University of Oxford Maison Française d’Oxford,
Oxford Brookes University Society for the History of Alchemy & Chemistry
Oxford History of Chemistry Seminar
‘Mastering Nature? Chemistry in History’
Programme 2010
All meetings are from 3pm to 5pm
Poster of this page in PDF format
- Thursday 25 February 2010 at the History Faculty, Old Boys' High School, George Street
New Reseachers
Georgette Taylor (UCL): ‘Pedagogical progeniture or tactical translation? George Fordyce’s additions and modifications to William Cullen’s philosophical chemistry’
Francois pepin (Université Paris-Ouest): ‘Diderot and chemistry: a model of experimental philosophy’ - Thursday 11 March 2010 at the History Faculty, Old Boys' High School, George Street
New Researchers
Catherine Jackson (UCL): ‘Chemistry as the defining science: training and discipline in nineteenth-century chemical laboratories'
Erik Langlinay (EHSS, Paris): ‘Scales and spaces of the chemical industry in France, 1890–1930’ - Thursday 29 April 2010 at the Maison Française, Norham Road, Oxford
‘Chemistry in the Low Countries in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries’
Ernst Homburg (University of Maastricht): [Title to be arranged]
Brigitte van Tiggelen (Catholic University of Louvain): [Title to be arranged]
This seminar will be followed by a reception and presentation of the Morris Award of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry to Professor Ray Stokes, University of Glasgow, for his work on the history of the German chemical industry. Professor Stokes will then give a lecture. - Wednesday 12 May 2010 at Centre for the History of Medicine, Oxford Brookes University, Headington
‘Chemistry and pharmacy in the colonial world'
Floriane Blanc (Université de Lyon): ‘The Dakar Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, part of a global plan?’
Stuart Anderson (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine): ‘Setting the Standard: The British Pharmacopoeia as an instrument of imperialism, 1864–1932’ - Wednesday 26 May 2010 at the Maison Française, Norham Road, Oxford:
‘Chemical adventures: the search for natural products’
[First speaker to be confirmed]
Laurent Sorcelle (journalist, Paris): ‘Science et conscience, richesse de l'âme’ a discussion of his novel, Le trésor de Los Mangos, on the search in Mexico by a young chemist for a rare periwinkle with therapeutic properties’
ALL WELCOME
Convenors:
Pietro Corsi, John Christie, Robert Fox,
Muriel Le Roux, John Perkins, Viviane Quirke
MAPS SHOWING THE THREE VENUES
Maison Française
Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Oxford Brookes University
Headington, Oxford OX3 0BP
Detailed PDF map of Brookes’s Headington Campus
University of Oxford History Faculty Building
Old Boys’ High School, George Street, OX1 2LR
(the building is opposite the cinema, and its entrance
is
around the back of the building)