Below you will find a digital repository of past CHCMS symposiums, sessions, and publications. Click on the year range to access drop down list of archived files.
Part I: Chemistry and Chemists through War; Part II: Reactions to the Integration of Science into War” (Double session co-sponsored by CHMC and FoHCS [HSS Forum for the History of the Chemical Sciences], organized by Yoshiyuki Kikuchi, chaired by Brigitte Van Tiggelen), History of Science Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, November 19-22, 2015 (on 11/21 and 11/22). Program may be downloaded and papers are listed on pp. 56-57 and 60-61). PDF Here
(Session sponsored by CHMC; organized and chaired by Brigitte Van Tiggelen and Jeffrey A. Johnson), 10th International Conference on the History of Chemistry (10ICHC), Aveiro, Portugal, September 9-12 (on 9/10), 2015. Papers will be published in the conference proceedings, to be edited by Peter J. T. Morris and Isabel Malaquias. The conference program and abstracts of the papers are in the following file; the CHMC session is on pp. 26-31: Chemical Biography in the 21st Century.pdf
International Workshop on the History of Chemistry, (IWHC 2015) at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, 2-4 March 2015, co-sponsored by CHMC along with several other organizations. The program of the workshop may be found here, and general information about the workshop here. A volume of proceedings appeared in March 2016, co-edited by Masanori Kaji, Yasu Furukawa, Hiroaki Tanaka, and Yoshiyuki Kikuchi; it can be downloaded here.
Session co-sponsored by CHMC at the HSS Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois, 6-9 November 2014. The program for that meeting may be found here, with the papers listed on p. 27.
Co-sponsored by CHMC at the History of Science Society (HSS) Annual Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts, 21‐24 November 2013. Papers from that session, along with others contributed later, appeared in Annals of Science, 72/2 (2015) (Special Issue: Atomism and Organic Chemistry in Context: Essays in Honour of Alan J. Rocke, guest editor Peter Ramberg). For contents and abstracts see this link.
On 24 August at the 9th International Conference for the History of Chemistry, “Chemistry in Material Culture,” 21-24 August 2013, in Uppsala, Sweden. For more information on the 9ICHC, please visit http://www.9ichc.se/. The program may be found here. This session was a sequel to the CHMC symposium at the Manchester Congress entitled “Materials and chemistry from bench to brand and back” (see previous listing).
24th International Congress of History of Science, Technology and Medicine, held in Manchester, UK, Monday 22 - Sunday 28 July 2013. The program for CHMC’s symposium at this congress, “S104. Materials and chemistry from bench to brand and back,” which was held in four sessions in the morning and afternoon on Friday, 26 July, can be found here.
Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, USA, 4-6 October 2012. Organized by Ursula Klein (Max-Planck-Institute for History of Science, Berlin) and Carsten Reinhardt. The proceedings have been published as Objects of Chemical Inquiry, ed. Ursula Klein and Carsten Reinhardt (Science History Publications, 2014). The table of contents may be found here.
Rostock, Germany, 14-16 September 2011 <www.gdch.de/ichc2011>
Organised by the Working Party on History of Chemistry of the European Association for Chemical and Molecular Sciences (EuCheMS) and the German Chemical Society, with contributions from CHMC
"Pathways of Knowledge: 8th International Conference on the History of Chemistry", Rostock.pdf
LINK Paris, 21-24 June 2011
Co-Organised together with: Académie des Sciences, Paris; Société Chimique de France (SCF), Paris; Maison de la Chimie, Paris; ESPCI Paris Tech; Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, USA; and in conjunction with the UNESCO-IUPAC International Year of Chemistry 2011 (site français).
Final Program and Abstracts for Paris 21-24 June 2011.pdf
Berlin, Germany, 24-26 June 2010
Regensburg, Germany, 4-6 December 2009
Budapest, Hungary, 29 July 2009 (A selection of papers was published, under the guest editorship of Jeffrey Johnson, as a special issue of Ambix: The Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry, vol. 58, No. 2, pp. 99-170)
Chemistry in the Aftermath of World Wars.pdf
Göttingen, Germany, 24-27 March, 2009 (Joint Conference with the History Divisions of the German Chemical Society and the German Physical Society). (A selection of papers will be published in: Mitteilungen der Fachgruppe Chemie der GDCh 21 (December 2010), and in a special issue of NTM: Journal of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, vol. 19 (2011).)
