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.
Fall-Winter 2025-2026 KLI Colloquium Series
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Meeting ID: 588 186 1923
25 Sept 2025 (Thurs) 3-4:30 PM CET
A Dynamic Canvas Model of Butterfly and Moth Color Patterns
Richard Gawne (Nevada State Museum)
14 Oct 2025 (Tues) 3-4:30 PM CET
Vienna, the Laboratory of Modernity
Richard Cockett (The Economist)
23 Oct 2025 (Thurs) 3-4:30 PM CET
How Darwinian is Darwinian Enough? The Case of Evolution and the Origins of Life
Ludo Schoenmakers (KLI)
6 Nov (Thurs) 3-4:30 PM CET
Common Knowledge Considered as Cause and Effect of Behavioral Modernity
Ronald Planer (University of Wollongong)
20 Nov (Thurs) 3-4:30 PM CET
Rates of Evolution, Time Scaling, and the Decoupling of Micro- and Macroevolution
Thomas Hansen (University of Oslo)
4 Dec (Thurs) 3-4:30 PM CET
Chance, Necessity, and the Evolution of Evolvability
Cristina Villegas (KLI)
8 Jan 2026 (Thurs) 3-4:30 PM CET
Embodied Rationality: Normative and Evolutionary Foundations
Enrico Petracca (KLI)
15 Jan 2026 (Thurs) 3-4:30 PM CET
On Experimental Models of Developmental Plasticity and Evolutionary Novelty
Patricia Beldade (Lisbon University)
29 Jan 2026 (Thurs) 3-4:30 PM CET
Jan Baedke (Ruhr University Bochum)
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).
