BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Rome BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20250226T000000 RDATE:20250330T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251026T020000 RDATE:20260329T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20261025T020000 RDATE:20270328T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20271031T020000 RDATE:20280326T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20281029T020000 RDATE:20290325T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20291028T020000 RDATE:20300331T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20301027T020000 RDATE:20310330T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20311026T020000 RDATE:20320328T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250330T030000 RDATE:20251026T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260329T030000 RDATE:20261025T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20270328T030000 RDATE:20271031T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20280326T030000 RDATE:20281029T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20290325T030000 RDATE:20291028T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20300331T030000 RDATE:20301027T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20310330T030000 RDATE:20311026T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:c14e4422767f0ac63ac17e5a6b318b74 CATEGORIES:Call for papers CREATED:20251113T155229 SUMMARY:"Problems of Growth" Nineteenth Ischia Summer School on the History of the Life Sciences DESCRIPTION:Problems of Growth\nNineteenth Ischia Summer School on the History of the L ife Sciences\nBiblioteca Antoniana, Ischia, Italy, 28 June – 5 July 2026 \n \nApplications are invited for this week-long summer school, which provides advanced training in history of the life sciences through lectures, semina rs and discussions in a historically rich and naturally beautiful setting. The theme for 2026 is 'Problems of Growth’. The deadline is Friday 27 Febru ary 2026.\n\nOrganizers: Christiane Groeben (Naples, local organizer), Nick Hopwood (Cambridge), Erika L. Milam (Princeton), Staffan Müller-Wille (Cam bridge) and the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn\n\nConfirmed faculty: Daryn Lehoux (Queen’s, Canada), Dániel Margócsy (Cambridge), He Bian (Princeton),  Patrick Anthony (Uppsala), Alison Bashford (UNSW), Hannah Landecker (UCLA) , Edna Suárez-Díaz (UNAM), Sabina Leonelli (TU München)\nFor funding we are most grateful to Cambridge HPS, Cambridge Intesa Sanpaolo Fund, George Lou don, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Dohrn Foundation, Science History Inst itute, Centro Etnografico delle Isole Campane, Center on Science and Techno logy at Princeton University and the Italian Society for the History of Sci ence.  More information: < (http://ischiasummerschool.org/)http://ischia summerschool.org (http://ischiasummerschool.org)/>\nAbout the school\nTh e Ischia Summer School on the History of the Life Sciences provides advance d training in a lively international field that offers a long-term perspect ive on some of the most significant ideas, practices and institutions in th e world today. The school, which has a tradition of association with the Na ples Zoological Station, was revived in 2005 after a break of two decades a nd has run every other year since then other than during the coronavirus pa ndemic. We can accommodate up to 26 graduate students and postdoctoral fell ows. The event provides a structured learning experience plus extensive opp ortunities for participation and interaction. English is the working langua ge and we encourage exchange of ideas across disciplinary boundaries, natio nal cultures and historical periods. Spending the week on an island, stayin g in the same hotel and sharing breaks and meals maximizes opportunities fo r exchange. These are enhanced through social events, including a welcome r eception and a day trip to Naples, the morning spent learning about the his tory and current research of the Station, the afternoon free for sightseein g. There will also be a free afternoon to explore Ischia itself.\n\nIntrodu ction to the themeGrowth affords hope and attracts fear. Balanced growth fe eds populations, fuels prosperity and imparts purpose to individual and col lective lives. The unfettered growth of cells, pathogens, parasites and pop ulations threatens physiological, economic and ecological collapse. Even ba lance may be a problematic ideal: norms of flourishing and beauty have guid ed discrimination by vaunting harmonious over retarded, excessive or monstr ous growth. The sustainability of life on Earth, attempts ‘to change the st ory of cancer’ and the politics of human diversity: growth is at the heart of them all. Yet compared with other vital processes, notably inheritance, development and reproduction, growth in the life sciences has lacked status and attention. This summer school provides an opportunity to explore knowl edges and practices of growth between