(With apologies for cross-posting)

Dear all,

Please find below the programme for the upcoming Oxford History of Chemistry Seminar Series jointly convened by Oxford University, Oxford Brookes University, Maison Française d’Oxford, and the Society for the History of Alchemy & Chemistry.

The series will launch at 3pm on Wednesday 9 February with a seminar hosted by Oxford Brookes University on:

Forensic chemistry & medicine in 19^th-century France & Britain

Oxford Brookes University, SG05, Gypsy Lane, Headington

Please do not hesitate to get in touch with any questions you may have! With my best wishes,

Yours,

Tudor Georgescu

(Outreach Officer)

Oxford History of Chemistry Seminar:

‘Mastering Nature? Chemistry in History’

Programme, 2011

Feb. 9^th, Wednesday, 3.00-5.00       

Forensic chemistry & medicine in 19^th-century France & Britain

Oxford Brookes University, SG05, Gypsy Lane, Headington

Jose Ramon Bertomeu, University of Barcelona, “Sense and sensitivity: toxicology and normal arsenic in nineteenth-century France”

Cassie Watson, Oxford Brookes University, “Forensic medicine and chemistry in nineteenth-century Britain: theory and practice”

Feb. 23^rd , Wednesday, 3.00-5.00     

New Researchers: apothecaries in early modern Europe

History Faculty, George Street

Valentina Pugliano, Oxford University, "Between albarelli and vipers: the intellectual life of the sixteenth-century apothecary connoisseur"

Samir Boumediene, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon, "Europeanizing American remedies: the preparation of drugs in apothecaries’ back-shops in the 17th and 18th centuries"

March 2^nd , Wednesday      

The search for natural products in the 20^th century

Maison Française, Norham Road

A showing of the film “L'if aux frontières de la vie/The yew, beneficial poison,” will be followed by a discussion with the director, Jean-Luc Bouvret.  The film won 1st prize in the "Mutualités" section of ImagéSanté, at the 2010 International Health Film Festival, Liège.

March 9^th , Wednesday, 3.00-5.00    

Physical chemists

History Faculty, George Street

Bill Brock, University of Leicester, "The nine lives of Sir William Crookes"

Brigitte van Tiggelen, Memosciences, Louvain, "Walter and Ida Noddack-Tacke, a collaborative couple in chemistry"

May 28^th, Saturday, 10.00-5.00    

Alchemy and chemistry: continuities and fractures

Oxford Brookes University, Buckley Building, Gypsy Lane, Headington

Colloquium in conjunction with the University of Lille and the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge.  Details to be announced.

ALL WELCOME

Further details, including maps & directions, can be found at http://www.history.ox.ac.uk/hsmt/histchem.

Convenors: Pietro Corsi, John Christie, Robert Fox, Muriel Le Roux, John Perkins, Viviane Quirke

(Oxford University, Oxford Brookes University, Maison Française d’Oxford, Society for the History of Alchemy & Chemistry)