BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Rome 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:20250627T000000 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:a48234e656f84e8b0d4fedf7d7eb4ef7 CATEGORIES:Mostre, esposizioni, eventi culturali CREATED:20251113T155353 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
Nineteenth Isch ia Summer School on the History of the Life Sciences
Biblioteca Antoni ana, Ischia, Italy, 28 June – 5 July 2026

 


Applications are invited for this week-long summer school, which provides advanced training in history of the life sci ences through lectures, seminars and discussions in a historically ric h and naturally beautiful setting. The theme for 2026 is 'Problems of Gr owth’. The deadline is Friday 27 February 2026 .

Organizers: Christiane Groeben&nbs p;(Naples, local organizer), Nick Hopwood (Cambridge),&nbs p;Erika L. Milam (Princeton), Staffan Müller-Wille  (Cambridge) and the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn

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

For funding we are most grateful to&nbs p;Cambridge HPS, Cambridge Intesa Sanpaolo Fund< /b>, George Loudon, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn,  Dohrn Foundation, Science History Institute , Centro Etnografico delle Isole Campane, Center on Sci ence and Technology at Princeton University and the&nb sp;Italian Society for the History of Science. 
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More information: <http://ischiasummerschool.org/>

About the school
The Ischia Summer School on the History of the Life Sciences provides advanc ed training in a lively international field that offers a long-term pe rspective on some of the most significant ideas, practices and in stitutions in the world today. The school, which has a tradition of as sociation with the Naples Zoological Station, was revived in 2005 after a break of two decades and has run every other year since then other than during the coronavirus pandemic. We can accommodate up to 2 6 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. The event provides a str uctured learning experience plus extensive opportunities for part icipation and interaction. English is the working language and we encourage  exchange of ideas across disciplinary boundaries, national cultu res and historical periods. Spending the week on an island, staying in the same hotel and sharing breaks and meals maximizes opportunit ies for exchange. These are enhanced through social events, including a welcome reception and a day trip to Naples, the morning spent learni ng about the history and current research of the Station, the aft ernoon free for sightseeing. There will also be a free afternoon to ex plore Ischia itself.

Introduction to the theme
Growth affords hope and attracts fear. Balanced growth feeds populations, fuels p rosperity and imparts purpose to individual and collective lives. The unfet tered growth of cells, pathogens, parasites and populations threatens physi ological, economic and ecological collapse. Even balance may be a problemat ic ideal: norms of flourishing and beauty have guided discrimination by vau nting harmonious over retarded, excessive or monstrous growth. The sustaina bility of life on Earth, attempts ‘to change the story of cancer’ and the p olitics of human diversity: growth is at the heart of them all. Yet compare d with other vital processes, notably inheritance, development and reproduc tion, growth in the life sciences has lacked status and attention. This sum mer school provides an opportunity to explore knowledges and practices of g rowth between antiquity and the present day while bringing together problem s usually kept apart.
For Aristotle, veget ative growth was the lowest function of the soul and for that reason fundam ental to plants, beasts and humans. Unlike fire, vegetative growth had a na tural limit. Where minerals grew by external accretion or juxtaposition, li ving beings had the distinctive ability to expand by assimilation of nutrie nts from the inside out, whether organ by organ or from a preformed seed. S urgeons tried to remove those tumours, cankers and warts that resulted from an imbalance of humours among other causes. Generation, which was hard to imagine in mechanical terms, was often framed as a special form of growth. Late medieval philosophers brought together generation, projectile movement and the accumulation of capital as sharing the same basic problem, how a m ovement severed from its mover could continue to produce. In a balanced wor ld, gain in one part was compensated by loss elsewhere. Large animals, acco rding to Aristotle, produced fewer offspring, and the relative growth of on e organ entailed the diminution of another. At Italian universities during the Renaissance, these ancient ideas were taken up and reformed by scholars including Girolamo Fabrici d’Acquapendente, Andrea Cesalpino and Marcello Malpighi in attempts to reground the systematic study of nature and natural ize growth and development.
By contrast, i t seems, modern approaches to growth, in biology as in economics, aimed for an overall increase—in size, in number of individuals and in productivity. As the ultimate source of economic progress the physiocrats postulated an inherent capacity of nature to reproduce. Naturalists like Lazzaro Spallanz ani located the same reproductive and regenerative capacities in minute par ts that made up animal bodies. But proper growth was also reckoned to occur within certain limits. In the principle of population Thomas Robert Malthu s expressed the limit set for the potentially geometric growth of human num bers by the merely arithmetic growth of food supplied from the land. More g enerally, in the hands of the population biologist Raymond Pearl the S-shap ed curve came to capture the colonization of a new space, with slow initial acceleration towards exponential growth and then deceleration as environme ntal resistance increased and the ‘carrying capacity’ was reached. Based on computer simulations of the catastrophic consequences of runaway populatio n and economic growth, the Club of Rome’s bestselling report The Li mits to Growth (1972) is a point of origin for debate over ‘degrow th’ and ‘sustainable growth’.
Classical di scussion of growth within organisms had been informed by the canons of beau ty appropriate to each stage of life, with more attention to proportion tha n size. Beginning in the eighteenth century, longitudinal measurements of h uman growth aligned with demands for military manpower and projects of soci al reform. Measurement fed debate over the roles of heredity and environmen t. On the one hand, anthropometry ultimately produced distinct growth equat ions for groups defined by age, sex and race. Unbalanced growth was associa ted with monstrosity and other ways of falling short of the white, male mod el. On the other, failure to grow became an index of deprivation, most obvi ously, as physiologist Angelo Mosso argued, in the stunting of factory chil dren. Eugenicists, notably criminologist Cesare Lombroso, were concerned wi th imbalance at the level of populations.
Standards justified clinical intervention in pathologies of growth. James T anner, who led the Harpenden study into growth through puberty into adultho od, pioneered the treatment with growth hormone of children who looked set to miss out on the advantages of height. Since the 1980s ultrasound measure ments of fetuses have identified growth restrictions on an ever larger scal e. Yet even after major surveys from Turin to Nairobi, it is controversial to what extent the standards should be universal or tailored to demographic groups.
In the nineteenth century the kno tty issues involved in defining individuals that were explored productively at the Stazione Zoologica di Napoli made growth hard to distinguish from m aintenance and reproduction. An influential formulation held that reproduct ion represented growth beyond the individual limit. From the 1860s embryoni c development was discussed in terms of the differential growth of parts. I nspired by D’Arcy Thompson’s On Growth and Form (1917), Ju lian Huxley set an agenda with Problems of Relative Growth  ;(1932) and the notion of allometry, or the shape-changing growth of a part at a different rate from the organism as a whole. Mechanisms could be stud ied in ontogeny or changing patterns traced in phylogeny. In a famous essay , ‘On being the right size’, J.B.S. Haldane proposed that ‘Comparative anat omy is largely the story of the struggle to increase surface in proportion to volume’: more complicated forms enable the larger sizes that maintain bo dy temperature at lower metabolic rates.
W ithin a species, tissues and organs must somehow ‘know’ when to stop growin g. The cell theory framed organismal growth as the division and expansion o f these elementary parts. Cancer, the disease that made biomedicine, came t o be understood as a pathology of malignant growth. Research elucidated fac tors, not least growth factors, notably nerve growth factor discovered by S tanley Cohen and Rita Levi-Montalcini, that promoted, regulated and interfe red with cell division. Alongside chemotherapies, weedkillers were develope d that acted by causing rapid, uncontrolled growth. Synthetic auxins, the h ormones that regulate cell division and expansion in plants, became notorio us as the defoliant Agent Orange used by the British in the Malayan Emergen cy 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 i ncrease before recognition of the costs of growth called the whole framewor k into question? Or did gospels of growth acknowledge the need for some bal ance? Should we grasp growth as a modern or capitalist imperative, a potent ially relentless power and a creative one through the transformation of qua ntity into quality? Or is a reason for its neglect in reflection on the lif e sciences (as distinct from economics and agronomy) that growth implies me re increase in size or number while the truly remarkable changes have seeme d to result from qualitative alterations? Reflexively, reservations about g rowth apply to knowledge, too; simply accumulating data has seemed inadequa te when we might need a whole new paradigm. A long-term theme and implicate d in urgent problems, growth in and around the life sciences provides a ric h field for historical deliberation and for trade between disciplines.
 
