• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: John Christie (University of Oxford) , Georgiana Hedesan (University of Oxford)
• Timing: Wednesdays, 15:00-17:00
• Organising department: Maison Française d'Oxford

Wednesday 17 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Pulling the Receipts: gender, alchemy and intellectual networks in early modern England AND Alchemy in the Viceroyalty of Peru in the seventeenth century
  Sofie Jaeger (KCL), Mariana Sanchez Daza (Paris Diderot)

Wednesday 24 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Powers of Perfection: the chemical and material mastery of Alexandre Brogniart AND The uses and misuses of carbon tetrachloride in British homes from the 1930s to the 1980s
  Julia Carr-Trebelhorn (Oxford), Cat Rushmore (Oxford Brookes)

Wednesday 31 January 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - How chemists sought to regulate food in France, Germany, Britain and the United States, 1800-1914 AND Values and uses: how Mendeleev’s valuing of completeness supported predicting
  Carolyn Cobbold (Cambridge), Karoliina Pulkkinen (Cambridge)

Wednesday 22 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Alchemy and Paracelsianism at the Casino San Marco in Florence under the patronage of Antonio de’ Medici (1576-1621)
  Jo Hedesan (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 29 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - A prospect and preview of 'A Cultural History of Chemistry' (6 vols., Bloomsbury, forthcoming)
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 5 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Substitution & Chemistry in the 20th century
  Pierre Teissier (Université de Nantes), Mat Paskins (London School of Economics)

Thursday 20 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:30 - The role of chemists in the development of First World War respirators
  Shelley Castle (Sommerville College, Oxford)

Friday 4 June 2021 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - The Politics of Chemistry: Science and Power in Twentieth-Century Spain
  Agustí Nieto-Galan (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Thursday 10 June 2021 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Restricted Priority: Debating the Invention of Agent Orange in the Aftermath of War
  Allison McManus (Princeton University)

Wednesday 3 May 2023 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Medieval Islamic Alchemy and its Influence
  Salam Rassi (Edinburgh), Tom Fischer (EPHE Paris), Chair: Jennifer M Rampling (Princeton)

Wednesday 17 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Vintage Analogies in Medieval and Early Modern Medical Alchemy
  Mark Thakkar (St Andrews), Carmen Schmechel (FU Berlin), Chair: Rob Iliffe (Oxford)

Wednesday 24 May 2023 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Religion and Medicine in Early Modern Alchemy
  Zoe Screti (Oxford), Elisabeth Moreau (Cambridge), Chair: Jo Hedesan (Oxford)

Wednesday 31 May 2023 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Chemical Careers in New Contexts, 1760-1860
  Robert Fox (Oxford), Frank James and Anna Simmons (UCL), Chair: John Christie (Oxford)

Wednesday 14 June 2023 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - What’s in a Substance? Making Identity and Purity in Modern Chemistry
  Catherine Jackson (Oxford), Marabel Riesmeier (Cambridge), Chair: John Christie (Oxford)

Wednesday 22 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Substance and Identity: Histoires Petites et Grandes
  John R R Christie (Oxford), Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent (Paris)

Wednesday 29 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Meissen Coloration and Pacific Chemical Medicine
  Nicholas Zumbulyadis (Delaware), Mariana Sanchez (Paris)

Wednesday 5 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Acquiring science in early 19th century York: the diary of Jane Ewbank
  Rachel Feldberg (York), Matthew Eddy (Durham)