The Conference is organized by the Interuniversity Centre for the History of Science and Technology (CIUHCT), a research centre associated with the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon and the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the New University of Lisbon.
Theme of the Conference: "Communicating Science, Technology and Medicine”.
Full programme in the Conference website

Thursday, September 4, 2014

Time 14:00 – 16:00 Room 6.4.30 Session 37
CIRCULATION AND COMMUNICATION OF THE CHEMICAL KNOWLEDGE IN THE GREEK-SPEAKING COMMUNITIES FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE 17th CENTURY

Organizer: Gianna Katsiampoura, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens
Rémi Franckowiak, SCité, Lille1 University
Chair: Rémi Franckowiak

Gianna Katsiampoura, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens
Natural philosophy and alchemy in the Byzantine period: a controversial relationship

Vangelis Koutalis, NHRF – University of Ioannina, Konstantinos Palaiologos, University of California, Irvine
Operating in and through the word of God: Reading the alchemical treatises of Stephanus of Alexandria and the cosmological-theological works of John Philoponus side by side

Kostas Exarchakos, Institute of Historical Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation-Faculty of Education, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens,Kostas Skordoulis, Faculty of Education, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
Design and Development of Educational Activities based on the History of Alchemy