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Ischia Summer School 2007

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Janet Browne <[log in to unmask]>

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Call for Applications


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

Ischia Summer School on the History of the Life Sciences
Ischia, 3 July – 10 July, 2007

Supported by:
Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn (Naples)
Institut d’Histoire de la Médecine et de la Santé (Geneva)
Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (Berlin)
History of Science Department, Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass)

Directors of the School: Giorgio Bernardi and Christiane Groeben (Stazione 
Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples) Janet Browne (Harvard), Bernardino Fantini 
(Geneva), Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (Berlin)



1. Brief introduction to the theme

The 2007 summer school will explore the relationship between making and 
knowing in the biological sciences as mediated by visual culture from the 
Renaissance to the modern day. We intend to focus on three interrelated 
themes. One theme concerns craft practices and the development of 
visualising technologies. The development of such techniques (engraving, 
photography, film and digital technologies) invariably takes place outside 
biology and therefore gives rise to problems of application, conversion and 
definition, all of which impact on the practice of biology. The second 
theme concerns the historical relation between theory and image in the 
formation of scientific arguments. The iconic images of an evolutionary 
tree, biochemical cycles, or the double helix, for example, are wedded to 
our understanding of current research. Visualisation, in this sense, is the 
statement of theory. Third, there are the cognitive claims about reality 
that are made through images, for example through graphs, diagrams, moving 
images, time lapse or changes of scale, microscopy, computer simulation, 
museum display, the rhetoric of book illustration, TV films and medical 
imaging. Perceptual evidence has traditionally been given privileged 
epistemic status in science. Yet increasing use of non-optical detection 
methods and increasing reliance on statistical processing to generate data 
renders the status of the knowledge problematic. 


2. Programme

The aim is to bring together graduate and recent postdoctoral students with 
experts from a number of different fields to engage with the following key 
topics: 

1.Techologies of making images and presenting biological materials, 
including the fine arts, drawing and painting, craft practices, the impact 
of mechanical reproduction, anatomies and preparations (eg slides, models, 
specimens)

2.Changes of scale, microscopy, photography, X-Rays, the consolidation of 
agreement about the meaning of images, eyewitness reports, realism and 
observation, training

3.Film and digital technologies; new instruments and new conceptual problems

4.Images as theory and tool, diagrams, maps, scans, tables, graphs and 
iconic representations such as evolutionary trees, biological cycles, 
isotopic tracing

5.Computer simulations, the enhancement of reality, the place of perceptual 
evidence in modern biology, genetic and epidemiological maps, the depiction 
of cells

6.Visual display, museums, book illustration, spectacle, mass-media outlets

It is hoped to arrange time for participating students also to present a 
brief account of their own work. In addition there will be opportunities 
for a film screening, provisionally a selection of Jean Painlevé’s classic 
natural history films (1940s). A visit to the laboratory of the Stazione 
Zoologica ‘Anton Dohrn’ in Naples is planned during which students can 
explore modern laboratory techniques and the famous aquarium.
 

3. Practical Information
The emphasis of the course will be on encouraging discussion and exchanging 
ideas across disciplinary boundaries. English is the official working 
language. A background reading pack for the workshops will be sent to each 
participant in advance. The first and last days (Tuesday 3 July and Tuesday 
10 July) are travelling days with no lectures scheduled. The island of 
Ischia can only be approached by ferry from Naples and participants 
arriving by air are encouraged to check the ferry timetables carefully. We 
will provide all necessary information. The weather at this time of year is 
extremely warm and sunny, especially around midday, and for comfort we 
schedule our sessions during the morning and late afternoon.

Applications should be sent by 30 January 2007 to:
Professor Bernardino Fantini
Institut d.Histoire de la Médecine et de la Santé, CMU,
Case postale, 1211 Genève 4, Switzerland
Phone: +41.22.379.57.90; Fax: +41.22.379.57.92
Email: [log in to unmask]

Please include a brief cv, a statement specifying your academic experience 
and interest in the course topic, and a letter of recommendation. The group 
will be limited to about 25 participants. There is a small charge for 
students of 400 Euros each. This fee covers full board and lodging. The 
organisers gratefully acknowledge awards from the VolkswagenStiftung and 
the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn (Naples).

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