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Sunday 2nd August
Time to be determined
Plenary Session: Chemistry and Art
Geert Vanpaemel, Cleaning Pictures: Chemists as Art Connoisseurs?
Pierre Laszlo, Prussian Blue, or the Pencil of Nature
Monday 3rd August
9.00
A1: Eighteenth Century Chemistry and the Sciences of the Earth
Hjalmar Fors, Chemists and Mine Inspectors in the Eighteenth Century Mining Business
Thomas Kaiserfeld, The Bureaucrat as Anonymous Expert: Transformation of Saltpetre Production in Sweden Circa 1800 and the Authority of Chemistry in Practical Instructions
Isabel Malaquias, A Second Edition of Cronstedt’s Mineralogy: Why Such an Enterprise?
B1: Educating the Public
Eva Vamos, Chemistry and Chemical Industry Approaching the Public at Budapest International Fairs (1906-2000)
Gianmarco Ieluzzi and Francesca Turco, Mo' Moplen. A Sociosemiotic Study of the Introduction of Everyday Polypropylene Objects in Italy
Carme Zaragoza Domčnech and Josep M. Fernández-Novell, Chemistry Through the Waves
10.30
Coffee/Poster session
11.15
A2: Aspects of the Chemical Revolution
Angela Bandinelli, Natural Philosophy and Experimental Chemistry in the Second Half of the Eighteenth-Century: The Case of Lazzaro Spallanzani (1729-1799)
A. M. Armon Da Costa, Fermentation and Germination – A Scientific Dispute In the Later Years of the Eighteenth Century between Vicente Seabra and Avelar Brotero Efthymios Bokaris, Controversies on the Nature of Caloric in the Greek-Speaking Journal Hermes the Scholar at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century
B2: The Public Image of Chemistry in the 20th and 21st Centuries
Stephen Weininger, Chemistry.Com: Why the Lay Public Embraces Chemistry and Alchemy While Shunning Chemicals
Tessa Avermaete and Tom Mortier, Chemistry: A Challenge For Traditional Brewers?
Agnes Kovács, Gendered Elements in Chemical Thermodynamics and their Historical Origin
12.45
Lunch
14.15
A3: Popularisation of Chemistry in the 19th and early 20th Centuries
Danielle Fauque, The Chemists of the French Association For the Advancement of Science (AFAS): Networks and the Promotion of Modern Chemistry (1872-1924)
Maria Almeida, Drugs In Ads and News: Educating People In the Nineteenth Century Press
Galina Krivosheina, Chemistry and Chemists In Moscow Natural History Societies In the 19th Century
B3: Chemistry and War
Jeffrey Johnson, The First World War and the Shaping of Dual-Use Chemical Technologies: The Case of German Chemicals and Explosives, 1914-1925
Olga Elina, Private Estates and War Practices: The Development of Fertilizers in Russia
Marlene Burns, The Development of Dutch Penicillin 1940-1950
15.45
Coffee
16.00
A4: Industry and Chemical Expertise in Ireland*
Christopher Hamlin, The Liebigian Expert in Ireland: Sir Robert Kane (1809-1890) and the Chemical Revolution That Did Not Come
Duncan Thorburn Burns, Sir Charles Alexander Cameron (1830-1921): Dublin’s Medical Superintendent, Executive Officer of Health, Public Analyst, and Inspector of Explosives
Peter Childs, Chemicals from Seaweed: An Early Chemical Industry in Ireland
B4: History of Chemistry and Chemical Education
John Oversby, Introducing History and Philosophy of Chemistry into the School Curriculum
Alan Dronsfield and Peter Morris, Using Practical Chemistry to Introduce School Pupils to the History of Chemistry: A Case Study
Flora Paparou and Alexandra Karaliota, “An Alchemy Lesson”- Teaching Proposal for the Utilization of Literature in Science Teaching
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Tuesday 4th August
9.00
A5: Periodic Table 1:
The First Responses to the Discovery of the Periodic Law
Nathan Brooks and Masanori Kaji, The Early Reception of Mendeleev’s Periodic Law in Russia with a brief introduction to the whole session (Kaji)
Gisela Boeck, About the Periodic Table in German Popular and School Chemistry Books at the End of the 19th Century”
Soňa Štrbáňová, Bohuslav Brauner: A Scientific Life Devoted to the Periodic System
Responses in European Periphery
José Ramón Bertomeu Sánchez and Rosa Muńoz Bello, Chemical Classifications, Textbooks and School Disciplines in Nineteenth-Century Spain
Pieter Thyssen and Brigitte Van Tiggelen, The Reception of Mendeleev’s System in Belgium
B5: Chemistry and the Chemical Industry in Asia and Latin America
Hao Chang, Fryer and Billequin: a Comparative Study on the Introduction of Western Chemistry into Nineteenth-century China
Malika Basu, Bengal Chemical & Pharmaceutical Works Limited: A Case Study of an Indigenous Chemical Industry
Mina Kleiche, From the Unitary Process to the Engineering Process:
Emergence of the Chemical Engineering Profession in Mexico
Diana Antonaz, Industrial Pollution in Amazonia: a Study Case about the Aluminium Plants of Barcarena
10.40
Coffee
11.00 (10.50 for Periodic Table Session)
A6: Periodic Table 2
Responses in European Periphery in Scandinavian Countries
Anders Lundgren, The Reception of Mendeleev’s Periodic System In Sweden: A Non-Revolutionary Event
Helge Kragh, The Reception and Use of the Periodic System in Denmark, 1870-1920
Annette Lykknes, The Reception of the Periodic Table among Norwegian Chemists, c.1870-1930s
Response Beyond Europe
Eder Joăo Lenardăo, Rogério A. Freitag, Gelson Perin and Juergen Heinrich Maar, A Brazilian Contribution to the Periodic System: Cabral’s Natural Classification of Elements
Masanori Kaji, Chemical Classification and the Response to the Periodic Law of Elements in Japan in the 19th Century”
B6: Between (Bio)Chemistry and Physics
Pierre Teissier, The Case of High-Temperature Superconductors: When Chemists Work and Physicists Speak
Jurrie Reiding, Does Fundamental Research Only Have Defenders and No Users? P. J. W. Debye in Fundamental and Applied Science
Heinrich Kahlert, Isotope as Indicator : Radiation as Indicator for Biochemical Processes
12.30
Lunch
14.00
A7: Aspects of Alchemy and Alchemy-related Chemistry
Jennifer Rampling, Ripley Revis’d: Reading Medieval Alchemy in Early Modern Europe
Ana Alfonso-Goldfarb; Márcia Ferraz and Silvia Waisse de Priven, Chemical Remedies in the 18th Century: Mercury and Alkahest
Dora Bobory, Alchemy on the ‘Peripheries’ of Early Modern Europe. Avenues of Research
B7: Specialised Branches of the Chemical Industry
Luigi Cerruti, Not Only Goods: the Difficult Social Life of Biodegradable Plastics
Robert Rosner, The Development of the Fine Chemical Industry after the Second World War
Elena Zaitseva and Galina Liubina, G. N. Wyrouboff (1843-1913) in the History of Industrial Application of Chemistry of Rare-earth Elements
15.30
Coffee break
16.00
Meeting of the WP
End 17.30
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