News
2021-06-24
VienNature: a Vienna Nature Exhibition
KLI alumnus Wim Hordijk unveils his nature photography in VienNature: a Vienna Nature Exhibition
2025-09-30
Vienna, the Laboratory of Modernity
Richard COCKETT (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton) October 14, 2025, 15:00 (CET). Please join our colloquium via Zoom!
2023-09-22
Vienna Science Studies Lab
The Vienna Science Studies Lab reading group continues and the lab will be expanded, hosting meetings on works in progress to enable constructive feedback.
2023-02-06
Videos from the University of Vienna Mendel200 project are now available!
Watch the eleven symposium videos and five Mendel stories on our Youtube channel.
2023-05-11
Vernissage: Measuring Life at the Threshold of Unknowing
Kendall Baker was artist in residence at the KLI. His interdisciplinary art-science project “Measuring Life at the Threshold of Unknowing” concluded with a stunning vernissage.
2018-07-13
Vernissage: Living Structure — Malerei und Fotografie
Cornelia Caufmann: Vernissage am 5. Oktober 2018, "ink texture VI" / Art Performance und Live Elektronik von Cornelia Caufmann (Zeichnungen) & Tobias Leibetseder (Komposition). Beginn: 19.00 Uhr
2019-10-30
Vernissage: Federzeichnungen
Friday 8 November, 5.00 pm: Vernissage of Gerhard Papp´s pen drawings.
2018-11-27
Vernissage SPECIES. Holzskulpturen aus den Serien SPECIES und IKONEN der Gegenwart
Exhibition by Andreas MATHES on Thursday 29 November, 6.00 pm at the KLI. Registration required!
2021-06-01
Values in Science: Where Are We Now?
Naomi ORESKES (Harvard University), 10 June 2021, 3.00 pm. To join our colloquium please register with Zoom.
2025-09-05
Values at Sea: Special Issue of the journal History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Elis Jones (former KLI Postdoc Fellow), along with Jose A. Cañada (University of Helsinki) and Sabina Leonelli (Technical University of Munich) have jointly contributed to editing a special issue for the journal History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, titled: ‘Values at Sea.’ This special issue comprises six original papers spanning diverse aspects of the study marine systems, highlighting the role of the blue humanities, especially in the face of ecological crisis. (Click on title to read more.)
2019-09-03
Using Discomfort to Prompt Learning in Collaborative Teams
New blog by Rebecca Freeth (Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Potsdam) and Guido Caniglia (KLI)
2025-01-10
Urban Morphometrics: A Tale of Space, Cities and Cultural Evolution
Sergio PORTA (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow), 2025-01-16 15:00 (CET). Please join our colloquium via Zoom!
2023-04-06
Unscripted Plant Development: Adventures in the Interaction Space
Sonia SULTAN (Wesleyan University), 2023-04-13 15:00 (CET). To join our colloquium please register with Zoom
2020-05-27
Unraveling an evolutionary puzzle of the mammalian ear
How can an intricately complex and interlocked structure evolve such amazing functional diversity in mammals? Latest work co-authored by KLI fellow Nicole Grunstra talks about the evolution and evolvability of the mammalian ear.
2021-10-06
Understanding vaccine-hesitancy
KLI alumnae Lisa Lehner investigates the complex factors that mediate the processing and distribution of vaccine information by studying midwives in Austria.
2020-10-01
Two new fellows at the KLI
Welcoming postdoc fellow Marco Vianna Franco and writing-up fellow Lisa Lehner
2021-11-03
Two Dogmas of Molecular Biology: What Is the Explanatory Role of the Sequence – Structure-Function Relationship?
Gregor GRESLEHNER (University of Vienna), 11 November 2021, 3.00 pm. To join our colloquium please register with Zoom.
2022-04-03
Truth and Verification: Freire’s Dialogical Method
Kim DIAZ (University of Texas, El Paso), 7 April 2022, 3.00 pm. To join our colloquium please register with Zoom.
2018-03-01
Travel Grants for EASPLS 2018!
The 5th EASPLS has been selected as an ISHPSSB Off-Year Workshop. ISHPSSB will provide travel grants for this event.
The program committee has, thus, decided to extend the deadline for applications for EASPLS to March 31st.
2020-11-30
Transforming knowledge systems for life on Earth: Visions of future systems and how to get there
What might future envisioned knowledge systems need to look like and how might we get there?