)
11.45: Tour of Signs, Symbols, Secrets: An Illustrated Guide to Alchemy, the Museum’s new alchemy exhibition, by Jennifer Rampling (Cambridge University)
13.00: Lunch (there is no organised lunch but there are several restaurants and cafes in the Science Museum and the vicinity)
13.40: AGM of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
13.55: Introduction by Peter Morris (Science Museum)
14.00: Session 1 – Recovering Material Culture
Marcos Martinón-Torres (UCL), “No crucible, no chemistry: reaction vessels in early modern laboratories”
Haileigh Robertson (University of Leeds), “Replicating early modern gunpowder” (tbc)
Robert Anderson (Clare Hall, Cambridge), “Material material culture: new Black finds”
15.30: Tea
15.50: Session 2 – Materials and Practices
15.50: Robert Bud (Science Museum), “Narratives of science-practice in the 19th century as inspired by accounts of chemical practice and Watt in particular”
16:20: Peter Oakley (UCL), “Managing a Stream of Gold: the UK Assay Office in the 20th century” (tbc)
16.50: Roundtable Discussion
17.20: Meeting ends
To register, please go to the Society's website: http://www.ambix.org . For any questions, please contact the SHAC Hon. Secretary, Dr Anna Marie Roos: anna.roos@history.ox.ac.uk
