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30 June – 7 July 2024

Humans, Natures and the Nature of Humans

Read more: Eighteenth Ischia Summer School

26 June – 3 July 2022

Living Relations

Read more: Seventeenth Ischia Summer School

23–30 June 2019

Life and Death

Read more: Sixteenth Ischia Summer School

24 June – 1 July 2017

Cycles of Life

Read more: Fifteenth Ischia Summer School

27 June – 3 July 2015

Geographies of Life

Read more: Fourteenth Ischia Summer School

29 June – 6 July 2013

Creating Life: From Alchemy to Synthetic Biology

Read more: Thirteenth Ischia Summer School

26 June – 3 July 2011

Biology and the Public: Participation and Exclusion from the Renaissance to the Present Day

Read more: Twelfth Ischia Summer School

28 June – 5 July 2009

From Generation to Reproduction: Knowledge and Techniques from the Renaissance to the Present Day

Read more: Eleventh Ischia Summer School

3–10 July 2007

Visualizing Nature: Making Images and the Production of Biological Knowledge from Early Modern Natural History to Contemporary Life Sciences

Read more: Tenth Ischia Summer School

28 June – 5 July 2005

Gathering Things, Collecting Data, Producing Knowledge: The Use of Collections in Biological and Medical Knowledge Production from Early Modern Natural History to Genome Databases

Read more: Ninth Ischia Summer School

28 June – 7 July 1994, Annecy (France)

The Limits of Life: History of ideas on the definitions, conditions, regulations and edges of life

Read more: Ninth Course of the International School of the History of Biological Sciences

16–22 June 1992

From Immunity to Cellular and Molecular Immunology: History of Immunological Thought and of Discoveries in Immunology

Read more: Eighth Course of the International School of the History of Biological Sciences

19–28 June 1990

History of Virology: Biology of Viruses and Epidemiology of Viral Diseases

Read more: Seventh Course of the International School of the History of Biological Sciences

19–28 June, 1988

The Measure of Life: Quantity and Quality in Biological Explanation

Read more: Sixth Course of the International School of the History of Biological Sciences

24 June – 3 July 1986

History of Malaria: Towards a Model of Biological Interactions

Read more: Fifth Course of the International School of the History of Biological Sciences

20–29 June 1984

The History of Respiration

Read more: Fourth Course of the International School of the History of Biological Sciences

5 July – 14 July, 1982

Classification and Hierarchies: Historical Developments and Epistemological Aspects

Read more: Third Course of the International School of the History of Biological Sciences

29 June – 12 July, 1980

Historical Aspects of the Relations Between Work and Health (Biochemistry, Physiology, Pathology and Hygiene)

Read more: Second Course of the International School of History of Biological Sciences

1–15 July, 1978

The Origins of Biochemical and Molecular Embryology

Read more: First Course of the International School of History of Biological Sciences

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For current support we thank: HPS Cambridge, Cambridge Intesa Sanpaolo Fund, Dohrn Foundation, George Loudon, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Science History Institute, Centro Etnografico delle Isole Campane, Center on Science and Technology at Princeton University, and Italian Society for the History of Science.

For past support we thank: Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Wellcome Trust, Volkswagen Foundation, Thyssen Foundation, National Science Foundation, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, George Loudon, History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, Institute for the History of Medicine and Health at University of Geneva, and Department of the History of Science at Harvard University.

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