Day 2 - SHAC Spring Meeting 2024: 'From Antique to Early Modern Alchemy: New Approaches, New Horizons'
Programme: DAY 2 (09:30-13:00*)
Panel 5: Reinterpretation in Early Modern Alchemy (Chair: TBA)

Elisabeth Moreau: Stones, Salts, and Calculi in Early Modern Chymical Medicine
Eugenio Villa: How (not) to Forge an Ancient Alchemical Treatise: the Liber Mariae sororis Moysi
Farzad Mahootian: The History of Alchemy in Global Context: A Machine Learning Approach


Panel 6: Alchemical Images and Symbols (Chair: Jennifer M Rampling)

Zoe Screti: The Problem of Purgatory: Alchemical Symbolism During the English Reformation
Tom Fischer: From Paper Grimoires to Stone Books
Sergei Zotov: Zoo-Anthropomorphic Evangelists and Christ in the Wine Press: Alchemical Reinterpretation of Sacred Art in a German Illuminated Manuscript


Refreshments will be provided at various points on both days, lunch will be provided on day 1.

*The conference is followed up by the Oxford Seminar in the History of Alchemy and Chemistry, ‘Meissen Coloration and Pacific Chemical Medicine’, featuring Nicholas Zumbulyadis (Delaware) and Mariana Sanchez (Paris), from 15:00-17:00 at the Maison Française d’Oxford. We hope many attendees and speakers will be able to join us for both events!
Date: 29 May 2024, 9:30 (Wednesday, 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/jAwHJSnCsTGh
Cost: Free
Audience: Public
Editor: Belinda Clark