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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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We thank the following for past and present support: Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Wellcome Trust, Volkswagen Foundation, Thyssen Foundation, the collector George Loudon, History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, HPS Cambridge, and Princeton University.

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