Can the COVID-19 pandemic trigger pathways toward sustainable global futures?

A new interdisciplinary study asks: How should new forms of urban governance acquire, store, create, or disseminate knowledge to effectively foster sustainability transformations?

Leonardo BICH (University of the Basque Country), 2023-05-04 15:00 (CET). To join our colloquium please register with Zoom

KLI Colloquium: Manfred LAUBICHLER (Arizona State University), 9 April, 5.00 pm

VIRTUAL KLI Colloquium: Sarah ELTON (Durham University), 17 March 2020, 5.00 pm. Email registration required.

Virtual KLI Colloquium: Stephanie SCHNORR (University of Nevada & KLI, Klosterneuburg) & Alyssa CRITTENDEN (University of Nevada), 23 June 2020, 5.00 pm. To join our online colloquium please register with Zoom. Deadline for the registration: 3 pm on the day of the talk—no admission in the room after 5:05 pm!

KLI Colloquium by Lynn Chiu (University of Bordeaux).

A book that investigates key issues on levels of organization, including new thinking on downward causation, dynamical autonomy, and compositionality in complex biological systems.

Visiting fellow Leo Bich has signed a book contract with Cambridge University Press to write about "Biological Organization."

Isabella Sarto-Jackson (KLI) will be giving a lecture series in Cognitive Biology at the Comenius University in Bratislava. Course is open to cognitive science and biology students of all levels.

Interview of Stuart Newman with Jochen Stadler (Austrian Press Agency – APA)

Eörs SZATHMARY (KLI, Klosterneuburg & Parmendies Foundation, Pöcking & Institute of Evolution, Budapest), 17 November 2022, 3.00 pm. To join our colloquium please register with Zoom.

Laura Menatti is invited to give a talk at the Institute for Practical Ethics, University of California San Diego, on the 14th of March. The talk is titled "Understanding the Current Health and Climate Crisis through the Concept of Salutogenesis" . For abstract and details, please read on.

The new KLI Homepage will be launched on October 6th, 2017.

What do authors of 'citation classics' feel about their papers? How did they come to write those famous papers and how did those papers affect their lives and careers? Are those findings still valid decades after their publication? Hari Sridhar's new website https://reflectionsonpaperspast.com features his interviews with authors of famous papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behaviour and Conservation, (154 interviews so far!) about back-stories of those papers and the authors' reflections on their impact, validity and relevance today, decades after their publication. (Click on title to read on!)

New book of The Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology by Snait Gissis, Ehud Lamm, and Ayelet Shavit. Broad perspective on collectivity in the life sciences, from microorganisms to human consensus, and the theoretical and empirical opportunities and challenges.

Students of the Middle European interdisciplinary master’s programme in Cognitive Science (MEi:CogSci) at the University of Vienna visited the KLI.

Wie antike Philosophie mit nachhaltigen Lösungen zusammenhängt

KLI Colloquium: Ioan FAZEY (Centre for Ecology Research, Tihany), 18 February 2020, 5.00 pm.

Marianne PENKER (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences), 2024-01-11 15:00 (CET). To join our colloquium please register with Zoom