KLI Colloquia are invited research talks of about an hour followed by 30 min discussion. The talks are held in English, open to the public, and offered in hybrid format.
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Meeting ID: 588 186 1923
Spring-Summer 2026 KLI Colloquium Series
12 March 2026 (Thurs) 3-4:30 PM CET
What Is Biological Modality, and What Has It Got to Do With Psychology?
Carrie Figdor (University of Iowa)
26 March 2026 (Thurs) 3-4:30 PM CET
The Science of an Evolutionary Transition in Humans
Tim Waring (University of Maine)
9 April 2026 (Thurs) 3-4:30 PM CET
Hierarchies and Power in Primatology and Their Populist Appropriation
Rebekka Hufendiek (Ulm University)
16 April 2026 (Thurs) 3-4:30 PM CET
A Metaphysics for Dialectical Biology
Denis Walsh (University of Toronto)
30 April 2026 (Thurs) 3-4:30 PM CET
What's in a Trait? Reconceptualizing Neurodevelopmental Timing by Seizing Insights From Philosophy
Isabella Sarto-Jackson (KLI)
7 May 2026 (Thurs) 3-4:30 PM CET
The Evolutionary Trajectory of Human Hippocampal-Cortical Interactions
Daniel Reznik (Max Planck Society)
21 May 2026 (Thurs) 3-4:30 PM CET
Why Directionality Emerged in Multicellular Differentiation
Somya Mani (KLI)
28 May 2026 (Thurs) 3-4:30 PM CET
The Interplay of Tissue Mechanics and Gene Regulatory Networks in the Evolution of Morphogenesis
James DiFrisco (Francis Crick Institute)
11 June 2026 (Thurs) 3-4:30 PM CET
Brave Genomes: Genome Plasticity in the Face of Environmental Challenge
Silvia Bulgheresi (University of Vienna)
25 June 2026 (Thurs) 3-4:30 PM CET
Anne LeMaitre (KLI)
KLI Colloquia 2014 – 2026
Event Details
The Vienna Science Studies Lab is an intra-institution initiative hosted by the Konrad Lorenz Institute (KLI), the UPSalon (University of Vienna), and the Epistemology of the In/human Project at Central European University (CEU).
Homepage: https://sciencestudieslab.wordpress.com/
One focus will be on feminist Science-Technology-Society (STS) methodology and we will start with the format of a reading group, meeting twice a year. Everyone is welcome!
First meeting
The first meeting will be 29th November, 1:30-3.00
Location: Café Gagarin Garnisongasse 24, 1090 Wien, https://cafegagarin.at/
Reading: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429507731-23/feminist-science-people-sara-giordano It’s a chapter by Sara Giordano in The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Philosophy of Science.
Please let us know whether you’ll attend so we can make according reservations.
Second meeting
The next meeting will happen on 6th March, 3:00-5:00.
Location: Café Gagarin, Garnisongasse 24, 1090 Wien.
Reading: Embodiments of Sex and Gender: The Metaphors of Speaking Surfaces, by Gabrielle Benette Jackson. In: Jennifer McWeeny and Keya Maitra. Feminist Philosophy of the Mind.
Please let us know whether you’ll attend by replying to Sophie, and we will send a pdf of the reading.
Third meeting
The next meeting will happen on 3rd July 2023, 3:00-5:00.
Location: KLI, Martinstraße 12, 3400 Klosterneuburg
Reading: Liboiron, M. (2021). Pollution is Colonialism. Duke University Press, Durham.
We are reading the Introduction.
Liboiron, Max (2021). CLEAR Lab Book: A living manual of our values, guidelines, and protocols (Version 3). Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research (CLEAR), Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
Please let us know whether you’ll attend by replying to Sophie (sophie.juliane.veigl@univie.ac.at) or Laura (laura.menatti@gmail.com).
