Ischia Summer School 2013, Call for Applications
Call for applications
Creating Life: From Alchemy to Synthetic Biology
The Thirteenth Ischia Summer School on the History of the
Life Sciences
‘Villa Dohrn’, Ischia, Italy, 29 June – 6 July 2013
Directors: Janet Browne (Harvard), Christiane Groeben
(Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples), Nick Hopwood (Cambridge), Staffan
Müller-Wille (Exeter)
Applications are invited for this week-long summer
school, which provides advanced training in history of the life sciences
through lectures and seminars in a historically rich and naturally beautiful
setting. 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. 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.