Wednesday, November 20, Augusteerhalle
Öffentlicher Abendvortrag / Keynote Lecture
18.00 Peter Burschel: Begrüßung / Welcome; Ute Frietsch: Eröffnung / Opening remarks
18.15 Bruce T. Moran (University of Nevada/USA): The Experience of Things in the Making and the Abstractions of the Made Thing: Networks, Recipes, and the Contradictions of Alchemy between the Kassel Court and the Marburg Classroom
19.15 Wine Reception
20.00 Abendessen / Dinner: Ristorante La Domenica (auf Wunsch/optional)
Thursday, November 21, Bibelsaal
Einführung / Introduction
09.15 Ute Frietsch: A Desideratum of Research: The Relationship between Alchemy and University
10.00 Volkhard Wels: Formatting chemical knowledge. Some introductory remarks
10.45 Kaffeepause / Coffee Break
Moderation / Chair: Volkhard Wels
11.15 Didier Kahn (CNRS, Paris): The first public/private courses of chemistry in Paris up to William Davisson
12.00 Thomas Hofmeier (Historisches Museum Basel): Alchemie an der Universität Basel im 16. Jahrhundert
12.45 Mittagspause / Lunch Break: Ristorante La Domenica (auf Wunsch/optional)
Moderation / Chair: John Christie (Oxford University)
14.00 Elisabeth Moreau (Princeton University): Physiology and the University of Marburg
14.45 Hiro Hirai (Columbia University): Daniel Sennert and theological debates at Wittenberg University
15.30 Kaspar von Greyerz (Universität Basel): Seventeenth-century English translations of Daniel Sennert’s works
16.15 Kaffeepause / Coffee Break
16.30 Georgiana Hedesan (Oxford University): The Alchemical Philosophy of Jan Baptist Van Helmont in the Context of University Teaching in Leuven/Louvain
17.15 Anette Marquardt & Bettina Wahrig (Universität Braunschweig): The Schneider Collection
19.00 Abendessen / Dinner: Vinum Italicum (auf Wunsch/optional)
Friday, November 22, Bibelsaal
Moderation / Chair: Bettina Wahrig
09.15 Lawrence M. Principe (Johns Hopkins University): The Changing Visions of Chymistry at Seventeenth-Century Jena: Brendel, Rolfinck, Wedel, and Others
10.00 Marieke Hendriksen (Utrecht University): Alchemy in the kitchen: Blankaart’s ‘Borgerlyke Tafel’ (1683)
10.45 Kaffeepause / Coffee Break
Moderation / Chair: Ute Frietsch
11.15 Kevin Chang (Taipei University): From University to Court: The Shift of Stahl’s Positions on Alchemy
12.00 Christopher Halm (Universität Regensburg): Wallerius and the conception of agricultural chemistry at Uppsala University
12.45 Abschlussdiskussion / Final remarks