16 September 2026: Lucas Matthews (Columbia University, USA) How the problem of locality turned into the problem of portability.  (See text here) 

[Event in Türkiye during Northern Summer break (29 June 2026 - 5 July 2026), meeting break in August] 

10 June 2026: Victoria Shmidt (University of Graz, Austria), Simone De Angelis (University of Graz, Austria), and Peter Rohrbacher (Austrian Academy of Sciences). How to explore the past and present of race and anti-racism in science: Lessons from the Blumenbach case. (Discussion based on and around this text)

13 May 2026: Pınar Önal (Bilkent University, Türkiye). Repressors of Distinct Dynamics Multiply the Effect of a Single Morphogen.

8 April 2026: Mazin Qumsiyeh (Palestine Museum of Natural History, Palestine) Why we must all challenge ecocide: case study from Palestine. (Abstract circulated)  

11 March 2026:  Grant Ramsey (KU Leuven Belgium) Much ado about ‘n’othing. (See text here)

11 February 2026: Joanna Karolina Malinowska (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) Pharmacogenomics and the biologisation of ethnoracial categories on drug labels. (See text here). 

14 January 2026: Kevin Mitchell (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) Autism and the gut microbiome - a case study in bad science. (See text here) 

26 November 2025: Victoria Shmidt (University of Graz, Austria) Theorizing Slavdom through the lens of the colonial order and its transformation. (Text to be distributed)

12 November 2025: Jan Baedke (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany) Challenges for the return of the organism in biology: Conceptual and social dimensions. 

29 October 2025: Abigail Nieves Delgado (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) From Global to Local: Rethinking Population Descriptors in Biomedicine.

1 October 2025: Çağlar Karaca (Kastamonu University, Türkiye) Multi-level Individuation and the Biological Origins of Cognition. 

17 September 2025: Stuart Newman (New York Medical College, USA) Richard Lewontin's biology: insufficiently dialectical? 

[Season break from June to August] 

28 May 2025: Sahotra Sarkar (University of Texas at Austin, US) Sciences of Biodiversity Conservation. (Text distributed) 

14 May 2025: Victoria Shmidt (Karl-Franzens University of Graz, Austria) Human adaptability as a dimension of the geneticization of minorities: the legacy of the International Biological Program. (Text distributed) 

30 April 2025: Chris Shambaugh (University of Oregon) Marx’s Concept of Life.  (Text circulated)

16 April 2025: [No talk]. 

2 April 2025: Jantina De Vries (University of Cape Town, South Africa) What is science for? Reflections on recent discussions around (the ethics of) genome editing in South Africa. 

19 March 2025: Rose Novick (University of Washington, USA) One Kind of Adaptationism. 

5 March 2025: Daniel Papillon (Cardiff University, UK) Attempt at a Foucauldian genealogy of the notion of genetic risk. (Text to be circulated)

19 February 2025: Jim Tabery (University of Utah, USA) The Black Prisoners of Stateville: Race, Research, and Reckoning at the Dawn of Precision Medicine. (Text to be circulated)

5 February 2025: Gökhan Akbay (Independent Researcher) Hereditarianism: a century of the science of inequality. (Text circulated)

22 January 2025: Hussein Mohsen (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA) Towards studying human genomics cohorts beyond the colonial legacies embedded in continent-based ancestry classification systems. (See text here). 

4 December 2024: C. David Suárez Pascal (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico) Darwin's and Uexküll's differing views on ecology, evolution, and inheritance. Is a synthesis, or at least a compromise possible?

20 November 2024: Victoria Shmidt (Karl-Franzens University of Graz, Austria) Race in science: Lessons from Central Europe for global intellectual history. (Paper to be distributed)

6 November 2024: Cosmin Koszor-Codrea (New Europe College, Romania) Pedagogies of White Domination: Blumenbach's Legacy and Racial Classifications in Romanian Science and Secondary Schools, 1880-1914. (Text distributed)

23 October 2024: David Spurrett (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa) Constructing Nasty Niches.

9 October 2024: Malin Wilckens (Leibniz Institute of European History, Germany) Dissemination and alteration of Blumenbach’s racial classification in 19th century US-ethnology and French anthropology. (Text circulated)

25 September 2024: Kseniya Brailovskaya (Karl-Franzens University, Graz, Austria) Imperfect evolution: a formative force in Soviet studies of oligophrenia. (Text circulated) 

11 September 2024: Gökhan Akbay (Cyprus International Univeristy, Cyprus; University of Texas at Austin, US) Psychometric Intelligence Research: A Case of Degenerative Bootstrapping. (Text circulated)

[Season break from July to August] 

26 June 2024: M. Alejandre Petino Zappala (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina) Dialectical biology and epidemiology: theory and practice, potentiality and obstacles. (Text circulated)

19 June 2024: Phila Msimang (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) Prescribing race: No blank scripts for using race and ethnicity in health. (Text circulated)

29 May 2024: Stuart Newman (New York Medical College, USA) and Sahotra Sarkar (University of Texas at Austin, US), Agency in the evolutionary transition to multicellularity. (Text circulated)

15 May 2024: Rani Lill Anjum (Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway) A Dispositional Account of Causation: Implications for the Biological Sciences. (Text circulated)

01 May 2024: Zvi Hasnes-Beninson (Tel-Aviv University, Israel) Formalization Does not Entail Neutrality: Evolutionary Game Theory and the Sociobiology Controversy. (Text circulated)

17 April 2024: Supriya Bajpai (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India) Organism and the Mind: Evolutionary Transitions. (Text circulated)

20 March 2024: Kulyash Zhumadimova (Virginia Tech, USA) Richard Lewontin and critique of reductionism.

06 March 2024: Phil Sloan (Notre-Dame University, USA) Niels Bohr's ‘Light and Life’ Lecture and his Combat with Reductionism. (Text circulated)

21 February 2024: Margarida Hermida (King’s College London, England) Alien Trees: Universal Natural Kinds in Biology. (Text circulated)

07 February 2024: Gökhan Akbay (Cyprus International Univeristy, Cyprus; University of Texas at Austin, USA) Behavioral ‘Traits’ and Hereditarian Fallacies: Notes on Chapter 5 of Not in Our Genes. (Text circulated)

24 January 2024: Stuart Newman (New York Medical College, USA) Form, function, mind: what doesn’t compute (and what might). (Text circulated; please focus especially on the discussion starting on p. 19).