antiquity and the present day while b ringing together problems usually kept apart.For Aristotle, vegetative grow th was the lowest function of the soul and for that reason fundamental to p lants, beasts and humans. Unlike fire, vegetative growth had a natural limi t. Where minerals grew by external accretion or juxtaposition, living being s had the distinctive ability to expand by assimilation of nutrients from t he inside out, whether organ by organ or from a preformed seed. Surgeons tr ied to remove those tumours, cankers and warts that resulted from an imbala nce of humours among other causes. Generation, which was hard to imagine in mechanical terms, was often framed as a special form of growth. Late medie val philosophers brought together generation, projectile movement and the a ccumulation of capital as sharing the same basic problem, how a movement se vered from its mover could continue to produce. In a balanced world, gain i n one part was compensated by loss elsewhere. Large animals, according to A ristotle, produced fewer offspring, and the relative growth of one organ en tailed the diminution of another. At Italian universities during the Renais sance, these ancient ideas were taken up and reformed by scholars including Girolamo Fabrici d’Acquapendente, Andrea Cesalpino and Marcello Malpighi i n attempts to reground the systematic study of nature and naturalize growth and development.By contrast, it seems, modern approaches to growth, in bio logy as in economics, aimed for an overall increase—in size, in number of i ndividuals and in productivity. As the ultimate source of economic progress the physiocrats postulated an inherent capacity of nature to reproduce. Na turalists like Lazzaro Spallanzani located the same reproductive and regene rative capacities in minute parts that made up animal bodies. But proper gr owth was also reckoned to occur within certain limits. In the principle of population Thomas Robert Malthus expressed the limit set for the potentiall y geometric growth of human numbers by the merely arithmetic growth of food supplied from the land. More generally, in the hands of the population bio logist Raymond Pearl the S-shaped curve came to capture the colonization of a new space, with slow initial acceleration towards exponential growth and then deceleration as environmental resistance increased and the ‘carrying capacity’ was reached. Based on computer simulations of the catastrophic co nsequences of runaway population and economic growth, the Club of Rome’s be stselling report The Limits to Growth (1972) is a point of origin for debat e over ‘degrowth’ and ‘sustainable growth’.Classical discussion of growth w ithin organisms had been informed by the canons of beauty appropriate to ea ch stage of life, with more attention to proportion than size. Beginning in the eighteenth century, longitudinal measurements of human growth aligned with demands for military manpower and projects of social reform. Measureme nt fed debate over the roles of heredity and environment. On the one hand, anthropometry ultimately produced distinct growth equations for groups defi ned by age, sex and race. Unbalanced growth was associated with monstrosity and other ways of falling short of the white, male model. On the other, fa ilure to grow became an index of deprivation, most obviously, as physiologi st Angelo Mosso argued, in the stunting of factory children. Eugenicists, n otably criminologist Cesare Lombroso, were concerned with imbalance at the level of populations.Standards justified clinical intervention in pathologi es of growth. James Tanner, who led the Harpenden study into growth through puberty into adulthood, pioneered the treatment with growth hormone of chi ldren who looked set to miss out on the advantages of height. Since the 198 0s ultrasound measurements of fetuses have identified growth restrictions o n an ever larger scale. Yet even after major surveys from Turin to Nairobi, it is controversial to what extent the standards should be universal or ta ilored to demographic groups.In the nineteenth century the knotty issues in volved in defining individuals that were explored productively at the Stazi one Zoologica di Napoli made growth hard to distinguish from maintenance an d reproduction. An influential formulation held that reproduction represent ed growth beyond the individual limit. From the 1860s embryonic development was discussed in terms of the differential growth of parts. Inspired by D’ Arcy Thompson’s On Growth and Form (1917), Julian Huxley set an agenda with  Problems of Relative Growth (1932) and the notion of allometry, or the sha pe-changing growth of a part at a different rate from the organism as a who le. Mechanisms could be studied in ontogeny or changing patterns traced in phylogeny. In a famous essay, ‘On being the right size’, J.B.S. Haldane pro posed that ‘Comparative anatomy is largely the story of the struggle to inc rease surface in proportion to volume’: more complicated forms enable the l arger sizes