Day 1 - SHAC Spring Meeting 2024: 'From Antique to Early Modern Alchemy: New Approaches, New Horizons'
Programme: DAY 1 (09:30-18:45)

Panel 1: Fire and Heat in an Alchemical Context (Chair: Rob Iliffe)

Thijs Hagendijk & Hannah Elmer: Spaces for Fire. Early Modern European Furnaces and the Regimen Ignis
Peter Oakley: ‘How to Regulate the Fire’: Early Modern Cupellation and Furnace Management
Gary Patterson: Boerhaave and Ponderous Heat


Panel 2: The Evolution of Early Modern Metaphors of Alchemical and Encyclopaedic Knowledge (Chair: TBA)

Petr Pavlas: From Metaphors of Theosophical Alchemy to the New Book of Books. The Framework and an Illustration of Evolutionary Metaphorology
Vojtěch Kaše: Computational Explorations of Early Modern Metaphors of Knowledge: Diachronic Word Embeddings and Cultural Evolution in Scientific Texts
Jo Hedesan: Metaphors of Knowledge in the Printed Corpus of Latin Alchemy


Panel 3: Ancient Alchemy (Chair: Mark Edwards)

Sean Coughlin & Victor Golubev: Perfumery and Alchemy in Greco-Roman Egypt
Eduardo Escobar & Giacomo Montanari: Contemporary Tools for Bronze Age Perfumery: Reconstructing the Role of Water in Ancient Assyrian Perfume Recipes
Joshua Werrett: ‘An Investigation Governed by the Moon’: Astrology and Alchemy in Late Antique Egypt


Panel 4: Medieval Alchemy (Chair: TBA)

Athanasios Rinotas: Aristotelianism and Medieval Alchemy in the 13th Century: A Janus-faced Relationship
Carmen Schmechel: On Ferment in Hortulanus’ Commentary on the Emerald Tablet
Stefania Buosi Moncunill: The Infiltration of the Catalan Carmelite Guillem Sedasser’s Alchemy in Italian Glass Making


Keynote lecture: Jennifer M Rampling (Princeton)

Refreshments will be provided at various points on both days, lunch will be provided on day 1.
Date: 28 May 2024, 9:30 (Tuesday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Venue: 2-10 Norham Road, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, Oxford, OX2 6SE
Speaker: Various Speakers
Organiser contact email address: georgiana.hedesan@history.ox.ac.uk
Part of: Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry Events
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/booking/select/RdiEJKhzXNnT
Cost: Free
Audience: Public
Editor: Belinda Clark