CfP : 12th International Conference on the History of Chemistry (ICHC12)
Every two years the Working Party on History of Chemistry (WPHC) of the European Chemical Society
(EuChemS) organizes an international conference on the history of chemistry,
open to colleagues from all over the world. The 12th International
Conference on the History of Chemistry (12ICHC) will take place from July 29th
to August 2nd, 2019 in Maastricht, one of the oldest cities of The
Netherlands, which still has preserved much of its historical charm. The dates
of the conference are chosen in such a way that those who are visiting the
Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society (HSS) in Utrecht, The
Netherlands, from 23 to 27 July 2019, can easily combine this with
participation in 12ICHC.
The Conference will be hosted by Maastricht University (UM), a young university, founded in 1976,
with a very international student population, and a strong research group in
Science, Technology and Society (STS), including the history of science and
technology. The conference will be sponsored by UM, the Royal Dutch Chemical
Society and several other organizations.
The conference programme will include
scientific sessions, key-note lectures, the WP business meeting, as well as
social events such as excursions, receptions, and a conference dinner banquet. Key-note
lectures will be given by Marco Beretta (Bologna University), Carsten Reinhardt
(Bielefeld University) and Lissa Roberts (Twente University).
The Steering Organizing Committee
encourages the submission of panel/session proposals, but also welcomes the
submission of stand-alone papers. Session organizers and contributors are free
to send their proposals on any topic on the history of chemistry, broadly
constructed as the cluster of molecular sciences, industry, and technology. A
non-exhaustive list of possible sessions could include historical papers on the
development of all aspects of material and life sciences, such as:
- Chemistry, professors, textbooks and
classrooms
- Teaching and didactics of history of
chemistry
- Chemistry and law: controversies,
expertise, counter-expertise, fraud and activism
- Environmental chemistry, energy and
regulation
- Chemical industry, its transition
towards a circular economy
- Spaces and sites of chemistry
- (Post)colonial perspectives on chemistry
- Chemistry and its businesses in a
globalizing world
- Changing concepts and practices in
chemical engineering
- Commodities and commodification
- Modern chemistry and physics of
semiconductors and nano-materials
- Chemistry and digital humanities;
editions of manuscripts, etc.
- Instruments, collections and material
culture
- Replication of historical experiments
- Periodic Table (2019 = International
Year of the Periodic Table)
- Biographies, prosopography, and
databases
- Chemistry, war and exile
- Representation of chemistry, and visual
cultures
- Chemistry
in the age of the Anthropocene
- Early modern art and chemistry
- Alchemy, Chemistry and Early Modern
Science and Medicine
- Gender and chemistry
The
Steering Organizing Committee consists of Christoph Meinel, Universität
Regensburg, and Ignacio Suay-Matallana, Universidad Miguel Hernández (chairs of
the committee), Cyrus Mody, Maastricht University (Steering Organizing
Committee), Brigitte Van Tiggelen, Science History Institute (chair of the WPHC),
and Ernst Homburg, Maastricht University (chair of the Local Organizing
Committee).
Important Dates:
Deadline for submitting proposals (both
panels and individual papers): 15
January 2019.
Notification of acceptance: 15 March 2019.
Early bird registration: before 1 May 2019
(see conference website for dates and fees).
Conference dates: 29 July – 2 August 2019.
Proposal guidelines:
All proposals must be in English, the
language of the conference. Submitted abstracts and session proposals will be
subject to review by an international Advisory Committee. The conference is
open to individual paper submissions, but preference will be given to organized
sessions. The sessions should include about 3-5 papers, and no more than one
session can be proposed by the same organizer. All paper proposals must use the
templates provided on the conference web site. Panel proposals must include the
template for panel proposal, jointly with the templates of each individual
paper. All proposals should be submitted
by email (by 15 January 2019) to: ICHC2019MAASTRICHT@gmail.com
For more information about session or
paper submission, deadlines and practical arrangements can soon be found on: www.ichc2019.org
Contact information for practical
questions: ICHC2019MAASTRICHT@gmail.com