News
2022-12-13
Our KLife Newsletters are now online!
PDF versions of our KLife Newsletters are now available for download.
2022-12-13
The 2022-23 Writing-up Fellows of the KLI
How do the fellows of the "Cognition and Knowledge" cohort navigate the intersecting domains of evolution, sustainability, and cognition?
2022-12-12
New reading group on Agents and Agency
This reading group is loosely but seriously centered around agency.
2022-12-10
Biological Theory’s latest issue: 17(4) is out this month!
The December issue includes a provocative argument for the role of imagination in human cognition, along with new additions to our "Critical Concepts" and "Classics" collections — plus a heartfelt thank you to this year's referees.
2022-12-01
Self-cognition with Sensorial Diversity
Roberto CAZZOLLA GATTI (University of Bologna) 2022-12-01 15:00 (CET).
To join our colloquium please register with Zoom
2022-11-29
All hands on deck – Transdisciplinary Approaches to Coping with Emerging Infectious Diseases
Orsolya BAJER-MOLNÁR (Medical University of Vienna), 6 December 2022, 3.00 pm. To join our colloquium please register with Zoom.
2022-11-29
New reading group on Feminist STS at the Vienna Science Studies Lab
The Vienna Science Studies Lab is an intra-institution initiative revived this winter by the KLI, UPSalon UniVie, and the In/human project at CEU. A reading group on Feminist STS is the first event.
2022-11-17
The Making and Breaking of Minds – how social interactions shape the human mind
Isabella SARTO-JACKSON (KLI), 9 March 2023, 3.00 pm. To join our colloquium please register with Zoom.
2022-11-09
Learning and Evolution
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.
2022-10-30
Development and Ultimate Causes
Cristina VILLEGAS (KLI), 3 November 2022, 3.00 pm. To join our colloquium please register with Zoom.
2022-10-11
A History of Ecological Economic Thought
Marco P. VIANNA FRANCO (KLI), 20 October 2022, 3.00 pm. To join our colloquium please register with Zoom.
2022-10-07
Biological Theory’s September 2022 issue is available now!
Volume 17, issue 3, includes articles taking new evolutionary perspectives on back pain and morality, along with a first-ever English translation of a classic paper by premier plant physiologist Julius Sachs in which, our authors argue in a separate essay, he prefigured the discovery of mRNA.
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.
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.
2022-10-01
Announcing the 2022 Fall-Winter KLI Colloquium Series!
Three book symposia and four fellow talks will be hosted at the KLI. External guests are welcome.
2022-09-30
Pour une autre histoire des rapports économie-environnement
KLI fellow Marco P. Vianna Franco and coauthor Antoine Missemer blog about their new book, A History of Ecological Economic Thought, in the Chroniques de l'anthropocène.
2022-09-29
The Convergent Evolution of Agriculture in Humans and Insects: the workshop behind the book
An interview with Richard Gawne and Ted R. Schultz digs into the origin story of their open access book: The Convergent Evolution of Agriculture in Humans and Insects (MIT Press).
2022-09-28
KLI fellows at the 6th EASPLS
KLI fellows Luana Poliseli, Marco Treven, Elis Jones, Cristina Villegas, Alejandro Villanueva and incoming fellow Alejandro Fabregas-Tejeda attended the 6th EASPLS at University of Bordeaux. Isabella Sarto-Jackson gave an input talk on Complexity and the Tyranny of Scales.
2022-09-01
Bucherscheinung The Making and Breaking of Minds – ein Interview von Lynn CHIU mit Isabella SARTO-JACKSON
„Mein Forschungsschwerpunkt liegt auf den konstruktiven und destruktiven Wirkkräften, die neuroplastische Prozesse vorantreiben. Diese Wirkkräfte werden über Eltern, alloparentale Bezugspersonen, Gleichaltrige sowie über unsere sozioökonomische Nische weitergegeben.“
2022-08-01
KLI Symposium on Gregor J. Mendel
On the occasion of Gregor Johann Mendel's 200th anniversary, a public symposium (Oct 13-14) will be hosted at the KLI to reflect on his work and legacy.