that maintain body temperature at lower metabolic rates.Within a species, tissues and organs must somehow ‘know’ when to stop growing. The cell theory framed organismal growth as the division and expansion of thes e elementary parts. Cancer, the disease that made biomedicine, came to be u nderstood as a pathology of malignant growth. Research elucidated factors, not least growth factors, notably nerve growth factor discovered by Stanley Cohen and Rita Levi-Montalcini, that promoted, regulated and interfered wi th cell division. Alongside chemotherapies, weedkillers were developed that acted by causing rapid, uncontrolled growth. Synthetic auxins, the hormone s that regulate cell division and expansion in plants, became notorious as the defoliant Agent Orange used by the British in the Malayan Emergency and the United States in the Vietnam War.This sketch raises large questions. S hould understandings and practices of growth be seen as having first sought balance, then promoted unlimited increase before recognition of the costs of growth called the whole framework into question? Or did gospels of growt h acknowledge the need for some balance? Should we grasp growth as a modern or capitalist imperative, a potentially relentless power and a creative on e through the transformation of quantity into quality? Or is a reason for i ts neglect in reflection on the life sciences (as distinct from economics a nd agronomy) that growth implies mere increase in size or number while the truly remarkable changes have seemed to result from qualitative alterations ? Reflexively, reservations about growth apply to knowledge, too; simply ac cumulating data has seemed inadequate when we might need a whole new paradi gm. A long-term theme and implicated in urgent problems, growth in and arou nd the life sciences provides a rich field for historical deliberation and for trade between disciplines. Programme\nThe school starts with registrati on and a reception on the afternoon of Sunday 28 June, and ends after dinne r the following Saturday night. Departure is on Sunday 5 July. Lectures las t for up to 30 minutes in one-hour slots, leaving at least 30 minutes for d iscussion. Seminars focus on pre-circulated texts. Groups of students will prepare each one with the seminar leader.\n\nDaryn Lehoux (Queen’s, Canada) Lecture: Aristotle on nutrition, growth, residues and seedSeminar: The ‘fac ulty’ of growth in Galen Dániel Margócsy (Cambridge)Lecture: Soil, vermin a nd ghosts: The limits to growth in agriculture and medicine in early modern Europe and IndonesiaSeminar: Humans and horses: Theorising size in early m odern European Medicine He Bian (Princeton)Lecture: Growth and regeneration in early modern Chinese thoughtSeminar: Growing empire, coining new names: Manchu as a language for flora and fauna nomenclature Patrick Anthony (Upp sala)Lecture: Toward a history of extractive sciences—and the end of the mi neral frontierSeminar: From bio-geography to necro-geography: Sciences of l ife and death during the Circassian genocide  Alison Bashford (UNSW) Lectur e: Growth, limits and the afterlife of MalthusSeminar: Fertility decline an d modernity’s great deceleration: Where is reproduction/population in degro wth scholarship? Hannah Landecker (UCLA)Lecture: The butcher’s philosophy: Transmuting knowledge of life into knowledge of growth in modern agricultur e and medicineSeminar: Practical approaches to working with visual document s: Exploring cases and patterns in an industrial trade journal archive Edna Suárez-Díaz (UNAM)Lecture: Geographies of malnutrition: The clinic, the la b and the committeeSeminar: Traditions of knowledge and intervention: Study ing malnutrition and mental development in the land of Zapata Sabina Leonel li (TU München)Lecture: Growing data crops: Extractivism and agricultureSem inar: Colonial trends in agricultural data sharingPublic lecture: Intellige nza ambientale: Come usarla per salvare il pianeta\nCost\nThe fee for stude nts is €400 each, which includes hotel accommodation and all meals for the week. Students need to pay for their own travel to Ischia. The directors wi ll consider requests to waive the fee for accepted students unable to raise the money themselves, when supported by a detailed financial statement and a letter from their department head.\n\nApplications\nApplications should be sent by email to < (mailto:administrator@ischiasummerschool.org)admin istrator@ischiasummersch<wbr< a=""> />ool.org</wbr<> ( mailto:administrator@ischiasummersch<wbr)> and should include, please :• a statement specifying academic experience and interest in the course to pic (max. 300 words),• a brief CV,• a letter of recommendation.The deadline for applications is midnight CET on Friday 27 February and applicants will be notified of the outcome by 13 March 2026. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Problems of Growth
Nine teenth Ischia Summer School on the History of the Life Sciences
Biblio teca Antoniana, Ischia, Italy, 28 June – 5 July 2026

