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Applications are invited for the The Thirteenth Ischia Summer School on the History of the Life Sciences. This week-long summer school provides advanced training in history of the life sciences through lectures and seminars and will take place in the ‘Villa Dohrn’, Ischia, Italy, 29 June – 6 July 2013. The summer school will be dedicated to the theme ‘Creating Life: From Alchemy to Synthetic Biology’, and aims to uncover the long-term history of the human production of life and living beings as well as the contexts of practices that defined the border between the living and the non-living, and hence what it could mean to produce one from the other.
Directors: Janet Browne (Harvard), Christiane Groeben (Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples), Nick Hopwood (Cambridge), Staffan Müller-Wille (Exeter)
Confirmed faculty include Peter Murray Jones, Jessica Riskin, James E. Strick, Helen A. Curry, Luis Campos, Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Stefan Helmreich, Wolfgang Schäffner and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger.
A detailed theme description and programme will be made available on-line in early January.
Cost
There is a charge for students of 300 Euros each. This will cover hotel accommodation and all meals, but students will need to pay for their own travel to Ischia.
The directors will consider requests to waive the fee from qualified students, especially from developing countries, who are unable to raise the money themselves and whose institutions cannot provide it. These must be supported by a detailed financial statement and a letter from the applicant’s head of institution.
Applications are to be sent by e-mail to the following address: bvmallinckrodt@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de or by mail to:
Birgitta v. Mallinckrodt
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Boltzmannstr. 22
D-14195 Berlin
Germany
Deadline for applications is February 15.
Applications should include:
1. a brief cv,
2. a statement specifying academic experience and interest in the course topic (max. 300 words),
3. a letter of recommendation.
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