10 December 2025: Joanna Karolina Malinowska (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) [TBA]. 

26 November 2025: [open slot] 

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).