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Applications are invited for thi s week-long summer school, which provides advanced training in history of t he life sciences through lectures, seminars and discussions in a histo rically rich and naturally beautiful setting. The theme for 2026 is 'Pro blems of Growth’. The deadline is Friday 27 Fe bruary 2026.

Organizers: Christiane Groe ben (Naples, local organizer), Nick Hopwood (Camb ridge), Erika L. Milam (Princeton), Staffan M üller-Wille (Cambridge) and the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn


Confirmed faculty: Daryn Lehoux&nbs p;(Queen’s, Canada), Dániel Margócsy (Cambridge),  He Bian (Princeton), Patrick Anthony (Uppsala),&n bsp;Alison Bashford (UNSW), Hannah Landecker ( UCLA), Edna Suárez-Díaz (UNAM), Sabina Leonelli (TU München)

For funding we are most grat eful to Cambridge HPS, Cambridge Intesa Sanpao lo Fund, George Loudon, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Dohrn Foundation, Science History In stitute, Centro Etnografico delle Isole Campane, Ce nter on Science and Technology at Princeton University  ;and the Italian Society for the History of Science. 
 
More information: <http://ischiasummersc hool.org/>

About the school
The&n bsp;Ischia Summer School on the History of the Life Sciences prov ides advanced training in a lively international field that offers a l ong-term perspective on some of the most significant ideas, pract ices and institutions in the world today. The school, which has a trad ition of association with the Naples Zoological Station, was revi ved in 2005 after a break of two decades and has run every other year since then other than during the coronavirus pandemic. We can accommod ate up to 26 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. The event pro vides a structured learning experience plus extensive opportunities fo r participation and interaction. English is the working language and w e encourage exchange of ideas across disciplinary boundaries, nat ional cultures and historical periods. Spending the week on an island, staying in the same hotel and sharing breaks and meals maximizes  ;opportunities for exchange. These are enhanced through social events, including a welcome reception and a day trip to Naples, the morning s pent learning about the history and current research of the Stati on, the afternoon free for sightseeing. There will also be a free afte rnoon to explore Ischia itself.

