Session 3: Computational History of Alchemy and Chemistry

Wednesday, 3 June 2026, 3pm to 5pm

Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Rd, Oxford OX2 6SE

Chair: Rob Iliffe (Oxford)

Vojtěch Kaąe (University of West Bohemia, Plzeň), and Sarah Lang (Max Planck Institute, Berlin): Tracing the Histories of Early Modern Conceptual Ecosystems: Remote Sensing Methods for the Archaeology of Alchemical Knowledge

Guillermo Restrepo (Max Planck Institute, Leipzig): Computational History of Chemistry: How Big Data Illuminates Macrohistorical Trends and Microhistorical Events

Speaker(s): Vojtěch Kaąe (University of West Bohemia, Plzeň), Sarah Lang (Max Planck Institute, Berlin), Guillermo Restrepo (Max Planck Institute, Leipzig), Chair: Rob Iliffe (Oxford)

Series: Oxford Seminar in the History of Alchemy and Chemistry

Department: History (Department)

Organiser: Ellen Hausner (Oxford), Sergei Zotov (Warburg), and Jo Hedesan (Oxford)

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