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Date: 2026-06-03 06:03:27+00:00
From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk>
Subject: Fwd: Computational and Experimental History of Science workshop (2-3 June, Oxford)
I forward the following announcement from the Mersenne list, somewhat
edited for the sake of easier reading, in order to suggest the relevance
to digital humanities of the questions being asked. Hard-liners will
object to use of the word 'experiment' to describe serious trying things
out, but it does seem to me that work in this field is fundamentally
experimental, or is so when research is being done.
Comments?
Best,
WM
-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Computational and Experimental History of Science workshop
(2-3 June, Oxford)
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2026 01:10:04 +0000
From: Georgiana Hedesan <0000bdfc56d58403-dmarc-request@JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Reply-To: Georgiana Hedesan <georgiana.hedesan@HISTORY.OX.AC.UK>
To: MERSENNE@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Dear colleagues,
> We are pleased to introduce the Computational and Experimental History of
Science workshop taking place on 2 and 3 June at Maison Française d’Oxford. The
workshop is organised by Jo Hedesan (Oxford) and Carmen Schmechel (KNAW) in view
of a special issue on the topic on the /Notes and Records of the Royal Society/.
>
> Here is the programme:
>
>
> Day 1 — Tuesday, 2 June 2026
>
> 2:00 pm
> Welcome
> Jo Hedesan (Oxford) & Carmen Schmechel (KNAW)/
>
> 2:05 pmSession 1: Experimental Approaches
>
> Peter Oakley (RCA)
> Iteration by Design? Reframing Extended Experimental Reconstructions/
>
> Thijs Hagendijk (Utrecht)
> Historical Experiment, Senses and Empathy: Teaching the History of Chemistry
in the Age of AI/
>
> Carmen Schmechel (KNAW) and Thijs Elfrink (KNAW)
> Ferments and Fermentation: Theory and Practice in the Early Modern Low
Countries/
>
> + Q&A time
>
> 3:00 pmCoffee break
>
> 3:30 pmRoundtable Discussion I
>
> 5:30 pmEnd of Day 1
>
>
> Day 2 — Wednesday, 3 June 2026
>
> 9:30 amSession 2: Computational Text Analysis
>
> Elisabeth Moreau (ULB)
> Experimenting on Style and Authorship in the Early Modern Sciences:
Computational Stylometry Applied to the Chymical Texts of (Pseudo-)Paracelsus/
>
> Sarah Lang (Max Planck Berlin)
> Processus Universalis: Tracing Traditions of Universal Processes Through
Computational Analysis/
>
> Guillermo Restrepo (Max Planck Leipzig), Sarah Lang (Max Planck Berlin) &
Marisol Bermúdez-Montaña (Tecnológico de Monterrey)
> Unveiling the Alchemical Space via Alchemical Hermeneutics, Digital
Humanities, Quantum Chemistry and Wet-Lab Replication/
>
> Georgiana Hedesan (Oxford), Vojtěch Kaše (West Bohemia), Petr Pavlas (West
Bohemia), Guillermo Restrepo (Max Planck Leipzig) & Marisol Bermúdez-Montaña
(Tecnológico de Monterrey)
> The Role of Mercury in Medieval and Early Modern Latin Alchemy: A
Computational and Digital Experimental Approach/
>
> +Q&A time
>
> 11:00 amCoffee break
>
> 11:30 amRoundtable Discussion II
>
> 1:00 pmEnd of Day 2 & Lunch (included)
>
>
> The organisers would like to thank the sponsors for this workshop:
>
>
> The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (SHAC)
>
> The Centre for the History of Science, Medicine and Technology
> (HSMT), University of Oxford
>
> The Centre for Early Modern Studies (CEMS), University of Oxford.
>
>
> All the best,
> Jo and Carmen
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