Two Papers at INCOME2022

Two AlchemEast papers delivered by Lucia Maini and Marianna Marchini at INCOME2022. 10th International Conference on Mechanochemistry and Mechanical Alloying.

June 6-10, 2022, University of Cagliari

Lucia Maini, Exploring the First Mechanochemical Reaction

Marianna Marchini, Grinding in the Old Times: The Synthesis of Cinnabar through the Glass of Ancient Recipes

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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

May 30 – June 1, 2022, University of Catania

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

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Occult Technologies in the Islamicate World

AlchemEast Reading sessions and workshop organized by Matteo Martelli. Two days devoted to the reading of primary sources followed by 1-day workshop. Invited speakers: Godefroid de Callataÿ, Matthew Melvin-Koushki, Sébastien Moureau and Petra Schmidl

May 2-4, 2022, University of Bologna (Hybrid).

Two papers delivered by the AlchemEast team members:

Lucia Raggetti, The Craft of Talismans: Erratic Blocks and Technical Notes

Gabriele Ferrario, Bāṭinism in the fragments of the Cairo Genizah – Ikhwānian and Jābirian traces

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Ancient Science and Technology of Colour: Pigments, Dyes, Drugs and their Perception in Antiquity

International Conference organized by Matteo Martelli (University of Bologna, ERC project AlchemEast) and Maria Michela Sassi (University of Pisa, PRIN 2017).

April 18-19, 2022, University of Pisa

This conference brings together the expertise of historians of science and technology on the one hand, and archaeologists and historians of ancient art on the other, in a wide-ranging exploration of the production methods and uses of colour substances in the Greek and Roman worlds and in the ancient Near East. This project, strongly multi-disciplinary and the first of its kind, relies on the investigation of a variety of sources, from ancient scientific and technical literature to archaeological data and results of chemical analysis. 

Two papers delivered by the AlchemEast team members:

Eduardo Escobar, On the agency of change: Color and renewal in Assyro-Babylonian cultures

Matteo Martelli, Divine waters and dyeing ‘sauces’: Changing colours and transforming matter

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Batinism among the Jews of Medieval Cairo: the Evidence from the Cairo Genizah

Paper delivered by Gabriele Ferrario at the International Conference Power, Religion and Wisdom: Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy in al-Andalus and Beyond. Convened by Godefroid de Callataÿ (Université catholique de Louvain), as part of the ERC project PhilAnd. Sponsored by Sabine Schmidtke (School of Historical Studies, IAS)

March 29 – April 1, 2022, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

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