Talks will be online via Zoom. Please register for each talk individually.
17.04.2023 4:00 PM CET
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Pim Edelaar (Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla): How a „small“ behaviour may influence a large theory: Revisiting the Darwinian requirements for adaptive evolution to understand the evolutionary consequences of matching habitat choice
08.05.2023 4:00 PM CET
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Richard Gawne (Tufts University) & James DiFrisco (The Francis Crick Institute): TBA
15.05.2023 4:00 PM CET
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Laura Menatti (Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research): Medicine, healthcare and the environment: from the salutogenic approach towards the salutogenic environments
15.06.2023 6:00 PM CET
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Tatjana Buklijas (University of Auckland): The concept of generation in biomedicine post-1945
19.06.2023
Laura Nuño de la Rosa (Complutense University of Madrid): TBA
Previous Talks
13.03.2023 4:00 PM CET
Manuel Heras-Escribano (University of Granada) & Cristian Saborido (UNED Madrid): Affordances and organizational functions: Toward a situated organizational approach
30.01.2023 4:00 PM CET
Sean A. Valles (Michigan State University): Reassessing the dangers of adopting a holistic definition of health
09.01.2022 4:00 PM CET
Ehab Abouheif (McGill University): Ants, eco-evo-devo, and the evolution of biological complexity
24.11.2022 6:00 PM CET
Nicolaas Rupke (Washington and Lee University): Why Darwinism was a Brexit Theory of Evolution
28.11.2022 4:00 PM CET
Blake Matthews (Eawag, ETH Zürich): Feedback between ecological and evolutionary processes
17.10.2022 at 4:00 PM CET
Fermin Fulda de la Garza (University of Toronto): Agential Autonomy and Biological Individuality
30.06.2022 6:00 PM CET
Saana Jukola (Ruhr University Bochum) & Enno Fischer (Ruhr University Bochum): Bodies of Evidence – Causation in Forensic Medicine
13.06.2022 4:00 PM CET
Charles Dupras (University of Montreal): Ethical, legal and social issues in epigenomics
02.06.2022 6:00 PM CET
Daniel J. Nicholson (George Mason University): What is Life? revisited
02.05.2022 4:00 PM CET
Stefano Canali (Politecnico di Milano) & Sabina Leonelli (University of Exeter): Reframing the Environment in Data-Intensive Health Sciences
04.04.2022 4:00 PM CET
Matthew Sims (Ruhr University Bochum): The intentionality continuum thesis: assessing goal directed behaviour in organisms across the biological board
07.03.2022 6:30 PM CET
Emily Parke (University of Auckland): Four dimensions of life
31.01.2022 4:00 PM CET
Sarah S. Richardson (Harvard University): The Maternal Imprint: The Contested Science of Maternal-Fetal Effects
20.01.2022 6:00 PM CET
Daniel Brooks (Ruhr University Bochum): Leveling the World: The Stratified Image of Nature’s Organization
06.12.2021 6:00 PM CET
Abraham Gibson (University of Texas at San Antonio): Global Organism: The Science and Politics of Cooperation between World Wars
23.11.2021 4:00 PM CET
Thomas Pradeu (CNRS & University of Bordeaux): Cancer in the context of the organism
15.11.2021 4:00 PM CET
Isabel Smallegange (University of Amsterdam): Evolutionary explanations of developmental plasticity in the male dimorphic bulb mite (Rhizoglyphus robini)
21.10.2021 6:00 PM CET
Grant Ramsey (KU Leuven), Cristina Villegas (Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research): Evolutionary Dappling: How developmental constraints and drives can be evolutionary causes
11.10.2021 4:00 PM CET
Elselijn Kingma (Kings College London): Pregnancy and Biological Individuality
27.09.2021 4:00 PM CET
Joana Formosinho (University of Copenhagen): Visualising holobionts: Biomedical illustrations and the performance of more-than-human body imaginaries
01.07.2021 6:00 PM CET
Florian Sprenger (RUB) & Gottfried Schnödl (University Lüneburg): Holistic biology and National Socialism: The case of Jakob von Uexküll
14.06.2021 2:00 PM CET
Bartlomiej Swiatczak (University of Science and Technology of China): Struggle within: Evolution and ecology of somatic cell populations
24.06.2021 6:00 PM CET
Azita Chellappoo (RUB): Dysbiotic & dysfunctional: The (re)construction of obesity in the postgenomic age
06.05.2021 6:00 PM CET
Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda (RUB): Organismal agency on the fringes of 20th-century biological science? The cases of E.S. Russell and R.S. Lillie
19.04.2021, 6 PM CET
Gregory Rupik (University of Toronto): Plants as Poems: Contemporary Lessons from Goethe’s Biology
29.03.2021 4:00 PM CET
Hugh Desmond (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique & University of Antwerp): Sentience and the moral argument for organismic agency
23.03.2021 4:00 PM CET
Tamar Schneider (Tel Aviv University, The Cohn Institute For History And Philosophy of Science And Ideas): The Immune Self: a stable boundary or a tentative outline?
15.03.2021 2:00 PM CET
Matteo Mossio (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique): Autonomy and biological identity
23.02.2021 4:00 PM CET
Andrea Gambarotto (Université catholique de Louvain) & Auguste Nahas (University of Toronto): The Varieties of Kantian Teleology: A Contemporary Assessment
04.02.2021 6:00 PM CET
Guido I. Prieto (Research Group ROTO, Ruhr-Universität Bochum): Neither Machines nor Processes: Organisms as Systems
19.01.2021 5:00 PM CET
Abril Saldaña-Tejeda (University of Guanajuato): ‚You are Putting my Health in Danger‘: Genes, Diets and Bioethics under COVID-19 in Mexico
14.12.2020 4:30 PM CET
Özlem Yilmaz (University of Exeter): Plant Phenomes and Individuation in Plant Biology
10.12.2020 6:00 PM CET
Marco Tamborini (Technical University of Darmstadt): The Riddle of Form in Biology and the Dynamics of Interstitial Knowledge
21.07.2020 5:30 PM CET
Scott F. Gilbert (Swarthmore College): How developmental symbiosis can open new evolutionary trajectories
DFG-Emmy Noether Research Group
The Return of the Organism in the Biosciences:
Theoretical, Historical and Social Dimensions
Ruhr University Bochum
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