Introduction to the theme
Growth affords hope and attracts fear. Balanced growth feeds populatio ns, fuels prosperity and imparts purpose to individual and collective lives . The unfettered growth of cells, pathogens, parasites and populations thre atens physiological, economic and ecological collapse. Even balance may be a problematic ideal: norms of flourishing and beauty have guided discrimina tion by vaunting harmonious over retarded, excessive or monstrous growth. T he sustainability of life on Earth, attempts ‘to change the story of cancer ’ and the politics of human diversity: growth is at the heart of them all. Yet compared with other vital processes, notably inheritance, development a nd reproduction, growth in the life sciences has lacked status and attentio n. This summer school provides an opportunity to explore knowledges and pra ctices of growth between antiquity and the present day while bringing toget her problems usually kept apart.< /span>
For Arist otle, vegetative growth was the lowest function of the soul and for that re ason fundamental to plants, beasts and humans. Unlike fire, vegetative grow th had a natural limit. Where minerals grew by external accretion or juxtap osition, living beings had the distinctive ability to expand by assimilatio n of nutrients from the inside out, whether organ by organ or from a prefor med seed. Surgeons tried to remove those tumours, cankers and warts that re sulted from an imbalance of humours among other causes. Generation, which w as hard to imagine in mechanical terms, was often framed as a special form of growth. Late medieval philosophers brought together generation, projecti le movement and the accumulation of capital as sharing the same basic probl em, how a movement severed from its mover could continue to produce. In a b alanced world, gain in one part was compensated by loss elsewhere. Large an imals, according to Aristotle, produced fewer offspring, and the relative g rowth of one organ entailed the diminution of another. At Italian universit ies during the Renaissance, these ancient ideas were taken up and reformed by scholars including Girolamo Fabrici d’Acquapendente, Andrea Cesalpino an d Marcello Malpighi in attempts to reground the systematic study of nature and naturalize growth and development.
By contrast, it seems, modern approaches to growth, in biology as in economics , aimed for an overall increase—in size, in number of individuals and in pr oductivity. As the ultimate source of economic progress the physiocrats pos tulated an inherent capacity of nature to reproduce. Naturalists like Lazza ro Spallanzani located the same reproductive and regenerative capacities in minute parts that made up animal bodies. But proper growth was also reckon ed to occur within certain limits. In the principle of population Thomas Ro bert Malthus expressed the limit set for the potentially geometric growth o f human numbers by the merely arithmetic growth of food supplied from the l and. More generally, in the hands of the population biologist Raymond Pearl the S-shaped curve came to capture the colonization of a new space, with s low initial acceleration towards exponential growth and then deceleration a s environmental resistance increased and the ‘carrying capacity’ was reache d. Based on computer simulations of the catastrophic consequences of runawa y population and economic growth, the Club of Rome’s bestselling report&nbs p;The Limits to Growth (1972) is a point of origin for debate o ver ‘degrowth’ and ‘sustainable growth’.
C lassical discussion of growth within organisms had been informed by the can ons of beauty appropriate to each stage of life, with more attention to pro portion than size. Beginning in the eighteenth century, longitudinal measur ements of human growth aligned with demands for military manpower and proje cts of social reform. Measurement fed debate over the roles of heredity and environment. On the one hand, anthropometry ultimately produced distinct g rowth equations for groups defined by age, sex and race. Unbalanced growth was associated with monstrosity and other ways of falling short of the whit e, male model. On the other, failure to grow became an index of deprivation , most obviously, as physiologist Angelo Mosso argued, in the stunting of f actory children. Eugenicists, notably criminologist Cesare Lombroso, were c oncerned with imbalance at the level of populations.
Standards justified clinical intervention in pathologies of grow th. James Tanner, who led the Harpenden study into growth through puberty i nto adulthood, pioneered the treatment with growth hormone of children who looked set to miss out on the advantages of height. Since the 1980s ultraso und measurements of fetuses have identified growth restrictions on an ever larger scale. Yet even after major surveys from Turin to Nairobi, it is con troversial to what extent the standards should be universal or tailored to demographic groups.
In the nineteenth cent ury the knotty issues involved in defining individuals that were explored p roductively at the Stazione Zoologica di Napoli made growth hard to disting uish from maintenance and reproduction. An influential formulation held tha t reproduction represented growth beyond the individual limit. From the 186 0s embryonic development was discussed in terms of the differential growth of parts. Inspired by D’Arcy Thompson’s On Growth and Form  ;(1917), Julian Huxley set an agenda with Problems of Relative Grow th (1932) and the notion of allometry, or the shape-changing growt h of a part at a different rate from the organism as a whole. Mechanisms co uld be studied in ontogeny or changing patterns traced in phylogeny. In a f amous essay, ‘On being the right size’, J.B.S. Haldane proposed that ‘Compa rative anatomy is largely the story of the struggle to increase surface in proportion to volume’: more complicated forms enable the larger sizes that maintain body temperature at lower metabolic rates.< /div>
Within a species, tissues and organs must somehow ‘know’ when to stop growing. The cell theory framed organismal growth as the division and expansion of these elementary parts. Cancer, the disease that made biomedic ine, came to be understood as a pathology of malignant growth. Research elu cidated factors, not least growth factors, notably nerve growth factor disc overed by Stanley Cohen and Rita Levi-Montalcini, that promoted, regulated and interfered with cell division. Alongside chemotherapies, weedkillers we re developed that acted by causing rapid, uncontrolled growth. Synthetic au xins, the hormones that regulate cell division and expansion in plants, bec ame notorious as the defoliant Agent Orange used by the British in the Mala yan Emergency and the United States in the Vietnam War.
This sketch raises large questions. Should understandings and practices of growth be seen as having first sought balance, then promoted unlimited increase before recognition of the costs of growth called the who le framework into question? Or did gospels of growth acknowledge the need f or some balance? Should we grasp growth as a modern or capitalist imperativ e, a potentially relentless power and a creative one through the transforma tion of quantity into quality? Or is a reason for its neglect in reflection on the life sciences (as distinct from economics and agronomy) that growth implies mere increase in size or number while the truly remarkable changes have seemed to result from qualitative alterations? Reflexively, reservati ons about growth apply to knowledge, too; simply accumulating data has seem ed inadequate when we might need a whole new paradigm. A long-term theme an d implicated in urgent problems, growth in and around the life sciences pro vides a rich field for historical deliberation and for trade between discip lines.
 
