Alchemy and Chemistry in Sickness and in Health
6th SHAC Postgraduate Workshop
Friday, 30 October 2015, 9:45 am–5:30 pm, $
Maison Française, 2–10 Norham Road, Oxford, OX2 6SE.
Programme
09:45 Registration
10:15 Welcome and Introduction
10:30 Chemistry Panel
Dr Elena Serrano (independent researcher)
Against Political and Health Hazards: Guyton’s Fumigating Machine in Spain during the Napoleonic Era
Catherine Rushmore (Oxford Brookes)
Manufacturing, Using and Regulating Chemicals for Domestic Purposes in the Mid-Twentieth Century: The Impact on Health and Well-Being
11:30 Coffee Break
12:00 Keynote Lecture
Prof. Robert J. Flanagan (King’s College)
Schizophrenia from Chlorpromazine to Clozapine: There Is No Gain without Pain
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Alchemy Panel
Lyke de Vries (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Paracelsus and Roman Censorship: A Discussion of Johannes Faber’s Report on Paracelsus (1616)
Elisabeth Moreau (Université Libre de Bruxelles/Radboud U. Nijmegen)
The Chymical Nature of the Vital Principle in Late Renaissance Medicine
Curtis Runstedler (Durham)
Alchemy, Morality, and Healthy Living in John Gower’s Confessio Amantis
15:30 Coffee Break
16:00 Keynote Lecture
Dr Stephen Pumfrey (Lancaster) with Paul Ashcroft (Lancaster)
Corpus Linguistics and Discourses of Early-Modern Alchemy, Chymistry and Chemistry (title tbc)
17:00 Concluding Discussion
17:30 End
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