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Female Practitioners in Graeco-Egyptian Alchemy

Short paper delivered by Matteo Martelli at the roundtable 4th Turba Meeting: The Female Presence in Alchemy, organized by Jo Hedesan (University of Oxford).

Here are the titles of the short talks:

  • Jennifer Rampling, Queen Elizabeth I and Women’s Patronage of Alchemy
  • Matteo Martelli, Female Practitioners in Graeco-Egyptian Alchemy
  • Ute Frietsch, The Common Iconography of the Urinal, the Alchemical Vial and the Womb in 16th-Century German Woodcults
  • Carmen Schmechel, Male and Female Minerals in Georgius Agricola’s De natura fossilium: A Matter of Classification
  • Jo Hedesan, Mercury – Female or Male? Some Historical and Cross-Cultural Considerations

December 10, 2021 @ 17:00 (GMT), Online

YouTube video of the roundtable


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What’s in a Recipe? Epistemology and Practical Understanding of Recipe Literature

A series of monthly lectures organized by Gabriele Ferrario and Matteo Martelli, Department of Philosophy and Communication Studies, University of Bologna

A series of 2-hour long meetings that aims at exploring the features of prescriptive literature in the form of recipes with a systematic and interdisciplinary approach and at investigating how these features are relevant in the replication of historical recipes. Speakers: Giulia Brun (London), Chiara Crisciani (Pavia), Guido Frison (London), Cale Johnson (Berlin), Daniele Morrone (Bologna), Sébastien Moureau (Louvain-la-Neuve), Manuela Mura (Warwick), Caroline Petit (Warwick), Lawrence Principe (Baltimore), Tonio Sebastian Richter (Berlin), Nicolas Thomas (Paris), Iolanda Ventura (Bologna)

Concept

List of delivered papers

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Chemical Arts and Religion in Antiquity

AlchemEast workshop, organized by Noemi Borrelli and Matteo Martelli in preparation for a special issue of the international journal ARYS, edited by N. Borelli and M. Martelli, which will feature papers by: M. Blanco, N. Borrelli, V. Carlotta, O. Dufault, E. Escobar, M. Escolado-Poveda, G. Merianos.

October 14-15, 2021, Department of Philosophy and Communication Studies, Bologna (online)

Programme (with the link to the Teams virtual room)

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Sources of Alchemy and Chemistry Workshop

AlchemEast workshop, organized by Gabriele Ferrario and 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).

July 6-8, 2021, Department of Philosophy and Communication Studies, Bologna (online)

Programme (with the link to the Zoom virtual room)

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Two Papers at the International Conference “Traditions of Materia Medica”

Two papers delivered by Matteo Martelli and Lucia Raggetti at the International Conference Traditions of Materia Medica (300 BCE — 1300 CE), organized by Sean Coughlin, Christine Salazar, Elizaveta Shcherbakova, in the framework of the SFB project Episteme in Bewegung (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Freie Universität Berlin)

  • Matteo Martelli, Minerals for Medicine and Alchemy: Dyes and Dry Pharmaka
  • Lucia Raggetti, Aristotle and a Gem Shop on Peacock Alley

June 16-18, 2021, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (online)

Website of the Conference

Programme and Abstracts (with link to the Zoom Virtual Room)