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2023-02-23

Save the dates! Announcing the 2023 spring-summer colloquium series

The 2023 spring-summer KLI Colloquium series will resume in March, with a great line-up of speakers from the KLI and beyond.

2019-06-26

Round Table on Historical, Philosophical, and Interdisciplinary Writing and Publishing

Join us for the panel discussion at the ISHPSSB Meeting 2019 in Oslo: Wednesday, 10 July 9.00 am – 10.30 am

2019-05-22

Round Table on Darwinian Agriculture

Round table & mini science camp with George PERRY (Penn State University) about human evolution and ecological impacts of human activity.

2023-05-31

ROTO Lecture: Laura Menatti on Salutogenic Environments

Laura Menatti has been invited to give a talk for the ROTO lecture series, evaluating on the concept of salutogenic environments for medicine and healthcare.

2018-02-12

Rethinking Human Evolution

New book of The Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology by Jeffrey H. Schwartz. Contributors from a range of disciplines consider the disconnect between human evolutionary studies and the rest of evolutionary biology.

2018-11-26

Rethinking Cybernetics in Contemporary Theoretical Biology

Project Presentation: Flavia FABRIS (University of Exeter), 4 December 2018, 3.00 pm

2021-06-26

Rethinking Cancer with Bernhard Strauss

Bernhard Strauss, co-editor of Rethinking Cancer: a New Paradigm for the Postgenomics Era, talks about theory change, the KLI Altenberg workshop, highlights of the book chapters, and exciting new steps.

2021-10-08

Resilience knowledge in action or resilience actions in knowledge?

KLI fellow Rongkun Liu's knowledge-to-action projects in China illustrate how hybrid knowledge systems can enhance community resilience to socio-ecological changes.

2023-03-13

Research Blog: Parkinson’s disease, affordances, and networks

To better understand certain phenomena in brain disorders such as Parkinson's disease, Marco Treven argues that we need to look beyond the brain.

2019-02-10

Representations, Fictions and Artefacts: Modeling Genetic Circuits

KLI Colloquium: Tarja KNUUTTILA (University of Vienna), 5 March, 5.00 pm.

2022-10-04

Report from the 2nd meeting of the KLI working group: Evolutionary theory for social-ecological change

Raf Jansen documents the working group's five-day stay at the KLI in pictures.

2020-11-06

Remembering Werner Callebaut through his books

Six years ago, we lost Werner Callebaut, philosopher of the life sciences and long-serving scientific director of the KLI. In his memory, we laid out an exhibition of his vast literary collection.

2020-06-09

Relativism in the Philosophy of Science

Virtual KLI Colloquium: Martin KUSCH (University of Vienna), 16 June 2020, 5.00 pm. [br] To join our online colloquium please register with Zoom. [br] Deadline for the registration: 3 pm on the day of the talk—no admission in the room after 5:05 pm!

2023-07-16

Reading group: third meeting of the Vienna Science Studies Lab

The Vienna Science Studies Lab recently held its third meeting at the KLI, discussing Max Liboiron's "Pollution is Colonialism".

2020-09-30

Protect wildlife now to protect us from future pandemics

Four relevant actions should be taken into account to protect and conserve wildlife in this pandemic era.

2022-12-14

Professional development at the KLI

Each winter, the KLI organizes a two-part professional development workshop for our fellows to get to know each other-- both as people and as researchers.

2022-10-07

Press release: Public lectures reflect on long-reaching influence of Gregor Mendel on his 200th anniversary

The KLI Mendel Symposium, Mendel's Legacy in Science and Society, will be held from Oct 13th to 14th, 2022.

2021-06-17

Pregnant Females as Historical Individuals: An Insight from the Philosophy of Evo-Devo

Mihaela PAVLICEV (University of Vienna), Laura NUÑO DE LA ROSA (Complutense University of Madrid), & Arantza ETXEBERRÍA AGIRIANO (University of the Basque Country), 24 June 2021, 3.00 pm. To join our colloquium please register with Zoom.

2021-01-28

Pregnant females as historical individuals: an insight from the philosophy of evo-devo

Laura Nuño de la Rosa, Mihaela Pavlicev and Arantza Etxeberria propose a solution to the individuality of pregnancy.

2018-01-18

Pre-symptomatic Genetic Counselling in Austrian Clinical Practice

KLI Colloquium on Thursday 25 January 2018, 3.00 pm at the KLI. Speaker: Bernhard Hadolt (University of Vienna)