Colloquia

KLI Colloquia Schedule for Spring-Summer 2025

KLI Colloquium Series, Spring-Summer 2025

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6th Mar 2025 (Thur), 15:00-16:30 CET

Development and Evolution of Human Bipedalism

Gentaro Taga (University of Tokyo)

 

13th Mar 2025 (Thur), 15:00-16:30 CET

Bridging cognition and evolution in the study of music and language

Tudor Popescu (University of Padova & University of Vienna)

 

3rd Apr 2025 (Thur), 15:00-16:30 CET

The Origin and Evolution of the Central Nervous System: A Cell Type Perspective

Detlef Arendt (EMBL Heidelberg)

 

10th Apr 2025 (Thur), 15:00-16:30 CET

The Epistemic Red Queen Hypothesis: Are we making the world harder to understand?

Elis Jones (KLI)

 

30th Apr 2025 (Wed), 15:00-16:30 CET

Phenotypic robustness across the genotype-phenotype map: from genes to environment and back

Luisa Pallares (Friedrich Miescher Laboratory, Tübingen)

 

8th May 2025 (Thur), 15:00-16:30 CET

Rapid coevolutionary dynamics in Darwin's finches and the avian vampire fly

Sonia Kleindorfer (Konrad Lorenz Research Center, University of Vienna)

 

15th May 2025 (Thur), 15:00-16:30 CET

When hominins were babies: Evolution of the brain and cognition from 6.5 to 3.5 million years ago

Dean Falk (Florida State University, Tallahassee)

 

12th Jun 2025 (Thur), 15:00-16:30 CET

Genetic determinism as an accident of history

Gregory Radick (University of Leeds)

 

16th Jun 2025 (Mon), 9:30-17:40 CET

KLI Special Event

What is Theoretical Biology?

A symposium celebrating Rupert Riedl's 100th anniversary

 

26th Jun 2025 (Thur), 15:00-16:30 CET

Evolutionary pressure on the capacity for context-relevant behaviour: Implications for translational psychiatry

Adam Linson (The Open University, UK)

 

 

 

 

Colloquia Schedule Fall / Winter 2024-25

KLI Colloquium Series (Autumn-Winter 2024-2025)

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3 Oct 2024, 15:00-16:30

Life history theory in the clinics: chances and pitfalls

Martin Brüne (Ruhr-University Bochum)

 

24 Oct 2024, 15:00-16:30

Decoupling of pregnant and non-pregnant cycles enables the evolution of mammalian gestation length and body size

Mihaela Pavličev (University of Vienna)

 

7 Nov 2024, 15:00-19:00

Book Launch: Evolution evolving (Princeton University Press)

Meet the authors: Kevin Lala (University of St. Andrews), Tobias Uller, Nathalie Feiner, Marcus Feldman, Scott F. Gilbert.

 

14 Nov 2024, 15:00-16:30 (online)

Agency in the evolutionary transition to multicellularity

Stuart Newman (New York Medical College)

 

21 Nov 2024, 15:00-16:30

How to succeed in science: Work hard, build relationships - and be lucky

Sarah Davies (University of Vienna)

 

28 Nov 2024, 15:00-16:30

The evolution of human birth

Barbara Fischer (KLI & University of Vienna)

 

5 Dec 2024, 15:00-16:30

Inductive logic: Its history and prospects

Simon Huttegger (University of California, Irvine)

 

16 Jan 2025, 15:00-16:30

Urban Morphometrics: a tale of space, cities and cultural evolution

Sergio Porta (University of Strathclyde)

 

23 Jan 2025, 15:00-16:30

The Danube's industrialization. A co-evolutionary environmental history

Martin Schmid (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU))

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