News
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)