Programme
T he school starts with registration and a reception on the afternoon of Sunday 28 June, and ends after dinner the following Saturday night. Depart ure is on Sunday 5 July. Lectures last for up to 30 minutes in one-hour slots, leaving at least 30 minutes for discussion. Seminar s focus on pre-circulated texts. Groups of students will prepare each& nbsp;one with the seminar leader.

Daryn Lehoux& nbsp;(Queen’s, Canada)
Lecture: Aristotle on nutrition, growth, residues and seed
Se minar: The ‘faculty’ of growth in Galen
 
Dániel Margócsy (Cambridg e)
Lecture: Soil, vermin and ghosts: The l imits to growth in agriculture and medicine in early modern Europe and Indo nesia
Seminar: Humans and horses: Theorisi ng size in early modern European Medicine
 
He Bian (Princeton)
Lecture: Growth and regeneration in early mod ern Chinese thought
Seminar: Growing empir e, coining new names: Manchu as a language for flora and fauna nomenclature
 
< b>Patrick Anthony (Uppsala)
Lectu re: Toward a history of extractive sciences—and the end of the mineral fron tier
Seminar: From bio-geography to necro- geography: Sciences of life and death during the Circassian genocide < span style="text-decoration: underline;">
 
Alison Bashford (UNSW) 
Lec ture: Growth, limits and the afterlife of Malthus
Seminar: Fertility decline and modernity’s great deceleration: Wher e is reproduction/population in degrowth scholarship?
 
Hannah Landecker  (UCLA)
Lecture: The butcher’s p hilosophy: Transmuting knowledge of life into knowledge of growth in modern agriculture and medicine< span style="text-decoration: underline;">
Seminar: Practic al approaches to working with visual documents: Exploring cases and pattern s in an industrial trade journal archive
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Edna Suárez-Díaz (UNAM)< span style="text-decoration: underline;">
Lecture: Geographies of malnutri tion: The clinic, the lab and the committee
Seminar: Traditions of knowledge and intervention: Studying malnutrition and mental development in the land of Zapata
 
Sabina Leonelli (TU München)
Lecture: Growing data crops: Extr activism and agriculture
Seminar: Colonial trends in agricultural data sharing
Publi c lecture: Intelligenza ambientale: Come usarla per salvare il pianeta

Cost
The fee for students is €400 each, which includes hotel accommodation and all meals for the week. Stude nts need to pay for their own travel to Ischia. The directors wil l consider requests to waive the fee for accepted students unable to r aise the money themselves, when supported by a detailed financial statement  and a letter from their department head.

Applicati ons
Applications should be sent by email to <administrator@ischiasummersch<wbr< a=""> />ool.org</wbr<>> and should include, please:< /div>
• a statement specifying academic experience and intere st in the course topic (max. 300 words),
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• a letter of recommendation.
The deadline for app lications is midnight CET on Friday 27 February&nbs p;and applicants will be notified of the outcome by 13 March 2026.
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