The 2021-2022 Fall-Winter Colloquium Series
We are welcoming the fall-winter term with an exciting list of speakers. The events will be held in a hybrid (online + physical) format so that we can continue to connect with our friends and colleagues around the world while maintaining a safe environment for in-person socialization. Download the flyer!
Our colloquium series will usually take place on Thursdays 3pm (CET) and will be announced a week in advance by email. If you haven't already, please subscribe to our mailing list to receive updates and notifications.
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From outreach engagement, science-art initiatives, citizen science activities, to action-oriented transdisciplinary research, our fellows connect science and society in creative, meaningful ways. We invited three fellows — Alice Laciny, Orsolya Bajer-Molnár, and Rongkun Liu — to talk about their unique approaches to science-society interfaces.
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Why citizen science is integral to infectious disease prevention
Evolutionary biologist Orsolya Bajer-Molnár integrates citizen science and evolutionary theory into a comprehensive research program that can enable us to Document, Assess, Monitor, and Act (DAMA) on emerging infectious diseases. She explains why both are integral to the prevention of infectious diseases. Read more...
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Cycle: an ode to parasitic nematodes
Entomologist Alice Laciny published her first science poem, Cycle, in the journal Consilience. We asked Alice to give us some insight on her approach to outreach engagement and how they interweave with her life and mind as a scientist. Read more...
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Resilience knowledge in action or resilience actions in knowledge?
Sustainability scholar Rongkun Liu interrogates knowledge systems in the real world through knowledge-to-action projects. We invited him to talk about his work on communities living in mountain regions in China and how it connects to theoretical work on knowledge systems. Read more... |
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Follow up by checking out the science communication and open science workshop self-organized by our fellows and our recent art-science-society ClimArtLab exhibition.
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Interview
The obstetrical dilemma: taking a closer look with Nicole Grunstra
Why is birthing so difficult in humans and why is giving birth such a risky business? An interview with KLI fellow Nicole Grunstra on why it is still important to talk about the obstetrical dilemma. Read more...
PS: Spring 2021 was also an exciting time for pelvis research. Explore four new papers on the evolution of the human pelvis and birth canal.
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Essay
Old ideas for current challenges: Ecological neo-Narodnism and the peasant economy in the 21st century
What is Ecological neo-Narodnism and how does it contribute to solving contemporary social and environmental challenges? How does it connect to political ecology and political economy? Postdoc fellow Marco Vianna Franco explains. Read more... |
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Fellowship
Neurodiversity and anthropomorphism in social insect research
Alice Laciny won an ÖAW L’ORÉAL fellowship to explore how the perceptions and approaches of neurodivergent researchers come into play within social insect research. The online award ceremony will be held on the 27th of October. Alice explains how the project came about. Read more...
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Encyclopedia/Bibliography
Oxford Bibliographies entry on Evolutionary Developmental Biology
A new entry by Gerd B. Müller and Ehab Abouheif on Evolutionary Developmental Biology has been published in the prestigious Oxford Bibliographies. This bibliography introduces characteristic themes of evo-devo and highlights representative publications that address the crucial conceptual aspects of evolutionary developmental biology.
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Paper
Understanding vaccine-hesitancy
To better understand vaccine hesitancy, it is important to take a closer look at the variety of stakeholders that can influence attitudes towards vaccines. Alumnae Lisa Lehner investigates the complex factors that mediate the processing and distribution of vaccine information by studying the role of midwives in the Austrian context. Read more...
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Blog
Navigating intercultural relations in transdisciplinary practice
How can local knowledge be effectively and fairly incorporated in transdisciplinary projects? KLI fellow Vitor Renck and co-authors David Ludwig and Charbel N. El-Hani wrote an i2insights.org blog on their "partial overlaps framework."
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KLI PUBLICATIONS AND RELATED PRIZES
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Biological Theory
September issue on Evolution of Kinship Systems
“Evolution of Kinship Systems,” Biological Theory’s thematic issue for September (16:3), is now out. It opens with an introduction by guest editors Nicholas Evans, Stephen Levinson, and Kim Sterelny, who write that the issue “can be read as a manifesto, calling for a return to a more central role of kinship studies in the social sciences, but with an explicitly comparative focus, and making use of more systematic and quantitative data, with new formal tools.” Read more to access free reading links and updates from the journal.
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ISH Werner Callebaut Prize
And the ISHPSSB 2021 Werner Callebaut Prize goes to...
This year’s Werner Callebaut Prize has been awarded to Marina DiMarco (University of Pittsburgh) for her paper “(re)Producing mtEve,” now published in the journal Studies in the History and Philosophy of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences. Read more...
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If you missed the June issue of KLife, you can read it here.
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Get in touch!
The KLI is an independent center of advanced studies in the life and sustainability sciences. The mission of the institute is to enable scientific reasoning that can contribute to understanding and sustaining life on Earth in its biological, cognitive, social, and cultural diversity.
The KLI supports research focusing on evolutionary theory, especially in its relation to development, cognition, and sustainability science, as well as on the history, philosophy, and social studies of science.
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