KLI fellow Marco P. Vianna Franco and coauthor Antoine Missemer blog about their new book, A History of Ecological Economic Thought, in the Chroniques de l'anthropocène.

A new study by KLI Fellow Roberto Cazzolla Gatti (et al.) reveals how prolonged exposure to air pollution (especially to fine particles) has contributed to SARS-CoV-2 mortality and infections in Italy

KLI Colloquium: Günter WAGNER (Yale University), Monday 19 November, 3.00 pm

KLI Colloquium: Özlem YILMAZ (KLI), 5 June, 3.00 pm

KLI Colloquium: Hans-Jörg RHEINBERGER (Max Planck Institute, Berlin), 30 October, 3.00 pm

Virtual KLI Colloquium: Frank ZACHOS (Natural History Museum, Vienna), 2 June 2020, 5.00 pm. [br] To join our online colloquium please register with Zoom.

As a young student in Russia, Alexander Oparin learned about Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. However, even though it was a convincing theory of how life on earth had evolved, it did not have anything to say about how it started.

Ievgeniia IVANOVA (University of Stirling, UK), 2024-06-13 15:00 (CET). To join our colloquium please register with Zoom

Martin Schmid, along with co-authors Gertrud Haidvogl, Severin Hohensinner published an article titled ‘Waterway, power plant chain, river landscape: A short environmental history of the Danube’ in the magazine Geographic Round-view - Issue 10/2024 (October). This article is mainly targeted at Class level 11 (until 13th School year) The article (in Deutsch) tells the environmental history of the Danube river, its genesis, its former floodplains that are now being intensively built up, and basic knowledge for more sustainable use of the river in the light of current climate change.

In an invited article for the Boku Magazine, Martin Schmid introduces his lecture “The Social Ecology of the Anthropocene”, which encourages long-term, interdisciplinary thinking by looking back into the past. With the climate crisis, the rapid loss of biodiversity and other global crises, it reveals the Anthropocene as a specific, historically unique way in which human societies relate to nature. (Click on title to read more...)

Barbara Fischer, along with a team comprising of Lynn Chiu, Severin Bachmayer and others created a workshop titled Solving The Riddles of Inheritance, specifically designed to teach school students the different modes of inheritance as well as the interplay between genes and environment on the visible traits of an organism. With emphasis on familiarising students with scientific methods and scientific thinking, this workshop includes hands-on Art-Science Activity, Microscope Laboratory Activity, and a Science Quiz.

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KLI Colloquium: Bartlomiej SWIATCZAK (University of Science and Technology of China), 24 May, 3.00 pm

VIRTUAL KLI COLLOQUIUM: Alkistis ELLIOTT-GRAVES (University of Helsinki), 28 April, 5.00 pm. For pre-registered participants only!

Katrin VOHLAND (Natural History Museum, Vienna), 27 May 2021, 3.00 pm. To join our colloquium please register with Zoom.

Christian DORNINGER (KLI), 2 June 2022, 3.00 pm. To join our colloquium please register with Zoom.

KLI Colloquium: Roland ZIMM, 15 February, 3.00 pm

What is Ecological neo-Narodnism and how does it contribute to solving contemporary social and environmental challenges? Marco P. Vianna Franco explains.

ISHPSSB Off-year workshop, organized by S. Leonelli & T. Reydon: 5th EASPLS: Interdisciplinarity in the Life Sciences and their Philosophy 10–14 September 2018 Student travel grants available! Deadline: 31 March

KLI Colloquium: 16 January 2018, 3.00 pm