[Themaintainers] CFP: chemicals and secrecy, June 3-4 (abstracts due March 1) -- check it out!

[Evan Hepler-Smith]

Dear colleagues,

Passing along a call from Alison McManus (cc'ed), organizer of a fantastic virtual workshop to be held this June 3-4 on secrecy and chemical histories. Workshop is open to graduate students and recent PhDs working on history of chemicals and chemistry, broadly construed.

Nancy Langston and Michelle Murphy will deliver keynotes, so this will be a great opportunity for students and recent-students to share a bit of work with scholars whose work has inspired so many of us, as well as to meet a bunch of new friends in the history of chemistry community.

Abstracts due March 1. Hoping some of you, your students, or other colleagues will be interested in applying. Selfishly, I'll be hanging out at this event and would be delighted to get to see/meet some of you/them there. Please pass the word on to anyone else you think might be interested!

Details below & attached.

Thanks -- sending good wishes and good vibes to you all,
Evan

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The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry invites submissions for the 12th Annual Postgraduate Workshop

This year’s theme is “Secrets of Matter, Matters of Secrecy: Concealing (al)chemical Knowledge from Ciphers to the Military Industrial Complex”

Two-day virtual workshop, June 3 – 4, 2021

Keynote Speakers:
Nancy Langston, Professor of Environmental History and Social Sciences, Michigan Technological University
Michelle Murphy, Professor of History and Women and Gender Studies, University of Toronto

SHAC’s annual series of workshops fosters interdisciplinary exchange among graduate students and
early career scholars from any field whose work engages with the history of alchemy and chemistry.

We invite proposals for short, 10-minute virtual presentations related to secrecy in the history of
alchemy and chemistry. Proposals representing any geographic region and time period are welcome.

We especially encourage projects pertaining to alchemical ciphers, information networks, trade
secrecy, intellectual property, toxicology, agnotology, and the military industrial complex.

The virtual workshop will be held on June 3-4, 2021, 10am – 2pm EST. Presentations will be grouped thematically and followed by synthetic discussion.

EXTENDED DEADLINE: Please send a 200-300 word proposal along with your CV by March 1, 2021 to SHAC Student Representative Alison McManus, at studentrep at ambix.org.

Successful applicants will be notified in mid-March.

Organizers:
Alison McManus, PhD Candidate, Princeton University Program in the History of Science
Sarah Hijmans, PhD Candidate, Université Paris Diderot
Sarah Lang, PhD Candidate, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz

Sponsored by the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry






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Evan Hepler-Smith

Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of History

Duke University

Classroom Building 319

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