Coburg, Germany, 3-6 August 2008 (Joint Symposium with the International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry)
Leuven, Belgium, 28 August - 1 September 2007 (published as: Neighbours and Territories: The Evolving Identity of Chemistry, ed. by José Ramón Bertomeu-Sánchez, Duncan Thorburn Burns and Brigitte Van Tiggelen, Louvain-la-Neuve: Memosciences, 2008, 752 pp., ISBN 978-2-9600815-0-3)
Museum of Science, University of Lisbon, Portugal, 1-4 February 2007 (published in: Spaces and Collections in the History of Science, ed. by Marta C. Lourenço and Ana Carneiro, Lisbon 2009, x + 288 p., ISBN 978-972-98709-6-5).
Gödöllö, Hungary, 31 August - 3 September 2006, follow-up meeting to the First European Chemistry Congress, Gödöllö, Hungary, 1-4 September 2006 (published in: History of the Food Chain: From Agriculture to Consuption and Waste - Proceedings, ed. by Éva Vámos, Budapest: Hungarian Chemical Society, 2006; 136 pp., ISBN 963-9319-63-5)
XXII. ICHS, Bejing, China, 24-30 July 2005 (published in: "Globalization and Diversity in Modern Chemical Sciences,"ed. by Yasu Furukawa, in: Historia Scientiarum, 16/3 (2007), pp. 221-309 = special issue)
"Globalization and Diversity of Modern Chemistry and Chemical Technology".pdf
Sidney M. Edelstein Center for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Medicine, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 15 April 2005
Cité des Science et de l'Industrie / Maison de la chimie, Paris, 17-18 September 2004 (The Public Image of Chemistry, ed. by Joachim Schummer, Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Brigitte Van Tiggelen, Hyle: International Journal for the Philosophy of Chemistry, vol. 12/1 (June 2006); vol. 12/2 (November 2006) <http://www.hyle.org/journal/issues/12-1/index.html> and <http://www.hyle.org/journal/issues/12-2/index.html> and in The Public Image of Chemistry, ed. by Joachim Schummer, Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Brigitte Van Tiggelen (Singapore/London: World Scientific, 2007), 383 pp.)
Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, 3–5 October 2002 (Carsten Reinhardt, Harm G. Schröter (eds.), Academia and Industry in Chemistry: The Impact of State Interventions, and the Effects of Cultural Values, special issue of: Ambix 51 (2004), pp. 99-186)
4th International Conference on History of Chemistry, Budapest, 3-6 September 2003
XXI. ICHS, Mexico City, 10 July 2001 (Ernst Homburg (ed.), Shifting Centres and Emerging Peripheries: Global Patterns in Twentieth-Century Chemistry, special issue of: Ambix 52 (2005), pp. 3-87)
Imperial College, South Kensington, London, 10-13 August 2000 (From Classical to Modern Chemistry. The Instrumental Revolution, edited by Peter J. T. Morris, copublished with the Royal Society of Chemistry (CHF has North American distribution rights) 2002, Cloth, xxvi + 348, ISBN 0-85404-479-5)
Sidney M. Edelstein Center for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Medicine, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 7–9 November 1999 (Peter J. T. Morris and Anthony S. Travis (eds.), Forty Years Since Silent Spring: Historical Perspectives on the Pollution of Water and Soil by Synthetic Chemicals, 1860-1960, special issue of Ambix, 49 (2002): 1-66)
Deutsches Museum, Munich, 28–30 May 1999 (Carsten Reinhardt (Editor), Roald Hoffmann, Chemical Sciences in the 20th Century: Bridging Boundaries, March 2001, Hardcover, 300 Pages, ISBN 3-527-30271-9)
Sidney M. Edelstein Center for the History of Science and Technology, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 23–24 July 1998
Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany, 29 June 1998
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