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International Marsilius Academy 2026 Feel the Heat – Science and Histories of Fever

  • Sunday, 20 September 2026, 14:00
  • Marsilius Kolleg of Heidelberg University, Im Neuenheimer Feld 130.1, 69120 Heidelberg
    • Prof. Dr. Claudia Denkinger, Infectious Diseases, Heidelberg University, Center for Infectious Diseases
    • Prof. Dr. Lendert Gelens, Biophysics, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven
    • Prof. Dr. Volker Hess, Medical History, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin
    • Prof. Dr. Hans-Georg Kräußlich, Virology, Heidelberg University, Department for Infectious Diseases
    • Kai Kupferschmidt, Science Journalist, Science Magazine, Nature Marsilius Visiting Professor 2024-25
    • Prof. Dr. Shigehisa Kuriyama, Cultural History, Harvard University, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
    • Prof. Dr. Natali Machado, Neurology, Harvard Medical School
    • Prof. Dr. Sarah Reece, Parasitology, University of Edinburgh
    • Prof. Dr. Joacim Rocklöv, Epidemiology and Data Science, Heidelberg University, Institute of Global Health and Interdisciplinary Centre for Scientific Computing
    • Prof. Dr. Jan Siemens, Neuroscience, Heidelberg University, Pharmacological Institute
    • Prof. Dr. Maria Spyrou, Archaeo and Paleogenetics, University of Tübingen

This multidisciplinary summer school brings together perspectives from the life and natural sciences and the humanities to re-examine the multifaceted nature of fever. Topics include epidemics and pandemics, their prevention, the sensory register of fever, disease causation, and the long-term effects. Taken together, these approaches invite a renewed reckoning with fever as both a biological phenomenon and a social and cultural object.
The Academy is aimed at Master students as well as PhD candidates. A participation fee of 100€ - including room and board - will be charged. Travel costs are to be covered by the participants themselves. Participants are expected to present the current status of their work in a poster session and as a short pitch. 
Applications can be submitted online untill 14 June 2026. 

 

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