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 to be distributed) 

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

16 April 2025: [Open]. 

2 April 2025: Jantina De Vries (University of Cape Town), 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 in July and 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).