Programme
The school starts with registration and a reception on the a fternoon of Sunday 28 June, and ends after dinner the following Saturday ni ght. Departure is on Sunday 5 July. Lectures last for up to 30 minutes in one-hour slots, leaving at least 30 minutes for discussion.&n bsp;Seminars focus on pre-circulated texts. Groups of students will pr epare each one with the seminar leader.

Daryn Lehoux (Queen’s, Canada)
Lecture: Aristotle on nutrition, growth, residues and seed
Seminar: The ‘faculty’ of growth in Galen
 
Dániel Margócsy&nbs p;(Cambridge)
Lecture: Soil, vermin and gh osts: The limits to growth in agriculture and medicine in early modern Euro pe and Indonesia
Seminar: Humans and horse s: Theorising size in early modern European Medicine
 
He Bian (Pri nceton)
Lecture: Growth and regeneration i n early modern Chinese thought
Seminar: Gr owing empire, coining new names: Manchu as a language for flora and fauna n omenclature
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Patrick Anthony (Uppsala)
Lecture: Toward a history of extractive sciences—and the end of the m ineral frontier
Seminar: From bio-geograph y to necro-geography: Sciences of life and death during the Circassian geno cide 
 
Alison Bashford (UNSW) 
Lecture: Growth, limits and the afterlife of Malthus
Seminar: Fertility decline and modernity’s great deceler ation: Where is reproduction/population in degrowth scholarship?
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Hannah La ndecker (UCLA)
Lecture: The butcher’s philosophy: Transmuting knowledge of life into knowledge of growt h in modern agriculture and medicine
Semin ar: Practical approaches to working with visual documents: Exploring cases and patterns in an industrial trade journal archive< /div>
 
Edna Suárez-Díaz&n bsp;(UNAM)
Lecture: Geographies of&nb sp;malnutrition: The clinic, the lab and the committee
Seminar: Traditions of knowledge and intervention: Studying ma lnutrition and mental development in the land of Zapata
 
Sabina Leonelli (TU München)
Lecture: Growing data crops: Extractivism and agriculture
Semina r: Colonial trends in agricultural data sharing
Public lecture: Intelligenza ambientale: Come usarla per salvare il p ianeta

Cost
The fee for stude nts is €400 each, which includes hotel accommodation and all meals for the week. Students need to pay for their own travel to Ischia. The di rectors will consider requests to waive the fee for accepted students unabl e to raise the money themselves, when supported by a detailed financia l statement and a letter from their department head.

< b>Applications
Applications should be sent by email to <administrator@ischiasummersch <wbr< a=""> />ool.org</wbr<>> and should includ e, please:
• a statement specifying academic experience and interest in the course topic (max. 300 words),
• a  ;brief CV,
• a letter of recommendation.
The deadl ine for applications is midnight CET on Friday 27 Febru ary and applicants will be notified of the outcome by 13 March 202 6.
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