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adammclean Member 
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On the Fringes of Alchemy VENUE Central European University Medieval Studies Department H-1051 Budapest Nádor u. 9. Room 409 4th floor, Faculty Tower CONTACT Dóra Bobory dora.bobory@gmail.com FRIDAY, 9 JULY 2010 9:00: Registration, coffee & tea Session One Chair: John Norris (Prague/Luxembourg) 9:30 Aksel Haaning (Roskilde) Alchemy, the Bible and philosophy in late medieval monastic culture 9:50 Graziana Ciola (Pavia) Between alchemy and prophecy: Johannes de Rupescissa 10:10 Gabriele Ferrario (Cambridge) The poetry of alchemy, the alchemy of poetry: preliminary notes on the Shudhur al-Dhahab, Ibn Arfa’ Ra’s alchemical poem 10:30 Discussion 11:00 Coffee break Session Two Chair: Aksel Haaning (Roskilde) 11:30 Ana-Maria Gruia (Cluj-Napoca) Alchemical representations on medieval stove tiles 11:50 Berit Wagner (Frankfurt) Painting–printing–writing: what early modern painters and their patrons expect from alchemy 12:10 Ilona Fekete (Oxford/Budapest) The hidden places of nature: Johann David Ruland’s pharmacy of filth 12:30 Discussion 13:00 Lunch break Session Three Chair: Rudolf Werner Soukup (Vienna) 15:00 Jennifer M. Rampling (Cambridge) Transmission and transmutation: English alchemy in the Holy Roman Empire 15:20 Hermann Stockinger (Vienna) Alchemica in the monastery of Schlierbach (Upper Austria) 15:40 Émilie Granjon (Louvain-la-Neuve) Investigating the alchemical dimension in the Physicae et theologicae conclusiones of Otto Vaenius (1621) 16:00 Discussion 19:00 Workshop dinner SATURDAY, 10 JULY 2010 Session Four Chair: Rafał Prinke (Poznań) 9:00 Rudolf Werner Soukup (Vienna) Mercurius Solis: hunting a mysterious alchemical substance 9:20 John Norris (Prague/Luxembourg) Hungarian vitriol: a brief survey from the chymical literature of the 16th-18th centuries 9:40 Dóra Bobory (Budapest) New alchemical methods offered by Italian mining experts in sixteenth-century Hungary 10:00 Discussion 10:30 Coffee break Session Five Chair: Carl-Michael Edenborg 11:00 Susanna Åkerman (Stockholm) Sendivogius in Sweden: Johannes Franck’s Colloquium with mountain gods, 1651 11:20 Christer Böke (Stockholm) The alchemy of Otto Arnold Paykull 11:40 Håkan Håkansson (Lund) Alchemy of the ancient Goths: Johannes Buraeus’ search for the lost wisdom of Scandinavia 12:00 Discussion 12:30 Workshop lunch Session Six Chair: Susanna Åkerman 15:00 Rafał Prinke (Poznań) Antemurale alchimiae: patrons, readers, and practitioners of alchemy in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 15:20 Ayten Koç Aydın (Istanbul) Iatrochemistry in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire 15:40 Snježana Paušek Baždar (Zagreb) The alchemical poem of Daniel Justinopolitanus 16:00 Carl-Michael Edenborg (Stockholm) Silence is golden: the expulsion of alchemy from the public sphere in the 1790s 16:20 Discussion SUNDAY, 11 JULY 2010 Optional programs |
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Carl Lavoie Member
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. Great line-up, sound very interesting (although I wouldn’t have put Ilona Fekete’s lecture just before lunch). Do you know, Adam, if they plan to put in print an "Actes du Colloque", a selection of some of the presentations to be made at the conference? ......................... [Edit] Nevermind : style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #f8f8f8"http://members.upc.hu/bobory.dora/alchemyproject/About_the_Project.html Last edited on Tue Jun 8th, 2010 02:59 am by Carl Lavoie |
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