Talk given by Eduardo Escobar and Matteo Martelli in the framework of a series on the history of chemistry organized by Peter Morris for the Royal Society of Chemistry.
May 16, 2023, Online
Alchemy in Graeco-Roman Egypt. The Early development of chymeia and the transmutation of metals
Talk given by Matteo Martelli in the framework of a series on the history of chemistry organized by Peter Morris for the Royal Society of Chemistry.
April 25, 2023, Online
Sources of Alchemy and Chemistry Workshop
AlchemEast Workshop, organized by Matteo Martelli in the framework of a well-established collaboration with the Ambix series “Sources of Alchemy and Chemistry: Sir Robert Mond Studies in the History of Early Chemistry” (SHAC).
March 30-31, 2023, Department of Philosophy and Communication Studies, Bologna
Studies on Ancient Plants. Multidisciplinary Approaches and New Perspectives
AlchemEast Workshop organized by Caterina Manco and Matteo Martelli, which explores different approaches and methodologies to study the use and conceptualization of plants in ancient sciences and technologies (from Ancient Babylonia to Late Antiquity).
February 13-14, 2023, Department of Philosophy and Communication Studies, Bologna
Yellow Dyes. An Interdisciplinary Workshop
AlchemEast Workshop organized by Lucia Maini and Matteo Martelli in collaboration with the ERC projects DURARE (Utrecht; PI Marjolijn Bol) and UseFool (Bologna; PI Lucia Raggetti).
November 30 – December 2, 2022, Department of Philosophy and Communication Studies & Department of Chemistry ‘G. Ciamician’, Bologna
Current Issues in the History of Alchemy. Texts, Images and Procedures
AlchemEast Workshop organized by Matteo Martelli, which features three papers given by visiting scholars in the project:
- Jennifer Rampling (Princeton University), Experimenting with Alchemical Imagery in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.
- Gerasimos Merianos (NHRF, Athens), A Beer Recipe in the Byzantine Alchemical MS Marc. gr. 299 Intended for Personal or Practical Use?
- Marion Dapsens (UCLouvain), The Arabic Alchemical Dialogues: A Key Step in the Transfer of Greek Alchemy to the Arab World
November 15, 2022, Department of Philosophy and Communication Studies, Aula Mondolfo, Bologna
The Humours and the Dyes: A Stream of Tradition in the Arabic Summaries on Urine Attributed to Galen
Paper delivered by Lucia Raggetti at the International Conference Malleable Texts, Fluid Authorships: Galenic Medicine and Late Antiquity organized by Philip van der Eijk and Caroline Petit.
July 7-8, 2022, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin
Greek Pharmaka in the Syriac Alchemical Tradition
Paper delivered by Matteo Martelli at the XIII Symposium Syriacum – XI Congress d’études arabes chrétiennes
July 4-9, 2022, Paris
Two Papers at INCOME2022
Two papers delivered by Lucia Maini and Marianna Marchini at INCOME2022. 10th International Conference on Mechanochemistry and Mechanical Alloying:
- Lucia Maini, Exploring the First Mechanochemical Reaction
- Marianna Marchini, Grinding in the Old Times: The Synthesis of Cinnabar through the Glass of Ancient Recipes
June 6-10, 2022, University of Cagliari
Saggi sulla soglia: le autorità del passato nella trasmissione della conoscenza scientifica
AlchemEast Panel, including 4 papers, organized by Gabriele Ferrario and Lucia Raggetti at the SISS National Conference Ad limina. Frontiere e contaminazioni transdisciplinari nella storia delle scienze
- Rosa Caiazzo, Parmenide ‘naturalista risanatore’: l’eco della tradizione medica di Velia dall’antichità al medioevo
- Bojidar Dimitrov, Ottenere la ‘nobile tintura’: Platone come autorità alchemica in un trattato del Corpus Jabirianum
- Lucia Raggetti, Allucinazioni e cortine di fumo: la magia naturale dello Pseudo-Platone nella tradizione araba
- Stefano Mulas, Aristotele, Ippocrate e Galeno: il dibattito tra antica e nuova medicina in alcuni frontespizi a stampa
May 30 — June 1, 2022, University of Catania