OxTalks will soon move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events.' There will be a need for an OxTalks freeze. This was previously planned for Friday 14th November – a new date will be shared as soon as it is available (full details will be available on the Staff Gateway).
In the meantime, the OxTalks site will remain active and events will continue to be published.
If staff have any questions about the Oxford Events launch, please contact halo@digital.ox.ac.uk
Programme:
09:30 Coffee
10:00 Frank James (UCL) Opening remarks
10:15 Laurence Chen (UCL) Mercurial self-fashioning: mythological (auto)biographies in Elias Ashmole’s Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum
10:45 Sergei Zotov (Warwick) Visual Biographies: Portraits and Monuments in Early Modern Alchemical Manuscripts
11:15 Charlotte Abney Salomon (SHI) J.G. Gahn, in the Words of Others
11:45 Anna Simmons (UCL) “The perspicuity of style, and the proprietary of expression”: Lectures, Laboratories and William Thomas Brande (1788-1866)
12:15 Lunch break (NB: lunch is not provided, but some will be heading to the Wellcome café)
14:00 Jenny Wilson (UCL) Campaigning for peace: The work of Dame Kathleen Lonsdale FRS (1903-1971)
14:30 Annette Lykknes (NTNU, Trondheim) Clusters of women in laboratories or institutes of technology: Reflections on prosopographical approaches to the history of (women in) chemistry
15:00 Tea
15:30 Carsten Reinhardt (Bielefeld) Autobiographies of Chemists: The Lives in Chemistry Series
16:00 Judith Kaplan (SHI) Who are the Biographers? Reflections on Problem Choice and Personal Investment
16:30 Roundtable for reminiscences to mark the 90th anniversary of SHAC with a glass of wine
Participants will include Gerrylynn Roberts, John Brooke and Peter Morris
17:30 End of meeting
